The Cowboys are now sitting under ,500, at 3-4 on the 2024 season, losers of two games in a row. The team came out of their bye week flat, and needed a fell-short fourth-quarter rally to make their game against the San Francisco 49ers a respectable effort.
Now, that same group is traveling to Atlanta in Week 9 to take on the Falcons and Kirk Cousins. Cousins, coming off an Achilles injury that submarined his 2023 season, has never been much of an escape artist, but he’s even more stationary this season. Unfortunately, the Cowboys haven’t been able to muster much of a pass rush this season. They notched just one sack against Snn Francisco and have just eight in their last four games.
Will they fare any better? It would certainly help if Micah Parsons were able to return from injury and course-correct his slow start to the season. But unfortunately, Parsons won’t have the opportunity to impact this week’s game.
Parsons was ruled out for a fourth consecutive contest as he is still dealing with a high-ankle sprain that knocked him out of the team’s Week 4 win over the New York Giants.
Parsons did not practice all week, and with Dallas entering the meat of their 2024 schedule, it’s a significant blow to their desire to right the ship. The Cowboys will return to AT&T Stadium next week, where they are 0-3 on the season, to face division rival Philadelphia.
With DeMarcus Lawrence and Marshawn Kneeland both on returnable IR, along with the season-ending preseason loss of Sam Williams, the pass rush is lacking significant punch, made worse by the free agent defections of Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler in the offseason.