Tag: 2024 season week 10

Cowboys QB fined for defensive effort vs Eagles; LB-on-LB foul also flagged

From @ToddBrock24f7: Trey Lance and Marist Liufau were both fined for plays made late in Week 10’s loss to Philadelphia. Both incidents had an unusual element.

The Cowboys got blown out by the Eagles in Week 10, but two Dallas players are losing a second time, six days after the fact.

Backup quarterback Trey Lance and rookie linebacker Marist Liufau were fined by the league for plays made during the team’s 34-6 defeat, it was announced Saturday.

Lance’s fine came, oddly, from a defensive play the passer made after a possession change. As Philadelphia safety Reed Blankenship returned Jake Ferguson’s fumble early in the fourth quarter, Lance met him near the Cowboys sideline and forced him out of bounds.

The NFL has determined that Lance improperly used his helmet to initiate the contact and fined him $22,511 for unnecessary roughness.

The play did not draw a flag from officials at the time but was notable to many for nearly taking out an already-injured Dak Prescott as he stood on the sideline, perhaps a little too close for the comfort of most observers.

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Liufau drew a $5,749 fine, also for unnecessary roughness, on a play that was unusual in its own right. The rookie was spotted grabbing the facemask of a fellow linebacker, Philadelphia’s Ben Van Sumeren, who was on the field with the Eagles offense as a backfield blocker.

That altercation took place away from the late second-down play and resulted in a penalty flag from officials, the Cowboys’ fifth of Sunday’s contest.

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Report: Cowboys LB gets encouraging update on Sunday’s knee injury

From @ToddBrock24f7: DeMarvion Overshown played like he was shot of a cannon Sunday. Early word on a knee injury he suffered is that he dodged a bullet.

Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown looked like he was playing at a different speed than the other 21 men on the field Sunday at AT&T Stadium. The second-year prospect out of Texas, playing in just his ninth game as a pro after losing his entire rookie season to a knee injury, finished the Cowboys’ 34-6 loss as the team’s leading tackler, adding two sacks, two QB hits, and two tackles for loss in what was one of the few bright spots on the day for the silver and blue.

It was all the more disheartening, then, to see the 24-year-old down on the turf in the third quarter of the Week 10 contest, requiring attention after a routine play in which he appeared to not even take a hit.

Overshown was able to return to the game after getting checked out by medical personnel and told the media afterward, “I’m great [physically]. I’ll be ready to go next week.”

Monday brought more good news for the former third-round draft pick.

NFL insider Ian Rapoport cites a source who explains that Overshown is dealing with a case of bursitis in his right knee. (He tore the ACL in his left knee last August.) Per Rapoport, X-rays on the knee were negative, and he appears to have avoided a significant injury.

Knee bursitis is a condition in which one or more small fluid-filled sacs near the joint become inflamed. While painful and possibly limiting in terms of movement, “treatment and rehab” from the Cowboys staff is the likely course of action.

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It is not known if the injury will affect Overshown’s practice schedule for the week or his availability for next Monday night’s game versus the Houston Texans.

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Another Cowboys starter ‘very limited’ in practice ahead of divisional clash

From @ToddBrock24f7: Tyler Guyton sat out 1 series in Atlanta with a neck injury; now it’s threatening to sideline him for Sunday’s tilt with the Eagles.

Halloween may feel like it was eons ago, but things are still downright scary for the Cowboys roster as they head into a divisional tilt this weekend looking like a veritable skeleton crew.

To be sure, the latest news from along the offensive line could end being more trick than treat for a backup quarterback already getting his first start in over two years.

Rookie left tackle Tyler Guyton is dealing with a neck/shoulder injury, said Mike McCarthy on Friday. The Cowboys head coach called Guyton “very limited” in practice, having taken just “minimal reps” in the day’s walkthrough session.

“He’s fighting through it,” McCarthy added.

That does not sound overwhelmingly encouraging when forecasting his status for Sunday’s game versus the Philadelphia Eagles.

Guyton apparently suffered the injury during the first half of last week’s loss to Atlanta. Second-year man Asim Richards took over for him to start the second half, and although the first-round draft pick returned for the offense’s next possession, the issue was apparently serious enough to keep the 23-year-old officially listed as “limited” on both Wednesday and Thursday of this week. (Friday’s report had not yet been released as of this writing.)

The team will already be without starting quarterback Dak Prescott. Wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is less than 100% with the lingering aftereffects of an AC shoulder sprain, Brandin Cooks is still on injured reserve, and right guard Zack Martin missed two days of work earlier this week with a shoulder injury of his own.

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(While McCarthy said that Martin “did everything in the [Friday] walkthrough,” it is not yet decided if he’ll be able to go on Sunday. T.J. Bass would be the likely replacement if Martin cannot suit up.)

Backup quarterback Cooper Rush could indeed be seeing a lot of familiar faces from the second team in the Cowboys’ huddle come gametime.

Richards was a fifth-round draft pick last year out of North Carolina. He played on a total of 39 offensive snaps as a rookie and another 23 so far this season.

Guyton has been in on over 77% of the offense’s snaps through eight games, but he leads the team in enforced penalties (and is tied for second-most in the league) with nine.

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Cowboys’ All-Pro OL misses second straight day of practice with injury

From @ToddBrock24f7: Zack Martin was questionable in Week 9. His shoulder and “a couple things” sidelined him Wednesday and Thursday leading into Week 10.

Cowboys guard Zack Martin missed practice on Thursday, marking the second straight DNP day for the nine-time Pro Bowler and perhaps putting his status for this Sunday’s matchup with the Eagles in question.

According to ESPN’s Todd Archer, Martin was not working with the team during the portion of practice that was open to media members.

The 33-year-old has frequently been given Wednesdays off as a veteran’s rest day, but there looks to be more going on with the right guard this week. Earlier in the day, when asked about Martin’s overall performance this season, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said that the seven-time first-team All-Pro “has had a couple things he’s been dealing with.”

A shoulder injury had Martin limited for portions of last week. He was listed as questionable for the Week 9 game in Atlanta, but went on to play every offensive snap in the 27-21 loss. So far this season, the Notre Dame product- in the final year of his contract- has played 519 out of 553 offensive snaps, fourth-most on the team.

It’s been a down year, at least by Martin’s usual measure. PFF currently has him ranked 41st among the NFL’s guards with an overall grade of 64.6. His 64.2 pass-block grade puts him in 38th place, while his run-block grade of 60.2 drops him all the way out of the top 50.

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Offensive line play across the board has been spotty this year in Dallas, sharing at least some of the blame for a woeful 82 rushing yards-per-game average that has the team ranked next to last and allowing nearly three sacks per game.

Friday will likely be an important day to determining Martin’s readiness for Week 10 versus Philadelphia. Second-year lineman T.J. Bass is listed on the Cowboys’ official depth chart as Martin’s backup.

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