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Here’s why Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb drew 2 different fines from NFL front office this week

From @ToddBrock24f7: Lamb will be docked for taunting as well as making a violent gesture. That’s 3 fines in the past two games for the All-Pro wideout.

Through the first four weeks of the NFL season, exactly 111 plays have resulted in a monetary fine for a player in violation of some infraction. Almost three percent of them have involved CeeDee Lamb.

The Cowboys wide receiver was fined for two separate plays in the team’s Week 4 win over the New York Giants, it was announced Saturday. Combined, the fines will dock Lamb $25,324, just a week after an unnecessary roughness call (that was not considered a penalty during the Week 3 loss to Baltimore) cost him $22,511.

The first incident from last Thursday’s 20-15 win to draw the league’s ire came after a first-quarter catch by Lamb that gained ten yards. After being tackled at the Giants’ 30, Lamb motioned for a first down with a double-handed gesture that mimicked shooting guns. The league office called it unsportsmanlike conduct involving a violent gesture and imposed a fine of $14,069.

In the second quarter, Lamb caught a Dak Prescott pass of about 17 yards and then raced another 38 for a touchdown. On his way to the end zone, Lamb turned to stare down New York cornerback Deonte Banks and then flipped the ball toward him once he had scored. That was also deemed unsportsmanlike conduct- taunting, this time- and will cost Lamb $11,255.

As in Week 3, neither moment drew a flag from officials in the moment.

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The NFL seems to be making a concerted effort to crack down on the recent trend of players pantomiming shooting guns; five players across the league were fined for it in Week 4 and hit with fines totaling nearly $60,000.

Any violations resulting in a fine may be appealed by players, but the decisions are then binding. Collected fines are donated to the Professional Athletes Foundation to support NFL legends in need as well as the NFL Foundation to support the health, safety, and wellness of players across all levels of the sport.

Lamb has single-handedly contributed over $47,000 so far this season.

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‘No bells and whistles’: Mazi Smith, Cowboys smother Giants’ run game with impressive showing to build on

From @ToddBrock24f7: The Cowboys put up the best numbers of any NFL run defense this season, and the first-round draft pick thought to be a bust led the way.

The Cowboys run defense finally put on the performance that everyone had been waiting for.

But the star of the show was someone nobody expected.

Dallas held the Giants to just 26 total rushing yards on in Thursday night’s 20-15 win. The 1.1 yard-per-carry average they allowed represented the lowest ever in Cowboys franchise history in games where the opponent had at least 20 rushing attempts.

And garnering universal praise for the effort is none other than defensive tackle Mazi Smith, the former first-round draft pick who many in Cowboys Nation had already written off as an all-time bust.

Smith ended the night with three tackles- one of them for a loss- and was PFF’s highest-graded player (88.4) from the game. He knows his interior position doesn’t exactly lend itself to monster stats, but the 23-year-old seemed immediately aware that his Week 4 outing was an important step in what was been, thus far, a rough start to an NFL career.

“I feel like I grew. I feel better,” Smith said from the visitors’ locker room after the win. “I want to keep growing, don’t want it to be a flash in the pan.”

But Smith was even more pleased with how the rest of the Dallas defense executed their game plan on the night. Taking away any semblance of a Giants’ ground attack was instrumental in helping the Cowboys snapping a two-game losing streak in which the run defense got torched for 464 yards on the ground by the Saints and Ravens combined.

On Thursday? The unit took real estate back from the Giants over the third and fourth quarters; New York’s rushing total after the halftime break was negative-three yards.

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“Everybody was doing their job. Everybody was doing what they’re supposed to. That’s really how you stop it,” Smith explained. “It ain’t no bells and whistles to stop a run game: everybody do their job, do what they’re supposed to do. That’s how you stop it.”

After back-to-back weeks of Cowboys team leaders complaining about some of their teammates playing “hero ball” or “trying to be Superman,” Smith and the rest of the Dallas defense seemed to more faithfully stick to their assignments at MetLife Stadium. As a result, they allowed the fewest team rushing yards in an NFL game so far this season.

And that- much more than the questions and skepticism swirling around the unit the past two weeks- is something Smith believes the group can actually put to use going forward.

“People be talking and chirping. Nobody’s worried about that. And if they are worried about it, they’re worried about the wrong thing,” he said. “Ain’t nobody getting out there playing the run for us or with us; don’t care what they’ve got to say.”

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PFF Grades: Best, worst Cowboys performances in Week 4 win by position as Mazi Smith leads the way

A look at which players stood out, good or bad, from each position group in Dallas’ win over the Giants. | From @KDDrummondNFL

A win is a win is a win, but the Cowboys were certainly hoping to have more style points than they ended up with in their 20-15 victory over the New York Giants. The intra-division success evened Dallas’ record on the young season to 2-2, which was a must considering the gauntlet of tough opponents staring them in the face. The upstart (currently) 3-0 Pittsburgh Steelers are next up in Week 5, with games against the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles up next, with a bye week and Kirk Cousins’ Atlanta Falcons dividing each of those three pivotal faceoffs.

After how they’ve performed in their previous two losses though, the Cowboys will take the up and down performance. Pro Football Focus has turned in their initial grades for each player, and they seem to represent the awkward flow of the ref-interfered slog of Thursday Night Football. Here are the best and worst initial grades, by position, for the contest. A player had to appear in at least 15% of their unit’s respective snaps to qualify. All grades are out of a possible 100.

Quarterbacks

Best Grade: Dak Prescott 83.0

Running Backs

Best Grade: Ezekiel Elliott 79.5
Worst Grade: Hunter Luepke 52.4

Wide Receivers

Best Grade: CeeDee Lamb 79.6
Worst Grade: Brandin Cooks 56.6

Offensive Line

Best Grade: Tyler Smith 77.4
Worst Grade: Cooper Beebe 42.6

Edge Rushers

Best Grade: Micah Parsons 72.8 Worst Grade: Carl Lawson 30.3

Defensive Tackles

Best Grade: Mazi Smith 88.5 Worst Grade: Linval Joseph 49.5

Linebackers

Best Grade: DeMarvion Overshown 77.2 Worst Grade: Marist Liufau 54.1

Safeties

Best Grade: Donovan Wilson 67.6 Worst Grade: Malik Hooker 60.9

Cornerbacks

Best Grade: Amani Oruwariye 69.7 Worst Grade: Andrew Booth 31.1

Cowboys Offense, defense, special teams snap counts as Luepke outsnaps all other RBs

Not Ezekiel Elliott. Not Rico Dowdle. Not Deuce Vaughn. Hunter Luepke. All Cowboys who played and how much. | From @KDDrummondNFL

They were never able to pull away, but the Dallas Cowboys held the advantage for much of the game on Thursday night in vanquishing their division rivals. The club arrived to rainy weather on Wednesday, but the skies cleared long enough at MetLife Stadium to allow the Cowboys to escape with a 20-15 victory where the defense held the opponents out of the end zone for the first time this season.

Meanwhile the offense was strong in the first half, scoring two touchdowns before bogging down in the second half. The final margin would’ve been more if it weren’t for the first 50-plus-yard field-goal attempt miss of Brandon Aubrey’s career, snapping an NFL record streak of 16 attempts.

So who all was a part of the festivities? Here’s a look at the snap counts from the contest on each of the three sides of the ball.

Total Snaps

Offense: 56
Defense: 69
Special Teams: 25

Offensive Players Snap Counts, Percentages

C Cooper Beebe: 56 (100%)
OT Tyler Guyton: 56 (100%)
OG Tyler Smith: 56 (100%)
OT Terence Steele: 56 (100%)
QB Dak Prescott: 56 (100%)
OG Zack Martin: 53 (95%)
WR CeeDee Lamb: 47 (84%)
WR Brandin Cooks: 46 (82%)
TE Jake Ferguson: 41 (73%)
WR Jalen Tolbert: 39 (70%)
FB Hunter Luepke: 29 (52%)
RB Rico Dowdle: 25 (45%)
TE Luke Schoonmaker: 19 (34%)
RB Ezekiel Elliott: 10 (18%)
WR Jalen Brooks: 8 (14%)
WR Kavontae Turpin: 7 (12%)
TE Brevyn Spann-Ford: 5 (9%)
RB Deuce Vaughn: 4 (7%)
OG TJ Bass: 3 (5%)

Defensive Players Snap Counts, Percentages

SS Donovan Wilson: 69 (100%)
LB Eric Kendricks: 68 (99%)
CB Trevon Diggs: 68 (99%)
FS Malik Hooker: 66 (96%)
LB DeMarvion Overshown: 59 (86%)
DE Micah Parsons: 57 (83%)
DT Osa Odighizuwa: 53 (77%)
CB Jourdan Lewis: 51 (74%)
DE Marshawn Kneeland: 36 (52%)
CB Amani Oruwariye: 33 (48%)
DE DeMarcus Lawrence: 30 (43%)
LB Marist Liufau: 27 (39%)
CB Andrew Booth: 27 (39%)
DT Mazi Smith: 26 (38%)
DE Chauncey Golston: 25 (36%)
DE Carl Lawson: 22 (32%)
NT Linval Joseph: 22 (32%)
DR Christian Watkins: 10 (14%)
LB Damone Clark: 5 (7%)
FS Juanyeh Thomas: 3 (4%)
DB Israel Mukuamu: 2 (3%)

Special Teams Snap Counts, Percentages

CJ Goodwin: 20 (80%)
Buddy Johnson: 20 (80%)
Brandon Aubrey: 10 (40%)
Brock Hoffman: 10 (40%)
Bryan Anger: 8 (32%)
C.Beebe C 5 (20%)
T.Guyton T 5 (20%)
T.Smith G 5 (20%)
J.Tolbert WR 3 (12%)
H.Luepke FB 15 (60%)
L.Schoonmaker TE 9 (36%)
J.Brooks WR 15 (60%)
K.Turpin WR 7 (28%)
B.Spann-Ford TE 9 (36%)
D.Vaughn RB 1 (4%)
T.Bass G 5 (20%)
D.Overshown LB 5 (20%)
O.Odighizuwa DT 5 (20%)
M.Kneeland DE 5 (20%)
A.Oruwariye CB 5 (20%)
M.Liufau LB 12 (48%)
A.Booth CB 8 (32%)
M.Smith DT 26 (38%)
C.Golston DE 11 (44%)
C.Lawson DE 5 (20%)
C.Watkins DE 2 (8%)
D.Clark LB 20 (80%)
J.Thomas FS 20 (80%)
I.Mukuamu FS 17 (68%)

Watch: Video of Micah Parsons limping back into Dallas after Cowboys win

A news crew captured Parsons’ exit from the the airport after arriving back in Dallas. Good news or bad news? | From @KDDrummondNFL

The Dallas Cowboys suffered injury scares to their starting defensive ends in Thursday night’s 20-15 win over the New York Giants. From a high-level view, the rash of injuries can happen in any game, but the short turnaround time between a Sunday and Thursday game feels as if it’s a contributing factor.

The specifics of why they happened don’t matter much to the Cowboys organization, they just need to know whether or not Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence will be out for any extended period of time, starting with their Week 5 matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 10 days time.

Parsons was spotted exiting the airport walking with a substantial limp, but not needing crutches or a walking boot and wearing his own pair of Adidas sneakers.


Both Parsons and Lawrence will undergo MRIs on Friday after being ousted from the game. Lawrence’s injury sent him into the locker room in the third quarter and he returned, getting the bottom of his foot taped, which is a concern for a player with a previous Lisfranc injury. For what it’s worth, he said he’ll be fine, but the test results are obviously going to be a key indicator prior to him testing it out on the field next week.

If either are out for any length of time, the attention turns to second-round rookie Marshawn Kneeland, who like Lawrence had a sack of Daniel Jones in last night’s win, and Carl Lawson. Dallas already lost third-year edge Sam Williams to a serious knee injury during training camp.

 

Cowboys hope winning battle vs Giants, 20-15, didn’t cost them much more via injury

The Dallas Cowboys finally got back in the win column, but they hope they didn’t suffer a much larger defeat. In taking out the division rival New York Giants, 20-15, the Cowboys were better in a ton of issue areas they’ve had recently. Dak Prescott …

The Dallas Cowboys finally got back in the win column, but they hope they didn’t suffer a much larger defeat. In taking out the division rival New York Giants, 20-15, the Cowboys were better in a ton of issue areas they’ve had recently. Dak Prescott was precise in his passing, CeeDee Lamb got going with over 100 total yards and a score and the defense was as strong as they’ve been in a long time.

After allowing almost 500 yards rushing in the last two games, they held the Giants to just 26 on 24 attempts, a lowly 1.1 yard-per-carry average. The defense kept the Giants out of the end zone after New Orleans and Baltimore had conveyor belts in Weeks 2 and 3 and sealed the game with an interception. But the biggest concern now is the health of superstar Micah Parsons.

Parsons left the contest twice, the first for a stinger concern that he quickly returned from. But late in the game, Parsons was landed on when his teammate pushed a Giants offensive linemen on the back of his legs.

Parsons was taken into the locker room on a cart.

The team was working without DeMarcus Lawrence, who suffered a foot injury early in the third quarter and never returned. The club also lost Trevon Diggs and Zack Martin for a few plays each.

But thanks to two first-half passing touchdowns off the arm of Prescott, the Cowboys were able to overcome. The Giants scored a field goal on their opening drive but Dallas answered with a long, methodical response that ended with a Rico Dowdle receiving touchdown, his first score of the season.

After another Giants field goal, Prescott found Lamb on a beautiful route, who weaved into open space and scored on a 56 yarder. That helped them overcome a ridiculously bad tackling night by the defense, which again buckled down when necessary.

Eric Kendricks, Mazi Smith and DeMarvion Overshown had great games.

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons leaves Giants game for 2nd time due to injury

The Dallas Cowboys have had a slew of injuries during their backyard fight against the New York Giants on Thursday Night Football. The latest seems to be the most serious. Early in the game, the club say Micah Parsons have to leave for a series with …

The Dallas Cowboys have had a slew of injuries during their backyard fight against the New York Giants on Thursday Night Football. The latest seems to be the most serious.

Early in the game, the club say Micah Parsons have to leave for a series with a concern over a stinger. Later his edge mate left for a foot injury, though he returned to the sideline and appeared ready to retun even though he hasn’t. The club lost cornerback Trevon Diggs for a stretch due to cramping and right guard Zack Martin to an apparent eye situation. But late in the fourth quarter, Parsons’ second injury appears serious.

On a third down stop, DT Osa Odighizuwa pushed his offensive lineman backwards and onto the back of Parsons’ legs. After being helped off the field into the medical tent, Parsons climbed onto the cart with his left foot naked, and went on the cart to the locker room.

 

Cowboys DE DeMarcus Lawrence heads to locker room with apparent foot injury

The long-time DE had to exit the game after missing his second sack.

The Dallas Cowboys haven’t been doing a good job of securing the ball carrier in their Week 4 contest with the New York Giants. Fortunately they’ve made enough stops to keep New York out of the end zone, though in the third quarter their troops were depleted as they beared down on the opening drive.

With an opportunity to bring down quarterback Daniel Jones, DeMarcus Lawrence was unable to complete the sack. To make matters worse, Lawrence stayed on the ground and grabbed towards his right ankle after the play was over.

He’d have a slight limp as he made it to the sideline and after being checked out for several minutes, made his way back to the locker room. Lawrence already has the team’s lone sack of the game, his third in four games after two in the season opener against Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns.

Rookie Marshawn Kneeland is next up if Lawrence cannot return to the field. We’ll update as we know more.

Halftime Highlights, Injury update on Micah Parsons as Cowboys lead Giants, 14-9

A quick recap of the first half with highlights of Dallas’ scores. | From @KDDrummondNFL

The Dallas Cowboys entered their Week 4 game against the rival New York Giants game in dire straits, desperately needing a win that would restore confidence in what they could be in 2024. So far, so good as despite a three-and-out on their opening drive, the Cowboys have put together multiple scoring drives that actually landed them in the end zone.

And because the defense has held tough and limited the New York Giants to field goal attempts on their drives, the Cowboys hold a halftime lead, 14-9. Quarterback Dak Prescott started the game 14 for 15, and has tossed two touhdown passes to Rico Dowdle and CeeDee Lamb.

Rico Dowlde puts Dallas on the board with a 15-yard screen The Cowboys executed a slow, methodical drive, focusing on slant patterns mostly to CeeDee Lamb but a solid one to Brandin Cooks as well. After a red-zone hold pushed them back to the 15, Dak Prescott finds Dowdle on the screen pass for the score.

Micah Parsons exits the game temporarily

A brief scare for Cowboys and NFL fans as Parsons was forced to exit the game when the referee was concerned about an injury. Parsons was in on a tackle and as slow to get up.

In what was later declared a neck injury, concern for a stinger, Parsons returned to the game on the next drive.

CeeDee Lamb goes crazy

Pure poetry.

 

NFL Week 4 Inactives: Cowboys rule out starting CB, Giants 2 in pivotal matchup

Week 4 inactives confirm that secondary depth will be tested on both sidelines on TNF. | From @KDDrummondNFL

The Dallas COwboys have officially ruled out starting cornerback Caelen Carson, making their job on Thursday Night Football extremely difficult. Already down DaRon Bland with a foot injury, the Cowboys will try to curtail the New York Giants improving passing offense with just their first and fourth-best corners.

Top reserve safety Markquese Bell is also going to miss his first contest of the season.

Fortunately to even the odds New York will be without two of their starting corners with both Adoree Jackson and Dru Phillips ruled out. Things in Week 4 might end up being a shootout between Dak Prescott and Daniel Jones.

As for the other inactives, the Cowboys are making four healthy scratches along with their emergency third-string quarterback who will dress, Trey Lance.

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