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WATCH: Back-to-back big gains by Lamb, Cooper leads to Cowboys score

The Cowboys didn’t allow their misfortunate string of plays to linger in their heads. Dallas, was able to stop the Seattle Seahawks thanks to Aldon Smith’s second sack of the first quarter, and trailing 7-3, the offense went right back to work. QB …

The Cowboys didn’t allow their misfortunate string of plays to linger in their heads. Dallas, was able to stop the Seattle Seahawks thanks to Aldon Smith’s second sack of the first quarter, and trailing 7-3, the offense went right back to work.

QB Dak Prescott got a free play when former Cowboys DE Benson Mayowa came across early, and found rookie WR CeeDee Lamb over the middle for a smooth 28-yard gain.

Two plays later he found Amari Cooper for his own, beautiful, diving 28-yard play.

Three Ezekiel Elliott carries later and Dallas was celebrating their first score of the game.

Unfortunately Week 2 hero Greg Zuerlein hit the upright on the extra point attempt, leaving the score tied 9-9 near the end of the first quarter.

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Cowboys restructure Ezekiel Elliott, La’el Collins for minor space

Timing is everything, and sometimes it’s nothing at all. After adding Dak Prescott’s sizable one-year cap hit in the form of the franchise tag, and then inking Amari Cooper to a nine-figure deal, one might think the Dallas Cowboys were low on cap …

Timing is everything, and sometimes it’s nothing at all. After adding Dak Prescott’s sizable one-year cap hit in the form of the franchise tag, and then inking Amari Cooper to a nine-figure deal, one might think the Dallas Cowboys were low on cap space.

When word came down the club had restructured the deals of La’el Collins and Ezekiel Elliott, both just signed last year, all of the comments about having to do that in order to make the moves announced earlier ran rampant. They couldn’t be the furthest things from the truth.

Neither player was set to make a boatload of money in base salary in 2020, with each being under $7 million after receiving hefty sums in Year 1 of their deals.

Sure enough, the details came down from ESPN’s Todd Archer; there wasn’t much savings reaped. In fact, they didn’t save any cap space with Elliott’s restructure at all.

Elliott’s restructure could have something to do with the way his future guarantees are set, an agreement made when the contract was signed, or something completely different. Elliott signed a six-year extension for $90 million total last offseason. Collins signed a five-year deal for $50 million total.

Dallas entered the day with around $72 million in cap space under the $198.2 million salary limit for 2020. The Prescott franchise tag soaked up somewhere between $31.5 million and $33 million. If the club structured Cooper’s five-year deal like many other star contracts, his first-year hit is almost guaranteed to be below $10 million.

That left around $30 million in space, meaning the club is around $34 million in space now if they can’t work out a long-term agreement with Prescott.

The club is said to be pursuing Broncos FA CB Chris Harris as a replacement for Byron Jones, who signed with Miami earlier in the day, and is still trying to bring back DE Robert Quinn.

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Ranking 12 of the 2020 free agent quarterbacks

Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports There are 36 free-agent quarterbacks on the market according to spotrac. There are only 12 on this list. That’s because there are really only 12 free agent QBs with enough cache, skill, or name recognition …

Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports

There are 36 free-agent quarterbacks on the market according to spotrac. There are only 12 on this list. That’s because there are really only 12 free agent QBs with enough cache, skill, or name recognition that really matter. So let’s rank them because that’s what we do. These rankings aren’t based on which quarterback has had the best career — Tom Brady would obviously be at the top of that list — but instead are ranked on who a team should want now. That means age, contract length, dollar amount, skill, and if they are only a fit for one team or many teams are taken into account. Just don’t get angry when Tom Brady isn’t at the top of this list.

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