Sideline video catches Prescott’s blunt assessment of how bad things are for Cowboys

From @ToddBrock24f7: Prescott was seen sharing his NSFW thoughts on the team’s Week 9 performance after he was ruled out with a hamstring injury in Atlanta.

Dak Prescott was only repeating the conclusion most Cowboys fans had already come to themselves.

It was late in the fourth quarter of the team’s 27-21 loss in Atlanta, and the Dallas quarterback was watching from the sideline as backup Cooper Rush was embarking on his third series with the offense.

Down two touchdowns when he came in, Rush had started 8-of-15 for 54 yards in relief to that point. Upon tossing another incomplete pass to Jalen Brooks to bring up a third down, TV cameras caught Prescott- clad in a baseball cap and done for the day with a hamstring injury- sharing his observation of things with third-string emergency option Trey Lance.

“We [expletive] suck,” Prescott seemed to say with a shake of his head.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

The loss dropped the Cowboys to 3-5, looking way up at both the Commanders and Eagles in the NFC East.Team owner Jerry Jones made a rare away-game locker-room visit to address the team and called the Cowboys’ current situation “bleak.”

Already perilously thin due to injuries on both sides of the ball, the Cowboys now face the very real possibility of Prescott missing time, too.

Last year’s leader in completions and touchdown passes will undergo an MRI on Monday to determine the severity of his injury, which he apparently suffered on a five-yard scramble late in the third quarter.

He told reporters he felt something not during the run or even the tackle, but when he got up. On the next dropback, he said, he “felt something I’ve never felt.”

Though he wanted to return to the field, Prescott was told by trainers that he wouldn’t be able to protect himself and was pulled in favor of Rush to start the fourth quarter.

Over his three quarters of action, Prescott went 18-of-24 passing for 133 yards and a touchdown. Rush finished 13-of-25 for 115 and a score.

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As the leader of the team and face of the franchise, Prescott will no doubt face criticism for his NSFW assessment of the Cowboys’ outlook. He’ll likely own the moment and suggest that his teammates all feel the same way about how they’ve performed thus far this season. He’ll explain that it was an honest response to a disappointing day, but he’ll point out that his job- and the responsibility of every man in the Dallas locker room- is to now flush the loss, turn the page, leave that negativity in the past, and look ahead to preparing for Philadelphia’s visit to Arlington in Week 10.

It’s the right approach. But it doesn’t mean what Prescott said was wrong.

Cowboys fans have been saying it for months.

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Klint Kubiak calling plays vs. Panthers from the sideline, not the booth

Klint Kubiak has ultimately chosen to call plays from the sideline as opposed to the booth after trying out both options in preseason:

Klint Kubiak, the new offensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints, has ultimately chosen to call plays from the sideline for Week 1 as opposed to the booth, per NewOrleans.Football’s Nick Underhill. This comes after Kubiak split between the two options throughout the preseason to see which would work best for the team.

Earlier this week Kubiak refused to comment on which of the two approaches he would be taking for this first game. However, he has chosen the traditional route of sideline coaching, which allows for more communication with players throughout the game.

Considering he is new to the team and is building the scheme around the players who were already here, it does make sense that he went in this direction, as he can receive input live from players rather than having to infer it from play results.

Look at the veteran presence the Saints have on offense as well. Getting input is extremely valuable for a new coach to the team, as hearing back from players like Alvin Kamara, Derek Carr, and Taysom Hill may help him make adjustments to improve the offense.

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Top highlight: Rising WR makes toe-tapping sideline grab vs. Jaguars

#Chiefs WR Justyn Ross made a beautiful catch in Kansas City’s loss to the Jaguars on Saturday.

The Kansas City Chiefs came up short in their first exhibition matchup of the preseason against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday night, but their failure to secure victory wasn’t a total loss.

Among the most impressive performers in the game was wide receiver Justyn Ross, who made a beautiful toe-tapping catch on the sideline to help third-string quarterback Chris Oladokun keep a drive alive in the second half.

Check out this video of Ross perfectly tracking the ball in the air as he nears the boundary, and notice the nifty footwork that the veteran uses to ensure that he comes down with the catch cleanly:

Though Kansas City has plenty of work left to be done ahead of their regular season kickoff against the Baltimore Ravens in September, efforts like this one from Ross are an inspiring reminder of what the Chiefs are capable of.

Expect to see Ross back in action during Kansas City’s next preseason tilt against the Detroit Lions at Arrowhead Stadium on August 17.

WATCH: Chiefs DL Mike Pennel’s priceless reaction to Super Bowl LVIII win

Mike Pennel was overcome with emotion after the #Chiefs’ win over the #49ers in Super Bowl LVIII.

Few players made their presence felt in Super Bowl LVIII more than Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Mike Pennel.

He earned a starting spot in Kansas City’s championship matchup against the San Francisco 49ers, and made the most of the opportunity, notching six combined tackles which were good to fie for the fourth-most among all Chiefs in the game.

In a clip posted to Twitter by NFL Films, Pennel can be seen taking in Kansas City’s Super Bowl LVIII win, overcome with emotion while holding confetti in his hands on the sideline.

Super Bowl wins don’t come easy, and Pennel had to fight for his chance to make an impact on Kansas City’s latest championship win.

After spending part of the 2023 season as a free agent, Pennel signed with the Chiefs’ practice squad in late October and gradually worked his way up to the crucial role he played against the 49ers.

Ejected Eagles security man won’t be allowed on sidelines vs Cowboys

From @ToddBrock24f7: Dom DiSandro will not be allowed on the AT&T Stadium sideline following his physical altercation with a 49ers player last week.

Friday’s final injury report showed both the Cowboys and Eagles at nearly full strength heading into a Sunday night showdown that will help decide the NFC East.

But Philadelphia will nevertheless be a man down, at least as far as their usual sideline staff goes.

Dom DiSandro, the Eagles head of security who was involved last week in a confrontation that got physical with 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, has been barred from Philadelphia’s sideline when the team visits AT&T Stadium in Week 14, per NFL insider Adam Schefter, citing sources.

DiSandro is being allowed to travel with the Eagles team and perform all of his other duties during their trip to Dallas, but he will not be allowed to be on the sideline during the game.

Greenlaw got into a shouting match with several Eagles players on their sideline after making a tackle that drew an unnecessary roughness penalty. DiSandro positioned himself among the players and tried to push Greenlaw away. Greenlaw’s hand then appeared to make contact with DiSandro’s face while making pointing gestures.

Greenlaw was disqualified from the game for the contact; DiSandro was booted from the Philadelphia sideline for “contributing to the escalation” of the argument.

The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams this week with a reminder to “please ensure that all members of your game-day staff understand that their role does not extend to being involved with game day altercations and that they must refrain from such involvement.”

Greenlaw and DiSandro reportedly exchanged formal apologies through respective team channels, but the league is said to still be considering further discipline. Both men could face fines for their actions.

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The league was expected to take further action past even the game-day ejections and memo; there was some concern that teams could begin instigating such incidents intentionally, using a low-tier staffer to bait an opponent’s star player into an altercation in an effort to get that player disqualified.

“It won’t be [a strategy]. It can’t be, and that’s why they probably did make a big deal out of [it],” 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said earlier in the week. “It can’t be a strategy. They’ll put an end to that, which I think they already have.”

Things were already sure to be plenty tense on both sidelines this Sunday night, as the longtime rivals square off for the 130th time and with the late-season division lead on the line. The absence of one Eagles staffer likely won’t completely prevent tempers from flaring at some point, but DiSandro’s presence after last week’s scuffle with a star player would only have made an ugly incident more likely.

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Cowboys DC Nolan to stay on sideline; McCarthy: ‘It’s clearly a better operation’

Mike Nolan moved from the coaches booth to the sideline for Dallas’s Week 4 win. He’ll stay there moving forward, per the team’s head coach.

The Dallas defense will have the unenviable task of trying to keep Kyler Murray from going 6-0 lifetime in the Cowboys’ home stadium. And Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Nolan will be leading that effort from the Dallas sideline.

After calling the defensive plan from the upstairs booth for the team’s first four games, Nolan was relocated to the sideline for Week 5’s contest against the Giants. While Nolan’s unit allowed Daniel Jones and the Giants their highest-scoring outing of the season, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy maintains he saw an improved effort over the team’s first four matchups. And he felt things got even better as the game went on.

“I thought we turned it up, definitely, in the second half,” McCarthy told the media during his Friday press conference. “There’s some things we tweaked at halftime, more in the coverage component of it, but I thought our pass rush was pretty good. I think the most important part is we created down-and-distance for our pass rush to have the opportunity to get after the quarterback. So we definitely increased the pressure on the quarterback.”

The adjustments and improvements were enough, apparently, to convince McCarthy that Nolan should remain at ground level moving forward.

“I just think it’s important for Mike to be down there, for all the right reasons,” he said. “This is a brand-new staff; a lot of guys have not worked together before. There’s advantages, obviously, of being up in the box, and there’s advantages of being on the field. It was a decision we made early in the season for him to be up there, but at the end of the day, I know- just preference from calling games- I thought it was always important to be able to be on the field, to see things live, up close with your own eyes: the body language of players, their players, those types of things. You don’t get that up in the box. But the benefit of being in the box is you can see the offensive scheme and the adjustments immediately. There’s not a right and wrong way to do it; I think just based on where we are as a defense right now, it’s clearly a better operation with Mike on the field.”

That operation will be put to a much bigger test with the Cardinals coming to town on Monday night, led by the explosive Kyler Murray. Murray is a local, having won three high school championships at AT&T Stadium, as well as two more collegiate victories there, one while at Texas A&M and another while at Oklahoma.

“He is a mess,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on-air on 105.3 The Fan, “in terms of a challenge to the defense. He’s probably in the top ten of any talented player that’s played in that stadium. He’s just so unique in his ability to keep plays alive. And then to not only have that athletic ability but then have that speed to go with it. His entire makeup is centered around competition, and he knows how to win.”

It will be up to the Cowboys defense to keep Murray from getting yet another win in Arlington. And they’ll attempt to beat the Cardinals with a plan not executed from a bird’s-eye view, but rather, with their leader among them in the trenches.

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WATCH: Bill Belichick claims ‘zero involvement’ with video crew incident

News broke that Patriots’ cameras directly filmed the Bengals’ sideline during Sunday’s game between the Bengals and Browns in Cleveland.

Bill Belichick claims he has “zero involvement” with what’s shaping up to be SpyGate 2.0 for the New England Patriots.

The Pats released a statement Monday night acknowledging that a team film crew “inappropriately filmed” the field and Cincinnati sideline during the Bengals-Browns game in Cleveland on Sunday. The statement claims that the crew was credentialed to be in Cleveland to feature one of the Patriots’ advance scouts on the job for a web series called “Do Your Job.”

The Athletic’s Paul Dehner Jr. reported Tuesday that the video captured includes eight minutes of footage focusing on the Bengals’ sideline, providing a clear view of coaches signaling for plays.

In a conference call with Cincinnati media on Tuesday, Belichick said, “We’re competitive and we’ll try to be competitive in every area. But we don’t knowingly, intentionally want to do anything that’s across the line.

Belichick also said Monday on WEEI in Boston:

“We have absolutely nothing to do with anything that they produce or direct or shoot. I have never seen any of their tapes or anything else. This is something that we 100 percent have zero involvement with.”

Patriots’ Bill Belichick claims ‘zero involvement’ with video crew incident (Patriotswire)

News broke that Patriots’ cameras directly filmed the Bengals’ sideline during Sunday’s game between the Bengals and Browns in Cleveland.

News broke that Patriots’ cameras directly filmed the Bengals’ sideline during Sunday’s game between the Bengals and Browns in Cleveland.

Patriots’ Bill Belichick claims ‘zero involvement’ with video crew incident

News broke that Patriots’ cameras directly filmed the Bengals’ sideline during Sunday’s game between the Bengals and Browns in Cleveland.

News broke that Patriots’ cameras directly filmed the Bengals’ sideline during Sunday’s game between the Bengals and Browns in Cleveland.