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Dak Prescott planning to have season-ending surgery, sources say
Prescott is flying to New York early next week to meet with the specialist, but Cowboys doctors and trainers already believe he needs the surgery that would sideline him for four months, sources said. If the specialist agrees with that assessment, the surgery is scheduled to take place Wednesday.
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This is expected to mark the second time in his career that Prescott ends the season on injured reserve. In 2020, he suffered a dislocation and compound fracture of his right a
Cowboys LB Micah Parsons to return after 4-game absence
Despite the prolonged absence, Parsons still leads the Cowboys in quarterback pressures (21) and is two off the team lead in sacks.
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Parsons missed the past four games with a high left ankle sprain suffered in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys' Week 4 win against the New York Giants. He was able to take part in three practices during the week on a limited basis and was officially listed as questionable.
Week 1: Sept. 8 at ClevelandW Dak Prescott leads Cowboys to 33-17 romp over Browns in opener after getting new 4-year contract
Prescott's deal makes him the first player to average $60 million per season and ends months of speculation about his future with the Cowboys, who have won 12 games in each of the past three years with him....Watson played for the first time since breaking a bone in his right shoulder in November. Cleveland's QB didn't play during the preseason and the Browns' new-look offense didn't look very good with him running it.
Week 3: Sept. 22 vs. BaltimoreL Henry rushes for 151 yards, 2 TDs as Ravens hang on to beat Cowboys 28-25
Henry, who averaged 6 yards on 25 carries, became the first Baltimore back to score at least one touchdown in each of his first three games for the franchise. He added a 23-yard catch. Jackson was 12 of 15 for 182 yards....Brandon Aubrey kicked a 65-yard field goal for the Cowboys, 1 yard shy of the NFL record from 2021 held by the kicker on the other sideline, Baltimore's Justin Tucker.
Week 4: Sept. 26 at NY GiantsW Dak Prescott throws 2 TD passes and Cowboys win 7th straight over Giants, 20-15
Dak Prescott threw one of his two touchdown passes to CeeDee Lamb and hit running back Rico Dowdle on a 15-yard screen pass for a touchdown; Brandon Aubrey kicked field goals of 60 and 40 yards...Greg Joseph made field goals of 52, 41, 38, 22 and 42 for the Giants (1-3), who controlled the ball for 35:37
Week 5: Oct. 6 at PittsburghW Prescott throws TD pass to Tolbert with 20 seconds left to lift Cowboys past Sreelers, 20-17
Prescott had spent the previous three-plus hours mixing brilliant plays and baffling ones in equal measure, throwing a pair of picks and fumbling once to almost single-handedly keep the sluggish Steelers in the game....Fields threw for 131 yards two scores and added 27 yards rushing but struggled with his accuracy, completing just 15 of 27 passes.
Week 6: Oct. 13 vs. DetroitL Jared Goff throws 3 TD passes, Lions hand Cowboys another lopsided home loss
Goff went on to throw for 315 yards and three touchdowns, David Montgomery ran for two scores. Detroit led 27-6 at the break....Prescott threw two interceptions in the worst home loss since 1988 for the Cowboys (3-3), who became the first team since at least 2000 to trail by 14 or more more points at halftime in four consecutive games on their home field, playoffs included.
Week 7: Oct. 20 BYE
Week 8: Oct. 27 at San FranciscoL Brock Purdy helps the 49ers bounce back with a 30-24 victory over Cowboys
Purdy bounced back from a three-interception performance last week against the Chiefs to go 18 for 26 for 260 yards and had a TD run and threw a TD. George Kittle, who finished with six catches for 128 yards...Prescott finished 25 for 38 for 243 yards and threw two interceptions for a third straight game. Lamb caught 13 passes for 146 yards.
Week 9: Nov. 3 at AtlantaL Cousins throws 3 TD passes, 1st-place Falcons hand Cowboys 3rd straight loss 27-21
Cousins completed 19 of 24 passes for 222 yards, including 13 in a row at one point. Mooney had five catches for 88 yards, while McCloud hauled in his first TD of the season. Bojan Robinson had another big day, carrying 19 times for 86 yards and hauling in a team-high seven receptions for 59 yards....The Cowboys tried to rally behind Cooper Rush after Prescott was ruled out, having completed 18 of 24 for 133 yards and a touchdown. Rush guided an 86-yard drive in the closing minutes.
Week 10: Nov. 10 vs. PhiladelphiaL Hurts accounts for 4 TDs as Eagles roll past bumbling, Prescott-less Cowboys 34-6
Jalen Hurts threw two touchdown passes and ran for a pair of scores, he was 14 of 20 for 202 yards with 56 yards rushing. Hurts shook off two sacks from Micah Parsons....Cooper Rush didn't look anything like the replacement who went 4-1 filling in for Prescott two years ago, going 13 of 23 for just 45 yards and was replaced briefly by Trey Lance
Week 11: Nov. 18 vs. Houston (ESPN)
Week 12: Nov. 24 at Washington
Week 13: Nov. 28 vs. NY Giants
Week 14: Dec. 9 vs. Cincinnati (ESPN)
Week 15: Dec. 15 at Carolina
Week 16: Dec. 22 vs. Tampa Bay (NBC)
Week 17: Dec. 29 at Philadelphia
Week 18: Jan 4 or 5 vs. Washington
Cowboys' Micah Parsons feels bad for Zack Martin, veteran players
After Sunday's loss dropped the Dallas Cowboys to 3-6, pass rusher Micah Parsons was asked what he would tell people wondering whether Mike McCarthy would be the head coach in 2025. "That's above my pay grade, if Mike's coach again next year," Parsons said. "All coaching aside, Mike can leave and go where he wants to. Guys I kind of feel bad for is guys like Zack Martin and guys who might be on their last year, on their way out, because that's who I wanted to hold the trophy for.
Martin, 33, is the longest-tenured Cowboy, a first-round pick in 2014 and a nine-time Pro Bowler. He is tied for the most first-team All-Pro selections in franchise history (7) with Hall of Famers Bob Lilly and Randy White. He is in the final year of his contract and battled through ankle and shoulder injuries for most of the season. McCarthy is in his 18th year as an NFL head coach and has 170 regular-season wins and a Super Bowl victory to his credit. He helped the Cowboys to three straight 12-5 seasons in 2021-23 but could not advance past the divisional round. McCarthy is in the final year of his contract. Not only is McCarthy on the final year of his deal but so is the entire coaching staff.
Jones said he would take into consideration all of the factors of what has gone wrong this season, including the number of injuries. Parsons returned to the lineup against the Eagles after missing four games with a high ankle sprain. "There's a lot of options," Jones said when asked about other options for change. "Whether or not they change the equation for the positive, that's the issue. And so there's a lot of things you can do differently, but that wouldn't necessarily bring a positive result."
In a 28-point blowout, maybe a second-quarter touchdown would not have mattered much, but once again sunlight was a storyline in a Dallas Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium.