Jerry Jones on looking at trades, Dak Prescott’s play and more – Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys,com
Jerry Jones thinks the Dallas Cowboys could be buyers at the trade deadline if the price is right.
Could the Cowboys add via trade before the deadline?
The NFL trade deadline falls on November 4. That’s 28 days away, and the Cowboys will play in four more games before the deadline comes around. With some encouraging signs from how the Cowboys have played through the first five games, does Jones feel enticed to test the trade waters and see if he can add somewhere?
“I think that old sign is out, ‘Open
for Business,’ is there. I think that we are continually looking. As we go on into this season, teams will position themselves where they basically feel like less of a contender because of the losses or because of circumstance on their team.” Jones said.
“That’s when you’ll see sometimes some better players that are available because the team has decided to start redoing some things on their salary cap structure, for instance. There’s opportunity there, and that’s when you start getting those calls. And yes, we’re in a position to improve our team if we get an opportunity to.”
Coaching played biggest role in win vs. Jets
Down four starters on the offensive line and plenty of others on both sides of the ball, the Cowboys’ depth needed to step up in a big way against the Jets. They did, and Jones attributed their success to the coaching staff.
“It was unquestionably the coaching that, in my mind, was the overriding reason that we played as well with the situation we were in,” Jones said. “It also bodes well for how defensively, we’re evolving into executing that scheme better. So there were a lot of things there, including the score, that made it great for us to play like we did.”
The good news for the Cowboys is they’re expected to continue getting healthier and potentially get some of their starters back as early as this week, and the reps in-game that depth pieces got against the Jets can help raise their confidence for when and if they’re called upon again.
Cowboys bring back 2024 camp standout to bolster thin secondary – Todd Brock, Cowboys Wire
The Cowboys brought back a fan favorite from the 2024 preseason to add some depth to the beaten-up secondary.
The Cowboys are welcoming back a familiar face to a defensive backfield still missing several key pieces.
Dallas signed safety Julius Wood to the practice squad on Tuesday, marking the 24-year-old’s second stint with the team.
Wood originally went undrafted in 2024 out of East Carolina. There, he was roommates with cornerback Shavon Revel Jr., the Cowboys’ third-round draft pick this past spring who is still awaiting clearance to practice after a knee injury.
The 6-foot-1-inch, 193-pound Wood spent the summer of 2024 in camp with the Cowboys but was waived during final cutdowns just prior to the start of that year’s regular season.
The Titans claimed Wood off waivers and played him in nine games, where he saw a fair amount of action on special teams and just a handful of defensive snaps. Late in the season, he received a six-game suspension for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drugs policy and was required to sit out the final five games of Tennessee’s season and the first game of his next season; he has been reinstated by the league, per reports.
He was with the Titans again this past summer but did not survive final cuts.
Wood turned some heads in his first camp with the Cowboys, notably logging multiple interceptions during the 2024 preseason.
Veteran safety Malik Hooker is current on injured reserve in Dallas. Juanyeh Thomas filled in nicely for Hooker in Week 6’s win at New York, but the position is perilously thin behind Thomas and Donovan Wilson.
NFL fines Cowboys owner Jerry Jones $250K for obscene gesture toward fans during win over Jets – Jeremy Bergman, NFL.com
Some might say Jerry Jones was just embracing New York culture.
The NFL has fined Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones $250,000 for displaying an obscene gesture toward fans during Sunday’s win over the New York Jets, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported on Tuesday.
Jones — who is likely to appeal the fine, Pelissero reported — was seen in a viral video pointing toward fans from his box at MetLife Stadium and then giving the middle finger.
The Cowboys owner apologized for the act on Tuesday during an appearance on his radio show, explaining that the “inadvertent” finger was a response to Cowboys fans.
“That was unfortunate. That was kind of an exchange with our fans out in front of us,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan. “There was a swarm of Cowboys fans out in front — not Jets fans, Cowboys fans. The entire stadium was brimming with enthusiasm of Cowboys and certainly late in the game.”
Jones added: “(The gesture) was inadvertent on my part because that was right after we made our last touchdown, and we were all excited about it. There wasn’t any antagonistic issue or anything like that. I just put up the wrong show on the hand. That was inadvertently done. I’m not kidding. If you want to call it accidental, you can call it accidental. But it got straightened around pretty quick. I had a chance to look at it. It got straightened out pretty quick, but the intention was ‘thumbs up,’ and basically pointing at our fans because everybody was jumping up and down excited.”
Jones and the Cowboys have not yet formally appealed the fine, but it is likely they will with a final decision expected by Friday.
Jones is not the first owner to be reprimanded for in-game behavior toward fans. Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper was fined $300,000 for throwing a drink on fans during the 2023 season. The late Titans owner Bud Adams was fined $250,000 in 2009 for waving middle fingers at Bills fans.
3 young players who are making a case for more playing time with the Cowboys in 2025 – Sean Martin, Blogging the Boys
If the Cowboys are evaluating their entire roster in Brian Schottenheimer’s first season, these players need more playing time to determine if they should be part of the team’s future.
WR Ryan Flournoy
That wasn’t Miles Austin we saw balling out last Sunday afternoon against the New York Jets. No, that was second-year wide receiver Ryan Flournoy, who now where’s the No. 19 jersey. The Cowboys former 2024 six-round pick had himself a day against the Jets. He hauled in a total of six catches for 114 receiving yards and added another 10 yards on the ground on two end around carries. He looked very much like the real deal, which shouldn’t be all that surprising with the way he played in training camp and preseason. With the current injuries Dallas is facing at WR, he should continue to see more playing time and rightfully so.
LT Nathan Thomas
Nathan Thomas has kind of come out of nowhere with the Cowboys this year. The second-year offensive tackle wasn’t really on anyone’s radar heading into the offseason, but strangely enough he’s impressed Dallas’ coaching staff to the point where they trust him as a starting caliber player. With Tyler Guyton sidelined due to a concussion last week against the Jets, Thomas got the start at left tackle and more than held his own. Dallas’ 2024 seven-round pick is looking as if he’ll play a vital role this year as their swing tackle and quite possibly be part of the equation has a future starter at LT or RT in the not-too-distant future.
LB Shemar James
After losing starting LB Jack Sanborn to a concussion with six minutes still to play in the second quarter last week against the Jets, Shemar James stepped in to replace him and ended up leading the team in tackles with 15. Dallas hasn’t had a LB with that many tackles in a regular-season game since Leighton Vander Esch and Sean Lee, both former first-round picks. A fifth-round pick this year by the Cowboys, James’ performance Sunday afternoon may have him in line for more playing time moving forward, regardless of Sanborn’s injury status. With James, Marist Liufau, and DeMarvion Overshown the Cowboys seem to have a young, promising LB core.
