The Cowboys are happy to get out of Indianapolis with their fourth win of the season, but still left a lot of things that will need a quick fix on the field before returning home to play the 49ers. They come out of the Colts game with some injuries that won’t make dealing with a 7-1 San Francisco squad any easier.
The team will need to be firing in all three phases, which means finding a way to continue getting stops on defense, and scoring off of them more than they have been on offense.
Dallas Cowboys rule out 3 players for Week 10, while Jake Ferguson and a rising player are set to miss multiple games – Mauricio Rodriguez, A to Z Sports
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have some key injuries for the 49ers game, including starting TE Jake Ferguson.
When asked to walk through the injuries from the Colts game, Schottenheimer didn’t sugarcoat it.
“Busy week in the training room for us,” Schottenheimer said. “PJ Locke will not be available this week. Jake Ferguson and Tyler Goodson should both miss multiple weeks. We’re working through that.”
Additionally, the Cowboys have a large group of players whose statuses will be up in the air as the week progresses.
Cowboys’ emerging RB ‘probably going to miss some time’ with knee injury – Todd Brock, The Cowboys Wire
The Cowboys are going to be very thin at running back, after Tyler Goodson played through injury in week nine.
The 25-year-old exited the game in the first half and spent some time in the sideline medical tent but was able to return after the break to notch 33 of his 77 rushing yards. He and starter Javonte Williams combined to put up 178 yards on the ground, with Goodson averaging an impressive 6.4 yards per carry.
“I’m going to do everything I can to get out there on the field,” Goodson said after the win. “If it’s just a little pain, I’m going to go. But if it’s something where I just can’t go, then I won’t go.”
The Cowboys Defense Got 14 Stops: What Did the Offense Do With Them? – Cody Warren, Inside The Star
The Cowboys defense is getting off the field, but the offense can’t stay on it as much as they need to either.
Dallas led the Colts 10-7 in the second quarter when Parker’s defense forced three consecutive three-and-outs.
The Cowboys punted it right back three times. On the last of those possessions, Williams opened with a 14-yard run, Lamb was flagged for a false start, the penalties piled up, and Dallas eventually punted on fourth-and-18.
It took a fourth straight Colts punt before Brian Schottenheimer and Dak Prescott made them pay. Dak got the ball at his 25 with 49 seconds left and found Lamb for a 44-yard touchdown before halftime.
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Caleb Downs makes his mark in crucial victory over Colts – Matthew Holleran, Blogging The Boys
Every week, Caleb Downs is doing more and more to show why he was one of the top defensive players in this year’s draft class.
Expectations were sky-high for Downs at the beginning of his rookie campaign. While the 21-year-old had shown flashes of greatness in Dallas’ first eight games, we’d yet to see him take over a game as he did at Ohio State. For the first time in his NFL career, Downs did just that on Sunday.
Downs and Quinnen Williams were the best defenders on the field on Sunday afternoon. Downs showed his ability to impact the game in multiple ways, finishing with a sack, a PBU, and a game-sealing interception in the fourth quarter.
Cowboys should relish in Eagles throwing in the towel with Jordan Davis trade – Levi Dombro, The Landry Hat
Someone has to win the NFC East, and the Cowboys win over the Colts allows them to keep hoping it can be them, especially with the Eagles waving the white flag.
Currently on a seven-game losing streak and having dropped three straight contests against division foes, Howie Roseman is throwing in the towel on the 2026 season. On Monday afternoon, less than a day before the trade deadline, the Eagles traded star nose tackle Jordan Davis to the Jaguars.
Eight months after they signed him to a three-year, $78 million deal.
And while Roseman is now sitting on a pile of draft picks in Philadelphia, that doesn’t really move the needle a whole lot anymore. This is a good day for Cowboys fans to victory lap their bitter rivals and feel good that they at least have hope for the rest of the season.
Brian Schottenheimer on Cowboys’ penalty struggles vs. Colts: ‘It wasn’t good enough’ – Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys.com
The Cowboys not separating from bad opponents because of penalties is going to continue hurting them against better teams, and the head coach knows it.
Through nine games, the Cowboys are now tied for the second-most penalties accepted against them with 42, and have the most penalty yards accepted against them in the NFL with 667. Evidently, it had an impact on their Week 9 game against the Colts and will continue to impact their season if it isn’t corrected.
“It wasn’t good enough, and that’s why that came down to the way it came down,” Schottenheimer said. “That game should’ve been where we win by a couple touchdowns maybe, but we let them hang around, we put ourselves behind the sticks on offense a bunch. Explained to the guys, if we don’t clean that up, it’s going to hurt our ability to do what we want to do.”
