Here's to another season of Cowboys football

Whelp... stranger things have happened I guess.........

The start of the week word I'm hearing is that Diggs has been "full participation" at practice this week.

Sounds like he might actually play week 1. Now, I would imagine that he's very much on a pitch count, but having him available for passing downs would be an unexpected bonus.

I'm not expecting a win, but not getting blown out would be significant progress.

I thought I did well getting +7.5 back in August... now its pushed to +8.5.

I will say... there is a TON of public money coming in on the the Eagles. Sharps are on Dallas.... but just barely.

Piecing together the whole Micah story from multiple sources, here's what I got:

1. Micah instigated the March meeting with Jerry and contract numbers were discussed and verbally agreed (I'm hearing the big line items agreed upon were 5 years and 150 mil guaranteed. At a guess the agent got pissed at the 5 years and insisted on it being 4... that's where things started to fall apart).

2. Micah listened to his agent and did what he was told with regards to sitting out, demanding a trade, etc.

3. Micah was NOT going to miss games and did NOT want to be traded... he thought it was all just negotiation tactics.

4. Micah's agent reached out Tuesday to the Cowboys ready to make a deal... Jerry basically said "No Thanks... we are going to either trade him or make him play on the 5th year option".

5. Hours later the GB deal was done and a couple days later Micah had a new team/contract and the trade was made public.



I said it in the other thread and I'll say it again here... I think this goes a long ways to changing the narrative for upcoming Cowboy contract negotiations (A narrative that VERY much needed changing).

IF and I do mean IF the running game can somehow get going.....

and IF, and I do mean IF Dak has the training wheels taken off, and he's allowed to move around.....

then maybe..... just MAYBE.............

(Let it be known, that this optimism is strictly due to a lifetime fan ship of this TEAM, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Jones family, which I can not stand)

Who's going to bite the karma bullet and make the game thread on Thursday? The rule is if we lose, you can't make another game day thread.

I heard some talk earlier today about how good Dak's record is against Philly the past few years. It's really good and his TD/INT ratio in those games is something ridiculous like 14-to-1.

I'm not expecting a win, but I'm not counting Dallas out either.

I'll do it

Meh.

About the only thing interesting to me is how the cowboys handle their draft picks and cap money.

Strange having a year with no hope wondering how their record will affect their draft order at the same time keeping an eye on GBs success.

You got it, mike.. I'll do my one at some point this season.

He's something like 34-9 against the East, and is usually very good against philly. We'll see if that continues to hold up.

We can't even get a Kenny Clark picture in the OP?

Yeah that's a relief. The injury bug hit our CBs hard so some good news is welcome.

I gotta think he'll be on a pitch count, but glad to know we'll have him on at least some of the passing downs.

Good interview with Troy about the trade, the elite of the NFL, coaching (good dig at Jerry here) and thoughts on the documentary.

Line is -8.5. Is that reasonable?

TyHolden said:

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Line is -8.5. Is that reasonable?

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I think so. I'll be pretty pleased if we keep it competitive and are within a TD late in the game.

our rb problems are fixed....

Just give it to the big fella 😤 pic.twitter.com/o4zkUXWMpV

— Football’s Greatest Moments (@FBGreatMoments) September 3, 2025

Did we discuss that Tyler Guyton is going to play tomorrow? Seems like a really big deal.

TyHolden said:

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our rb problems are fixed....

Just give it to the big fella 😤 pic.twitter.com/o4zkUXWMpV

— Football’s Greatest Moments (@FBGreatMoments) September 3, 2025

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One of the best parts of 80s NFL is when the Bears lined up Refrigerator Perry at fullback.

shack009 said:

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Did we discuss that Tyler Guyton is going to play tomorrow? Seems like a really big deal.

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It's a big deal. Not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm not convinced he'll ever be worth a flip.

I think you've got to give him some time. We knew he was a high upside low floor lineman when we took him, and by all accounts he worked his ass off getting his body in a better shape and was having a very solid camp and showed real improvement.

Just saw a short clip from the Dan Le Batard Show where Diana Russini was talking about how other members of the Cowboys front office were the real driving force in trading Micah. She said after the last preseason game a number of execs met with Jerry and were pretty adamant that it was time to trade him and get him out the door.

Lost in that clip above is the quarterback getting ran over once he hands the ball off