Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says DaRon Bland should play on Sunday
Jerry Jones noted DaRon Bland is expected to make his season debut on Sunday.
Among the litany of issues the Dallas Cowboys have been dealing with these days, many of them self-inflicted, they have been bitten rather hard by the injury bug. This has been a recurring theme across this season as a number of different players have been affected. One injury that the team has been dealing with for a while now has been that to cornerback DaRon Bland. In late August it was revealed that he had a stress fracture in his foot.
Dallas opened the 21-day practice window for Bland ahead of the Detroit Lions game which was a week before the team’s bye. The looming bye made it a curious decision and the time since has as well given that it has been six weeks.
Whatever the case, according to Jerry Jones we can expect to see Bland make his debut on Sunday against the Washington Commanders.
It was this time last year when Bland was making himself a household name by returning interceptions for touchdowns left and right. Bland would famously go on to set the NFL record for most interceptions returned in a season during the team’s Thanksgiving Day game, incidentally a contest also against the Washington Commanders who the team will see on Sunday.
Obviously this season is a lost one for the Cowboys, but Bland is eligible for a contract extension for the first time in the offseason. It stands to reason that he would want to capitalize on his performances last year, you know how that thing goes.
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Texans beat the Cowboys so bad it made Dak Prescott cry after the game
The Houston Texans ensured that they’d be the best NFL team in Texas for at least the next two years (or potentially the next four) by demolishing the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football. The win bumped the Texans to 7-4 on the year while dropping the ‘Boys to a measly 3-7 record and effectively ending any hopes they had of a playoff run.
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott didn’t even play in the game but he revealed to David Moore of The Dallas Morning News that watching his Cowboys get blown out by the Texans brought him to tears.
“The other day, after the game, I guess, it all just hit me. Boom, right? A couple of tears came down. This is going to hurt, it’s going to suck at times. You just have to understand this is one of the moments that it does. I don’t want anything right now other than to let it suck.”
Let’s be clear here, we’re not laughing at someone for being emotional, that’d just be mean. Rather, the laughing here is more at how badly the Texans whooped the Cowboys and what a bad year it’s been for the other NFL team in the state of Texas.
Dak Prescott cried after the Texans blew out the Cowboys
The Texans and Cowboys don’t play each other often thanks to Houston residing in the AFC and Dallas calling the NFC home but when they do meet up, it’s always a battle for who will be the best in the state of Texas. The Texans won this match-up, the first time they’d done so since an overtime win against Big D in the 2018 season.
Before that, Houston had been a laughing stock in the series, dropping three straight contests to their in-state foe. They did, however, win the first-ever showdown between the two in the Texans’ inaugural season back in 2002.
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All of that being said, it’s been a bad year for the Cowboys and Prescott’s emotions show just that. He’s going to miss the rest of the year with an injury and the Cowboys just don’t look like they care when they’re out there on the field. The Texans were able to take advantage of that and had an explosive fourth quarter that gave them the 24-point win.
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