Dallas Cowboys Game Review: Focus on Cooper Rush and the Team

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00:00Let's move to the Dallas side of things. I'm going to say it was an OK game from Cooper

00:08Rush. We like to see him be more efficient. 16 of 31. The 183 183 through the air was

00:15OK. The two touchdowns were good. Obviously one of them going to see you lame to open

00:19up the game. And then that very short one to Brandon Cooks outside of C.E.L.A.M. This

00:25is something I mentioned at halftime. Someone else had to step up and do something. Someone

00:29has got to help C.E.L.A.M. Someone's got to take take some of the ease off of Rico Dowdell

00:34in the backfield who we'll get to in a second. Jake Ferguson three for thirty two. Luke Shoemaker

00:39two for twenty two. Kavante Turpin one for sixteen. Rico Dowdell one for ten. And Brandon

00:45Cooks one for three. No one else is doing anything in the passing game outside of C.E.L.A.M.

00:51in this. It's good and bad. It's good from a perspective that we know the targets are

00:55going to be funneled to C.E.L.A.M. Therefore that's who we should be betting on. It's

01:00very very super straightforward. Outside of that the production is super lackluster. Ferguson

01:05falls under his prop which was sitting at thirty seven and a half. That's a miss by

01:09me. He did have six targets. He only came away three catches. So the targets were there

01:13for Ferguson. He just didn't convert. As I mentioned before the break while the Cowboys

01:19season might be over the bright spot for them is Rico Dowdell 18 carries one hundred

01:26and thirty one yards. He flies over his prop of sixty eight and a half. And I spoke on

01:31the pregame show about liking the under. I just didn't I didn't see the matchup setting

01:35up for it to be. And he crushes that prop. He goes way over that. He doubles that nearly.

01:40So Rico Dowdell a huge game from him. This is now back to back games of over 100 yards

01:45for Rico Dowdell. And it's good to note that we did see the the rushing attempt from C.E.L.A.M.

01:51We saw the little handoff jet sweep to Kavante Turpin. But outside of that not counting wide

01:56receivers Ezekiel Elliott had two carries for four yards. So between Rico Dowdell and

02:02Ezekiel Elliott there were 20 running back carries for the Dallas Cowboys and Rico Dowdell

02:08controlled 18 out of the 20. That is fantastic to see. We know exactly who the ball is going

02:14to when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys back. Sure. Well they try to get Kavante Turpin

02:18the ball but we're talking about actual running back carries to see Rico Dowdell have maybe

02:24not one hundred and thirty yards maybe not over 100 last week against the Giants but

02:27to see him push towards the upper 80s mid 90s on a weekly basis. I think that's reasonable.

02:34I think that's reasonable. I also want to add in the fact that we're going to continue

02:38to hear stories and see C.E.L.A.M. on the injury report with this shoulder issue. So

02:44if there's no one else in the receiving room that can step up and help you know alleviate

02:50some of the pressure off of C.E.L.A.M. it may actually turn into a big Rico Dowdell

02:55end of the season for the Cowboys and his rushing attempts and his yards might be the

02:59best spot to go for the Cowboys week in week out as we get to the close of the season.

03:04If C.E.L.A.M. can't do it all by himself and no one else is stepping up to help him.