{"id":418165,"date":"2026-08-27T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418165\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:56:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-defense-playing-faster-under-christian-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418165\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Defense playing faster under Christian Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The running back room has a top-end starter in Williams, and the depth begins with the guy nobody seems to want, Malik Davis. He isn\u2019t flashy, but he doesn\u2019t have major holes in his game. He gets what\u2019s blocked for him on run plays, he can bring in a pass, his blocking is as good as Williams, and he plays special teams at a high level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">In the latest preseason game, he caught a touchdown pass, blocked in pass protection to set up a big play, and rushed for nearly 6 yards per attempt. Dallas has their main backup, and the change-of-pace option finally showed up in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The running back room has a top-end starter in Williams, and the depth begins with the guy nobody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":["post-418165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}