Joey Porter Jr. is performing exactly how the Dallas Cowboys wanted him to on his first several games, and it\u2019s making the reality of him remaining with the team past 2026 more possible. This Sunday, the Cowboys will play the Arizona Cardinals, a team they haven\u2019t beaten since 2017.<\/p>\n
Quinnen Williams will look to continue his recent ascension in his play. Also, it doesn\u2019t appear that Dallas will add any players of significance via a trade.<\/p>\n
Ever since Joey Porter Jr. step on the field for the Cowboys, he\u2019s shown why they traded for him. The organization appears to want him for the long haul as a result.<\/p>\n
Although the Cowboys still have arguably the NFL\u2019s worst defense, Porter has been one of the few bright spots. It\u2019s not difficult to see why they would want to sign him to a long-term deal after the season. If the two sides are unable to reach a long-term agreement, the Cowboys could choose to use the franchise tag on him. That could lead to an even tougher decision to make with receiver George Pickens, who is playing this season under the tag.<\/p>\n
Either way, it doesn\u2019t sound as if they want Porter to be a one-season rental.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys haven\u2019t beaten the Cardinals since 2017. Rookie safety Caleb Downs gets candid about how they can change that.<\/p>\n
To get the victory and break the ongoing curse that\u2019s allowed Arizona to haunt Dallas for years, Downs and his defensive compatriots will have to focus on shutting down all-world tight end Trey McBride and rookie first-round pick Jeremiyah Love, the latter returning from injury to take on the Cowboys and, in the process, to put their run defense to the test.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they do a good job with their motions. and they run the ball well.\u201d said Downs. \u201cThey have a lot of different personnel groupings, like the Rams did a couple years ago. I think, all of that combined, they have a good offense, and we\u2019re gonna have to do our jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Multiple ailments have put the status of George Pickens in question against the Cardinals. Also, multiple players on the Cowboys will miss Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys will be without wide receiver and kick returner KaVontae Turpin and linebacker Dee Winters for the second consecutive week after both suffered injuries in the loss to the Green Bay Packers on Oct. 18. Turpin was hurt on the opening kickoff after taking a hit to his ribcage. While he has participated in warm-ups and stretching this week at practice, he has been listed as a non-participant. Winters is dealing with an Achilles strain that has yet to see him hit the practice field in any capacity in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n
Dallas needed Quinnen Williams to pick up his play, and he\u2019s done just that over the last several weeks. However, he\u2019s still working to get back to the peak of his powers.<\/p>\n
Williams has also tallied a sack in three of his last four games<\/p>\n
Just like the Cowboys defense, Williams is improving.<\/p>\n
But he says he\u2019s not there yet. He\u2019s still not quite himself yet roughly one year after coning to the Cowboys in a mid-season trade with the New York Jets.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, not yet,\u201d Williams said. \u201cNot yet. At all. I feel like I got some things I need to fix. And just keep going in the right direction. And hopefully soon I have that game that I feel like I\u2019m myself soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jerry Jones has spoken several times about the Cowboys being active before the trade deadline. That tune has changed a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere we are right now, it would have to be a dynamic situation for us to give up picks because we\u2019ve used some of those picks in our future. On the other hand, I don\u2019t like the idea of giving up, really, anybody that somebody else might want. We need him as bad as they do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey Porter Jr. is performing exactly how the Dallas Cowboys wanted him to on his first several games,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":["post-482341","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\/482341","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=482341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}