{"id":49396,"date":"2025-11-14T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/49396\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:14:10","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-players-talk-about-marshawn-kneeland-and-carrying-on-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/49396\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Players talk about Marshawn Kneeland, and \u201ccarrying on the light\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the Cowboys held a virtual team meeting while on their bye, then on Monday, they came together as a group for the first time. On Tuesday night, a candlelight vigil<\/a> was held for Kneeland\u2019s family, friends and those inside the Cowboys organization.<\/p>\n

After a day off Wednesday, the Cowboys got back to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving dealt with loss, that is the best medicine for me,\u201d quarterback Dak Prescott<\/a> said. \u201cSo getting back out there, handing the ball off and sprinting an extra 10 yards and making sure I\u2019m doing it hard, Marshawn went through my mind a few times at practice today. I just countered that with running harder after a play or trying to do something to better this team to show that. It felt good. I know it was a great practice. A lot of guys were out there, good energy, beautiful weather. As I said, we\u2019re not forgetting, but we\u2019re moving forward carrying on the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prescott and defensive lineman Solomon Thomas<\/a> carry a different burden to Kneeland\u2019s loss. Prescott\u2019s brother, Jace, died by suicide in 2020. Thomas\u2019 sister, Ella, died by suicide in 2018. Through their foundations, both players have pledged help for mental health awareness and aiding families touched by tragedy.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys will have two more practices before traveling to Las Vegas on Sunday ahead of the Raiders game. Thomas said the grieving process does not end.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we all play like Marshawn, we\u2019ll play like a better team,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying Marshawn was a perfect player, but that way he would go out there and play is the way football is supposed to be played. He would run to the ball. No matter how tired he was, he would play with intensity and tenacity. He went out there because he loved the game. He played with love. He played every play like it was his last and didn\u2019t take reps for granted. … If we do that, we\u2019ll honor him — win, loss or draw — if we play like Marshawn. We\u2019ll be a better team. We\u2019ll come out of this better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the Cowboys held a virtual team meeting while on their bye, then on Monday, they came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-49396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49396","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=49396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}