(Editor’s Note: Time to check the mail! The DallasCowboys.com staff writers answer your questions here in ‘Mailbag’ presented by Miller Lite.)<\/p>\n
I would argue that in the recent past DeMarcus Lawrence was the Cowboys’ defensive leader, but watching this year’s defense, I cannot definitively say who the leader is now. I’m not suggesting there isn’t anyone stepping up, but who is the voice, or voices, of the defense that everyone listens to? \u2013 Kyle Roddy\/Tyler, TX<\/p>\n
Patrik: To answer this, you must first state your definition of what a leader is or might be. Some lead quietly and through action, such as DaRon Bland, and others are extremely vocal, such as DeMarcus Lawrence. I will say it’s difficult to figure out who the latter type might be in 2025, that’s for sure, but I can tell you who it’s about to be: DeMarvion Overshown. The young linebacker is a stick of dynamite with both his play and in how vocal is he in the locker room, the huddle and on the field of play. So I won’t say nobody’s stepping up, because guys are what they are and aren’t what they aren’t \u2014 vocal vs. non-vocal \u2014 with plenty leading in their own way. But the mouthpiece of the defense returned to practice this week and will soon be on the field again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Editor’s Note: Time to check the mail! The DallasCowboys.com staff writers answer your questions here in ‘Mailbag’ presented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4718,28292,11414,9663,349,99],"class_list":["post-246461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-mailbag","tag-news-patrik-walker","tag-news-tommy-yarrish","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}