Dec 27
12:18
PM CT
By Todd Archer
IRVING, Texas -- It’s Week 17 and it’s the NFC East Championship Game Sunday at MetLife Stadium against the
New York Giants, but I’m still wondering about some things.
Here we go:
** Maybe it would be too much of a sign of desperation, but I wonder if the Cowboys need to make a change at left cornerback for Sunday’s game against the New York Giants. I asked Jason Garrett if
Terence Newman would be the starter and he said he did not anticipate any changes. Maybe if
Orlando Scandrick was playing better the Cowboys would consider making a move there. For as well as Newman was playing earlier in the season, he is simply struggling badly at the wrong time of the year. He is not on the injury report, so we can’t say he has anything other than minor bumps and bruised that every player has. He is not playing as aggressively as he did earlier in the year and receivers are having their way with him. Earlier in the season I wondered if Newman could return in 2012 with the same cap number or altered contract. Now, I don’t think the Cowboys will bring him back. That would make Scandrick the starter in 2012, but I wouldn’t rule out an early-round pick or free agent signing to challenge him.
** If you were wondering the last time the Cowboys did not have a 1,000-yard rusher or a 1,000-yard receiver, turn your mind back to 2004.
Jason Witten would need 127 yards receiving against the Giants on Sunday to reach 1,000 for the year.
Dez Bryant would need 142 yards. Against the Giants’ secondary anything is possible. In 2004,
Julius Jones led the Cowboys with 819 rushing yards.
Keyshawn Johnson had 981 receiving yards and Witten had 980. The Cowboys have had one 1,000-yard rusher since Emmitt Smith’s departure following the 2002 season when Jones had 1,084 in 2006.
DeMarco Murray would have had a chance at cracking 1,000 yards had he not broken his ankle. He finished with 897 yards and had three games left to play.
Read the rest:
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowbo...0-yards-vet-qb
12-27-2011
ESPND: 5 Wonders: Changes on D, 1,000 yards, vet QB
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