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Cowboys owner says Cooper Rush will continue to start QB

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Cowboys owner says Cooper Rush will continue to start QB

It appears the Dallas Cowboys may have missed out on the 2024 season, but Jerry Jones still thinks there is reason for optimism.

After their most recent loss, the Cowboys’ team owner, president and general manager didn’t promise any concrete changes, instead vowing, “Better days are coming.”

With their 34-10 loss to the Houston Texans on “Monday Night Football” in Week 11, the Cowboys have lost five straight games and fallen to 3-7. They have also lost six straight games at home, dating back to last year’s wild-card loss at the hands of the Green Bay Packers.

But despite how the season has gone so far, Jones gave no indication that there would be any major or imminent changes in the near future when he joined radio station 105.3 The Fan in Dallas-Fort Worth on Tuesday morning.

Jones has already said he has no plans to make a midseason change as head coach. After last week’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, he confirmed that the team would stick with Mike McCarthy, at least for the rest of the season.

In Tuesday’s radio hit, he also said that despite Tyler Guyton’s struggles, there are no plans to shake up the left tackle situation or change things under center.

Cowboys stick with Cooper Rush

Quarterback Cooper Rush made his second start of the season in Monday’s loss to Houston. Despite what the box score numbers said, his performance in Week 11 (32 of 55 (58.2%) with 354 yards, a touchdown and an interception) showed more areas of concern.

Rush took over as the Cowboys’ quarterback following Dak Prescott’s hamstring injury in the fourth quarter of a Week 9 game with the Falcons. Since being moved under center, Rush has had the worst efficiency numbers of any quarterback in the NFL during that same time period.

Despite an expected completion percentage of 70.6% – the fifth highest in the league between weeks 9 and 11 according to rbdsm.com – his actual completion percentage is 57.4, the second worst in that span. That leaves his completion percentage above expected (CPOE) at -13.2, the only mark below -10.

Additionally, Rush is the third-worst quarterback in expected points added (EPA) per game over the past three weeks. Only Joe Flacco (-0.361) and Mac Jones (-0.342) have done less for their team’s scoring success than Rush (-0.287).

But despite that, and being traded for quarterback Trey Lance before last season, Jones has quashed any talk of a change at quarterback. Instead, he gave Rush an extra vote of confidence during his Tuesday appearance on local sports radio.

“I thought Rush actually improved last night from the game before (12-of-23 for 45 yards vs. Philadelphia),” he said. “Honestly, there were moments in that ballgame (against Houston) where I thought it was really coming to him. We know that at this particular moment we have limited time to work with these quarterbacks, and I would like us to doing.” stay with the experience.”

Jones dismissed the idea that Lance’s lack of playing time was indicative of a misjudgment of the former first-round pick. Instead, he noted that Lance had improved, while continuing to point to Rush’s experience – and Lance’s lack thereof – as the real reason for the decision to stick with the more experienced option.

“You have to go out there and play,” Jones said. “We just felt it was too important in the last two games to have him as a rookie quarterback because we have to win. (Note: Lance is in his fourth NFL season.)

“We weren’t at the point where we wanted to evaluate Trey Lance at all. So that’s where we are now.”

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