Why are the Cowboys starting Cooper Rush over Trey Lance? | Football 301
Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss why the Cowboys aren’t starting Trey Lance at QB with Dak Prescott injured and instead starting Cooper Rush. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Cowboys are 7.5 point underdogs at home at Jerry World.
All right, Charles, what's your one thing for this game?
What's there to watch?
Uh Not, not Trey Lance, not Trey Lance.
Yeah.
Why did you trade for him?
Like just this is the perfect game to try him out there.
There's no, you don't need a quarterback battle for whoever's behind the $60 million quarterback.
Just throw him out there and see what happens.
You trade that for that reason, but whatever, um, they're going to play Cooper rush with the way the Eagles defense is playing right now, scoring points seems like it'd be tough to come by, but I, I'll, I'll give a bit of fantasy advice.
I would just throw anyone with an Eagles helmet out there into my starting lineup.
Jalen hurts AJ rounds on Barkley, uh, any backup tight end, any backup running back because how the hell are they going to stop this offense?
Like personnel wise?
I don't think they, they obviously don't have the horses for it.
They're not going to score a lot of points on offense.
I think this is just another, another bad game like, this is one of those games where I was like, hey, that places that might be interesting, but he's not.
So it's not interesting.
The Eagles defense is probably the most interesting part about all this Eagles offense is kind of, you know, it's the stars, it's what, it's what you expect.
So, like you said, but it's their, their defense is interesting.
I like a lot of the young players so check out the, check out some Eagles young players when you're watching this game, Zach Bond.
Uh it's been a great signing for them, but just all the Cooper DeJean Quinon Mitchell, all these guys, they're, they're really stepping up.
So that, that would be the thing I'd focus on when I'm watching this game because it's not the Cowboys offense.
I'll tell you that.