The Dallas defense is transforming from a liability into a strength after new additions, including standout defensive tackle Quinnen Williams.

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott and Eagles DL Jalen Carter had little to say Thursday as the pair get set to square off Sunday in their first meeting since Week 1's spitting incident in Philadelphia.

The sackmaster continued his torrid play, which has put him ahead of the pack for NFL Defensive Player of the Year. On Sunday, Garrett registered three of the Browns' 10 sacks on Raiders quarterback Geno Smith to give them a 24-10 victory. Garrett also had 11 pressures so the sack total could have been more.

As the Cowboys punted, Xavier Gipson fielded the ball, and Clark who was pushed down to the ground early in the play, continued to fight, got up, ran 50 yards and made a play on the ball as he forced Gipson to fumble and Dallas recovered.

The NFL is a quarterback league. That’s a pretty well accepted doctrine surrounding the game. If you don’t have at least an above-average quarterback, you won’t succeed. So naturally when teams face each other each week, we tend to look at the quarterbacks first.

It took 19 minutes for the Cowboys’ defense to remember it doesn’t stink any more. Once that happened, they shut down the Eagles and saved their season. “If anything could go wrong, we had it happen to us,