Not great news on the injury front for Dallas so who's up next on the defensive line?
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00:00Micah Parsons with a high ankle sprain. Ian Rappaport says he is going to be re-evaluated in seven to ten days.
00:07He's gonna miss the Pittsburgh game, quite possibly the Week 6 home game against the Lions. The Cowboys,
00:14thankfully for this, have a bye in
00:17Week 7. Then you have Todd Archer yesterday saying, DeMarcus Lawrence is worse. He's dealing with a Liz Frank.
00:24That's what Brian brought up in the Dallas Cowboys postgame show.
00:29But the bones were not displaced. He will not require surgery.
00:32He could need four to eight weeks to recover and is likely headed to injured reserve.
00:37And that's the tough part of this is, you know, with Detroit coming here, that's an NFC game.
00:43You know, Pittsburgh, whatever, you know, the AFC, if you're gonna lose them, lose to the AFC.
00:47But the NFC game, and that is a run first team and not having two edges out there. When you're already at Mississippi,
00:53you know, you're already down Sam Williams from the start of the season in camp.
00:56It's just a very tough spot to be in. And you know, you want to be able to get pressure on
01:01field, you want to be able to contain them on the edge, and you want to be able to get pressure on Jared Goff.
01:05And if you don't have Micah out there, and obviously not having Tank, that's a big, big loss.
01:10Yeah, historically, I'm gonna have to go look and see how it has
01:17looked the last year or so. But I know that in the past, it was a
01:22stark difference what the defense did production wise between when DeMarcus Lawrence is on the field and when he was off the field.
01:29Like whether it be him missing games, or just the snaps where he's off the field, whatever else.
01:34They have been, they routinely give up like a yard and a half more per play when DeMarcus Lawrence isn't on the field.
01:40So Micah, big impact player, obviously, but I think losing both of these guys is obviously massive.
01:46But Lawrence is somebody who I think is more integral to team defense operating the way that it has consistently.
01:53So Neyland, one of the names to replace for Tank, the other replacement for Micah?
02:02Carl Lawson.
02:05Golston.
02:07Sure.
02:07Those are your pass rushers.
02:09Golston, Carl Lawson, Marshawn Neyland.