After Sunday’s embarrassing 34-6 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, many expected the Dallas Cowboys to possibly make another quarterback change.
Cooper Rush had an abysmal showing against the Eagles, completing 13 of 23 passes for 45 yards and zero touchdowns. The offense mustered just 123 total yards on 42 plays across nine drives (2.9 yards per play) that resulted in five punts, two fumbles and two field goals.
Backup Trey Lance didn’t look much better, throwing for 21 yards and in interception on six pass attempts, but at least Lance brings something to the table Rush doesn’t — the threat of the run.
However, despite Rush’s underwhelming showing on Sunday, head coach Mike McCarthy announced he was sticking with Rush for the team’s Week 11 matchup against the Houston Texans on “Monday Night Football.”
Though Rush’s one bad game is much different that how he looked the previous week in a relief role against the Atlanta Falcons (13 of 25, 115 yards, one TD) and two seasons ago when he started a handful of games after Prescott went down with an injury (1,051 yards, five TDs, three INTs), Jones and McCarthy seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt.
“I thought that basically we’d look better tonight without Dak, I thought he’d look better on offense than we looked without Dak,” Jones said after Sunday’s loss. “I’ve seen Cooper play better than we played tonight. Philadelphia’s got a lot to do with that, it’s what it is.”
Lance has less starting experience than Rush, but he did see some action during his time in San Francisco, where he threw for 797 yards, five TDs and three interceptions but ran for 235 yards and a touchdown in eight games.
