Sherrington: Potent Cowboys offense creating a George Pickens conundrum

DMN sports columnist Kevin Sherrington’s weekly newsletter hits on all of the latest sports topics around North Texas.

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Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte

– Darrell Royal famously said a tie is like kissing your sister, which was pretty much how the Cowboys took their 40-40 stalemate with the Packers, too. A barnburner, maybe, but no victories here, moral or otherwise. Good on them. Just the same, watching that offense, you have to wonder what the Cowboys’ possibilities might be if they could just annoy an opposing offense, let alone stop one.

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– Micah Parsons wasn’t much of a factor Sunday … until he made the biggest play of the game, running down Dak Prescott near the goal line in OT. The best players show up for the biggest moments.

– Here’s the George Pickens conundrum: His pair of touchdowns to go with 134 yards receiving indicate he’s the Cowboys’ best alternative to CeeDee Lamb since Amari Cooper. Maybe better. If he keeps this up, he might even help the Cowboys outscore a few teams. Also make himself a lot of money. But for whom? Could the Cowboys afford to pay him, CeeDee and Dak? Not if Jerry was really serious when he said trading Parsons would help them spread his money around.

– Javonte Williams piled up 85 yards on 20 carries, and somehow even that didn’t seem like Brian Schottenheimer called his number enough. Been a few years since the Cowboys employed such a violent runner, probably.

– Watching Dak put together his best season in years is a little like watching the Rangers waste their best rotation in decades. Matt Eberflus needs to get his defense going, and soon, or the Cowboys’ season won’t last any longer.

– If Bobby Petrino reverses Arkansas’ fortunes and stays off motorcycles this time around, Hunter Yurachek may not even get to the best candidate on his shopping list. But, if Petrino fails, would Rhett Lashlee really want to go back where he grew up and played football? He’s got an easier path to the playoffs in the ACC. Might have more money behind him at SMU, too.

– Story time: Rummaging around in the archives the other day for a story on the paper’s 140th anniversary, I assembled a list of our sports editors over the last 100 or so years.

Anyway, from what I can tell, Bill Ruggles birthed the first stand-alone sports section at the DMN in the early ’20s. He soon moved up the food chain and left the job to George White, who lasted until 1949. Bill Rives covered the ’50s before handing off to Walter Robertson, who’d open speaking engagements with, “I’m the guy who hired Randy Galloway and Skip Bayless, so blame me for everything.”

As the late John Anders once said, Walt ruined him for all the bosses to come. Set a standard too high. Dave Smith trumped them all. His 20-plus years coincided with the golden era of newspapers, a grace period his successors – Bob Yates, Garry Leavell and Tommy Magelssen – weren’t afforded.

Hired to win a newspaper war, Dave was given a blank check, and he overdrew that. SportsDay subsequently became the industry’s ideal. Even if Dave could be a fierce taskmaster, it was hard to hold it against him. The results were undeniable. Also hard to dislike a guy who might show up at the office wearing unmatched shoes. Or listened to our ideas and implemented a few. Or turned on a dime.

Once, after listening to him rail in a staff meeting about our impending doom if we kept spending so much, I asked on the way out if we were really in trouble. “Nah,” he said, smiling, “I just made that up.” Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t note here that Dave not only hired yours truly, the greatest courtesy ever extended to me in a long, long career, he hired the woman who would become the lovely wife. So I owe him twice over. Six, if you count all the children and grandchildren. I certainly do.

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