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Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte
— Brian Schottenheimer could lecture Micah Parsons about lying down on the job in Saturday’s walk-through against the Falcons, but my guess is it was a brief, pleasant conversation about bad optics. Schotty’s been dealt a short enough stick as it is. He doesn’t need to alienate the player best-suited to keep his long-awaited head coaching tenure from becoming more than a drive-by.
Cowboys
— My guess is Parsons’ deal gets done before the opener in Philly. Why? On ESPN’s top 100 list, the Cowboys’ pass rusher comes in ninth, with CeeDee Lamb 19th, Tyler Smith 77th and Dak Prescott at 78th. The Eagles landed 10 players in the top 100, and NFL execs said they should have included DeVonta Smith, too. Against a lineup like that come next week, Jerry Jones needs all the stars he can get.
— Nice to see Joe Milton III finally do something in a game, but it doesn’t mean the Cowboys are OK if Dak gets hurt again. As usual, Jerry’s optimism gets the best of him.
— Feels like I wrote before training camp that the Cowboys would go 10-7. Probably not a good sign that now it feels more like 9-8, sliding toward 8-9.
— Bad weekend for Deion Sanders’ sons: Shiloh, trying to make it as a safety, got cut by the Bucs after getting ejected for throwing a punch in a preseason game. Shedeur took five sacks – including one for 24 yards – in second-half work against the Rams. Like he did at Colorado, Shedeur holds the ball too long, and he didn’t get enough of his dad’s genes to get out of the way.
— First, Iowa State staked its flag in Dublin after beating Kansas State in the Aer Lingus Classic, which sounds a little too much like an old “Saturday Night Live” sketch. This week for the Big 12 rivals: the Dakotas. Iowa State plays South Dakota, while K-State gets North Dakota.
— Zach Calzada will start at quarterback for Kentucky this week against Toledo. That’s the same Zach Calzada who gave Jimbo Fisher his biggest win at Texas A&M, an upset of top-ranked Alabama way back in 2021. From College Station, Calzada went to Auburn, then Incarnate Word in San Antonio and now Lexington. He turns 25 in what will be his seventh season, proof there’s a career in college football after all.
More from Sherrington
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— Texas Rangers’ turbulent year hasn’t shaken Bruce Bochy: ‘I do this because I love it’
— Dallas’ preseason duds highlight dramatic gap still between Cowboys and Eagles
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