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Sign up for the Sports Roundup newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to receive exclusive content from Sherrington every week. Read an excerpt from this week\u2019s newsletter below.<\/p>\n Kevin Sherrington\u2019s A La Carte<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Brian Schottenheimer could lecture Micah Parsons about lying down on the job in Saturday\u2019s walk-through against the Falcons<\/a>, but my guess is it was a brief, pleasant conversation about bad optics. Schotty\u2019s been dealt a short enough stick as it is. He doesn\u2019t need to alienate the player best-suited to keep his long-awaited head coaching tenure from becoming more than a drive-by.<\/p>\n Cowboys<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0My guess is Parsons\u2019 deal gets done before the opener in Philly<\/a>. Why? On ESPN\u2019s top 100 list, the Cowboys\u2019 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.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Nice to see Joe Milton III finally do something in a game, but it doesn\u2019t mean the Cowboys are OK if Dak gets hurt again<\/a>. As usual, Jerry\u2019s optimism gets the best of him.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Feels like I wrote before training camp that the Cowboys would go 10-7<\/a>. Probably not a good sign that now it feels more like 9-8, sliding toward 8-9.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Bad weekend for Deion Sanders\u2019 sons: Shiloh, trying to make it as a safety, got cut by the Bucs<\/a> after getting ejected for throwing a punch in a preseason game. Shedeur took five sacks \u2013 including one for 24 yards \u2013 in second-half work against the Rams. Like he did at Colorado, Shedeur holds the ball too long, and he didn\u2019t get enough of his dad\u2019s genes to get out of the way.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0First, 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 \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d sketch. This week for the Big 12 rivals: the Dakotas. Iowa State plays South Dakota, while K-State gets North Dakota.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Zach Calzada will start at quarterback for Kentucky this week against Toledo. That\u2019s 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<\/a>. 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\u2019s a career in college football after all.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n More from Sherrington<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Best in Texas college football rankings: Longhorns, Aggies kick things off at the top<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Texas Rangers\u2019 turbulent year hasn\u2019t shaken Bruce Bochy: \u2018I do this because I love it\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Dallas\u2019 preseason duds highlight dramatic gap still between Cowboys and Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n Dallas Cowboys cut tracker: La\u2019el Collins released as 53-man roster trim begins<\/a>Game-by-game predictions for Texas A&M in 2025: Could Aggies finally reach SEC title game?<\/a><\/p>\n