Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott reacts to fourth starting QB in 2020 shrugs off individual stats We need a win

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Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott reacts to fourth starting QB in 2020 shrugs off individual stats We need a win

has never seen anything quite like this before in his football life. When the face the on Sunday, they'll do so with their fourth different starting quarterback this season, on the heels of after mi sing the previous game with a concu sion. The 2020 season has been an abject disaster for the Cowboys, lacking an offseason Khalil Davis Jersey to acclimate a new coaching regime to its players and having lost a laundry list of top talent due to injury -- headlined by a season-ending broken ankle on .With neither Prescott nor Dalton available, the Cowboys must choose between rookie seventh-round pick or give the nod to one of two veterans in or (the latter two splitting first-team reps in practice), and we're going to use the word "veterans" very loosely here, which we'll get to in a second. This will mark the third time since 2000 that the team will be forced into four QBs in a single year, with the previous two occasions as follows:2001: Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Clint Stoerner2015: Tony Romo, Matt Ca sel, Kellen Moore, Brandon Ricky Watters Jersey WeedenThey went on to finish with a 5-11 record in 2001 and landed face down at 4-12 in 2015, strong hints as to where 2020 is headed.For Elliott, who's taken 99 percent of his career NFL snaps with Prescott leading into 2020, seeing the Cowboys cascade down the QB depth chart is quite the ride."No, I haven't been through a season with four quarterbacks," he told media on Wednesday. "Actually, in college, when Ohio State won a national championship, we actually went through three. That was a little different. No, this is the first time."As for the Cowboys looking to go with a more experienced signal-caller against the undefeated and visceral Steelers defense, it's key to note while both Gilbert and Rush have been in the league a combined 11 seasons through a total of nine teams, there's only 47 total offensive NFL snaps between Demetrius Flannigan-fowles Jersey them and 42 career pa sing yards. DiNucci has literally twice as many snaps in only three games, already logging 94 game reps for Dallas, which means, technically, he's the more experienced one, along with having more than five times the career yardage (219) than the two veterans combined (42).This is as awkward as it is tragic, at this point.In the meantime, the merry-go-round at the position plays a large part in the downturn of Elliott's production this year, to an equal degree as seeing the offensive line allow Dalton and DiNucci to have their lunch money stolen on every other play. For while there's a carousel of QBs funneling in almost weekly at this point, the o-line itself has been decimated by injury as well, and the unit Brock Purdy Jersey as a whole is allowing tremendous amounts of pre sure on Cowboys quarterbacks. In the last three games, Dalton and DiNucci have been sacked seven times a piece, hit and hurried many more.Undrafted rookie has been a matador at right tackle -- allowing seven pre sures and three sacks in Week 7 alone -- but head coach Mike McCarthy . What this all means for Elliott is simple, as the Cowboys lack a threat at QB to keep opposing defenses from throwing the kitchen sink at stopping him, along with the lack of talent up front (Martin notwithstanding) to create lanes for him to run through.He's also cleaned up the fumble i sues, having not put the ball on the ground once in his last two outings. And despite all of the variables before him being objectively obvious, the two-time All-Pro running back isn't eyeing what's going wrong for him right now, but is instead focused on the team figuring out how to get a third victory."I mean, honestly, things getting harder for me each week is not really something I'm worried about," he said. "I'm more worried about us winning football games. I could not care le s about individual achievements and stats right now. We're 2-6. My main focus right is just trying to win a football game."... It's been tough, definitely. We're 2-6, so obviously it's been tough. But this is football. We can't really use injuries, guys rotating in and out every week, as an excuse. We have one job and that's to go win the ballgame, so we have to figure Brandon Aiyuk Jersey that out."
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