Nick Wright warns Cowboys of starting Cooper Rush over Trey Lance in Week 10 vs. Eagles - "They are fools"
The Dallas Cowboys are collapsing. They have lost their first two games since the bye week and have fallen to 3-5. Dak Prescott, their $60-million man, is expected to enter IR and be out indefinitely with a hamstring injury.
This has left head coach Mike McCarthy with a major problem ahead of Sunday's intradivisional game against the Philadelphia Eagles: whom does he start - Cooper Rush or Trey Lance? On Monday's episode of First Things First, Nick Wright made his case to go with the latter over the former.
"They are fools if, next week, Cooper Rush starts because if [Trey Lance]'s good, that's great for the Cowboys, and if he's bad, that's great for the Cowboys," Wright said. "If he's good, then you, all of a sudden, can recoup maybe the draft asset. And if he's bad, you just get a better draft pick.
"You're not going to learn anything with Cooper Rush, and you are not good enough. The season's over, and they should start Trey, even if Trey's way in over his head."
James Jones puts faith in Cooper Rush, says Dak Prescott "quit" on Cowboys
Nick Wright's opinion may have been too little, too late. On Monday, McCarthy announced that the Cowboys would start Rush for the rest of the season, and James Jones thinks that it will go well.
"There's no question that Dak's injury is a setback. But we've seen Cooper do it," Jones said Monday on SPEAK. "We know what we need to do, the strategies on offense. We just have to come together game after game and use all our players to the extent that it helps us."
The next day, Jones also had some strong words for Prescott, whom he claimed showed cowardice by not deciding to play through the hamstring injury, given that his playing style does not lean on athleticism.
"Dak quit. It's crazy because it's not even funny," Jones said. "My friend is quitting on these guys. I've had a hamstring injury many times and the next week I was back.
"I'm not Tyreek Hill, it doesn't take me four weeks to heal. You're not Lamar Jackson. You're not Jalen Hurts. You're not running... where are you going to run?"
The Cowboys-Eagles game will kick off at 4:25 PM ET on CBS.