The Cowboys cut linebacker Jaylon Smith in the middle of the season.
That is like kicking your girlfriend out of the house in the middle of a lease.
Smith had a cup of coffee with Packers before getting signed by the Giants.
The reunion didn’t go well for Smith and his new team.
It’s been said defenses win championships, and nobody in the NFL might be playing better D right now than the Dallas Cowboys.
DeMarcus Lawrence forced a fumble and made two other big plays that led to 15 points and the Dallas defense forced four turnovers for the third straight game Sunday. The Cowboys inched closer to their first playoff berth since 2018 with a 21-6 win over the New York Giants.
“We’re the best defense,” a blunt Trevon Diggs said after picking up his league-high 10th interception of the season, one shy of the team record set by Everson Walls in 1981.
Lawrence said the defense is the best he has played on in his eight seasons.
“It’s amazing just to be on a team with a strong defense,” he said. “It doesn’t get any better than that.”
This game was not as close as the score. The Cowboys never trailed and the Giants never looked threatening against a defense that also got interceptions from Jourdan Lewis and Malik Hooker.
Lewis’ pick came after Lawrence hit Glennon as he was throwing. It led to Elliott’s TD run on a draw. Prescott’s 1-yard TD pass to Dalton Schultz capped a short third-quarter drive that started after Lawrence and Neville Gallimore stuffed Glennon on a fourth-and-1 sneak from the New York 29.
Cowboys fans think Jaylon Smith was celebrating with the Cowboys at the end of the game. The video does show an animated Smith, but it is inconclusive what he was being animated about.
Flip the page for the video and some of the Twitter reactions.