It has been four weeks and we still haven’t had a Dalvin Cook sighting in the Dallas Cowboys backfield…but it’s coming like a freight train.
With the Dallas run game being as expected, there have been calls from the fan base to give Cook a shot because he couldn’t do any worse, right?
Rico Dowdle has already usurped Ezekiel Elliott as the starter but has yet to fully convince, and Deuce Vaughn has been a non-factor, leaving Cook as the only “untried” back for the Cowboys.
And Dalvin is ready.
“I’m just looking forward to bring some excitement to the team,” Cook said. “I feel great, so I’m just looking forward to the opportunity.”
But when does he think that opportunity will come?
“I think I’m right here,” he added. “I prepare well, condition well, I put myself in the position with the opportunity to come to go explode and be me. So just staying patient and just easy selling right now, just waiting on my opportunity.”
With the Cowboys’ run game only posting one 100+ yard game (Week 1 vs. Browns, 102) and struggling to get anything going in the last couple of weeks (totals of 68, 51, and 80), something needs to change.