Every week, we gather to discuss the latest news about the Dallas Cowboys and seek our writer’s perspective on each headline. Welcome back to the roundtable. This week we have David Howman, RJ Ochoa, and Jess Haynie.

What single defensive issue hurt most? Rush-lane discipline, communication, or tackling?

Mike: There was too many soft edges and uneven interior lanes that Jacoby Brissett used to break contain and extend plays, which in turn stressed the coverage and turned routine tackles into misses. If Dallas can clean up the lane integrity, containment issues, the communication hiccups, the tackling problems begin to subside fast.

Jess: Lane discipline has been killing Dallas all year. Kenneth Murray has reached 2021 Jaylon Smith level at this point, and the young players are doing wha

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