Both WR Dez Bryant and CB Morris Claiborne have both been downgraded to out for Sunday’s game with the Bills.
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Playing without starting running back LeSean McCoy, the Buffalo Bills still managed to rip off 47 yards on the ground against the Dallas Cowboys at Ralph Wilson Stadium. In August 2009-the beginning of Bryant’s junior and final season-O’Colly.com wrote about a new pregame song commissioned from associate athletic director Dave Martin’s son, John Martin, called “Cowboys Forever”. Claiborne was questionable with a hamstring, but after he was unable to practice Saturday the team chose to keep him from making the trip.
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Bryant fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot in the regular season opener.
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Without that play, the Bills punt and then pray. “It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t ideal by any means”, Taylor said. That was Buffalo’s last playoff year, but Flutie had the NFL’s No. 1 defense, not No. 21.
On the year, he has totaled 31 catches (on 72 targets) for 401 yards and three touchdowns.
“Claiborne, like Bryant, has also been ruled out for Sunday”s game.
It was fairly obvious that he was done for the year, but the Cowboys refused to put him on injured reserve until this week because they were previously mathematically alive in the NFC East and the Jones family is nearly pathological in its belief that the Cowboys can make the playoffs any time there’s still a mathematical chance of it happening. He was able to return in seven weeks, but Bryant never found his stride after missing the offseason program during a contract dispute and missing half of the training camp practices and four preseason games with a hamstring strain.
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With a second consecutive meaningless game to close out the season, it would appear there is no reason to risk further injury to Bryant.
