George Pickens and Joey Porter Jr. may be wearing Cowboys colors now, but Sunday night didn’t do much to suggest Dallas has found a fix.
Green Bay took care of the Cowboys 23-13 in Week 6, dropping Dallas to 2-4 and exposing, once again, how much work still needs to be done. Pickens and Porter were both part of the package after the Steelers sent Porter to Dallas a few weeks ago, and on paper their individual lines looked respectable enough. In reality, the game told a different story.
Pickens finished with six catches for 73 yards on 11 targets, but most of the production came too late to matter. Fifty-seven of those yards came in the fourth quarter, long after the Packers had seized control. CeeDee Lamb soaked up the bulk of the attention through the passing game, though he also had his own struggles finding much traction.
That late surge from Pickens leaves a real question hanging over Dallas: if the losses keep piling up and the ball keeps funneling heavily toward Lamb, does frustration start to build? Nothing explosive has surfaced yet, and Pickens hasn’t blown up publicly or made any boneheaded mistakes. But if the results stay the same and his role remains tilted toward the margins when the game is on the line, that tension feels inevitable.
Porter’s night was easier to break down. He held up well in coverage for most of the game, limiting what Jordan Love and Green Bay’s wideout duo of Christian Watson and Matthew Golden could do.
The problem came when the flags started flying. Porter was hit with two penalties, and the costly one was a long pass interference against Bo Melton.
On that sequence, he basically ran Melton out of bounds, and the Packers used the momentum from there to finish the first half with a Jordan Love QB sneak touchdown.
So no, Pickens and Porter didn’t single-handedly sink Dallas. But their arrival also hasn’t changed the bigger picture. The Cowboys are still searching for answers, and one more loss like this makes it harder to believe those answers are coming anytime soon.
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