The Cowboys’ late-September addition of Joey Porter Jr. has already started to settle in, and the cornerback sounds comfortable with both the move and the expectations that come with it.
Porter has played in three games for Dallas, and he said the experience of landing with a new team still feels a little unreal.
“It’s just so unreal, so surreal,” Porter said, via Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I can’t even really explain it.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to be in the moment and realize what’s all going on because everything is moving so fast. I’m happy where I’m at.
I’m happy where this team is headed.”
He also brushed off the outside noise that followed his absence in Week 5, when an illness kept him out of the lineup. Former cornerback and current analyst Richard Sherman suggested Porter might have played if Dallas had signed him to a contract extension, but Porter wasn’t interested in entertaining that line of thought.
“Me personally, I know the real,” Porter said. “I know the truth.
I don’t really pay too much attention online to what they have to say. I just got to keep doing my job on Sundays.
Once they see the tape, they’ll know. They’ll be quiet soon.”
On the field, the results have been strong. Porter has allowed just one reception across his three appearances for Dallas, and he said that kind of shutdown play is nothing unfamiliar.
“It’s nothing new for me,” Porter said. “I think I’ve always been capable of such.
I feel like the tape from the last couple of years showed the same thing. I just keep the main thing the main thing.”
Elsewhere in the division, SI.com’s Albert Breer reported that teams around the league are interested in Washington’s defensive line, with Daron Payne, Dorance Armstrong and K’Lavon Chaisson mentioned as possible trade candidates because they are on expiring deals. Payne was later placed on IR with a season-ending injury.
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