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n that Dallas receivers are floundering as they try to replace Dez Bryant and retired franchise catch leader Jason Witten.The dean of the Cowboys pass-catchers is never belligerent about it White Cory Littleton Jersey , but his message is always pointed — just as it was after the second 100-yard game of his career in a 40-7 rout of the Jacksonville Jaguars ."I know my worth," Beasley said after getting the first 100-yard game for a Dallas wideout this season (101) while tying career highs with nine catches and two touchdowns. "There's a lot of naysayers and a lot of people that are trying to tell me what I am, but it doesn't mean anything."Ask him, and the seventh-year pro would say the same applies to the rest of the players in the receiver room.But it's not as if the criticism is without merit. Before the Cowboys (3-3) shredded the NFL's No. 1 pass defense in the first half, their receivers had 604 yards combined in five games, with just three touchdowns.Against the Jaguars, Beasley and rookie Michael Gallup combined for 106 yards in just one half. Beasley had his first two TDs of the season, and Gallup almost had the first of his career on a soaring grab when he couldn't get the second foot down while sailing out of bounds."This just puts a lot of confidence in the wide receivers," Gallup said. "We know we can make plays. Just throw the ball and we're gonna go make the quarterback right."Beasley acknowledged that the receiving group wasn't good in a 19-16 overtime loss at Houston http://www.authenticslosangelesrams.com/cheap-lamarcus-joyner-jersey , which dropped the Cowboys to 0-3 on the road before they beat the Jags to improve to 3-0 for the first time at 9-year-old AT&T Stadium.Against the Texans, there were drops and several plays where receivers weren't strong enough on routes. One of those led to an interception. Gallup's catch against Jacksonville was contested on sideline, and Beasley kept getting open, showing emotion with each grab.It's exactly what Dak Prescott has been seeking from the group while acknowledging his misfires and protection breakdowns. And the third-year quarterback had a feeling he would get it — and will need more of it for the Cowboys to break their .500 pattern.Dallas goes for its first road win Sunday against NFC East-leading Washington (3-2)."He's texting me last Friday night, saying he was taking care of his body and you could just tell," Prescott said of Beasley, his most reliable target with Witten gone. "He was preparing to have a big game, and that is exactly what he did."Ezekiel Elliott had a quiet 100-yard day (106 yards with a touchdown) and lost his NFL rushing lead to Todd Gurley, who had a career-high 208 yards in the Los Angeles Rams' win over Denver. Beasley knows the Dallas offense still revolves around its star running back."So it's going to be tough to explode http://www.authenticslosangelesrams.com/cheap-johnny-hekker-jersey ," he said. "Where we can show our worth is just making plays when it comes our way. We failed to do that last week. It's hard to play that way, but we've got to do it. That's our job."The Cowboys have believed all along that they could win without a so-called No. 1 receiver since dumping Bryant, the club's career leader in touchdown catches, in a cost-cutting move.This group still needs more time to get comfortable with Prescott, who is also showing that his running is an important component for this offense.The 2016 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year had the second-most yards rushing for a quarterback in franchise history with 82 against the Jaguars. His previous career high of 45 came in a Week 2 win over the New York Giants.But the Cowboys will have to throw to get back to the playoffs after missing in the disappointing encores of Prescott and Elliott following their remarkable rookie seasons together."I've been preaching this all year, just pure execution," Elliott said. "We have the best O-line in football. We have the weapons on the outside. Dak's a great quarterback. But if we don't go out there and play up to who we are, well then we're not going to look like it."This win looked more like something to build on than the first two for the Cowboys.NOTES: DE DeMarcus Lawrence, who was a half-sack out of the NFL lead going into the Jacksonville game http://www.authenticslosangelesrams.com/cheap-rodger-saffold-jersey , didn't start and played a season-low 24 snaps while nursing a shoulder injury. He went without a sack for the second straight game after getting at last half a sack in each of the first four. ... Coach Jason Garrett said LB Joe Thomas is likely to miss a second straight game against the Redskins because of a foot injury. We don’t have to do this. We can be better. Why are we the way we are?It’s 2018. We’re mired in an crisis of conscience to decide what we sincerely care about. We can’t separate spin from sincerity. Everything is awash in a constant barrage of reaction.Yesterday, Los Angeles Rams RB Todd Gurley was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in Week 6. And for understandable reasons. He broke 200 rushing yards. He got into the end zone twice. He made fantasy owners worldwide chortle.The problem of course is that he wasn’t the most dominant player (or perhaps unit) on the field. No, the most dominant entity in Week 6 was the Rams’ offensive line which, in the running game, completely decimated the Denver Broncos’ defense.And yet Gurley won OPOW.And of course he did. He broke 200 yards! He got in the end zone twice! Rams fans and fantasy owners rejoiced! And lo did the offensive line wallow in the silence...How many of those 208 yards were really the offensive line’s though? How many yards did Gurley rack up without being touched simply running through space? How many were a function of the playcalling supported by fantastic blocking from the offensive line? That shouldn’t take anything away from Gurley. And of course it hasn’t. Gurley won OPOW. He’s garnered headlines from around the NFL’s national media.The offensive line has not.And that’s the bias at work that I think we should be able to highlight more often.In talking to various media members this week and looking at fan responses on social media and in the comments, it’s clear there’s an inherent bias against offensive linemen. I’m not sure why. It may be the lack of traditional quantifiable statistics. Quarterbacks and running backs and wide receivers rack up yards and touchdowns. Defensive players put together sacks and tackles and turnovers. Offensive linemen put up...uh...well, yeah. And it may be just the historical lack of accolades afforded to big men.Consider in a week where the line was so spectacular in the running game and Gurley won OPOW that no OL wins OPOW. In fact, every position is capable of winning the award outside of offensive linemen...and long snappers. Between the Offensive, Defensive and Special Teams players of the week White Ramik Wilson Jersey , every single position player is afforded the opportunity to win this accolade except members of the offensive line and long snappers.Doesn’t that seem strange?And what’s perhaps more interesting is that as I nudged this idea this week, I got a bunch of responses that reiterated the bias against offensive linemen in two forms#1.) A bias against offensive linemen because they’re offensive linemenFrom several media members and fans, I got responses that suggested offensive linemen didn’t necessarily need accolades or acknowledgement. Or at least they needed less of it.Here’s an illuminating example from the Rams’ radio broadcast lead, JB Long:Think about this. Long is saying the OL is getting the credit they deserve because (paraphrasing here) they’re ranked #1 by Pro Football Focus.We would never, ever accept the idea that a running back or a wide receiver or star defender (and of course not a golden boy QB) was getting an acceptable level of credit simply because they had a good grade at Football Outsiders. We lavish them with praise and awards and headlines.But for offensive linemen, they grade out well and well...that’s enough for them. And it’s going to have to be because, as I mentioned, OL don’t get awards. It’s been baked into our consciousness long enough to know this and to buy into it. But poking at that revealed the second manifestation of an anti-OL bias.2.) A bias so strong against OL that people would rather negate awards altogether rather than give them to the OLAnd this was the weird one that really illuminated to me how strong the bias is.When I mentioned this to media/fans, I got numerous responses that were meant to support the idea that the OL didn’t need awards. But what those responses really symbolized were arguments to get rid of the awards themselves. Presented with the idea of giving them to offensive linemen Todd Gurley II Jersey , the bias instinctively suggests that if an award is going to be given to an offensive lineman, we shouldn’t have awards in the first place.“They don’t need awards. They’ll be happy just winning games.”“Real fans know how good they’re playing. When we win the Super Bowl, nobody will care about the awards.These are actual responses that I got this week. Before Todd Gurley won OPOW. And not after he and Aaron Donald and Sean McVay won Offensive Player, Defensive Player and Head Coach of the Year last year. Weird that we don’t disparage awards when Gurley or Donald or hell, Blake Countess are winning them. But bring up offensive linemen and suddenly we don’t need awards at all! They’re meaningless! All that matters is wins! (but make sure to log on to Instagram to congratulate Todd for winning OPOW)It’s 2018. We can do better. Whether it’s creating an award for Offensive Line of the Week or figuring out why this bias is operating the way it is, I’m not sure what would help begin to rectify this problem.But it is a problem. And it’s one we can solve by figuring out a way to give the big beefy boys up front the kind of distinction they deserve compared to their professional peers.And we should start now.