Wow Amari Cooper Color Rush Jersey , that was fun!The Cowboys rebounded in a big, big way by absolutely dominating the Jacksonville Jaguars by the tune of 40-7. The offense played wonderful against the league’s top defense and the defense held the Jags to only one scoring possession. It was certainly refreshing to see what this team can do when everything clicks.Let’s take a look at how the rookies performed in the first dominating victory of their young careers. Hint: they, as did mostly everyone else on the team, turned in solid performances on the day.Leighton Vander EschThe Cowboys defense had a history of dropping off when Sean Lee went down with injury. The General would hold the unit together and kept things from going bad until he suffered an injury and had to miss time. That’s not the case any longer.Between Leighton Vander Esch and Jaylon Smith, the Dallas Cowboys have gotten excellent play from its linebackers in the absence of their All-Pro linebacker. In the case of LVE, the rookie has played beyond his years for the Cowboys while leading Dallas in tackles in each of the past four games since Lee went down versus the Seahawks.Vander Esch again turned in a pretty impressive performance for the Cowboys, making open-field tackles and reading where Blake Bortles was going with the football. While the rookie was not perfect, he again played well on Sunday.If LVE continues to play at this level, the Cowboys will have a tough decision (but great situation) to make when Sean Lee returns from injury.Connor WilliamsThe rookie offensive guard has played mostly well for the Dallas Cowboys during the first few games of his debut season in the NFL. While some would like to point out his mistakes, the Texas Longhorns product has been a solid piece to the interior of the offensive line. Williams again had a solid performance on Sunday versus the league’s top-ranked defense. He did not do anything that will end up on SportsCenter, but the guard made some key plays that allowed positive things to happen for the Cowboys. First Deonte Thompson Color Rush Jersey , he helped out an All-Pro left tackle to change a potential sack into yards for the offense.Then, he perfectly executed a pull, which threw off the Jaguars linebackers and opened up a big running lane for Ezekiel Elliott’s touchdown to make the score 37-7 at the time.It appears that the rookie is becoming more and more comfortable as each game comes and goes.Michael GallupThe Cowboys’ third-round rookie wide receiver has shown some flashes here and there during his young career, and he again showed a little bit of what he can do when given the opportunity.Before Dallas went on to dominate the league’s top-ranked defense, the offense had an opening drive that resulted in a field goal after driving down the field. On the opening drive, Dak Prescott found his rookie target for a big 27-yard gain that featured the former Colorado State Rams star make an impressive grab over Jaguars All-Pro cornerback A.J. Bouye:I repeat: that catch was made against an All-Pro corner! Gallup finished the game with just that one catch, but he shows that he can become a receiving threat for Dak Prescott as he progresses in this offense. It was almost two catches on the day and a touchdown for Gallup, but he just failed to get a second foot down on the play before Prescott scored on a run. Dorance Armstrong Jr.Dorance Armstrong made his first career start on Sunday as the Cowboys were cautious with DeMarcus Lawrence, and he did not disappoint. The former Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year possesses upside to develop into a quality defensive end for the Cowboys, and he has been a solid contributor in the trenches so far in his young career.Armstrong won’t be a guy that is going to fill up the stat-sheet, but the young end did record two tackles on the day:Armstrong’s growth and upside has to be exciting for the Cowboys defensive staff https://www.dallascowboysfanshop.com/Sean-Lee-Jersey , especially when considering just how much talent is already in that defensive line room. Two weeks ago the Dallas Cowboys partly lost in Houston because Jason Garrett chose to punt when on the Texans 42-yard line in overtime. Sunday in Washington the Cowboys staff had another conservative way about their business.Dallas trailed Washington by three points in the game’s final minute. Dak Prescott was rallying his troops to get within Brett Maher’s striking distance and hit Cole Beasley for a six-yard gain that saw him land at the Washington 31-yard line. Beasley’s catch was one that went for review, although it was easy to see that when the officials emerged from their tablets that it would stand as one. As it was a review it provided a window of time for the Cowboys to assess the entire game situation and consider their next move. The Cowboys had one timeout remaining and when the ball was to be set after Beasley’s catch it was going to be a first down with 12 seconds left. They could have had Dak Prescott immediately spike the ball so that they could have arranged a pass play to pick up more yardage, or they could have gone into a pass play straight on first down if that’s what they preferred. Considering the Cowboys have seen Brett Maher make some big kicks so far this season they figured they were as close as they needed to be and instead chose to run the ball with Ezekiel Elliott. Zeke picked up two yards and likely placed the ball where Maher wanted, but that’s not the point here. Like punting in Houston, the Cowboys went conservative, and paid the price again.Jason Garrett’s staff once again took the conservative approach with the game on the line12 seconds is forever in the NFL. Time is often not exactly what it seems which is a lesson that felt learned in the game itself as Dak Prescott was in the middle of leading the Cowboys over a 10-point fourth quarter deficit. Dallas could have thrown it anywhere... they could have gone deep, shallow, to the endzone, out of bounds, the point is they could have tried to pick up more yardage for the purposes of shortening the field goal or even winning the game outright with a touchdown.As we all know that’s not what Dallas did. With the ball on the Washington 29-yard line they felt that Brett Maher was good from that range so in their minds they settled for going to overtime, despite having only 17 points on the board through almost the entire game. Unfortunately Tyron Smith Jersey , Dallas ended up moving backwards thanks to a fluky penalty which nobody understood, but the NFL is trying to tell the world that it was in fact legit.Forget the penalty, though. We’re talking about what happened before that. Jason Garrett and his fellow coaches knowing, consciously, and intentionally chose to lay up when they had 12 seconds on the clock. What’s more is it’s not like this was an in-the-moment decision they instructed Dak to make while the team was running up after Cole’s six-yard catch, they had the entire review period to sit on this idea as one that they thought was the absolute best one to make.Maybe Jason Garrett didn’t believe in his offense, but that’s also a huge problemPerhaps your defense of Jason Garrett here is that he feared Dak Prescott would turn the ball over and therefore not even give Brett Maher any shot to tie the game at all. Wouldn’t that be really bad? Wouldn’t that be terrible? Never mind the fact that Dak hadn’t thrown an interception all game (he did fumble twice), but if Jason Garrett is worried of a turnover or sack that will knock his team out of range then he really has bigger problems than we’re talking about.The way that Dallas handled the very end of the final drive of the game was a disaster. At the very best the truth of it all is that Jason Garrett is that fearful of things going badly for his offense which would be a huge indictment on the team on its own. Things got exacerbated a bit by the penalty, but the decision we’re talking about had long been made by then.We had a bit of a reprieve with the way that the Cowboys beat the Jacksonville Jaguars last week, but a loss like this on the road against a division rival is not going to help the Dallas cause.