Cowboys DC Christian Parker was asked about this play today: "It was an empty check. [Malachi Lawrence] is playing the quarter flat, but he's playing the flat, and if you have the flat, you have the wheel. So he had the short route that was at four yards, quarterback scrambles and I think turns up the field, and [Lawrence] is doing his job of kind of carrying the second man through his zone. Sometimes those things will happen. You certainly don't think about the outside linebacker covering 30 yards down, that's not intended for that."

Cowboys DC Christian Parker on how first-round pick Caleb Downs can improve in coverage: "I think it's just technique and time on task. The more snaps you get against NFL receivers, the stems, the alignments, the situation and what the formation told you pre-snap, I think all of those things. Do we lose in the first second of the play, do we lose later on at the point of attack, what was the reason for it? I think you look at those as their own individual world in terms of how you correct those and you fix them during the week in practice, watch them on tape and just kind of keep taking those strides. There have been plenty of examples where he's been sticky in the hip pocket, and there's some where we can do a little better from a technique standpoint. And there's just been a handful where it's been a good throw and catch, and you just tip your cap and move on on those."