Houston (6-4) still leads the AFC South despite its current 1-3 skid, while the Cowboys (3-6) are on a four-game losing streak and in serious danger of a three-year playoff run ending. They already have one more loss than in each of the past three 12-5 seasons.

An offense getting their best player back is among the three things to hate about the Dallas Cowboys’ Week 11 opponent, the Houston Texans. | From @BenGrimaldi

Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy indicated running back Rico Dowdle will shoulder a heavier load in the rushing attack. McCarthy described Dowdle

Rico Dowdle has quietly surpassed two RBs with 7 Pro Bowl nods between them to land in the top-20 in a couple key rushing stats.

The Dallas Cowboys’ running back-by-committee experiment is dead. The time of death, officially, was around 11:24 a.m. on Thursday when head coach Mike McCarthy declared that Rico Dowdle is the team’s bell cow.