👋 Good morning! - Fun fact: Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson were college teammates at Arkansas on the 1964 national championship team, and decades later, they teamed up again in Dallas and won two Super Bowls together. Surely that ended well. - Ali Jawad

Cooper Flagg did everything except sign the win himself. Dallas’ rookie No. 1 pick looked frighteningly comfortable at point guard, tossing alley-oops, pushing tempo, and detonating a third-quarter takeover that had the Mavericks feeling like they’d finally found a cheat code.

Flagg piled up 26 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists, and for a stretch, Utah simply couldn’t keep him out of the paint or off the passing lanes.

Then the fourth quarter showed up and ruined the vibes, again. Anthony Davis struggled to get going early, and when Dallas needed a stabilizer late, the night took an ugly turn as he left in the final minutes with an apparent injury to his left hand.

The Mavericks’ offense tightened, the shots got heavier, and the margin for error disappeared in real time.

Utah smelled it and pounced.

The Jazz closed on an 11-1 run and stole a 116-114 win in regulation, handing Dallas another gut-punch clutch loss and turning a Flagg masterclass into another “what if” box score.

The annoying part?

They didn’t even have time to sulk, the teams were set to run it back twice more in the next nine days, with Utah heading to Dallas on Jan. 15 and Jan. 17.

A day after the Cowboys’ season-ending presser, it somehow feels like we learned everything and nothing, a whole lot of talking, not a lot of answers, and the biggest questions still hanging in the air.

Should they give the whole bag to GP3?

Meanwhile, Fran Duffy’s mock draft has the Cowboys going defense twice, and Jesse Holley jumped into another into KBBU.

The Stars finally snapped their six-game winless skid with a 4-1 win in Washington — their first W of 2026 and first since Dec. 21, and now Sean’s back to unload his “Two Cents” on what actually mattered last night.

We also broke down Roope Hintz setting a single-game team record, where Dallas stacks up in the NHL midseason, the NHL.com halfway-awards vote, and a prospect check-in on Emil Hemming after Finland’s bronze-medal loss to Canada.

Arbitration day is here for the Rangers, and with Jake Burger, Josh Jung, Josh Smith, and Ezequiel Duran all on the docket, today’s numbers could quietly reshape Texas’ payroll, and the 2026 roster, in a big way.

Dave Raymond joins to explain what this day really means behind the scenes, plus we dig into whether Skip Schumaker can flip the clubhouse culture and what still has to happen this offseason to get the Rangers back on track.

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Ali Jawad
Dallas Cowboys ​Content Creator/Newsletter Writer
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