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Mailbag: Putting defensive pieces together?

Tommy: That's a difficult question to answer because all athletes recover from injuries differently as each situation is unique. Obviously, the Cowboys are hoping that all the injured pieces they're getting back as early as this week can come together and mesh with the defense to improve it immediately. Unfortunately for them, I don't think that's a realistic expectation given that two of your players in DeMarvion Overshown and Shavon Revel are coming off of major knee injuries. Does that mean they won't contribute from the jump? Not at all, they very well could. I just don't think you're going to see them both at 100% from the jump because on one hand, they need to get their legs under them again and a game setting is completely different than practice. On the other hand, specifically in Revel's case, he hasn't played a single snap of NFL football yet. Those two can certainly help Dallas defensively, but it may take some time for them to fully get to that point.

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