Fresh off his 234 scrimmage yards against the Dolphins last week, Rico Dowdle was already thinking about what he was going to do to his former team. He told reporters postgame that the Cowboys better “ buckle up .”

Cowboys players and coach Brian Schottenheimer made it obvious they got a kick out of Dowdle’s warning. Owner Jerry Jones mocked Dowdle in his pregame radio interview on Sunday.

Dowdle wasn’t joking.

He had a team-record 239 scrimmage yards against the team that decided not to re-sign him after a 1,000-yard rushing season in 2024.

“ They wasn’t buckled up ,’' Dowdle deadpanned, via David Newton of ESPN.

The Cowboys and Dolphins turned Dowdle into Marshall Faulk.

He became only the seventh player in NFL history to have at least 230 scrimmage yards in consecutive

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