r less than halfway into his first season with the team Connor Williams Jersey , marking the first time for coach Jason Garrett to make an in-season change to his coaching staff.Alexander's dismissal was announced Monday after the Cowboys (3-4) had their bye over the weekend. The offensive line has played below expectations, with quarterback Dak Prescott having already been sacked 23 times this season."While approaching the midpoint of the season, and going through an overall evaluation of our entire operation during the bye week, we felt that this move would serve the best interests of our team moving forward," Garrett, the Cowboys full-time head coach since 2011, said in a statement.Former Cowboys offensive lineman Marc Colombo, who had served as assistant offensive line coach since 2016, was promoted to take over as offensive line coach. The team also said former offensive line coach Hudson Houck was returning to work with Colombo and the offensive staff in an advisory role.The Cowboys have been without four-time Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick since he was diagnosed last summer with Guillain-Barre syndrome Authentic Joe Looney Jersey , a rare neurological disorder that causes weakness in various parts of the body.But they still have two other linemen who have been to multiple Pro Bowls in Tyron Smith and Zack Martin. Rookie starter Connor Williams was a second-round draft pick earlier this year and right tackle La'el Collins is a former first-round pick.Alexander was an assistant coach with the Cincinnati Bengals for 23 years before he was hired by Garrett last offseason. That was after the Cowboys fired Frank Pollack following five seasons in Dallas, the last three as offensive line coach."We have great respect and admiration for Paul and what he has accomplished in a very successful career in the NFL," Garrett said. "These are not easy decisions to make at any time of the year, but we will move ahead with the utmost confidence in what Marc Colombo and Hudson Houck will bring to our team in their new roles."The Cowboys are 29th in the NFL with 183 yards passing per game. They are fourth in rushing at 137 yards per game, but had only 73 total rushing yards in losing their most recent game at Washington.Prescott was sacked 32 times last season, and only 25 times as a rookie in 2016. Dak Prescott was the first quarterback to get a good look at the Dallas defense this year — every day during training camp in California.Eli Manning might now agree with his counterpart that this unit can lead the Cowboys in 2018.The two-time Super Bowl winner from the New York Giants was sacked six times in a second straight strong performance from the Dallas defenders, and the Cowboys avoided their first 0-2 start in seven seasons under coach Jason Garrett with a 20-13 win on Sunday night."It wasn't always fun going against this defense in Oxnard," Prescott said after throwing a 64-yard touchdown pass to Tavon Austin to spark the Cowboys on the third play of the game. "They destroyed practices. They got after me in training camp and I knew they would get after the opposing quarterback. They definitely did."The Cowboys are set to face a quarterback significantly more mobile than Manning — Russell Wilson in a visit to Seattle. And while Cam Newton gashed the Cowboys with some big running plays in Carolina's 16-8 win in the opener, Dallas was still in the game late because of its defense.If the six sacks of Manning — two shy of the most in his career — are any indication Youth Kavon Frazier Jersey , the Dallas defensive linemen will be coming in waves. Four of them had a sack apiece: DeMarcus Lawrence, Taco Charlton, Antwaun Woods and Tyrone Crawford. The others came from linebacker Damien Wilson and safety Kavon Frazier."I don't want to use the word 'dominant' just because I let you use that," owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. "The main thing is we've got depth and we've got speed and we've got rotation and we've got some skill back there in that secondary and in that linebacking spot relative to pass coverage."Things to consider after the Cowboys had six players with at least one sack for the first time since 1997:SPICE BOYSThe Cowboys added some wrinkles after offensive coordinator Scott Linehan was criticized for bland play-calling against Carolina. After Austin beat the Giants deep right away, Dallas ran him on a reverse on a pitch from running back Ezekiel Elliott on the next drive. Austin picked up 15 yards on the way to a field goal.Prescott had a career-high 45 yards rushing, mostly on fakes to Elliott and runs around end. And that was after Jones suggested on his radio show during the week that the Cowboys could showcase Prescott as a runner more — just as the Panthers do with Newton."Any time you compare a player to another player you're in trouble the minute it comes out of your mouth," Jones said. "You need to show you can do it before you can get the defenses to honor it."OFF CENTERNew York's offensive line was already a work in progress before starting center Jon Halapio was carted off the field in the second half with his right leg in an air cast. Shaky right tackle Ereck Flowers was moved to that side after Nate Solder was signed as a free agent last spring to be the left tackle."All five guys working together, understanding calls, understanding what defenses are doing http://www.cowboysauthorizedshops.com/authentic-anthony-brown-jersey , and passing things off, so that one's probably always going to take the longest for them to start to gel," Manning said. "That group, they're going to be determined to play at a higher level, just like everybody else."GROUND HALTDallas linebacker Jaylon Smith had a jarring hit of Manning on a 1-yard scramble and chased No. 2 overall pick Saquon Barkley out of bounds for a 3-yard loss. The rookie running back had just 28 yards rushing as the Cowboys held the Giants to 35 as a team a week after giving up 147 on the ground to the Panthers."They blitzed. They ran stunts. They rushed four," Solder said. "They did a number of things and we didn't pick up any of it."MEETING OF 0-2sThere were only six two-loss teams in the NFL after Sunday's games (before 0-1 teams Seattle and Chicago play Monday night). When the Giants return to Texas next Sunday to play the Houston Texans, it will be a matchup of two of those 0-2 teams. "We've just got to get back to work and get ready to play Houston. There's no other way out of this," new coach Pat Shurmur said. Custom Green Bay Packers Jerseys