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DeMarcus Lawrence may not reach his career high in sacks during the encore to the Dallas defensive end’s breakthrough season in the NFL.By any measure from his coaches and teammates http://www.lionsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-austin-bryant-jersey , Lawrence’s follow-up to 14 1/2 sacks has been a success . A big one.“With the things that we’ve changed in the defense, he has to more disciplined in the run and things of that sort,” defensive lineman Tyrone Crawford said. “Sacks are a good number for everybody else mainly. As far as a good player on a good defense, you’re not going to find a better one.”Lawrence has 8 1/2 sacks through 12 games. The fifth-year pro had that many in five games last year. But Lawrence collected his first career interception on a screen pass two games ago against Washington before helping lead the defense’s signature moment in 2018.The Cowboys bottled up Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints in a 13-10 win that set them up for sole possession of first place in the NFC East. Dallas took that spot with the Redskins’ loss to Philadelphia.Now Dallas (7-5) gets its rematch with the Eagles (6-6) on Sunday, with first place on the line just as it was on Thanksgiving against Washington. The Cowboys started their current four-game winning streak with a victory in Philadelphia.“I have my ups and down this season. No complaining about it,” Lawrence said. “I really embrace this season. It just shows how much we really care, how much I really care, just because of how we’re standing as a defense. I feel like everything is looking up.”And that was before the Cowboys held the Saints to 176 yards, their lowest total in 22 years and more than 200 yards below their season average. While rookie Leighton Vander Esch and Jaylon Smith have taken a large share of the spotlight at linebacker, Lawrence’s presence up front is significant.Lawrence has played the most snaps among defensive linemen by more than 100. He’s getting the blocking attention of someone who tied for second in the NFL in sacks a year ago. And he’s still stopping the run, something defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli says Lawrence has always done well.“I think he is absolutely playing dynamic in every phase of the game Rashan Gary Jersey ,” Marinelli said. “He’s from sideline to sideline to screens to picking a screen off, to doing things exactly right. He can do everything. And he leads this defense by his effort. He’s relentless.”Crawford believes another look at film from last season would reveal more missed assignments by Lawrence than this season, another reason to pick other things over sacks as the measure of Lawrence’s worth. Lawrence also embraced the intangibles coming off his first big year.“The guy has worked harder than I’ve ever seen him work, especially throughout the offseason and into the season,” Crawford said. “He’s become more of a leader in the locker room. The guy’s been balling. He’s just got to keep it up.”Lawrence’s first season with double-digit sacks led to his first Pro Bowl and a franchise tag worth $17.1 million . The 26-year-old happily signed it, believing the security of a long-term contact would follow another solid season.The sides never got close on that deal last offseason, and the question of another year on the franchise tag will hover until they get close, if they do. Lawrence has never let himself get bothered by that question.“Last year is last year,” he said. “Ain’t nobody saying, ‘OK, D-Law had 14 1/2 sacks http://www.packersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-darnell-savage-jr.-jersey , he deserves the Pro Bowl this year or he deserves to be in the Super Bowl.’ It’s all on me. Like I said, I embrace it. Absolutely I want to be better than 14 1/2 and I’ve got to keep working day in and day out in order to get there.”The Cowboys are measuring in other ways. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina wants the Carolina Panthers to move their practice facility into their state’s suburbs. But there is at least one big hurdle — football players don’t practice enough hours to be considered full-time employees in the state, so South Carolina can’t offer the Panthers tax credits and other incentives.Gov. Henry McMaster and legislative leaders said Wednesday they will push for a bill to exempt football players from the rule.McMaster and a number of top state officials and lawmakers met with Panthers owner David Tepper at the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion and Tepper said he was very interested in what South Carolina had to offer, McMaster said.No deal was finalized.Tepper has said since buying the team last summer that a new indoor practice facility is a priority. The Panthers currently practice outside near Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, and had to move several late-season practices to a ballroom because of rain.Several South Carolina lawmakers spoke as if the proposal to move the practice facility and team offices to a new complex that could include a sports medicine center, restaurants and hotels was a done deal.“The Carolina Panthers will truly be one team, two states,” South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas said, repeating the team’s motto when it first started playing in 1995.But Tepper was not at the news conference Lucas Elgton Jenkins Jersey , McMaster and other officials held at the capitol after the meeting. The team didn’t have any immediate comment on its plans.It also wasn’t clear whether Charlotte or North Carolina might make a counteroffer to keep the facility and offices.“We’re not concerned about that. We are thinking about South Carolina,” McMaster said. “We know we can outrun anyone on the field.”The new facility would bring 150 jobs — including coaches, players, marketing staff, team executives and others, McMaster said.The state and Tepper have not settled on any potential site, considering areas in York County and Lancaster County, all about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Bank of America Stadium.