The Dallas Cowboys will be on the the big stage this week as they host the

Tennessee Titans on Monday Night Football. It’s a special game for a lot of reasons. It will give fans their first look at new wide receiver Amari Cooper who the Cowboys acquired via trade with the Oakland Raiders. It will also be a time to honor legendary tight end Jason Witten as he makes his first ever broadcast of the team he’s spent the last 15 years playing for.While those things bring some excitement for Cowboys fans Authentic Ezekiel Elliott Jersey , it’s very important that the Cowboys come away with the W on Monday night so they can stay in the playoff hunt at the midway point. How can the Cowboys emerge victorious? Well, the BTB writing staff offers up their guess as to who will be the x-factor on Monday night.Tom Ryle: Michael GallupI’m going back to the same X-factor I had in the Washington game, Michael Gallup. If Scott Linehan uses Amari Cooper correctly, his arrival can really change the ways other defenses approach the Cowboys. Before this, the main receiving threat other teams focused on was Cole Beasley. Now, he is likely to become the number two concern, with Cooper the big gun. And that means there won’t be a lot of double coverage for Gallup to contend with. We saw the first glimpse of what he can become in the first half of the last game. Now, with the attention split with the other receivers, Gallup is going to be open more than ever. I think he is going to make the most of that.Michael Sisemore: Tyron SmithFor this week, give me Tyron Smith, the All-Pro left tackle. If we’re to believe some of the whispers, Tyron wasn’t a fan of his now former line coach or his technique preferences. Well, Alexander is now unemployed so he’s out of the picture and it’s time for Tyron Smith to show that he’s still that guy. The Titans defense may be long in the tooth but it’s still a group of talented veterans. Smith and his counterpart La’el Collins need to prove that their regression this season was just a product of a bad marriage. If it truly was just a styles clash in philosophy, expect Tyron Smith to go back to that aggressive style that has allowed him to dominate his opponents.Danny Phantom: Jaylon SmithWhen Day 2 of the 2016 NFL Draft arrived Womens Joe Looney Jersey , I was expecting the Cowboys to select one of the top defensive ends remaining on the board - either Emmanuel Ogbah or Kevin Dodd. Surprisingly both those players were the first two guys picked in the second round. The Titans actually picked Dodd, much to the dismay of many Cowboys fans who felt that the front office panicked when all the edge rushers were gone, and took too big of a risk by selecting injured linebacker Jaylon Smith.Well, Dodd isn’t in the league anymore, but Smith is and he’s finally making fans feel good about the pick.The Titans don’t have many weapons on offense, but the ones they do have are going to test the Cowboys linebacker group. With the quick receiving back in Dion Lewis combined with the elusive Marcus Mariota, the trio of Smith, Sean Lee, and rookie Leighton Vander Esch will need to make plays to keep the Titans offense from moving the ball. Jaylon has come up big against both of the Cowboys AFC South opponents this year, with a forced fumble and key fourth down stop to his credit. Look for Smith to have another swipe-worthy play against the Titans.Dave Halprin: Scott Linehan. Yup, I said it. The much-maligned offensive coordinator is going to look like a genius by the end of the night. The Titans have a great scoring defense, but the Cowboys are going to explode on offense. Amari Cooper will be seen as the main reason, everyone will say he opened the offense up. But much of the credit should go to Linehan as he uses the bye week to re-tool some things in the offensvie game plan and the Cowboys players will take advantage. It was a short stint for Dallas offensive line coach Paul Alexander. Alexander, who was hired back in January http://www.dallascowboysteamonline.com/jeff-heath-jersey , could not make it through the bye week with his new team in Dallas. After spending 23 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, the former Bengals OL coach was brought into Dallas to hopefully work his magic, and strange techniques, on one of the best offensive lines in football. That failed miserably. Our friends over at Cincy Jungle had an opinion on the firing of Paul Alexander:Since week one, Dak Prescott has been sacked 23 times, which is tied for the third most in the NFL. While not all of those sacks are on the offensive line, that’s still way too many sacks at the halfway point of the season. If you aren’t buying into the sack numbers, the pressure rate is even more of a concern. According to NFL Matchup, Dak Prescott is also the third most pressured quarterback in the NFL. In the last two weeks, Ezekiel Elliott has been held to 139 yards on 39 carries for 3.5 yards per carry. While that’s not a bad stat line, it’s nowhere near the numbers were used to seeing from the former fourth-overall pick. If the QB sacks, and the running backs lack of running room wasn’t enough to make the move, it was quietly being rumored that some of the lineman were becoming frustrated with the forcing of the “high-hand, low-hand” technique that Alexander preaches Womens Byron Jones Jersey , instead of allowing the veteran guys to continue to play with the techniques that made them one of the best units in the league. All of this led to the Cowboys officials finally deciding to pull the plug on Alexander and turning to familiar faces in Marc Colombo and Hudson Houck. Colombo has been with the Cowboys coaching staff since 2014, working as an assistant. He was promoted to the offensive line coach on Monday, prior to the Cowboys Monday night game against the Tennessee Titans. The Cowboys also brought back Hudson Houck to be a veteran adviser to Colombo. With the move to promote Colombo, the Cowboys OL will go back to doing what they did in the past under Frank Pollack. There have been a ton of questions about whether the lineman will struggle changing techniques in the middle of the season, but the techniques they’ll be going back to are the ones they are most comfortable using in the first place. This is a move that needed to be made, and while it may have been done a little too late, the Cowboys saw that what Paul Alexander was teaching was making the entire offensive line regress. With a new addition at wide receiver, and making a midseason move in the coaching staff, the Cowboys front office has committed to trying to win this season. With these moves, they’ve also come out and admitted that they were wrong in their evaluation of their team, which is something this staff has struggled to do in recent memory. And last but not least, the firing of Paul Alexander and promotion of Marc Colombo gives the Cowboys the best chance to win. Colombo knows the ins and outs of the team and has a good feel for what each lineman does well. It may not happen right away, but soon this offensive line should start playing like the group we’re all used to seeing. Custom Carolina Panthers Jerseys