‘We Need To Feed Him More’: Ryan Flournoy Wants Dallas Cowboys To Lean On Javonte Williams After 54-Pass Night In Green Bay

FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys receiver Ryan Flournoy said Tuesday that the offense needs to get the ball to running back Javonte Williams more, two days after Dallas threw 54 passes and ran 15 times in a 23-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Williams ran 11 times for 41 yards at Lambeau Field and scored from 1 yard out with 9:19 left in the third quarter, cutting Green Bay’s lead to 17-7. He carried once more the rest of the game. Dallas finished with 48 rushing yards.

Flournoy wants the whole offense put together, with Williams carrying more of it.

“In a sense, I mean, we got a dominant running back. Like, Tae is a great running back,” Flournoy said. “I think we need to feed him more and just really just put the whole offense together. And I think defense can’t stop our receiving corps and our running back corps.”

Williams ran for 1,201 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2025, his first season with the Cowboys.

Dallas trailed by at least two scores for the entire second half Sunday. Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said Monday that the 54 throws were not the plan.

“Didn’t anticipate or plan on throwing the ball 54 times last night. That’s not a good formula. It’s the way the game unfolded,” Schottenheimer said. “We got down two scores. Felt like we kind of had to go because we were down the two scores. And that’s probably the number one thing.”

“But in terms of changes, no, we’re going to get back to work. And we’re going to figure it out. We have great trust in our offense. I’m not concerned about our offense,” Schottenheimer continued. “The last two weeks, we own that. That is what it is. It has not been good enough, but we also have a history of being really explosive, really good. And we’ve done that not only last year, but in four of our games this year.”

A few called runs turned into passes at the line because of the fronts Green Bay showed, according to Schottenheimer, who said the Packers were “daring us to throw it.”

Ryan Flournoy On Motion And Vic Fangio’s Philadelphia Eagles Defense

Flournoy caught 7 of 9 targets for 40 yards Sunday, including a 6-yard touchdown from Dak Prescott with 44 seconds left. CeeDee Lamb caught 9 passes for 70 yards on 18 targets, and George Pickens had 6 catches for 73 yards. Through six games, Flournoy has 23 catches for 234 yards and 1 touchdown. The 2024 sixth-round pick out of Southeast Missouri State signed a one-year extension in September that runs through 2027.

Motion helps the Cowboys get the ball to the perimeter, Flournoy said.

“I mean, yeah, I feel like motion does help with the [disguise] and what we want to do, and it just helps [disguise the] run and pass in some senses and get the ball to the perimeter a little bit more,” Flournoy explained.

Schottenheimer said Monday that the Cowboys’ motion and under-center numbers have been affected by how often they have played from behind in two-minute and up-tempo situations.

“I’d say pace operation when you’re in two minute, you’re trying to go fast. You’re trying to keep the defense on their heels,” Schottenheimer explained. “You’re trying to extend the game for as long as you can and get as many ops as possible because you don’t know what’s going to happen. When you score, you don’t know what’s going to happen. So that’s the number one thing.”

“And when you shift in motion, obviously the play clock and the game clock go down. And so that limits your ops,” Schottenheimer continued. “And that’s a big reason why when you see teams go no huddle, usually receivers don’t change sides. Usually you’re moving one guy, maybe the back and one guy, and you’re trying to do that to stay ahead of the clock.”

The Philadelphia Eagles defense is run by coordinator Vic Fangio, who is in his third season with the club. The Eagles like to play a single-high safety and focus on stopping the receivers, according to Flournoy, and he said Dallas has to start fast.

“Just what they do. They like [to] do one high and just wanting to stop us as receivers,” Flournoy said. “I feel like we have to just go out fast and make them stop what we got going.”

The Cowboys had not started game planning for Philadelphia’s secondary as of Tuesday. Flournoy has faced it enough to call it a worthy opponent.

“They got pretty good guys. We haven’t really started game planning on them, but they, playing them for years, they’re a worthy opponent,” Flournoy said. “But I feel like we’re ready for them, for sure.”

Flournoy On The Dallas Cowboys Offense And The NFC East

Dallas scored 16 points in its Oct. 8 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and 13 at Green Bay. Flournoy pointed to the conversations inside the building as the reason he believes the offense will turn it around.

“Just the attitude of wanting to get better. Like, we’re not satisfied with winning. We want to get better, and we know we are better than what we have showed like this past couple of weeks,” Flournoy said. “So that’s why I feel like we’re going to head in the right direction because we’re having the right conversation and the tough conversations.”

Trust is how that carries to the field, according to Flournoy.

“Just going and trusting each other. We know what we need to do and what we’ve got to do and playing fast, physical and playing free at times, not tight,” Flournoy said.

Six games in, Flournoy is taking the season one week at a time and believes Dallas is correcting what it needs to correct.

“Just really taking it week by week. It’s a long season. We only just passed Week 6, and we got, what, 12 more games, something like that,” Flournoy said. “It’s a long season. I think we’re heading in the right direction, just correcting what we need to correct.”

Schottenheimer said Monday that he believes the Cowboys have “the right guys” to turn the season around. The belief runs both ways, according to Flournoy.

“Yeah, for sure. This is a whole collective. The players and coaches are the same. We’re one,” Flournoy said. “We just got to be coachable.”

Flournoy called the NFC East “wide open” and said that “in a sense that gives us hope.” Dallas and Philadelphia are both 2-4, and the Eagles have lost four straight.

“It’s a long season. It’s a week-to-week league,” Flournoy said.

Dallas plays at Philadelphia on Monday, Oct. 26, at Lincoln Financial Field. Kickoff is set for 7:15 p.m. CT on ESPN and ABC.