The defending NFC East champion Cowboys are 8-0 against their division rival in openers, and have beaten them five straight times.
BACKUP PLAYS: Michael Vick was caretaker for the Pittsburgh offense, going 5 of 6 for 38 yards with two carries for minus-2 yards. He signed a one-year deal in late August and is still learning the offense.
"I'm sure there are guys that are still kind of shell-shocked, but you would not have been able to tell that in meetings," Mularkey said. "I'm constantly evaluating guys walking around in the building, their body language, and there is no sense of that at all."
"That, to me, was the play of the game," Bowles said.
NOTES: DE Justin Tuck and TE Clive Walford were among the players who missed practice. ... The Raiders and USA Football awarded football equipment and uniform grants to 10 youth and high school football programs throughout the Bay Area based on merit and need.
Glendale bet big on professional sports in the last 15 years, spending millions of dollars on a hockey arena for the Arizona Coyotes and investing heavily in a spring training ballpark for the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers. Then the economy tanked, and the hockey team went through bankruptcy, with several different owners in recent years.