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Observations from the Cowboys’ thirteenth training camp practice, a physical affair that revisited work on the run game (with a new wrinkle) as well as red zone and goal line material.
In the situational period at the end of Saturday's practice, Jason Garrett gave the offense less than two minutes to score while trailing by three points. Today, in the same period, they were given considerably less time remaining on the clock and trailed by seven - a situation wherein a field go simply would not do. This "ramping up" served to define Sunday's practice, which saw a continuation of Saturday's work, but with more intensity, physicality, pressure and purpose.
The day's agenda drew heavily from the running, red zone and goal line chapters of the playbook, with the added pressure of time (or, more properly, a clock with precious few ticks remaining). In another welcome extension of Saturday's practice, the defense once again played with tremendous physicality. Pat of this was due to an unwelcome continuation: Tyron Smith and Doug Free once again sat out, and it negatively impacted all three offensive units' ability to execute. That said, the defense was notably physical, especially in the running period during the second full team 11-on-11 session. Ken Bishop kicked things off by hitting Ben Malena a bit more forcefully than might be considered ideal on a toss left, and it picked up from there.
This physicality built over the course of the practice, to the point where my podcast partner in crime, Landon McCool, and I agreed that a fight would soon be brewing. And sure enough, during the final team period, a couple of defenders, foremost among them Jeff Heath, took issue with the way Tyler Clutts (why does every camp fight involve Clutts?) finished a play, and the entire team was soon involved in a roiling, moving weasel pile - including Lance Dunbar, who, rather stupidly, opted to defend fellow RB Clutts while not wearing a helmet. At one point, Travis Frederick was knocked to the ground and wisely chose to stay there as several tons of sweaty humanity pushed each other all around him.
#Cowboys FB Tyler Clutts is playing tackle football when nobody else is tackling, inevitable: Fight! (W jeff Heath) @1053thefan
— mike fisher (@fishsports) August 17, 2015
Tyler Clutts likes to deliver big blows. Defense knows it. Blasts him every chance they get
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) August 17, 2015
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