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ARLINGTON – Jerry Jones made excuses for the Cowboys’ sloppy special-teams play Saturday night, saying the club is using the preseason to evaluate players rather than build a cohesive unit.
“We’ve got so many players that we play in and out of there, and we should be doing that,” Jones said. “We should be seeing the (bad) numbers. For instance, we decided to run every kickoff out of there, don’t care how long it hung, how far and deep it was in the end zone. We were going to run it out so we could look at some guys, look and see how we blocked it coming out.”
Fair enough, but that doesn’t explain the 75-yard punt return for a touchdown by the Bengals’ Brandon Tate, an embarrassing moment for Dallas that had more to do with lousy execution than it did with personnel.
“We didn’t get in our lanes and we didn’t make plays when we were there,” Jason Garrett said.
Tate confirmed that assessment, saying, “Everybody blocked it perfectly, and all I had to do was find the holes and shoot through it. Nobody had a shot at me.”
Bottom line: The Cowboys have a lot of work to do special teams-wise before the season opens Sept. 8 against the Giants.
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“We’ve got so many players that we play in and out of there, and we should be doing that,” Jones said. “We should be seeing the (bad) numbers. For instance, we decided to run every kickoff out of there, don’t care how long it hung, how far and deep it was in the end zone. We were going to run it out so we could look at some guys, look and see how we blocked it coming out.”
Fair enough, but that doesn’t explain the 75-yard punt return for a touchdown by the Bengals’ Brandon Tate, an embarrassing moment for Dallas that had more to do with lousy execution than it did with personnel.
“We didn’t get in our lanes and we didn’t make plays when we were there,” Jason Garrett said.
Tate confirmed that assessment, saying, “Everybody blocked it perfectly, and all I had to do was find the holes and shoot through it. Nobody had a shot at me.”
Bottom line: The Cowboys have a lot of work to do special teams-wise before the season opens Sept. 8 against the Giants.
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