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OXNARD, Calif. – Jason Garrett took time out during his news conference Sunday to tell a story about Jason Witten in response to a question about why the Pro Bowl tight end doesn’t get days off like so many of the other veterans.
“We were playing Tampa a few years ago in the opener,” Garrett said. “We liked this ‘wham’ play. A wham play is when you take a tight end or a fullback or somebody and you wham the nose tackle – you let the lineman go up to the next level and you try to surprise the defense by taking this other guy to block this defensive lineman.
“We thought one of our tight ends, Martellus Bennett, would be very good at this. Big, strong physical guy – he’d be a great whammer. We thought it was important to stay in regular personnel, a true fullback, a true halfback. So we put this play in. It was a one-play package: Aggie 21. We were going to call ‘32 Wham.’ So Witt was going to come off the field, and Martellus was going to come in and wham the nose.
“And I have a great relationship with Witt, have had a great one for a long time. When we put this thing in, he literally didn’t talk to me for a week.”
Garrett shrugged to make his point that Witten didn’t like the idea of Bennett doing the “wham” and took it as a snub rather than the coach looking out for his safety.
“My image is, it’s a 300-pound nose tackle and a guy who caught 100 balls last year is going to come up and have a separated shoulder,” Garrett said. “It’s not good coaching. So we had a battle where he did not talk to me for a week about Aggie 21 whamming the nose. So getting him to take a day off of practice is a little bit like the Aggie 21 story. You start the conversation, and he nods his head, continues to nod his head and he goes out to practice again and again and again.”
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“We were playing Tampa a few years ago in the opener,” Garrett said. “We liked this ‘wham’ play. A wham play is when you take a tight end or a fullback or somebody and you wham the nose tackle – you let the lineman go up to the next level and you try to surprise the defense by taking this other guy to block this defensive lineman.
“We thought one of our tight ends, Martellus Bennett, would be very good at this. Big, strong physical guy – he’d be a great whammer. We thought it was important to stay in regular personnel, a true fullback, a true halfback. So we put this play in. It was a one-play package: Aggie 21. We were going to call ‘32 Wham.’ So Witt was going to come off the field, and Martellus was going to come in and wham the nose.
“And I have a great relationship with Witt, have had a great one for a long time. When we put this thing in, he literally didn’t talk to me for a week.”
Garrett shrugged to make his point that Witten didn’t like the idea of Bennett doing the “wham” and took it as a snub rather than the coach looking out for his safety.
“My image is, it’s a 300-pound nose tackle and a guy who caught 100 balls last year is going to come up and have a separated shoulder,” Garrett said. “It’s not good coaching. So we had a battle where he did not talk to me for a week about Aggie 21 whamming the nose. So getting him to take a day off of practice is a little bit like the Aggie 21 story. You start the conversation, and he nods his head, continues to nod his head and he goes out to practice again and again and again.”
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