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OXNARD, Calif. – Cowboys coach Jason Garrett wasn’t pleased with the team’s sloppy walkthrough session Saturday morning.

After a pre-snap penalty, Garrett shouted at the first-team offense, “You’ve got to be (expletive) kidding me.” After a poorly run route by rookie wide receiver Terrance Williams, the coach yelled “Wake the hell up, 83.”

“It wasn’t as good as it needs to be,” Garrett said of the walkthrough at his mid-day news conference.

“The standard for a walkthrough is high. Just because you are walking through and it’s not a full-speed practice, you have to be into it mentally, you have to be sharp. We understand as coaches we are putting a lot of stuff in every day. We anticipate mistakes. That’s why we go through a walk through. You clean things up. I just think overall the concentration was only OK. It’s got to be better.”

Asked whether fatigue had anything to do with the sloppiness, Garrett said firmly, “I don’t really care about what the explanation is or what the excuse is, we just got to do it better.”

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