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CHICAGO – With the temperature expected to be below 20 degrees at kickoff Monday night, the Cowboys have to be concerned about ball security, especially when it comes to Dez Bryant.
The receiver has fumbled twice in the past two games.
“You just continue to improve on his ball security,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said last week.
“Dez is a really competitive guy. A couple of those fumbles have been when he’s extended the play and he refuses to go down. That’s a good thing, but again you have to channel that sometimes. A couple of them have been bang-bang type plays, where he catches it and before you know it a guy has gotten his hand in there. Just a matter of catching it, tucking it and being real secure with it. He’s touched the ball a lot this year and for the most part he’s done a pretty good job taking care of the ball but one fumble is too many for any of us.”
The Cowboys typically take 12,000 to 13,000 pounds of equipment on the road, according to the Dallas Morning News. But they brought more than 15,000 on this trip to provide the players and coaches with cold-weather gear.
“You would rather it be 75 and sunny. No question about that. No wind,” Garrett said. “That’s just the nature of it, but having said that, they’ve been playing football in all kinds of weather for a long time A lot of us grew up playing in different kinds of weather and there’s a certain atmosphere that gets created when you play football in inclement weather and a lot of us embrace it because it’s a great part of the game and it has been for a long time.”
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The receiver has fumbled twice in the past two games.
“You just continue to improve on his ball security,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said last week.
“Dez is a really competitive guy. A couple of those fumbles have been when he’s extended the play and he refuses to go down. That’s a good thing, but again you have to channel that sometimes. A couple of them have been bang-bang type plays, where he catches it and before you know it a guy has gotten his hand in there. Just a matter of catching it, tucking it and being real secure with it. He’s touched the ball a lot this year and for the most part he’s done a pretty good job taking care of the ball but one fumble is too many for any of us.”
The Cowboys typically take 12,000 to 13,000 pounds of equipment on the road, according to the Dallas Morning News. But they brought more than 15,000 on this trip to provide the players and coaches with cold-weather gear.
“You would rather it be 75 and sunny. No question about that. No wind,” Garrett said. “That’s just the nature of it, but having said that, they’ve been playing football in all kinds of weather for a long time A lot of us grew up playing in different kinds of weather and there’s a certain atmosphere that gets created when you play football in inclement weather and a lot of us embrace it because it’s a great part of the game and it has been for a long time.”
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