Ask Wade gets good answer about Carpenter
4:18 PM Thu, Dec 27, 2007 |
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Tim MacMahon
I chose questions about Isaiah Stanback and Bobby Carpenter from
this morning's post. He indicated that Stanback should get some playing time Sunday, and he gave a much-more-honest-than-expected answer when asked why Bobby Carpenter hasn't found a role in one of the Cowboys' many defensive packages.
"'Cause of us, maybe," Phillips said, referring to the coaching staff. "You know, we've made those decisions, and that's what we've gone with. I told them all, coaches don't always make the right decisions.
"And I think Bobby will say this. The last preseason game, we gave him a big opportunity, and he'd didn’t play well. Maybe we looked at that too hard, because he's practiced hard. He's done all the right things in practice. Good guy, and he's a good athlete.
"Bradie James certainly came through. That was a part of it, too. I didn't have that feeling going in, but I did after a certain time – that Bradie was a really good football player and needed to be on the field for us at that position during first and second downs, for sure. That kind of inhibited what we were going to do with Bobby.
"He'll get some playing time this week and get an opportunity to kind of show us again what he can do."