We haven't had a practiced in pads for awhile now

[Everson24]

I dont believe we have practiced in pads since after the first Giants game if I remember correctly. I think I heard Mickey saying at that time that we only had 4 left for the remainider of the season. I wonder how much this is affecting our team. The defense in particylar. We are seeing them come out of the gate slow, taking bad angles and missing far more tackles than we saw earlier in the year. It also apears that our offensive line is not firing off the ball with the same physicallity that they were earlier in the season. I wonder if Garrett figured he'd start using them again after the Chicago game when we had a 10 day break.

If you all can remember back to 2010 right after Jason Garrett took over the tea for Wade Phillips the first thing he did is start practicing in full pads and we saw immediate results. Now the new CBA only allows 14 per season and we used up 10 of them very early in the year.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[Bullflop]

Here's hoping the league sees fit to put the practice regimen back into the realm of actually being realistic.

 

[cowboyfan4lyfe]

What really needs to happen is the league raise the number of players on an active roster. 46 is a joke with the way the schedule is set up. And they want to raise the number of games to 18. Smh

 

[conner01]

the league can't raise the number on the roster or increase the number of practices. the cba determines both of those and thats not changing untill there is a new cba and probably not then either

 

[big dog cowboy]

the league can't raise the number on the roster or increase the number of practices. the cba determines both of those and thats not changing untill there is a new cba and probably not then either

I was really surprised the league didn't fight for more padded practices. That will only improve how the teams play.