Just days after suffering the worst loss in the 35-year ownership tenure of Jerry Jones in a 47-9 humiliation at AT&T Stadium at the hands of the Detroit Lions, the Dallas Cowboys are going back to the drawing board during their scheduled bye this week In a game where the Cowboys were outmatched in every facet, the physicality and toughness of the team have been put under the microscope after a six-game stretch that saw Dallas mostly get overwhelmed by physical styles of play. It’s not something that can just flip overnight, and the leadership of the team agrees, as focus is being put on how the team can reposition its approach to practice during the week. In his postgame availability, he called out how the team only tries to turn it on one day of the week and how that translates to the field
I’ve done this a long time, this team practices hard,” McCarthy said. “There’s a difference between practicing hard and practicing well. They practice hard. We’re not practicing well enough.” Backing up his point about the team practicing hard is GPS data that tracks player movement and exertion during any given practice or game with a microchip installed in their shoulder pad or around their torso. “If you look at comparables from the way the team practices on a GPS scale, this team is better conditioned than 2022 and 2023, as far as workload capacity,” McCarthy said. “That’s what the numbers tell you, but the efficiency and productivity in the areas of fundamentals and technique, we are not where we were at this time last year. That’s very evident to me as far as how I evaluate the practice every day
In response to those comments made by his quarterback, head coach Mike McCarthy coincided with Prescott in implying issues with how the team practices during the week while also still giving credit for the work put in during the week.
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