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Oxnard, California – Three fights were enough.
Frustrated by a series of brawls that stopped practice on Wednesday, Brian Schottenheimer came up with an alternative to the Dallas Cowboys. He ordered a wind sprint before cancelling practice.
Talk about lowering your legs. And the rookie head coach did not leave the grey area in expressing his disgust. After the players ran several times from sideline to sideline, Schottenheimer gathered teams for the huddle in the middle of the field and did some lece messaging.
“He has the standard,” Cowboys quarterback Duck Prescott told USA Today Sports after practice. “He preaches competitiveness and not combat. He also preaches to live on the edge of toughness and competition, and does not overcome it.
“We don’t want to hurt each other. We don’t want to fight. Those are things that you get kicked out of the game and hurt you on Sunday.
Of course, fisticuffs often come with the territory during NFL training camps. There is a fierce battle at work. Heat and fatigue. The monotony of practicing against the same competition before seeing other faces in the preseason game.
But I got a bit chippy during Wednesday’s Cowboys shorts and Shell’s session. After one of the fights, Schottenheimer kicked rookie tackle Ajani Cornelius out of practice for an early shower. The wind sprint came later. This may have brought some players back to college or high school.
Someone asked Cowboys star receiver Cee Dee Lamb if they could sum up the “PG version” of Schottenheimer’s message to the team.
Lamb said: “Do we want to be champions?”
In Lamb, the sixth-year pro, the mistaken Cowboys are fined fourth (128) and almost never lost the fifth turnover (28) stumbling over a 7-10 finish in the NFL last season.
“Talent has never been an issue throughout the year we’re here,” Lamb said. “It’s always been discipline. How do we move ahead and not fall behind? Why don’t we shoot ourselves with the foot? When momentum is on the way, why don’t we hurt ourselves? We need to step into the pedals…and always think about the team.”
Clearly, Schottenheimer repeats that point. All talks at the Cowboys camp also have the issue of demanding accountability for the energy Schottenheimer, 51, and his staff have injected into their daily lives.
“How many times have he been on the coaching staff and saw flare-ups at competitions? How many times have you seen a coach working on it?” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones pondered in an interview with USA Today Sports. “It was a bargain I got.
“You’ve been around the game for 30 years, seeing some of the best coaches in business contracts with situations. And I’ve got a sense of newness and freshness. “Now, it’s on my watch. I’m the head coach.”
Time reveals whether Schotterheimer’s method works to change the final result of a non-working cowboy.
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