FRISCO – The Cowboys’ first practice of the week is normally in full pads.
Not on Wednesday.
The Cowboys had a walkthrough practice at The Star and will be helmets and shorts for the next two practices.
In a three-hour and forty-two minute overtime game where 148 total offensive and 23 special teams were conducted, the Cowboys defeated the Giants on kicker Brandon Aubrey’s game-winning field goal in the closing seconds. The long game prompted a change in the schedule.
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“Yeah, the biggest thing, looking at the numbers from the game and anytime you play 70 minutes of kick-ass football, and back and forth and running and stuff like that, I think we have a responsibility to kind of trust the numbers and see what they say,” coach Brian Schottenheimer said of the GPS numbers that tracks players movements.
“I told the guys from Day 1 if they go all out for us, we’ll take care of them. So today was that type of day. We still got all the reps that we needed, did not lose a single rep, we just did it more of a walkthrough tempo to help them get their bodies back. A little bit like how you would kind of on a short week. It was a long game. It was a physical game and tomorrow we’ll be back to running.”
The Cowboys had not played in an overtime game since the 2022 season. Dallas played in two that year, both losses. In a Week 10 loss to Green Bay, the Cowboys participated in 140 offensive plays in a three-hour and 28 minute contest. In a Week 15 loss at Jacksonville, Dallas played in 144 offensive plays in a game that lasted three hours and fifteen minutes.
The Giants also held a walkthrough practice on Wednesday.
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