\u201cWe have to have discipline,\u201d Schottenheimer said early in camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need discipline,\u201d echoed Lamb in a separate press conference.<\/p>\n
There are multiple variations of the act, however, and one of them bit the Cowboys in the backside time and again in their preseason bout versus the Rams \u2014 the kind that generates unnecessary penalties that kill or stall drives. And considering the struggles of quarterback Joe Milton to consistently move the offense down the field, at times when he did, those penalties became that much more damning.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s why Schottenheimer, both head coach and offensive playcaller, took them personally.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course,\u201d he said on Monday. \u201cTo have six presnap penalties on the offense is awful.\u2029It\u2019s awful. And it\u2019s not going to be accepted. We\u2019re not going to allow that to happen. We told guys that today: if you commit presnap penalties, which means you can\u2019t line up the right way as an offensive lineman, and I shave my motions, we\u2019re not going to play you.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? Because why would you put yourself at a disadvantage and say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m going to cost myself five yards here?\u2019 The officials did a good job trying to warn us. \u2026 If we\u2019re not a disciplined football team, that starts with me as a head coach and the coaching staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
What stands out most here is not only the self-accountability, but the old school style of coaching that threatens a loss of playing time if someone is costing the Cowboys yards and\/or entire drives with easily-repaired mistakes.<\/p>\n
That is within reason, of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys won\u2019t play,\u201d said Schottenheimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have to have discipline,\u201d Schottenheimer said early in camp. \u201cWe need discipline,\u201d echoed Lamb in a separate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,56894,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-139532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115015550639376882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}