Cowboys HC Brian Schottenheimer said the team needed to do a better job with ball security and minimizing chunk plays on defense.
“We just didn’t play well, we really didn’t, and told the guys that,” Schottenheimer said, via NY Times. “This can be a humbling business. If you don’t take care of business, you don’t play well, then you’re not going to win. And what I pointed out to the guys very clearly was we got to stop giving up big plays on defense and we got to stop turning the ball over on offense. It’s a bad formula.”
Schottenheimer blamed coaching for the team’s defensive woes during the team’s loss against the Bears.
“Yeah, it wasn’t and that’s coaching,” Schottenheimer said. “That starts with us, and we got to do a better job, simplify some things maybe. And the one thing we knew going into this game is they would challenge us with some of their motions and shifts and they did that. I thought (Williams) played very, very well. Threw the ball really well, made some plays off point. But got to tighten the coverage down for sure. We’ll take a hard look at it and maybe to simplify things and we’re going to do what we do well. I can promise you that.”
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that he doesn’t have urgency to make a move to improve the team now, but acknowledged that he has the assets to do so if it came down to it.
“Well, not necessarily,” he said. “That implies that being more urgent, I can create an opportunity to use them. That usually doesn’t work that way at all. You’ve got to have something that comes your way that’s really special. And if you’ve got the currency to do it, which in this case it would be draft picks, we’ll do it.”
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