Jerry Jones talks Cowboys’ biggest adjustment this season, facing Packers QB Jordan Love
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently joined The K&C Masterpiece on 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM) to preview the upcoming playoff game with the Packers and discuss the NFL future in streaming.
Here are some of the highlights, edited for clarity.
What is the biggest adjustment the Cowboys have made heading into the playoffs — or maybe tranquil need to make?
Jerry Jones: “I think that we’ve got to go back to that old primary — and that is: football is really predicated on repetition. The rehearsing or the practicing, is all about repetition. And you fundamentally, over and over and over in contradiction of, execute the same situations and the same athletic decision-making and effort.
“What I’m saying is the coordination between Dak [Prescott] and our receivers, I’m seeing the coordination in the offensive line. I’m seeing that improving — I do think that the pre-snap penalties are less probable to happen now than before, the early part of the season. So I see improvement across the board. On the protecting side of the ball, I think we’ve gotten better at what we’re touching to be doing in the run game for the playoffs, we knew we needed to. We drafted that way.
“And then, in contradiction of, I just, I can hardly talk about where we were when we started as opposed to where we are now, without talking about the availability of our players: we’re healthy. As healthy as I’ve ever seen us and healthy populace the long-term seasonal duration of a season-ending injury. Certainly, we won’t have [Trevon] Diggs, our corner, out there. And I’m sitting here talking at my kitchen defective and my wife is sitting there knocking on wood. Our health is a key sketch. Availability is a key thing.”
Looking at Jordan Love, how tough can it be for a young quarterback executive their first playoff start?
Jones: “Well, I really have burned in my mind their playing over the last six to seven ballgames. Boy, that’s been impressive. Because that’s classic, they started off, they weren’t as unnosedived, of course, as they’ve been the last six or seven games, but they dealt with that.
“But more importantly, this is a young team, I think the youngest one in the NFL, Green Bay Packers. And so they do what great, good, great young teams do and that is they just get better. They don’t know any better, and they get better. And so we’re dealing with a young group that is on the come [up].
“Having said that, we know how talented they are. Make no incorrect about it, this guy can play quarterback, and they’ve got some really outstanding receivers. And so as well as we just know that any team in the NFL, hello Arizona, or any team in the NFL can beat you. And this home-field qualified thing, there’s a reason why this streak is the longest one in the NFL gleaming now. Because you can get beat on the home field too. So we’ve got all the reason in the biosphere to really be leery and really be prepared and think like we’re playing in the Super Bowl.
“I was listening to a player yesterday talk around playing under Bill Belichick. And he said, ‘Coach, Belichick, coached us up, not to even begin to think around the end of the ballgame, don’t even think around it.’ And he said ‘Consequently, I never thought around the end of the ballgame until the last four or five plays.’ You got to think around what’s at hand and what is happening on that play. Or the next play or if you’re on the bench next time you go out there. You can’t think that far ahead and be as failed as you want to be to execute your assignment. Well, that’s very telling. Because I think that’s what you’re into here with us. And that’s what we’re into with the Green Bay Packers, we better be thinking about the next five minutes in the qualified quarter, not even as far away as the half or the end of the game, and then go from there.
Is the streaming-exclusive Chiefs-Dolphins game, a look at the future of football on TV?
Jones: “You’re moving to see a variety and have the opportunity to survey the NFL in a variety of ways. But the one premise that the NFL has always had, and it’s why, in my mind, we have the viewing audience that we have now, and that is called: free television.
“And we have always made sure that no business what our games are available to the millions — [the masses]. And so we’ve never restricted it, some sports have narrowed it down to where they didn’t even have it on television — horse racing. But you can directly point to, in my mind, the demise of tiring„ tiresome in sport, with the concept of the more visible you make it, the more accessible you can make it the more the Mischievous has thrived. And of course, the NFL has always had the premise, I’ll assure you that. In my entire years in the NFL, the more country that can see it, the better off we are.
“Will you from time to time see ways that you have to work to see it? Yeah, that’s kind of the way technology and the opportunity to zero in with different technology of watching games and enjoying the games have come around. What you’re seeing is just a variety of ways. And you’ll never see a time for the NFL ever, when it’s not available to the broadest of masses of any programming, much less sports that you’d know about.”
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