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Todd Archer, ESPN Employees Author
FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy is ensuring he won’t be fined for a 3rd straight yr for an excessive amount of contact throughout organized staff actions.
“Our staff intervals are principally walkthroughs and jogthroughs,” McCarthy stated earlier than the Cowboys’ second OTA of the offseason program. “So we cannot have a aggressive 11-on-11 drill right here most likely ever once more within the offseason.”
McCarthy was fined in 2021 and 2022 for what the league deemed as an excessive amount of contact within the offseason practices which might be carried out with out pads and theoretically not purported to have any contact. A quick tussle between two gamers final yr led to the investigation that prompted the second high-quality.
A 3rd violation of the principles might result in a staff doubtlessly shedding a draft decide.
Within the latest rookie minicamp, the on-field work was restricted. When gamers had been on the sphere, they didn’t have anybody on one or staff drills and a lot of the observe was carried out with the gamers carrying helmets.
In Thursday’s OTA, there was a two-minute drill that was carried out with out offensive or defensive linemen.
“Crew drills actually will not be sensible beneath the rules, in my view,” McCarthy stated.
Requested if the change in format was associated to the fines, McCarthy smiled, which drew amusing from the media.
“I imply I am glad you discover humor in it,” McCarthy cracked. “My spouse and I do not assume it is actually humorous. It is truly a sore spot with me. I am on digicam [or] I might let you know precisely how I actually really feel. Gotta observe the principles.”
