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Jerry Jones: We have enough moving parts, no need to move La’el Collins to OT
Jon Machota Email jmachota@dallasnews.com
Published: August 18, 2015 12:00 pm
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was in an exceptionally good mood during a Tuesday morning radio interview.
While talking about what caught his eye during Monday’s practice against the St. Louis Rams, Jones specifically mentioned the drills between the Cowboys’ offensive line and the Rams’ defensive line.
“I was standing in a tower about 15 feet over them, just that close,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan’s G-Bag Nation show [KRLD-FM]. “I’m telling you, one place you don’t want to be in this world is in the middle of St. Louis’ defensive line and our offensive line. God, dog, you’re talking about some talent and you’re talking about knocking each other’s ass off, they were doing it.”
Jones then specifically praised rookie left guard La’el Collins. However, Jones pumped the brakes on any talk of moving Collins to tackle. The Cowboys like their options with Doug Free starting at right tackle, despite recent foot and ankle issues, and Darrion Weems being the swing tackle.
“Free has every chance to be what we want him to be, we’re just going slow with Free,” Jones said. “And then we want Weems, who has had a little bit of a setback injury-wise, and certainly didn’t have as good of an outing against San Diego as we would like to see. But we had practiced him the whole time at right [tackle] and he ended up playing left because Tyron [Smith] didn’t play.
“Bottom line is, we got enough moving parts here, it’s not time to be moving La’el, he’s doing so well getting locked in on guard and having his reps there. He gives us so much strength with him and [Ron] Leary. If both of them are there all year long and give us that interior strength, that’s probably more advantageous to us.”
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And, there you have it. Stupid.
Jon Machota Email jmachota@dallasnews.com
Published: August 18, 2015 12:00 pm
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was in an exceptionally good mood during a Tuesday morning radio interview.
While talking about what caught his eye during Monday’s practice against the St. Louis Rams, Jones specifically mentioned the drills between the Cowboys’ offensive line and the Rams’ defensive line.
“I was standing in a tower about 15 feet over them, just that close,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan’s G-Bag Nation show [KRLD-FM]. “I’m telling you, one place you don’t want to be in this world is in the middle of St. Louis’ defensive line and our offensive line. God, dog, you’re talking about some talent and you’re talking about knocking each other’s ass off, they were doing it.”
Jones then specifically praised rookie left guard La’el Collins. However, Jones pumped the brakes on any talk of moving Collins to tackle. The Cowboys like their options with Doug Free starting at right tackle, despite recent foot and ankle issues, and Darrion Weems being the swing tackle.
“Free has every chance to be what we want him to be, we’re just going slow with Free,” Jones said. “And then we want Weems, who has had a little bit of a setback injury-wise, and certainly didn’t have as good of an outing against San Diego as we would like to see. But we had practiced him the whole time at right [tackle] and he ended up playing left because Tyron [Smith] didn’t play.
“Bottom line is, we got enough moving parts here, it’s not time to be moving La’el, he’s doing so well getting locked in on guard and having his reps there. He gives us so much strength with him and [Ron] Leary. If both of them are there all year long and give us that interior strength, that’s probably more advantageous to us.”
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And, there you have it. Stupid.
