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Cowboys staff to coach in Senior Bowl
Todd Archer
IRVING, Texas – After last season’s 12-4 finish and exit from the divisional round of the playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys coaches worked the Pro Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona.
With this season’s 4-12 record, the Cowboys’ coaches will work the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.
There might be more benefit to coaching the Senior Bowl, where a lot of the top draft prospects will play, than a Pro Bowl.
“I’ve talked to many of them who said we did evaluate those players better that played in that Senior Bowl than we ever had from a coaches’ perspective,” owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. “Not really from a scouts’, but from a coaches’.”
Because of the coaching changes with the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns, the Cowboys and San Diego Chargers’ staffs will work the college all-star game. The most important part of the week is not the game, but the three days of practice leading into the game.
Typically, teams send their entire coaching staffs to the games so they can get their first real looks at the upcoming draftable players. Teams’ personnel departments also do a lot of interviewing and behind-the-scenes work that helps them get a head start on the process for the NFL scouting combine in February.
“You’re there for a week with the players, so you see them in a pro football environment,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. “We would meet in practice, like we would here, so you get a chance to see them up close and spend the days with them both in the meetings and on the practice field and obviously see how they respond to our system of football and how we want to coach. And then you get a chance to coach them in the ballgame. So it’s really the best up-close-and-personal look that you get of these players through the whole draft process.”
Todd Archer
IRVING, Texas – After last season’s 12-4 finish and exit from the divisional round of the playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys coaches worked the Pro Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona.
With this season’s 4-12 record, the Cowboys’ coaches will work the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.
There might be more benefit to coaching the Senior Bowl, where a lot of the top draft prospects will play, than a Pro Bowl.
“I’ve talked to many of them who said we did evaluate those players better that played in that Senior Bowl than we ever had from a coaches’ perspective,” owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. “Not really from a scouts’, but from a coaches’.”
Because of the coaching changes with the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns, the Cowboys and San Diego Chargers’ staffs will work the college all-star game. The most important part of the week is not the game, but the three days of practice leading into the game.
Typically, teams send their entire coaching staffs to the games so they can get their first real looks at the upcoming draftable players. Teams’ personnel departments also do a lot of interviewing and behind-the-scenes work that helps them get a head start on the process for the NFL scouting combine in February.
“You’re there for a week with the players, so you see them in a pro football environment,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. “We would meet in practice, like we would here, so you get a chance to see them up close and spend the days with them both in the meetings and on the practice field and obviously see how they respond to our system of football and how we want to coach. And then you get a chance to coach them in the ballgame. So it’s really the best up-close-and-personal look that you get of these players through the whole draft process.”