DMN BLOG: Wade Phillips is really mad about mental mistakes!!!
by Tim MacMahon
OK, maybe the headline exaggerates a wee bit. But Wade Phillips is fairly perturbed about the high total of mental mistakes the Cowboys made in the loss to the Broncos despite a vanilla game plan.
"It's not acceptable for us, even though some of them didn't play this long, that long," Phillips said. "You can have all kinds of excuses. We have to clean that up. Coaching staff, we've got to do a better job there."
Some penalties fall in the category of mental mistakes, but Wade wanted to get a clarification on a couple (Felix Jones' tripping penalty and Bradie James' not-so-late hit) to see if the refs got those calls right. Other "extracurricular" penalties were inexcusable.
"We have to be more disciplined there," Phillips said. "They knew it after they got the penalty, but we can't have it beforehand. Those things we're harping on certainly."
OK, maybe the headline exaggerates a wee bit. But Wade Phillips is fairly perturbed about the high total of mental mistakes the Cowboys made in the loss to the Broncos despite a vanilla game plan.
"It's not acceptable for us, even though some of them didn't play this long, that long," Phillips said. "You can have all kinds of excuses. We have to clean that up. Coaching staff, we've got to do a better job there."
Some penalties fall in the category of mental mistakes, but Wade wanted to get a clarification on a couple (Felix Jones' tripping penalty and Bradie James' not-so-late hit) to see if the refs got those calls right. Other "extracurricular" penalties were inexcusable.
"We have to be more disciplined there," Phillips said. "They knew it after they got the penalty, but we can't have it beforehand. Those things we're harping on certainly."
posted by The Gryphon at 5:40 PM
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