Amid questions over poor field conditions at Levi’s Stadium, it was the Dallas Cowboys who seemed to be caught unprepared for the defensive schemes of the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night, in a 23-6 blowout loss. In the Cowboys second preseason contest of the year, one of the league’s most potent offenses in 2014 sputtered and appeared confused by the complexity of the defensive fronts that were being displayed by the Niners.
Preseason matchups are notorious for their vanilla play-calling as an attempt to hide a team’s true intentions for when the games really count in the regular season.