The Dallas Cowboys are back to practicing in Oxnard for training camp. While there is still some waiting to do for things like padded practices that put Mike McCarthy’s new-look offense against Dan Quinn’s defense, just the sight of on-field work being back in the daily lives of Cowboys fans is very welcome.
The beginning phase of the offseason was just the start of Dallas getting to install McCarthy’s offense, with less contact drills than ever and time for the coaches to work hands-on with players. This makes the focus of learning an offense tasked with improving on the big numbers Kellen Moore leaves behind the main goal of camp and the preseason, Monitoring this progress across an offense that doesn’t have many true starting spots in open competition is something Mark Lane and I discussed on the latest edition of our Hidden Yardage podcast.