Posted by rphillips at 11/17/2010 5:15 PM CST on truebluefanclub.com
Full pads on Wednesdays is one of the most noticeable changes under Jason Garrett.
The players rarely practiced in pads under Wade Phillips, who tried to manage their bodies as much as possible over a 17-week season. Garrett respects that approach, used by other coaches around the league, but he feels it’s important to maintain a physical mindset on the first installation day of a game week.
"I just think football is a physical sport,” Garrett said. "You can never lose that. You have to be smart going forward over the course of a season, but Wednesday is the day when you’re putting the base stuff in. A lot of it is focused on the running game and the play-action passing game, and you need to be physical in those areas.
"Over the course of time, if you’re not practicing that way, I think maybe you lose some of that physical-ness. Now there are a lot of other coaching philosophies that have been incredibly successful doing it a different way. This is just something that we believe in."
Full pads on Wednesdays is one of the most noticeable changes under Jason Garrett.
The players rarely practiced in pads under Wade Phillips, who tried to manage their bodies as much as possible over a 17-week season. Garrett respects that approach, used by other coaches around the league, but he feels it’s important to maintain a physical mindset on the first installation day of a game week.
"I just think football is a physical sport,” Garrett said. "You can never lose that. You have to be smart going forward over the course of a season, but Wednesday is the day when you’re putting the base stuff in. A lot of it is focused on the running game and the play-action passing game, and you need to be physical in those areas.
"Over the course of time, if you’re not practicing that way, I think maybe you lose some of that physical-ness. Now there are a lot of other coaching philosophies that have been incredibly successful doing it a different way. This is just something that we believe in."
!!! You just have to laugh or put up a pic of Wade on your screen and punch through it. But what good would that do?