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By JON MACHOTA
Special contributor to SportsDayDFW.com
Gerald Sensabaugh said a “dreadful” training camp last summer deserves some of the blame for the Cowboys’ 1-7 start in 2010.
And the Cowboys safety, who will be a free agent when the NFL lockout is lifted, said that the firing of Wade Phillips and promotion of Jason Garrett to head coach was not the reason for Dallas winning five of its last eight.
“It had nothing to do with Wade leaving or Garrett coming on,” Sensabaugh recently told NFL Radio. “I don’t know, maybe guys were a little bit tired. Training camp was kind of dreadful over there. We did two camps. We went to San Antonio, did a week in Dallas, went to Oxnard, California, and we started off real slow. And it showed in our first six games.”
Sensabaugh added: “But not to say that as an excuse because we’re professionals and we know how to do the job and take care of things. But I think there were a lot of younger guys on that team, you count on a lot of rookies that have to step up and play, and I guess a lot of guys weren’t able to make that transition as easily as in the past.”
Being a free agent, Sensabaugh must be cautious with his workout activities. He has not taken part in the player-organized workouts. Instead, Sensabaugh has been working out alone.
“There are some big obligations you have to face going through these workouts because you get hurt and you don’t have any athletic trainers there,” he said. “…There’s all kinds of things you have to worry about when you’re doing that stuff. … There’s a lot of bad things that can go wrong when you’re out there practicing and your job’s not secure and you’re locked out.”
The Cowboys secondary could use a few upgrades when the free agency period begins, however, Sensabaugh, who admitted he was open to playing for any team in the league, said he doesn’t think Raiders corner Nnamdi Asomugha is a major need.
“I think at the cornerback position they’re pretty solid,” he said. “If you bring in Nnamdi, what do you do with Terence [Newman] and Mike Jenkins? Orlando Scandrick, he’s a starting caliber corner, also. So you pretty much have four No. 1 corners out there if you go get Nnamdi. That’s kind of backwards if you’re really going to reach and get Nnamdi like that.”
Special contributor to SportsDayDFW.com
Gerald Sensabaugh said a “dreadful” training camp last summer deserves some of the blame for the Cowboys’ 1-7 start in 2010.
And the Cowboys safety, who will be a free agent when the NFL lockout is lifted, said that the firing of Wade Phillips and promotion of Jason Garrett to head coach was not the reason for Dallas winning five of its last eight.
“It had nothing to do with Wade leaving or Garrett coming on,” Sensabaugh recently told NFL Radio. “I don’t know, maybe guys were a little bit tired. Training camp was kind of dreadful over there. We did two camps. We went to San Antonio, did a week in Dallas, went to Oxnard, California, and we started off real slow. And it showed in our first six games.”
Sensabaugh added: “But not to say that as an excuse because we’re professionals and we know how to do the job and take care of things. But I think there were a lot of younger guys on that team, you count on a lot of rookies that have to step up and play, and I guess a lot of guys weren’t able to make that transition as easily as in the past.”
Being a free agent, Sensabaugh must be cautious with his workout activities. He has not taken part in the player-organized workouts. Instead, Sensabaugh has been working out alone.
“There are some big obligations you have to face going through these workouts because you get hurt and you don’t have any athletic trainers there,” he said. “…There’s all kinds of things you have to worry about when you’re doing that stuff. … There’s a lot of bad things that can go wrong when you’re out there practicing and your job’s not secure and you’re locked out.”
The Cowboys secondary could use a few upgrades when the free agency period begins, however, Sensabaugh, who admitted he was open to playing for any team in the league, said he doesn’t think Raiders corner Nnamdi Asomugha is a major need.
“I think at the cornerback position they’re pretty solid,” he said. “If you bring in Nnamdi, what do you do with Terence [Newman] and Mike Jenkins? Orlando Scandrick, he’s a starting caliber corner, also. So you pretty much have four No. 1 corners out there if you go get Nnamdi. That’s kind of backwards if you’re really going to reach and get Nnamdi like that.”
