The Dallas Cowboys' failures in Sunday's 29-24 loss to the New York Giants were plentiful and transparent.
Tony Romo threw four interceptions, and Dez Bryant muffed, then fumbled on a ghastly punt return, to point out two troubled areas that led the Cowboys' quarterback to admit fans had the right to rain down the boos.
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Our own Gregg Rosenthal pointed out coach Jason Garrett's questionable play-calling when the Cowboys turned the ball over on downs after throwing three times on the Giants' 19-yard line when they needed to gain only a yard for a new set of downs and New York was conceding the run.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agreed with Garrett's end-of-game play calls, though.
"The defense was not giving us anything," Jones said Tuesday during his weekly radio segment on KRLD-FM, according to The Dallas Morning News. "Plus, that's their strength is their front seven. ... I have no quarrel with those calls there. We changed a play. We did have an option to run the play. If they had lined up differently, we could have run the ball. But under the circumstances, the way they lined up, I don't second-guess the call."
Jones also addressed Bryant's recent reckless punt returning, saying that while he has averaged a career-low 5.5 yards per return, if he negates the turnovers, his duties might not change.
"At the end of the day, to prevent the turnover is the No. 1 goal," Jones said. "The kicking game, all phases of it, when you make mistakes in it, they're accentuated."
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