Picked up pieces - No blue jerseys this year

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Picked up pieces - No blue jerseys this year
Posted at 2:15 PM on Wed., Aug. 25, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz

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Picked up pieces as training camp comes to a close this week ...

** For all of you that believe in the blue-jersey jinx, the Cowboys will not be in a blue jersey all year. They will have their throwbacks for Thanksgiving vs. New Orleans, but every game will be in their classic whites. Have to ask some of the long-time people around the team the last time this has happened.

** For those of you worried about this team not being accustomed to the heat after having training camp inside the Alamodome and in Oxnard, Calif ., you can relax. The Cowboys won't have a game in the heat the whole year. Maybe it'll be warm for the season opener at Washington, but it's a night game. That's followed by two indoor games vs. Chicago (Cowboys Stadium) and at Houston (Reliant Stadiuim) to close September.

** On the most recent 53-man roster prediction, I went with six safeties. Here's the reason why: Alan Ball and Akwasi Owusu-Ansah can play corner if necessary. With Gerald Sensabaugh's shoulder injury, it just seems to make more sense to go with more safeties than corners.

** Chris Gronkowski has taken some turns as a deep snapper the last few days. John Phillips was L.P. Ladouceur's backup but he's out for the year with a knee injury. Defensive end Marcus Dixon has done it some. So has Patrick Crayton. Gronkowski needs some work on it but he did have good velocity on his snaps but the accuracy was off. Word has it Leonard Davis can do some long snapping, too.

** Cowboys worked on some silent-count snaps during Tuesday's practice in preparation for the crowd noise at Reliant Stadium. Having covered two preseason games there between the Cowboys and Texans (2004, '07), those Dallas teams were caught off guard by the emotion in the building.

 

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Picked up pieces - No blue jerseys this year
Posted at 2:15 PM on Wed., Aug. 25, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz

Todd Archer / Reporter Bio | E-mail | News tips



Picked up pieces as training camp comes to a close this week ...

** For all of you that believe in the blue-jersey jinx, the Cowboys will not be in a blue jersey all year. They will have their throwbacks for Thanksgiving vs. New Orleans, but every game will be in their classic whites. Have to ask some of the long-time people around the team the last time this has happened.

Interesting. I was certain that the Cowboys would be wearing their blues against the Redskins in the opener. Since Snyder took over, how many times have the Cowboys wore their whites on the road against the Redskins? Even though Gibbs initated the Redskins wearing their whites for home games and thus essentially all season except against the Cowboys. Snyder has kept up with that, and IMO mainly because of the so-called jinx and because as much as Snyder and the rest of the Redskins despise the Cowboys, they always seem to try and copy the Cowboys.

Now there could be a couple of reasons why the Redskins will be wearing their reds in the opener agains tthe Cowboys: 1.) For the past 3 years, the Cowboys are 3-0 in their opener. Of those three times, they opened twice on the road (Browns and Bucs), and they wore the blues on those occasions. 2.) It's a night game, and having the Cowboys wear dark blue at night would potentially be quite a disadvantage for McNabb, even though one would think that the stadium lighting would negate such an advantage.