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If this was the case, it's news to Coach Phillips and the rest of the Dallas team. After Saturday's loss, John Lynch reportedly said, "They came out smelling foul. They game-planned us, blitzing every play,and going for the family jewels" in an article in The Denver Post. "They came after us. It's no excuse for the way we played. But I think they might have caused unnecessary injuries and at the very least broken the code of ethics for the preseason."
Phillips was non-chalant upon hearing about the comments. "I don't know any defensive player that doesn't want to be super aggresive," he stated. Considering the Cowboys are tweaking and making some changes to their 3-4 defense of a year ago, it should have been expected that they would blitz and be more aggressive than ever before.
"If you're putting a new system in, you got to see how things work on live film instead of at practice against your own guys. That way our guys don't get hurt." said NT Jason Ferguson,who is adapting to a new system, the one gap, instead of the two-gap he played under Bill Parcells. Ferguson also had the first sack of the season against Denver which ended the Broncos first offensive possession.
Regardless of the existence of some code concerning preseason games, the main thing is that the defense has held the first-team offenses of two very good teams to nothing but field goals. That's great news so far for Cowboys fans and that makes preseason worthwhile, practicing a new defensive scheme to prepare for the regular season.
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