The Dallas Cowboys face off with their divisional rivals, the New York Giants, for the second season in a row. Last year they were able to spoil the Giants Super Bowl party and steal a win at MetLife Stadium. This year, the Giants are coming to Dallas in just under three weeks.
That isn’t too early to start preparing for the game.
“Yeah, we’re watching some Giants tape,” tight end Jason Witten said, via ESPN Dallas. “Obviously a big division game. We know them well. They know us. Everything’s moving that way.”
ESPN Dallas also says that the Cowboys started in Oxnard, California, with some scout-team looks on offense and defense. They’ve continued the practice this week.
“As training camp progresses you do start getting (the regulars) more and more reps, but it’s not a drastic change,” Garrett said. “We won’t really game plan. We’ll prepare a tick more for this game than we did the previous games, but we’ll take the same preseason mentality where we’re trying to develop our team, we’re trying to get for the regular season.”
The Cowboys still have two preseason games before Week 1 of the season. The starters play the most in the third week of the preseason and usually not at all in the 4th and final preseason game.