{"id":458947,"date":"2026-10-07T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458947\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:08:19","slug":"cowboys-making-changes-to-field-goal-unit-after-blocked-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458947\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys making changes to field goal unit after blocked kicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the linemen, Drew Shelton, is most likely out for Thursday\u2019s game against Tampa Bay with a hamstring injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Week 3, Shelton was lined up next to Terence Steele when a defender got between them to block a kick against the Ravens. However, Steele was apparently at fault for that, as Schottenheimer said the tackle is supposed to block inside out, meaning take on the defender closest to the kicker.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Texans edge rusher Will Anderson blocked a field goal try. Anderson got through\u00a0Broderick Jones and Nick Leverett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, moving some pieces around,\u201d\u00a0Schottenheimer said without getting into specifics. \u201cWe were going to move some pieces around anyways because it hasn&#8217;t been very good. We&#8217;ve got a good rotation going, but at the end of the day, we just got to clean some things up from a technical standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are tied for the second most field goal attempts (11) in the NFL with two kicks blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the linemen, Drew Shelton, is most likely out for Thursday\u2019s game against Tampa Bay with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93042,97114,88227],"class_list":["post-458947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-brandon-aubrey","tag-tp-brian-schottenheimer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}