The Dallas Cowboys probably deserve credit for recognizing a problem and working quickly to fix it. So ... is it fixed? The Cowboys are signing kicker Brett Maher following his Tuesday workout at the team's training camp in Oxnard.
According to Rob Phillips, the Cowboys are expected to sign K Brett Maher following a successful workout and will waive K Jonathan Garibay in a corresponding move.
So far this offseason, the talk of Dallas Cowboys Training Camp has been around the team’s kicking struggles. With kickers Johnathan Garibay and Lirim Hajrullahu competing versus each other, you figured one would pull away eventually–but it never happened as both struggled with inconsistencies.
Struggles from both Lirim Hajrullahu and Jonathan Garibay will bring the Cowboys to work out some replacement options.
The Dallas Cowboys desperately needed an upgrade at placekicker after veteran Greg Zuerlein converted just 82.9% of his field-goal tries and missed six of his 48 extra point attempts last season.
The Cowboys have a kicking problem through the first two weeks of training camp. Rookie Jonathan Garibay and Lirim Hajrullahu are competing for the starting role, but neither has been convincing.
The Cowboys have brought on their own issues in the kicking game. The Dallas Cowboys have a kicker problem. Every day when we recap the practices here at BTB there is always some note about how the kickers struggled.
OXNARD, Calif. - We were rather amused the other day when, a couple of days into training camp here in Oxnard, a media outlet proclaimed rookie Jonathan Garibay the "locked-in'' leader in the race to be the Dallas Cowboys kicker in 2022.
It doesn’t appear that there is a real competition for the Cowboys kicking position. It has been less than a week since the Dallas Cowboys made Lirim Hajrullahu’s return official, but the fact that it took them until we were firmly in July seems to suggest a rather obvious message.
Lirim Hajrullahu is officially under contract with the Dallas Cowboys as of Friday. And as of the start of training camp on July 26 in Oxnard? The Cowboys have themselves an official kicker competition.
Dallas will need this area to be consistent in order to make a sustained run at the Lombardi Trophy. At times, special teams can make or break not only single games, but whole seasons.
After the Cowboys released Chris Naggar on May 13, it left undrafted free agent Jonathan Garibay as the only kicker on their roster. With no competition, it seemed inevitable that Garibay would be Dallas’ week one kicker.
The Dallas Cowboys finally parted ways with wayward kicker Greg Zuerlein early in the offseason. After two years of a lot of missed field goals and extra points, the reunion with special teams coach Jim Fassel was finally brought to an end.
For a moment there, there was a lone kicker in camp in the Lone Star State. But that was never the plan, and now Lirim Hajrullahu is back in a Dallas Cowboys uniform.
Jonathan Garibay may not just waltz into the Cowboys’ kicking job after all. Dallas has brought back veteran Lirim Hajrullahu today to give the rookie some competition as the team prepares for its 2022 training camp.
The Dallas Cowboys currently have just one kicker on their roster, but that could change in the near future.
Undrafted free agent Jonathan Garibay is the Cowboys’ kicker in 2022 by default; the only one currently signed to the roster. But Dallas’ head coach Mike McCarthy doesn’t sound anxious about the situation, instead stating he intends to be patient with Garibay as the rookie works on earning trust throughout the summer.
The most prolific kickers in Dallas Cowboys history are Rafael Septien, of Mexican descent, and the undrafted free agent sensation Dan Bailey. Their next leg could, ironically, be a combo of both.
Having a reliable kicker would sure be nice for Dallas. Can you believe there was a time when the Dallas Cowboys had the most accurate kicker in NFL history?
Jonathan Garibay is the only kicker left on the Cowboys roster. I am all for an experiment, but how long will it take until Dallas has to sign someone else?
Since kicker Dan Bailey's surprising release from the Dallas Cowboys after the 2017 NFL season, the team has struggled to find a consistent leg. Enter Jonathan Garibay, an undrafted free agent signed by the Cowboys after the 2022 NFL Draft.
It would be a cliché to suggest that one kick changed Jonathan Garibay’s life. The Texas Tech kicker was already a perfect 11-for-11 on the season when he lined up for a 62-yard try in the final seconds of a conference game, at home, with an interim coach, and with the Red Raiders’ bowl eligibility on the line.
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The score was tied at 38 with three seconds remaining when Jonathan Garibay came onto the field to try the long kick. It was mayhem at Jones AT&T Stadium
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