{"id":6783,"date":"2013-11-12T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2013-11-12T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:16:29","slug":"jerry-jones-focused-during-bye-to-get-dez-bryant-the-ball-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/12\/jerry-jones-focused-during-bye-to-get-dez-bryant-the-ball-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones focused during bye to get Dez Bryant the ball more"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6309\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6309\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dezbryant.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dezbryant.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dezbryant-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dezbryant-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jerry Jones said the \u00a0Cowboys coaches will use the bye week to focus on getting Dez Bryant the ball more. Bryant\u00a0saw just two targets in Week 10 and is averaging a meager 6.3 targets per game over the last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant caught one pass for 44 yards in Sunday night&#8217;s game against New Orleans, and seemed outlandish when asked by the media why\u00a0\u201cI just do as asked,&#8221; Bryant said, via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/nfl\/2013\/11\/bryant-on-seeing-ball-only-twice-i-just-do-as-asked\/\"><em>San Antonio Express News<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I do. I can&#8217;t answer that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Receivers like Calvin Johnson, A.J. Green and Brandon Marshall consistently beat double- and triple-teams via both creative scheming and unique physical ability. The Cowboys can do the same thing with Bryant, but aren&#8217;t giving him a chance lately.<\/p>\n<p>With the focus on getting Bryant the ball more, expect a renewed focus on Bryant and some new wrinkles when the Cowboys emerge in Week 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Jones said the \u00a0Cowboys coaches will use the bye week to focus on getting Dez Bryant the ball more. Bryant\u00a0saw just two targets in Week 10 and is averaging a meager 6.3 targets per game over the last three weeks. Bryant caught one pass for 44 yards in Sunday night&#8217;s game against New Orleans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-6783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}