“As much as anything, it’s buying into the scheme,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said this week on 105.3 The Fan. “You’ve got to handle your responsibilities. And then make that play if it’s there. But you can’t just be out there trying to make a play. You got to have your responsibilities. Make sure that’s covered before you abandon that area and try to go out and make a play. You can’t be a Lone Ranger out there. You gotta be a part of a team.”

Playing without starting cornerback DaRon Bland, who is dealing with a foot injury, starting corners Trevon Diggs and Kaiir Elam were part of several highlight throws from Giants QB Russell Wilson to his top targets, wide receivers Malik Nabers and Wan’Dale Robinson. The two combined to catch 17 passes for 309 yards and three touchdowns. Wilson’s 450 passing yards were the second-highest total in his 14-year career.

“It was not the standard,” Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said. “I think there are a lot of things we can clean up. I think that’s what I’m excited about. This is not a multiple week thing. This is something we think we can correct. I felt like it was a lot of different pieces, a lot of different parts. It wasn’t one person. It wasn’t one type of coverage.

“When you’re going to be multiple the way we are we have to communicate better. I didn’t think that our communication was to the standard that it needs to be. … Any time you give up seven explosive passes, and (Wilson) played incredibly well, but there was a lot of things that we can tighten up. … We’re going to make the corrections. And we have to, because giving up those types of plays, you’re not going to win many games, and we were very fortunate to find a way to win.”

The Cowboys insist that they will be more multiple, however, through two games it’s been mostly zone coverage. New Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus said that can be attributed to the opponent and player availability.

“I think when you give up big plays, I don’t think they’re minor,” said Eberflus, who was fired in Week 13 last season as Bears head coach after going 14-32 in two-plus seasons. “Those are major things. We have to do a better job of all 11 players, including the coaches, executing on the certain play, this play, that play, whatever it might be. But you have to execute, and that’s coaches and players.”