{"id":970590,"date":"2026-08-11T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/970590\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:30:17","slug":"why-klayton-adams-called-the-plays-in-cowboys-joint-practice-vs-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/970590\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Klayton Adams called the plays in Cowboys’ joint practice vs. Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. \u2014 Cowboys head coach Brian\u00a0Schottenheimer spent a lot of time during Tuesday’s joint practice with the Rams<\/a> watching his defense. That meant someone else was behind the wheel of the offense against the Rams’ defense on the other field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cowboys offensive coordinator Klayton Adams called plays during Tuesday’s practice. It was a decision that’s been reflective of what Schottenheimer’s done in his second season. He’ll be the play-caller on game day, but he’s also wanted to be more involved with the defense this year. Schottenheimer said he’s spent more time in defensive personnel rooms and with first-time defensive coordinator Christian Parker<\/a>. That’s also given more responsibility to Adams, who hasn’t been a full-time play-caller in the NFL yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I wanted to see these guys, all of them, compete,” Schottenheimer said. “I wanted to see us play fourth-down defense. I wanted to see us play third down offense. I wanted to see us in the red zone. I wanted to see us play red zone defense. So I let the coordinators call it. Klayton, I thought, did a really good job of spreading the ball around.”<\/p>\n

The Cowboys’ offense had some good moments against the Rams defense and some bad ones. Running back Jaydon Blue had a fumble. There was a good amount of pressure on Prescott, especially from the right side of the offensive line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was good; wasn’t great,” Prescott said. “Us, with our expectations and standards, hell, we want to go out and we want to dominate. But this is another NFL team and a good NFL team.<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, I feel like we got it going and finished with a good day.”<\/p>\n

Even though he wasn’t calling plays, Schottenheimer took some out of it, too.<\/p>\n

“All in all, I got my steps in today,” he joked.<\/p>\n

And Adams got some good playcalling experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Briefly: Cowboys safety Malik Hooker (personal), defensive end Jonathan Bullard (groin) and rookie linebacker Jaishawn Barham (groin) were noticeable absences from Tuesday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. \u2014 Cowboys head coach Brian\u00a0Schottenheimer spent a lot of time during Tuesday’s joint practice with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":970591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,6,115985,127507,115810,123386],"class_list":["post-970590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-cowboys","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallascowboys","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-klayton-adams","tag-tp-brian-schottenheimer","tag-tp-training-camp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117079010461521627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}