IRVING, Texas (AP) -The Dallas Cowboys shopped for kickers Monday after Nick Folk’s latest key miss against New Orleans.
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips wouldn’t say which kickers the team planned to try out. The only detail he offered was that Folk would not participate in the process.
Folk clanged the right upright on an easy 24-yarder that would have put away Saturday night’s 24-17 victory against the unbeaten Saints. Instead, the Dallas defense had to make one more stand against one of the league’s best offenses.
Folk leads the NFL with 10 misses, going 18 of 28 and missing seven of his past 11. Several errant kicks have hurt the Cowboys’ chances late in games.
Dallas has tried other remedies while Folk piled up a six-game streak of at least one miss.
ree years ago. Then they tried an in-house competition with kickoff specialist David Buehler, who proved unreliable on field goals.
Concerns eased when Folk nailed a 44-yarder just before halftime against the Saints, but it didn’t take them long to come back.
“It’s a mystery to us,” Phillips said. “We have tried to work it out a lot of different ways. Now it’s come to this point.”
Adding to the mystery, Folk had missed just 10 kicks in his 2 1/2-year career before slumping. Television footage during Saturday night’s game showed Folk’s pre-game kicks flying all over the place in the controlled atmosphere of the Superdome.
“His record is what it was in two years and now it is what it is this year,” Phillips said. “That’s where we are.”
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