Cowboys appear to have a glaring flaw that's been exploited in two straight games: 'We saw a weakness'

With a game on Thursday night, the Dallas Cowboys aren't going to have a lot of practice time, but when they do hit the practice field, they'd better make sure to spend some serious time working on special teams. The Cowboys apparently have a serious flaw in that phase of the game that their opponents have taken advantage of in each of the past two weeks. The flaw involves the Cowboys' field goal team, which has allowed two blocked kicks since Week 3.

The first one game in Brazil when the Baltimore Ravens blocked a 59-yard field goal attempt by Brandon Aubrey. Ravens block the FG attempt!@BALvsDAL on CBS/Paramount+Stream on @NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/n6reFNGkGy It was a crucial block because the Cowboys ended up losing by three, 34-31. The second blocked kick came in Week 4, and this time, it was the Texans who blocked Aubrey's field goal try.

Will Anderson Jr. blocks the field goal attempt! @DALvsHOU on FOX/FOX OneStream on @NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/nkxMzrcx8i That block didn't sting as much because the Cowboys ended up winning 34-30, but it took some last-minute heroics from Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb to pull out the victory. Having one kicked block is an unfortunate accident, but when you have to two kicks blocked, that's a problem that needs to be immediately addressed. Through four weeks, there have only been six blocked field goal attempts in the NFL all year, so it's definitely an issue if one team has surrendered two of them.

Sometimes, when you attempt longer field goals, the kicker will hit the ball at a lower trajectory to add distance, but that's not what happened here as Jerry Jones pointed out during a radio interview with 105.3 The Fan this week. "The problem isn't with the kicker, it's with the protection there," Jones said. I was shocked, though, that it happened two weeks in a row.

That doesn't happen very often because you have a chance to really pointedly work on that." So why has the Cowboys' field goal team been struggling so much? Houston coach DeMeco Ryans actually answered that exact question during an interview with the Texans' radio team this week. "During the film study, you definitely saw a breakdown in the protection," Ryans said, via PFT.

"You've seen it consistently. That's how you study film. You look for those weaknesses, how you can exploit a team.