Cowboys Roster ‘Starting Over’: Brett Maher Kicked Out?

“We are back to the drawing board,” the Cowboys say about their kicker situation ... meaning Brett Maher is done in Dallas?

FRISCO - Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher is scheduled for free agency in March … 

But based on what his bosses are saying, Maher is about to be freer than “free.”

Team owner Jerry Jones and COO Stephen Jones are using phrases this week at the Senior Bowl like, "We're back to the drawing board'' and "We're starting over.''

That doesn't necessarily mean Maher - who in his 2022 return to the Cowboys made 90.6 percent of his field-goal attempts and 94.3 percent of his PATs before a late-season case of the yips that saw him missed an extra point in Week 18 at Washington before setting an NFL record with four missed extra points in the Wild Card playoff win at Tampa. ... and then missing again (with a blocked boot) in his only PAT try in the next week's playoff loss at the 49ers.

How rough was it? Texas governor Greg Abbott, who is confined to a wheelchair, offered an unfortunate joke about how even he's a better kicker than Maher.

What happens next? Competition.

The Cowboys had a 2022 offseason competition between rookie Jonathan Garibay and Lirim Hajrullahu that extended into training camp because nobody won. Maher, who'd been here before with career ups and downs, came to town and won the job.

Add some of the usual suspects to the 2023 competition, likely including Tristan Vizcaino, who was signed to the Dallas practice squad following the Tampa Bay debacle. Some at The Star think highly of him. ... as the search goes on and on.

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