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Cowboys Signing Brett Maher 'Makes Total Sense'? What Critics Don't Know

The Dallas Cowboys have created their kicker competition for the upcoming season. So why do critics outside The Star think they should also bring back Brett Maher?

Drake Toll

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The Dallas Cowboys have one of the NFL's most complete rosters entering training camp, but there's been a kicker-sized hole on the team. Coach Mike McCarthy desperately needs a leg. 

If the season began tomorrow, Tristan Vizcaino and new signee Brandon Aubrey would be the Cowboys' only options. … and the Cowboys believe that’s enough.

The 26-year-old Vizcaino has played for four teams and kicked just 12 field goals, while only hitting 15 of his 20 extra points.

Aubrey hasn't played a snap of NFL football and has spent most of his career as a soccer player, jumping into pro football just two years ago … while becoming an All-USFL kicker in 2023.

Dallas has two question marks competing at kicker and rumors of signing Robbie Gould are still just rumors. ... so do the Cowboys go back to Brett Maher once again?

That’s the position taken by one media outlet … a position that allows us to explain what’s really going on inside The Star with Maher.

"Maher made the most of his second chance in Dallas last season, going 29 out of 32 on field goal attempts. However, the playoffs showed signs of the old Maher from 2019," Fansided wrote.

And therein lies the rub with resigning Maher. His playoff performance was record-breaking for all the wrong reasons. Cowboys fans still have nightmares of the four-missed-PATs debacle in Tampa. .. even though Dallas won!

But according to Fansided, having Maher in the building is an obvious boost. 

"Bringing back Maher to at least compete would make total sense. The last thing the Cowboys need is a kicker who cannot make the big ones. Viscaino could surprise everyone, but it would not be surprising to see Maher trot out there at some point during camp," the outlet wrote.

Actually. It would more than “surprising.” Maher being re-signed for Oxnard would be shocking. It would not “make total sense" in any way to bring Maher back for yet another stint in Dallas … unless both Aubrey and Vizcaino flop … and we bet Maher still wouldn’t get the call.

And why? What outsiders don’t understand here is the psychology of the situation. The Cowboys lost faith in Maher at the ownership level, And they lost faith in him at the locker-room level, too.

Maher needs a fresh start somewhere, we hope he gets it. But the Cowboys need a clean slate at kicker. And barring a football catastrophe, that cannot include the guy who inside The Star is thought of as “that guy who misses extra-points.”

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