Stop here and consider another thought. An old rule relating to competition held that practice field performance and mental grasp of the system also helped separate first and second team. He might as well have fallen into an empty water well. That was six games ago. Who knows what ails Hodge.
Coaches are too protective and polite to say.
Maybe Hodge has location problems in terms of where the QB should find him. All of them have potential, as Tom Landry used to say. The Cowboys already have absorbed more youth than they wished. Other than spotting a rookie in a four-receiver set or inserting others in blowout conditions, any further Kiddy Korps look stops there. There's no real reward for losing.