In baseball, a team can never have enough pitching.

In the NFL, a team can never have enough cornerbacks.

That’s why the Dallas Cowboys will go to training camp with a nagging concern at the seemingly low-profile position of fourth cornerback. No one emerged from the pack of contenders during Organized Team Activities and minicamps. If that pattern continues during camp, the Cowboys will have a problem.

“In this league at this time, there are so many three- and four-wide-receiver sets that you really need it,” coach Wade Phillips said of multiple cornerbacks.

That is particularly true of winning teams, Phillips said. They force opponents into the catch-up mode of using four wide receivers. The Cowboys were not effective against those offenses last season.

According to STATS Inc., Cowboys’ opponents threw 221 passes in four-wide-receiver formations last season. Only Indianapolis faced more passes from that set, with 232. When the opponent threw from a four-wide-receiver formation, the Cowboys allowed the seventh-highest completion rate at 64.3 and a league-high 1,524 yards.

That figured in a curious statistical item from last season. The Cowboys allowed 109 points in the fourth quarter overall, two more than they gave up in the first half overall.

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