Cowboys wide receiver Roy Williams

Nice to see Terence Newman greet Wade Phillips' wife, Laurie, and quickly do the tango with her before practice.

Tony Romo said after practice he had a tired right arm. He did not take all of the throws he would normally make in the warmup and most of his throws lacked the regular zip. No need to worry. It's just what happens. In team and seven on seven drills, Romo completed 15 of 20 passes.

Roy Williams cannot win. He was unable to come up with a low throw and the crowd got on him again. But when he caught a touchdown pass that Romo put right over safety Danny McCray he was able to hear some cheers. Williams had a touchdown grab later on a back-shoulder throw. It was the same kind of pass he dropped on Saturday.

Sam Hurd made a great leaping grab of a Jon Kitna throw in seven on seven drills, but he would have been knocked out by safety Alan Ball had it been a game because his ribs were so exposed.

Only one interception for the defense in the afternoon. It came when rookie nose tackle Josh Brent deflected a Matt Nichols' pass into the air, giving linebacker Curtis Johnson the chance to grab it.

The second-team defense should figure out it has to cover Felix Jones. The running back motioned out of the backfield wide to the left and was left uncovered by the defense, giving Romo a free shot for a decent gain.

Tight end Martellus Bennett would have had a touchdown catch from Kitna in team drills but he momentarily stopped his route to push off safety Gerald Sensabaugh. There was no need because he had a step on Sensabaugh and Kitna's throw was deep enough to run under.

Mentioned the other day Orlando Scandrick's ability to read the bubble screen to wide receivers. I have to mention DeMarcus Ware's ability to snuff out the middle screen to the running back. He tied up Tashard Choice, requiring Kitna to put the ball into the turf.

Through 14 training camp practices, Cowboys wide receiver Roy Williams has yet to make one memorable leaping, twisting, diving and sprawling catch. His plays are met with yawns.

That is how it should be.

The Cowboys' lightning rod, after more false starts than a Flozell Adams game, could finally be headed in the correct direction.

"Football is fun for me again," Williams said Sunday.

Dramatic catches can be deceiving. Sometimes, they are the result of superlative efforts. Sometimes, they are the result of the receiver zigging when the quarterback expects him to be zagging.

Injured rookie Dez Bryant, a catalyst in this relationship, has wowed the Alamodome crowds with catches only to be told that he made the play more exciting than it had to be by running to the wrong spot. It happens to rookie receivers.

Williams and quarterback Tony Romo have lived that way for one-plus seasons together. In 25 regular-season games, Williams caught only 57 of the 128 throws from Romo.

By the end of last season, they lived in different parallel universes. Romo threw only one pass, an under-pressure incompletion, to Williams in the final six quarters.

Now, in the midst of their second training camp together and after their second off-season together, Romo and Williams have altered the dynamic. Each seems to understand what the other wants to do.

"It's coming together with Romo," Williams said. "That's the number-one thing. A receiver and a quarterback have to learn each other. We've finally got it."

Said Romo: "For me, it's slowly getting better each time out. It's a gradual progression."

Consider a snapshot from the Saturday morning practice. Romo had an overall mediocre day, but he and Williams twice connected on touchdown passes during the red-zone drill. Williams went to the proper spot, and Romo made the proper throw.

It was smooth and machine-like, the way good pass-and-catch combinations work. It was nothing like before, when Romo and Williams seemed to be speaking different languages.

"Roy is doing a better job of being where Tony thinks he'll be," coach Wade Phillips said. "That communication is better."