OXNARD, Calif. -- When Jason Garrett was asked about the Dallas Cowboys’ signing of punter Chris Jones to an extension, he started by saying that Jones was "just a really good football player."

Now, it might seem odd to see "punter" and "football player" in the same sentence, but Garrett actually means it. And it’s not just for Jones. He means it for the Cowboys’ kicker, Dan Bailey, too. When the players go through combine testing in the offseason program, they are matched up with the other players on the roster.

“Their scores stack up with guys at other positions,” Garrett said. “We’ll go out there and watch an agility drill and the punter and the kicker are right there with the DBs. They can compete with them athletically.”

Jones had a 30-yard run on a fake punt last year. He delivered a knockout blow on Detroit Lions punt returner Andre Roberts. Bailey is the second-most-accurate kicker in NFL history and has 14 career tackles.

“Every now and then guys will say something,” said Jones, who also holds for Bailey. “It’s not, ‘You’re making us look bad.’ It’s usually, ‘Dang, we didn’t know y’all were that strong,’ or, ‘We didn’t know y’all were that fast.’ It’s pretty cool.”

Kicker Dan Bailey and punter Chris Jones have been teammates since 2011 and both are under contract through 2020. George Gojkovich/Getty Images

With Jones’ extension, the Cowboys know they will have him and Bailey together through 2020, when the kicker can become an unrestricted free agent. Long-snapper L.P. Ladouceur, the second-longest-tenured Cowboy next to Jason Witten, is signed through 2017, but the team could look at an extension for him as well.

“Well, we just want to keep good players on our team. Each of those guys -- you can put L.P. in that category -- they are excellent,” Garrett said. “They are as good as anybody in the National Football League and they take great pride in doing what they do at a high level.”

Bailey has yet to miss a field goal attempt in training camp, but he is more concerned with how the operation between him, Ladouceur and Jones is working. A lot can go wrong in the 1.3 seconds it takes for the snap and the placement, but the time on task between the trio helps.

They have been together in some fashion since 2011, and Jones has been the full-time punter since 2013.

“A battery like that that’s been together that long, that works as efficiently and as well as we do together, you can’t compare with that,” Jones said. “It’s off the charts the way those guys come to work and the work that they put in and the work we put in together collectively, it’s a big deal.”

Jones has run the fake and delivered the big hit. All that is left is throwing a pass. Hey, he’s a football player, remember?

“I’d like to get that,” Jones said, “but we’ll see.”