Once again, Dallas leaves a draft with additional picks in the next year’s draft. No extra first rounder this time, but an extra third and an extra fourth isn’t too shabby. Some quality players come out of those rounds. (For example, Marion Barber III.) Overall, I would say that Dallas had a solid if not sexy draft. Their second day maneuvering was enough to bring them up to around a B- for the entire draft. Not only did the get a few extra picks, but they picked up another running back... Read Full Story

The first day of the draft is over, and it looks like the Cowboys really did have blinders on and were staring down Felix Jones all the way.   After Rashard Mendenhall slipped all the way down to the Cowboys, Dallas went ahead and pulled the trigger on Jones despite the fact that Mendenhall actually posted a faster 40 time at the combine than Felix Jones. Largely thought of as the most complete back of the draft with both power and speed, Mendenhall’s main knock was that he only started one... Read Full Story

I just don’t buy all this hype on Dallas choosing Felix Jones. I was watching the NFL Network’s mock draft last night and I had to grown when they came to the Cowboys and had them picking Felix Jones with the 22nd pick. It’s bad enough that I’ve seen so many mock drafts with us picking Jones with the 28th pick, now we are going for him right off the bat? If that’s not bad enough, they had us taking Kenny Phillips the safety out of Florida with that 28th pick. Hey, I’m not saying it’s... Read Full Story

Well, okay, Pacman will arrive in Dallas if and when the commish gives him the thumbs up.   The terms of the deal:  Dallas gives Tennessee a fourth round pick in this draft and an additional sixth round pick in the 2009 draft if Pacman steps on the field this year.  If he doesn’t, Dallas gets Tennessee’s fourth round pick in 2009. (Correct me if I am wrong on those details — I’m doing it from memory.) Good deal? I think so.  Essentially, what you need to ask yourself is if a cornerback who is... Read Full Story

Jaime Aron, an AP sports writer, believes Jerry Jones is “…soooo in his element at this draft.” Why does Jaime think Jerry Jones is happy? “He has two first-round picks, the only team with such lavish trade bait.” This is what Jaime Aron writes in his article, Jones thrilled with how things stack up for Cowboys in draft. Unfortunately, Mr. Aron wasn’t paying attention to the news in the NFL.  If he did, he would have known about the Jared Allen trade that  makes his statement false about... Read Full Story

The NFL schedule made its debut last week, and it looks like the Cowboys are in for a tough start to the 2008 campaign. The road does get easier, and it can be a good thing to have the hardest games right up front so long as you have a team capable of rallying if they do suffer through a couple of defeats. The Cowboys will play four games in the month of September, and two of them are against perhaps the hardest non-division opponents — and both of those are on the road. They open the... Read Full Story

Yahoo reports that Bryant Gumbel and the NFL Network will part ways with Gumbel giving up his play-by-play duties on the network. And it’s about damn time!  It was quite obvious within only a few games that Bryant Gumbel was such a bad announcer that he was making the Monday Night Football crew almost bearrable. I can still remember him calling Tony Romo about every name in the book *besides* Tony Romo.  Nick Romo?  Tom Romo? Who the heck is that quarterback! And have we heard a more boring... Read Full Story

When asked about the chances of signing Chris Henry, the troubled wide receiver recently cut from the Bengals, Jerry Jones said, “Unlikely, unlikely, just because of what we’re doing at wide receiver.  Just the nature of it, but it’s unlikely.” His answer makes sense if you think about it.   At cornerback, we don’t have much standing behind Terence Newman and Anthony Henry.   Even if we traded for Pacman, we would still be looking for an additional corner — both as an insurance policy and to... Read Full Story

Well, it certainly looked like the Pacman trade was imminent early last week, but things have stalled out.   Unless something has changed recently, the Titans are stuck on a multiple draft picks in the 2008 draft, while Dallas would rather one draft pick in the 2009 draft that could be voided if Pacman doesn’t get on the field enough. Here’s to hoping Jerry Jones sticks to his guns and doesn’t take a gamble.  Let’s face it, there ain’t too many teams lining up to give up draft picks this year... Read Full Story

It seems that keeping up with Cowboys news these days is more of an issue of staying awake than anything else.  We had the excitement of a possible Pacman signing this week — still expecting news of that this week — but this offseason has been a real snoozefest for the most part. And, hey, that’s a good thing.  If they do nothing more than bring back the same basic team as last year, I’ll be happy.   Let’s face it, they were really good last year even without Terry Glenn for the vast majority... Read Full Story