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Deon Anderson Facing Jail Time: Matt Stover's Dream is Alive

As we reported ear­lier this week, Deon Anderson was arrested do to traf­fic war­rants.  It seems as though things have got­ten a lit­tle deeper since Deon was charged with mis­de­meanor deadly con­duct after allegedly pulling a gun on a valet staff mem­ber out­side of an Addison, TX restaurant.

Anderson has been quoted as being unsure of his job secu­rity and you have to believe his career is in jeopardy.

The Cowboys are a year removed from a suc­cess­ful locker room spring-​​cleaning and this is the very thing that Jerry Jones said he was try­ing to get rid of.  With Anderson fac­ing a year in jail, you have to believe his time to go is now.

Matt Stover’s Childhood Dream Could Come True

Matt Stover is a 20-​​year-​​veteran NFL kicker.  After grow­ing up in Dallas, none of his pro games have been played as a Cowboy.  Despite Stover’s age, he is still a pretty reli­able kicker, fin­ish­ing the sea­son 9 of 11 with a long of 43 and a 93 per­cent career accu­racy rating.

One thing that is start­ing to rust on Stover is his kick­offs, which has lim­ited his looks from other teams.  He was signed to Indianapolis after an injury to Adam Vinatieri and has proved he still has some gas left in the tank.

Being a Dallas native, his long held dream has been to play for the Dallas Cowboys, some­thing he's joked about still want­ing with reporters from Miami this week.

Stover will be a free agent this year. Could it be time for some vet­eran assis­tance on field goals next year?


Super Bowl Memories

In a game where Tony Dorsett and Roger Staubach both suf­fered injuries, the Doomsday Defense was able to pre­vail against the Orange Crush Denver Bronco’s.  The Cowboys forced four fum­bles that day and Morton threw 4 inter­cep­tions as the Dallas Cowboys rolled through this Super Bowl for it’s sec­ond world championship.

Final Score:

Dallas 27 Denver 10

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Deon Anderson Arrested: Cutting Nick Folk Was Justified

Cowboys start­ing full­back Deon Anderson was arrested for traf­fic war­rants when police were called to a local restau­rant for a dis­pute between the player and staff.  Typically this wouldn’t make news except for the fact that two weapons were con­fis­cated from Anderson’s car.

Anderson posted bail from the Irving, TX jail the next morn­ing.  Though no charges were directly filed against the Cowboys player, it’s worth keep­ing an eye on.  The Cowboys expressed knowl­edge of the inci­dent and we will fol­low any sub­se­quent action from the organization.

An Old Folk Tale

Sometimes you’ll hear an orga­ni­za­tion crit­i­cized for its moves through­out the sea­son.  The same is true for Cowboys ex-​​kicker Nick Folk.  It seems as though every­one says the Cowboys acted too fast on the release of Folk.   I strongly dis­agree.  This is a job and if you are not per­form­ing your job you shouldn’t have it.  Sorry if that’s harsh but it's true, the dude’s get­ting paid mil­lions to kick a ball weekly.

Am I being to harsh? Maybe, because I can’t kick field goals.  I do know how­ever that there are peo­ple in this coun­try being shot at daily so that the NFL can still exist and sav­ing lives and they make what? $40–70,000 dol­lars? Get real.

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Idaho's Mike Iupati Becomes Great Prospect, Other Prosects Turn Heads

The Dallas Cowboys have few needs or holes to fill up this off­sea­son.  The call seems to be that we need to draft a safety first and you will see me agree with that assess­ment on most accounts.

However, there is a name out in this draft that, if avail­able, we have to jump for.  I have been fol­low­ing the Senior Bowl fer­vently and have wit­nessed one par­tic­u­lar offen­sive line­man con­sis­tently put defen­sive line­man on their back or in deadlock.

This play­ers name is Mike Iupati, an offen­sive guard from Idaho.

At senior bowl prac­tice this year the 6 foot 5, 325 pound guard pan­caked Louisiana Tech’s D’Anthony Smith dur­ing a pass rush drill.  That changed every­thing for Iupati who instantly became some­one to keep an eye on.

Originally from Samoa, Iupati is a man with great char­ac­ter and extreme tal­ent who many experts believe can also play tackle.  He is fast, strong, and smart.  A great com­bi­na­tion for a man try­ing to make his mark in one of the most impor­tant posi­tions in football.

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Miles Austin or Gerald Sensabaugh? Offseason Questions Loom

Around the league you’ll hear a lot of talk about whose going to do what dur­ing the off­sea­son.  One of the biggest buzz’s I’ve heard is the pos­si­bil­ity of slap­ping a fran­chise tag on wide receiver Miles Austin.  In a way this could be a good idea, but ulti­mately I think this is a wrong move.

There are quite a few free agents for the Cowboys this year, though most restricted I think the fran­chise tag could be used more wisely elsewhere.

Jason Hatcher, Stephen Bowen, Marcus Spears, and Gerald Sensabaugh all high­light names that the orga­ni­za­tion needs to con­sider retrain­ing.  Hatcher and Bowen have allowed for a good defen­sive line rota­tion while Sensabaugh solid­i­fied a safety posi­tion that has been lack­ing since Roy Williams rookie year.

So what to do?

I think the answer is as sim­ple as you might be think­ing.  Hatcher and Bowen are low bucks play­ers who can work things out within the orga­ni­za­tion on their own.  Spears, to me, can be replaced though it would stink to see him go.  Sensabaugh still leaves a pos­si­ble upgrade sit­u­a­tion at safety through the draft but you have to like what he’s done.

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Emmitt Smith Finds Himself on NBC: Miles Austin Eyes Contract

So the season's over and you're about to set­tle down for another piti­ful sea­son of American Idol.  Given that there isn’t any­thing else for Cowboys fans to watch, right? Wrong.

Starting February 28th for­mer Cowboys run­ning back and NFL career lead­ing rusher Emmitt Smith will be on a dra­matic new series on NBC. Who Do You Think You Are will help seven celebri­ties uncover their her­itage and dis­cover where they came from.

As we’ve grown up with Emmitt Smith as a foot­ball player and a man who has given us all some­thing to be proud of, now we'll be able to get to know Emmitt Smith as a per­son and a get a chance to look inside his soul.

Take a look at the pre­view for the show below, cour­tesy of NBC.

 

Should be pretty awesome.

Seven Stories
A look at the upcom­ing series Who Do You Think You Are?–the remark­able true sto­ries of 7 celebri­ties on jour­neys to dis­cover their pasts.
LINK: http://​www​.nbc​.com/​u​p​c​o​m​i​n​g​-​s​h​o​w​s​/​v​i​d​e​o​/​c​l​i​p​s​/​s​e​v​e​n​-​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​1​1​9​6​1​08/

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Dallas Cowboys 2010 Draft: Creating a Pocket Part I—The Tackles

There are few areas of the 2009 Dallas Cowboys that can be depicted as being "soft", but there is one area in par­tic­u­lar that is of great con­cern, mov­ing for­ward. The offen­sive line of the Cowboys must be bet­ter next year in order for this team to con­tinue to progress.

Last Sunday in Minnesota, Tony Romo spent the major­ity of the after­noon run­ning for his life, and the rest of the day on his back. To put it mildly the Cowboys offen­sive line played mis­er­ably in every way.

The play­ers would prob­a­bly say they just had a bad day, and they would be wrong. Marc Colombo, Doug Free, Andre Gurode, Kyle Kosier, and Leonard Davis were out­played, out worked, and just down­right beaten.

I've heard fans dis­cussing their dis­plea­sure with the play call­ing of Jason Garrett, and specif­i­cally his sup­posed fas­ci­na­tion with the delayed runs. Jason Garrett fell in love with that type of run­ning play for only one reason—it was/​is the best way he could think of to dis­guise the Cowboys' prob­lems along the line.

For being one of the largest lines in the league this line plays extremely soft and lacks a nasty streak.

Marc Colombo was sup­posed to be a big lift for this unit, if for no other rea­son than his nasty streak. Unfortunately, for every­one involved, that did not hap­pen. Vikings defen­sive end Ray Edwards (a solid DE, but far from being All Pro) repeat­edly blew past Colombo like he was a street walker beg­ging for change. And let's be hon­est, as well as Doug Free played in his absence, he would have no chance against Jared Allen.

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Wade Phillips Stays In Dallas: Here's Why It Doesn't Suck

It’s inevitable that when a team loses, whether in game two of the pre­sea­son, the reg­u­lar sea­son, or the post sea­son, peo­ple are going to start talk­ing about how the coaches did this wrong or the play­ers didn’t execute—they just weren’t focused.

It’s a bunch of baloney.

But the truth is peo­ple have opin­ions. Everyone watch­ing a foot­ball game has got his or her own idea of what’s going on and cer­tainly a per­spec­tive as to why some­thing is being done wrong. Say hello arm­chair quarterback.

Hi.

I watched every Cowboys game this sea­son and I can tell you just as surely as the next guy, they did some­thing wrong.

But at least I’m not afraid to admit it. I’ll go on and on about Dallas did some stu­pid thing and offer a vari­ety of col­or­ful rea­sons as to why their heads were too far up their own…

Okay, so I shouldn’t go there now. But the things I’ve been read­ing about my beloved ‘Boys since that blowout Divisional rout­ing are just irri­tat­ing. And I’ve had my last nerve poked one too many times by that sharp stick known world­wide as the Dallas media.

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With the Offseason Started In Dallas, Moves Can Be Made

We’re fans right?  And you know what fans love to do? Speculate.  That’s right, we love to believe we know every­thing and come up with moves we expect to be made before the begin­ning of the season.

You know what’s best? We believe those moves are actu­ally going to hap­pen and if they don’t then the team's des­tined to fail.

See we’re all GM’s, myself included.

I often ask myself why no team calls me inquir­ing about my inter­est in a front office or coach­ing posi­tion.  Sure my resume is pretty blank but I mean heck, I’ve got a 717 IQ in Madden, I win tons of cham­pi­onships, and I write for a Cowboys site.

I mean Hello! Jerry, I’m right here!  Please inquire to hire!

Anyway, since my phone's not ring­ing I thought that I’d give you my spec­u­la­tions for the upcom­ing season.

Sign Miles Austin long term: A no brainer right?  I mean this is my least ballsi­est move.  This needs to get done and get done like yes­ter­day.  Miles Austin needs to be locked up for at least 5 years to help Tony Romo get a ring.

Bottom line: No Miles, no ring.

Get rid of Bennett and Barber: Yea I’m get­ting real right here.  Bennett talks too much trash and his pro­duc­tion is min­i­mal.  He is the per­fect equa­tion for a team dis­trac­tion. Plus, have you guys seen the way John Phillips plays ball? Get Real! In Barber's case, he is still a great back.  However, we’ve got three great backs and Barber's upside still makes him some­one we can pack­age into a deal before he starts wear­ing down.

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Dallas Cowboys 2010 Draft: Coverage At Safety

The Dallas Cowboys will have six selec­tions (1,2,3,4,6,and7) at their dis­posal this year, what they do with those selec­tions will deter­mine their future for years to come. While they are most cer­tainly not a bot­tom dwelling team in need of dras­tic improve­ments, the fran­chises future may be hing­ing on this draft just as if they were.

The 2010 draft will be the first step for the Cowboys to con­tinue "to improve, and get bet­ter" as Tony Romo has repeat­edly stated this season.

Part of the cur­rent NFL col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ment is that, the teams left in the play­offs after wild card week­end are excluded from nego­ti­at­ing rights to any free agents other than their own. That is cor­rect only play­ers who were under con­tract with the Cowboys in 2009 are avail­able for them to nego­ti­ate with, all oth­ers are off limits.

In 2009 the Cowboys were able to solid­ify one very cru­cial posi­tion on their team via free agency, with the sign­ing of Gerald Sensabaugh, this year that will not be an option.

The Cowboys in 2010 will need to upgrade at a few key posi­tions, and that list could grow sig­nif­i­cantly if they are unable to retain the ser­vices of a few key components.

In our open­ing draft post we dis­cussed what the prob­a­ble areas of need would be, or could be. So let's not waste any­more time and dive right into our 2010 draft coverage.

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Season's Over for the Dallas Cowboys; The Best is Yet to Come

The 2009–2010 sea­son is behind us now.  That being said we have a lot to reflect on.  Wins and losses have wel­comed us with open arms and now we are already in gear to pre­pare for our next sea­son.  (Let it be known Dallas Cowboys Nation will not take a break on any day out of this offseason)

So as we con­tinue to reflect we ques­tion why we aren’t play­ing any­more.  We blame and point fin­gers but gosh, there were a lot of pos­i­tives this year.  So I thought I’d slip an anti depres­sant into your day to help you from jab­bing a pen­cil through your eye at work tomorrow.

Here are the things to look for­ward to in 2010:

Eagles Vs Cowboys: Has this rivalry emerged as the Cowboys most intense and hated or what?  Not to men­tion what DeSean Jackson and the Playoffs have done to it.  This is going to be flat out excit­ing next year as these two pow­er­houses col­lide twice next year again.

Tony Romo and Miles Austin: Talk about the emer­gence of two undrafted stars.  Given that Romo is in his 7th sea­son it’s really his fourth as a starter.  These two have really devel­oped chem­istry this year and they are going to con­tinue to be explo­sive.  Tony Romo had his best sea­son to date and Miles Austin is only going to help that get better.

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