Blogging Nation: July 24

Posted by Bryson Treece on July 24, 2009 at 13:44

Got to give props to any­one who attempts a top list for Dallas Cowboys his­tory — I mean whether it's for the best play­ers, worst play­ers, best plays, or worst plays, you've got enough ammo to stretch a top 1,000 on just about any aspect. So here we have the Top Ten Worst Moments in Dallas Cowboys' History from (Silver and) BlueBlood.

Let’s pref­ace this list with an impor­tant qual­i­fy­ing state­ment: the only moments up for con­sid­er­a­tion are on-​​the-​​field occur­rences. In other words, this is a list of the ten most dev­as­tat­ing plays in team his­tory. Consequently, we won’t be men­tion­ing moments many may con­sider cat­a­strophic, like the day Landry was fired or the day Jimmy Johnson walked away or the day Switzer was hired. Nor will we talk about the “white house” or the Michael Irvin trial. We may long debate the impact of such hap­pen­ings on the team. But that is a dif­fer­ent discussion.

In select­ing the plays included in this list, sev­eral fac­tors were considered:

  • Was it a cat­a­strophic moment for the team?
  • Do Cowboys fans still remem­ber it?
  • Does it still hurt?

You can check out the list and some other good reads from Gene at www​.SilverandBlueBlood​.com.


Mike Jenkins also has a new blog posted from yes­ter­day. He talks about get­ting ready for train­ing camp and who he's work­ing with as he tries to bal­ance his body to start camp next week.

I’m just ready to get into camp. I’m focused and ready to get this sea­son popped off.

I’ve been going out to IMG here in Bradenton every day, work­ing out with guys like Ryan Grant, Fabian Washington, Cliff Avril and a lot of oth­ers from Sportstars. But today was my last day as I shut it down and get my body back right, hit the cold tub through the week­end and just focus.

Working out meant speed drills in the morn­ing and power in the after­noon, run­ning hills, push­ing sleds, work­ing with med­i­cine balls, just keep­ing the body mov­ing. You have to have every­thing equal and bal­anced out for when you go to camp.

Check out the rest and more insights from the sec­ond year cor­ner­back at www​.MikeJenkins21​.com. Don't for­get, for those of you always on the go, you can check out Mike Jenkins' Twitter page as well — you can even check out our DCNation Twitter page too while you're there.


Over at www​.DefendingTheStar​.net they've got a pretty good series going pre­view­ing the upcom­ing train­ing camp.

Defending The Star's Training Camp Preview Series:

Training Camp Preview — Part 7 — Defensive Line
Training Camp Preview — Part 6 — Special Teams
Training Camp Preview — Part 5 –Offensive Line
Training Camp Preview — Part 4 –Wide Receivers
Training Camp Preview — Part 3 –Tight Ends
Training Camp Preview — Part 2 –Running Backs
Training Camp Preview — Part 1 — Quarterbacks

It's a pretty exten­sive list and it's not even com­plete yet as they still have the sec­ondary to go. Go check it out.


And while we're on the sub­ject, Blogging The Boys has also chimed in with an opin­ion of what's hot to watch this year in camp with their post — Dallas Cowboys 2009 Training Camp: Five Things To Watch (Part II).

Okay, if you want to be tech­ni­cal about it, I won’t be at Cowboys train­ing camp so I won’t be watch­ing any­thing. I guess I will be lis­ten­ing for, or read­ing up on a few dif­fer­ent sto­ry­lines com­ing out of Cowboys camp. Considering the abun­dant media cov­er­age these days, coach­ing staffs are reluc­tant to reveal much before the reg­u­lar sea­son kicks off. Still, if we look closely, we can prob­a­bly gather a few vital tid­bits of infor­ma­tion about the Cowboys upcom­ing sea­son. Here are the things that I will be look­ing for at Cowboys camp.

So plenty of action to check out this impa­tient late July Friday after­noon. One fan to another — can't wait for train­ing camp to start so we can get a look at every player and see how they're each com­ing along. I'm even quite curi­ous to see how lucky dog Jesse Holley comes along. Maybe Holley will be a Dallas Cowboy after all.

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