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  1. The updated reports say that he got mad about a clause saying the team has the option to reduce guaranteed cash if the league disciplines him. He threw a fit about it and signed elsewhere without further discussion. Funny part is, it is actually standard language in all Dallas contracts, not even specific to Gregory. So, I kind of feel like the Cowboys dodged a bullet. The guy is a head case. One day he may play enough games in a season to beat his career best six sack season, but it won't be with Dallas.
  2. I don't know the details, but my guess is that Dallas wanted some financial protection if he gets suspended again. Not an unreasonable thing to ask for, seeing as Gregory has spent the majority of his career suspended. He is a good pass rusher when he is on the field, and they will miss him. However, there is a pretty good chance that they would have been missing him even if they had signed him, since the odds of him getting suspended again are probably above 50% based on his history. At least this way, the Cowboys are not paying him and missing him at the same time.
  3. I never read the books, but I have read some reviews from people who did. I find it awesome that they cast 5'7" Tom Cruise to play a character who is supposed to be 6'5" tall. I don't remember the movie, but I have a mental image of the casting director of the movie going through tons of actors trying to find convincing bad guys that are all around 5'2" tall so that Cruise towers over them. The movie was forgettable, but I thought the first season of Reacher was very well done. I liked several of the characters, and the lead was really good. Many of the events are highly unrealistic, but I was able to ignore that and really enjoy the show. I think the comparison to Banshee is pretty good, though I liked Reacher more. There was an unrealistic sexual aspect in Banshee that I was not able to ignore. In Banshee, anytime an attractive women would show up in town, they would sleep with the lead character within the first 45 minutes they met him. If I remember correctly, there was even a woman that ambushed him in his room, but when she had the chance to kill the dude... she decided to have sex with him instead. It was a bit over the top, but I enjoyed the overall show.
  4. It makes me think about how different the league is now compared to back then. Before the Herschel trade, the most recent blockbuster trade was Eric Dickerson for 3 firsts and 3 seconds. All these guys were running backs. Now you get laughed at for taking a rb in the top 5. Though, I do think the trade by Ditka to draft Ricky Williams is not as huge as it seems. An entire years worth of picks sounds like a lot, but picks in rounds three through seven combined are not worth as much as an extra first round pick.
  5. Dallas got 8 draft picks (including 3 firsts and 3 seconds)..) as well as 4 players for Herschel Walker. The first player they drafted with those picks was Emmitt Smith... a much better player. I still smile about this, and Herschel was my favorite player in the NFL at the time.
  6. I had a random thought... about football ethics, so I figured this is the place to ask. Jerry Jones has been expressing frustration with Amari Cooper for the last couple months. There is speculation that Cooper may be cut or traded this offseason. I remember when Cooper was a free agent that Washington made an offer to him, but he re-signed with Dallas instead. At th time, he made some comment about him deciding to take less money to stay in Dallas. My hypothetical ethics question: If Amari acually took less money to stay in Dallas... Would it be ethical for Dallas to decide to move on from him and later trade him to Washington (assuming he didn't want to be traded)?
  7. I think Payton has a great eye for QBs. He took the Saints job and tried to get Jerry Jones to let him take Romo with him in a trade. Jerry said no, even though Romo was a backup (not even 2nd string in his first couple seasons) that had never thrown an NFL pass. When that fell through, he went and got Brees in free agency. For a coach taking over a team without a QB, it is pretty impressive for him to have those guys as his primary offseason targets (as neither of them were considered likely to have great careers at the time). I would trust him to find the right QB. However, I can't really understand his Taysom Hill infatuation.
  8. It is really hard for me to get too disappointed with Dallas, as I never have any expectations of them. I realize every season that they are going to have a roughly 1 in 30 chance of winning the SuperBowl. It is very possible that they will not win one again in my lifetime. I try to distance myself from any expectation, and watch more as an observer. So, looking at Vegas odds, Dallas was never in the top 3 or 4 teams as contender to win a championship during any point in the 2nd half of the year. So, I thought they a 50-60% chance of winning their initial playoff game, but winning a few in a row was highly unlikely. As for the season as a whole, it was very fun. I judge that by how much I enjoyed watching them during the season, not what the final outcome of the season was. Ironically, the last time Dallas won the Super Bowl (1995), I did not enjoy the season as the team tended to play down to their competition throughout that year. I know the results of those blowouts were not an indication of Dallas being great, but they were enjoyable to see. It is fun to watch them go 6-0 in the division. Really fun watching the 1st round pick rack up sacks and make all-pro. Watching Diggs come out of nowhere to get all those picks was cool. The offense was very inconsistent, but ended up #1 in yards and scoring... that is fun no matter what. So, I hope I do get to see Dallas win a Super Bowl again. But, I can enjoy a good regular season, like this one, even if it doesn't result in a championship.
  9. It is a weird perspective hearing how people feel that Dallas is expected to be good by fans and media. When I read Cowboys fans' perspectives of the expectations of Dallas, I tend to see 20 people arguing that they are not real contenders for every one fan that thinks they might win it all. If a rival fan talks about how much they suck, you tend to get a response defending the team. If a fan of the team expresses doubt... they get a ton of agreement. I don't know any fan that thought Dallas was likely to win the Super Bowl.
  10. The "media" talks about Dallas because talking about Dallas is what gets raitings. When Dallas wins, the media talks them up... and acknowledge that the Cowboys will probably lose in the playoffs. When they lose, the media talks about how funny it is that they always lose. There is no version of sports "media" that will ignore Dallas. Think about how much you enjoy watching people discussing a Cowboys loss... and how wrong people were who thought the Cowboys were a contender. It was a pretty fun season no matter how you slice it. If Washington swept the NFC with historical blowouts against the Cowboys and Eagles, while also having a rookie racking up 13 sacks on the way to a1st team all-pro selection... would you be saddened if I pointed out they only had a few wins against teams with records over .500? I am guessing that you would still feel that it was fun to watch.
  11. I didn’t have much hope for this season, but it ended up being much better than I expected. Watching Parsons and Diggs was a lot of fun. I had no hope for the D, but they really ended up being the most fun D to watch in more than a decade. Add to that Dallas having the #1 offense for both scoring and yards. An 11 win season with a sweep of the NFC East. The biggest blowout in the history of Dallas-Washington followed by a blowout vs the Eagles where Dallas scored 50+ again (most points by Dallas vs Philly in my lifetime (I'm in my late 40s). Dallas averaging 40 points per game against the NFC East... I'll take that again next year if I can. They were always long-shots for a SB, but it has been awhile since I had this much fun watching them.
  12. I don't care what happens next week. This is just fun! Cry Eagles Cry.
  13. That should be it for the Dallas starters that played tonight. Zeek got his 1k, Dak moved into 4th all time on the franchise passing list. CD got to 1,100 yards, Amari and Shultz went over 800 each, and Gallup's replacement got 119 yards tonight. Time to sit everyone.
  14. They have a rb with 750 yards, and two with around 400. All average 4.3 or better, with their best back, Sanders, average at 5.5ypc. All are pretty good RBs. Hurts leading the team in rushing is what makes them #1. But they have a very good running game without Hurts.
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