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[DC_fan]

I don't think it does.

You only have 1 real CB on ur roster now.

It replaces Carr from Newman.

Meaning that if Kirkpatrick is still in sights imo.

I think they will draft a cb, but not in the first round.

 

[DC_fan]

The Cowboys signed two free agents today.

They were linebacker Dan Connor and safety Brodney Pool.

Connor is 26, stands 6-2 and weighs 231 pounds. He started in 11 of the 15 games he played last season fpr the Panthers. Finished with 75 combined tacjles. He is much better against the run, then any other part of his game. At the moment its expected he will fight with Bruce Carter to team up in the middle with Sean Lee.

Pool is 27, stands 6-2 and weighs 214 piunds. Good size for a safety. Started in 6 of the 14 games he played in for the Jets. Finished with 36 combined tackles and one sack. The Cowboys expect Pool to be their starting safety pairing up with Gerald Sensabaugh.

The interesting thing about all the Cowboys free agent signings is their age

Carr is 25
Orton 29
Bernadeau 26
Vickers 28
Pool 27
Connor 26

is that noe of them are over the age of 30.

 

[DC_fan]

The Cowbys have signed former Bengals guard Nate Livings. He is 30, weighs 330 pounds and stands 6-5. Has been the starting left guard in the past two years. Supposed to be a solid pass protector, but has problems with the run.

The contract is for 5 years and $19m, with $6.2 of it guaranteed.

 

[DC_fan]

The Cowboys have re-signed WR Kevin Ogletree. He will compete with Dwayne Harris, Andre Holmes and Raymond Radway for the vacant #3 receiver spot.

My thought is that Ogletree will eventually miss out. For mine both Holmes and Radway have a bigger upside. Radway was having a great training camp last season until he was injured and lost for the season.

Plus I expect the team will either draft a reciever or pick up another veteran to add to the mix.

 

[DC_fan]

It is being reported that the Cowboys are expected to release veteran guard Kyle Kosier. This is following the signing of free agents Living and Bernadeau.

Kosier has done a great job plaing both guard positions for Dallas.

 

[DC_fan]

While WR Laurent Robinson (Jags) and TE Martellus Bennett (NYG) have found new teams for 2012, other Cowboy free agents are not having much luck.

Bradie James, Keith Brooking, Terence Newman, Kyle Kosier, Tony Fiammetta, Derrick Dockery, Montrae Holland and Mat mcBriar have received little if any interest from other teams.

RB Chauncey Washington received a try out with San Francisco, that led to no where. I will be surprised if he is on any teams roster in 2012.

The Vikings who are in need of a cornerback or two have shown a little interest in Alan Ball. He is no more then a number 4 or 5 in the depth chart for cornerbacks regardless of what team it is.

I am pretty sure that James, Kosier, Holand and McBriar will get a run somewhere.

 

[DC_fan]

Cowboys will not raise ticket prices

March, 20, 2012 Mar 20
1:38
PM CT



By Calvin Watkins



For the fourth consecutive season, ticket prices at Cowboys Stadium will not increase, according to Brett Daniels, senior director of corporate communications.

The Cowboys have not raised ticket prices since they moved into the $1.3 billion facility in Arlington.

The Cowboys join the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins as teams who won't raise ticket prices in 2012. The Green Bay Packers, meanwhile, will raise their prices.

The Cowboys averaged the second-highest ticket price in the NFL last season at $110.20, according to Team Marketing Report, which measures ticket prices for fans.

The New York Jets averaged the highest ticket in the league at $120.85. NFL average tickets costs $77.36.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4691044/cowboys-will-not-raise-ticket-prices

 

[DC_fan]

The Cowboys are expected to sign FB/LB Isaiah Greenhouse

to their 80 men training camp roster.

He is 24, stands 6-2 and weighs 248lbs. Played 2 games with the Texans in 2010 and spent the 2011 season on the Cowboys practise squad.

 

[Agent Mulder]

I think we cut Koiser.
I know we cut Newman and THANK GOD!

I'm sad to lose Robinson, I always thought he was underated and laughed when the Rams and Chargers cut him, I think its a big loss but i do agree with fellow Cowboys fans that he wanted too much.

 

[DC_fan]

I think we cut Koiser.
I know we cut Newman and THANK GOD!

I'm sad to lose Robinson, I always thought he was underated and laughed when the Rams and Chargers cut him, I think its a big loss but i do agree with fellow Cowboys fans that he wanted too much.

Kosier is gone. But we shouldn't write of a return at a cheaper price.

 

[DC_fan]

Formers Cowboys running back Marion Barbers has announced his retirement. His style of running, straight ahead and hard has taken a toll after seven seasons. He finished with 4,780 yards rushing and 53 touchdowns.

He was drafted by Dallas in the 4th round of the 2005 draft and played six seasons with the Cowboys where he become known as the finisher. His final season, in 2011 was spent in Chicago.

Barber is just 28 years old.

 

[DC_fan]

The Cowboys have re-signed WR Kevin Ogletree for one year in a deal worth just over the league minimum of $610,000.

 

[DC_fan]

It is being reported that the NCAA's all time leading receiver, Ryan Broyles will make a visit to Dallas before the draft.

Broyles who stands 5-10 and weighs 188 pounds finished his career with 349 receptions for 4,586 yards and 45 tds.

Late last college season he tore his ACL, and is stil recovering from the injury. He believes he will be fine come training camp. Before his injury he was rated a certain at the latest 2nd round pick. With the injury, he has dropped down to the later rounds.

The Cowboys, outside the top two in Bryant and Austin have a lack of depth in the position. Broyles could make a good third WR out of TE slot.

 

[DC_fan]

Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones has said the team will fight the $10m salary cap fine imposed on them.

Less than two weeks after the Cowboys were stripped of $10 million of salary-cap space on the eve of free agency, team owner Jerry Jones said the club plans to fight the penalty and has already reached out to the league and the Washington Redskins, the NFC East rival that received a similar penalty.

"We will and have expressed that we don't agree with that," Jones said Friday at the Hilton Anatole, where the AWARE luncheon, a fundraiser for Alzheimer's disease, was taking place. "What we're doing is a combination procedural and legal and all of that"

Jones added that the Cowboys are "talking with not only the league but the Redskins and whoever we can visit about it....The Cowboys are resisting that to say the least and don't agree with that and how it was figured. I guess the Redskins feel the same way. We're trying to work through that"

The Cowboys were punished March 12 and Jones said they were given little warning about the penalty, which was handed down by the NFL as retribution for the manner in which they structured receiver Miles Austin's contract in 2010, a year when the league was operating without a salary cap. That season, Austin was given a $17 million base salary.

"That's about when we knew about it," he said.

"I don't want to make our case here," Jones added. "But all of our contracts were approved by the league and you can't approve a contract that is in violation of league rules. You can't even get it on the books if it isn't in sync with league rules. So you start there."

After the Cowboys and Redskins received what many outsiders viewed as unfair and draconian penalties for exploiting rules that were in effect that year, reports circulated that both teams' financial flexibility was sacrificed in negotiations with the NFL Players Association so the league could institute a salary cap with a higher ceiling in 2012.

That didn't sit well with Jones, even though he said that the team was able to accomplish its goals in free agency by adding seven newcomers, including cornerback Brandon Carr.

"There were a lot of things rather than Cowboys cap room that I would have rather leveraged the players union to give the NFL," Jones said. "There are many things we would have liked to have had that we bargained in the collective bargaining agreement that if you got some leverage you wanted to gain apart from docking the Cowboys $10 million. I can answer that easily."

Now, Jones is working in concert with the Redskins -- an arrangement he admits is odd.

"First of all, there is no joy in Mudville, having to team up with the Redskins on a point with the league," Jones said. "They're competitors, not cohorts. It just shows you, independent of that, some of the issues we have with this cap space issue. Sometimes you can have strange bedfellows and this is one of them."

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/03/cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-addr.html

 

[Big Mick]

Jerry Rice owns the Cowboys now?

 

[DC_fan]

Jerry Rice owns the Cowboys now?

Just wished he played with us? Could you imagine him and Michael Irvin catching Aikmans passes.

 

[DC_fan]

'Boys get 4th round compensatory pick

The Cowboys have been awarded a compensatory 2012 draft pick in the fourth round. It will be the 40th pick in the fourth round and the 135th overall.

A team losing more or better compensatory free agents then it aquires in the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory picks. The Cowboys signed DE Kenyon Coleman last summer but lost DE Stephen Bowen and WR Sam Hurd.

This extra draft pick give the Cowboys eight selections in the up coming draft.

 

[DC_fan]

The Cowboys will kick off the 2012 season with a game against the NY Giants at MetLife Stadium on Wednesday Sept 5th.

 

[DC_fan]

Pick #14 in the Draft

Not sure if this means a whole lot as to who the Cowboys may pick with their first selection.

But over the past ten years at position 14 teams have selected 8 defensive players to 2 offensive players. The defensive selections have been equally made between defensive lineman and defensive backs.

The two offensive players taken at #14 have been Jeremy Shockey TE and Chris Williams OL.

The top notch defensive players taken at this spot include Darrelle Revis, Earl Thomas, Malcolm Jenkins and Tommie Harris.

Going on history the Cowboys will pick a defensive player with this pick and most likely he will be a very good player.

 

[DC_fan]

Following on from the previous message the following appeared in the http://sportsblogs.star-telegram.com/cowboys/

March 27, 2012
Thanks to free agency, Jerry Jones said the Cowboys not inclined to target a guard in first round, likely to choose defense
By Clarence E. Hill Jr.
Palm Beach, Fla _ Owner Jerry Jones said the Cowboys did so well in free agency they will open to pretty much anything in the 2012 NFL Draft, including drafting a premier player at 14 or trading out of the pick.
"Because of how well we did in free agency, we will be able to draft or trade," Jones said. "In other words, we could easily have a situation that’s in our best interest but if you just had to have that safety or that offensive lineman, you might not have been able to make a trade you wanted to make and go down. Or possibly go up. So my point is, free agency helped us normally, purely look at how we can best improve the personnel on this team through the draft, whether it be trading or just picking the player. Not a luxury, but picking the player."
More to the point, especially when it comes to an offensive lineman, Jones said the free agent signings of guards Nate Livings and Mackenzy Bernadeau, has the Cowboys not inclined to take an offensive lineman in the first round. Stanford guard David DeCastro has been a popular pick for the Cowboys on mock drafts but now they may have to readjust.
"We probably wouldn’t prefer that," Jones said. I wouldn’t. That would keep us from maybe having to pick a top player there in the first round on the offensive line. It did it both ways. It left us totally flexible there. You might want to move down and pick up a player that’s going to be there rather than being at your 14th -- you might not have been able to do that had you not had the success that we had in free agency."

Cowboys to likely target defense in first round

However the signing of cornerback Brandon Carr to a five-year, $50.1 million contract will not preclude the Cowboys from taking a cornerback in the first round, owner Jones said. Alabama's Dre Kirkpatrick and North Alabama's Janoris Jenkins are the likely candidates there.
"It’s just that’s a premium position in ours and most others," Jones said. "So I don’t have an aversion at some positions (like) a special pressure player, a really good deal at corner for where you are in the draft.”
Jones said the way the draft is shaping up that is more likely that the Cowboys will take a defensive player in the first round.
He said he is very impressed with Memphis tackle and Scouting Combine phenom Dontari Poe who could play nose guard, end or defensive tackle.
"I'm impressed with him, Jones said. " Im real impressed. Im particulary impressed cause he looks like a nose and has the skill and has some pass rush about him at the five technique. I'm impressed with him. He looks good."

So either Jerry is spreading a good story or he will pick a defensive player. JJ certainly come across with being impressed Dontari Poe. If the 'boys do take Poe it would allow Ratliff to move to DE.

Interesting times ahead.