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The fifth installment in an 11-part series assessing each position on the Cowboys roster (Be sure to follow the jump for analysis) ... PLAYERS SIGNED THROUGH 2008: DE/NT Jay Ratliff, DE Marcus Spears, NT Jason Ferguson, NT Tank Johnson, DE Stephen Bowen, DE Marcus Smith, DE/NT Junior Siavii UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS: None. RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS: DE Chris Canty TOP NAMES ON FREE AGENT MARKET: DE Jared Allen (Chiefs), DT Albert Haynesworth (Titans), DT Corey Williams (Packers), DT Grady Jackson (Jaguars), DE Justin Smith TOP DRAFT NAMES: DT Glenn Dorsey (LSU), DE Chris Long (Virginia), DT Sedrick Ellis (USC), DE Kentwan Balmer (North Carolina), Calais Campbell (Miami, Fla.) HEALTH OF THE POSTION: Ratliff’s emergence last season gives the Cowboys a lot of flexibility with the defensive line. The 6-4, 298-pound Ratliff earned a five-year extension by playing well at nose tackle after Ferguson went down with a torn biceps in the season opener. But Ratliff’s frame is better suited to play DE in the 3-4. It’s also possible that the Cowboys could cut Ferguson and keep the starting D-line from last season intact. Like Ratliff, Canty is an important piece in the Cowboys’ long-term plans. Canty, often described as a “disruptive force” by Wade Phillips, will probably receive the first-round tender. The Cowboys will try to lock him up to an extension in the five-year range before Canty can hit the market as an unrestricted free agent after next season. Spears has not lived up to his first-round billing, but he’s a solid rotation player who does not have an exorbitant salary. Hatcher and Bowen have shown promise, particularly as pass rushers, but they could end up fighting for a roster spot if the Cowboys keep Ferguson and can’t trade Spears. |
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Posted by jtd86 @ 7:15 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Trade Carpenter, Spears and Ferguson for Miami's Second round pick.
Posted by Bill Parcells @ 7:55 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
jtd86,
Bahahahahahahahaha!! Like I'd take that trade.
Posted by Redskins_Rule @ 8:30 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
I am contemplating suicide. I cannot believe Dan made me wait a month only to sign a QB coach that has acheived mediocre results at his last job. I mean, shouldn't he size up Zorn at OC BEFORE he sends him up the ladder ? Dan's just buying time until next year,when Cowher's available. The Skins are gonna ROCK in '09 ! I cannot wait.Of course, that means The Skins are gonna suck AGAIN next season. That's okay, just wait-YA'LL JUST WAIT FOR '09 ! WE'll be in position for a good pick in the '09 draft by then, too. Great plan ! We'll bring in the coach we want with a monster 1st round pick and R&R in '09 ! Wo-wo-wo. We'll still have cap issues. That's okay, we can always pick up several over-priced free agents to plug our holes. Hot dog ! RR is migrating towards Clyde Simmons teepee now, guys.
To my comrades, bogey in eagle five sector bravo.Secret agent man.......out !
Ha-ha-ha--hail to the Redskinneds ! Scoreboard Skinneds !
Posted by jtd86 @ 8:31 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Oh come on Bill, 3 starters, 3 "Bill Parcel" guys for one second rounder. You said yourself that you need to fill many positions.
Posted by jtd86 @ 8:35 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
RR, can't believe you think Jerry Jones actually made the right decision of making a former QB with limited coaching experience the OC before promoting to HC. What the skins need to do is wipe the slate clean and put as many promising young guys around Campbell. It's the only way they are going to get a sniff of the SB.
Posted by Bill in DC @ 9:12 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
jtd86,
The Deadskins are not going to get a 'sniff' of the SB. They have one of the oldest, if not oldest rosters in the league, with many of their skill positions among the older guys (OLT, ORT, WR, CB, MLB). Their star RB (whom they traded the best cover corner in the league for in a move I'll never understand) is showing signs of wear as he is oft injured, their young QB is beginning to show signs of being injury prone (talk about McFadden's 'chicken legs' - take a look at Campbell) because the OL can't protect him. They have 16 UFAs and are 21 million over the cap (they actually are about 24 mil 'over' since the they have to have 3-4 mil available under the cap for incoming draft picks). Sure, they can cut their 3rd string - oops now 2nd string because the 2nd string is one of those UFAs - QB who is scheduled to make $9mil this season (he'll still cost them a few mill due to proration of bonus money). That leaves them with 1 QB. They can probably cut enough players and redo deals (again) to get under the cap enough to sign their draft picks, but this will leave them with almost no money to pursue FAs or resign players (although some of them they will get for the minimum since nobody else wants them). They will claim that they are 'satisfied with their roster' and 'will adopt a conservative approach' in FA and that they are 'wise and smart' to follow this approach to cover the fact that they can't do much else anyway.
They set up the current roster with the idea that they would get their shot at the SB in the last two years with Gibbs, intending to blow it up after Gibbs rode into the sunset with a SB Title. It didn't work out for them, now they begin to pay the price. They are doomed to being a mediocre/average team for the foreseeable future.
Couldn't happen to a nicer team. I think it's God's revenge for their having that racist name.
Posted by Michael in Chicago @ 9:21 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Is it just me, or do you think the Redskins_Rules fan is a closet Cowboys fan that just hasn't had the nerve to come out of the closet? Why else would he post on this blog all day long? Does anyone else here care about the Redskins enough to post on their blog? It's like a straight guy going to a gay bar all the time and pretending that he's just an open minded guy. If you are there all the time you're hiding something...so c'mon out of the closet Redskins-Rule Fan and we will forgive you.
Posted by letsgot @ 9:35 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Yeah, who gives up on a coaching search and promotes thier OC when he has not even called one play yet, LOL!!
Posted by jerryblowsasgm @ 9:41 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Jerry will blow this draft you just watch. Trade Barber to move up in the first round to select Mendenhall. He is a burner compared to Barber, Give away 3 players for 1 ? Don't be stupid. Carpenter needs a chance. Dallas needs another coach. Wade is a great dc not a hc. Dallas has a cerebal defense Ginats have one that plays with power. It would behoove Dallas to add some mean to the defense.
Posted by Scott @ 9:43 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Cowboys DL looks pretty good but I'd like to see them step up their ability to disrupt the pocket. Unlike many, I do not think Spears is a bust; he is a capable player who only looks bad because of other guys around him being better.
Posted by RAMS FAN @ 10:15 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
SORRY DEADSKINS_DRULE,,
ONLY SNIFFIN_IN_DC WIL BEE BYCYCLE SEATS, NOPE SUPERBOWL FOUR YU
MAY BEE THATS A GUDER NEW NAME YU KAN USED,
WON MOOR THING MOOR, FOUR ALL RAMS FAN FANS
RAMS WOOD DEFEET EVERYBODY ELSERS TEAM AND YOOL SEE,
MARK BULGER WIL BEE MVP WEN RAMS WON SUPERBOWL NEXT YEER
HAIL RAMS FAN
RAMS FAN IS IMORETAL
SCOREBOARD RAMS
...... BUTTNOPE SCOREBOARD FOUR SNIFFIN_BICYCLE_SEATS_IN_DC
Posted by Bill in DC @ 10:35 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Micheal,
R_R is Rams_fan, eagles_Soar, and several personas on the board. He is a pathetic example of someone with a need for attention and is so socially inept he knows no other way than to act like a 4th grader.
Posted by Bill in DC @ 10:39 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Scott,
I think Spears is pretty much average. Not what you'd expect from a #1 pick, but there are many other #1 pick D linemen that are also average. Dallas desperately needs someone who commands some attention and draws some from the OLBs. Maybe shifting Ratliff there will do the trick.
Posted by Editor @ 11:01 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Micheal,
Redskins_Rule and RAMS FAN are not the same posters.
Bill_in_DC is just showing his ignorance and yet again blowing smoke up everyone's arse.
Posted by Kemoh Sahbe @ 11:18 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Redskins_Rule
I think Tonto was referring to your shoe phone problems and suggesting what any good injun should know, use smoke signals. Not sure what Tonto meant about Bill_in_DC blowing smoke?
Posted by Tonto @ 5:00 PM Sat, Feb 09, 2008
-Redskins_Rule, Kemoh Sahbe say send smoke signals to Bill_in_DC
-Use same smoke he blows at blog
Posted by Redskins_Rule @ 6:32 PM Sat, Feb 09, 2008
-Tonto...you are confusing me right now...LOL...let me think on it awhile...
-Bill in D.C...try me on my Chuck Taylor high-top...I'm heading for the gym...
Posted by Redskins_Rule @ 11:37 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
my my my...how many heads have I got into OTFLMAO!!!...fake posters [at least they have been civil this time]; all the love directed at me LOL!!!...can't wait for some real football action to start...anyways McNamee just reported he injected your HC with HGH [Human-Girth-Hormone]!!!...and there was an empty Big Mac container next to all the vials and syringes in the evidence photo...good luck Jimmy Zorn...I always liked you as a lefty running for your life...those skills will serve you well in your new position...HA HA HA...Hail to the Redskins!!!...
p.s.
Bill in D.C...it may be San Salvador now...call me on my flip flop...
Posted by Redskins_Rule @ 11:54 AM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
re the faker who posted this:
I just bought my number nine jersey yesterday. I love Tony Romo, I wish he was my qb instead of Campbell. I love my Cowboys too and no longer a foreskis fan. Hail to the foreskins! Hail all the skin! Proud to own an ant eater! LOL!
do I know you?...
p.s.
thanks Kemoh Sahbe...sometimes its hard to get some of the better jokes on this blog with all the knuckledraggers bringing your game down to their level...say hi to RAMS FAN and JB for me...
Posted by Jerry Jones @ 12:14 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Hey RAMS FAN, can you please write in English for this blog. If you write like that, you should use text messaging to Marshall Faulk and not here. No one will understand what you are trying to say in your own native St Louis language.
ON DL, I will trade up to draft another Ellis (Sedrick) and let Ferguson go. Parcell wants him.
Posted by Tonto @ 1:26 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Kemoh Sahbe tell me send hi signal to RAMS FAN and JB for Redskins_Rule
Only smoke signal see back... garbage_out_Bill_in_DC
Posted by Redskins_Rule @ 1:34 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
I'm a itchin' fer a fight, Cow-Blokes!!! Your Rotund One™ head coach Big Boy Checkerpants Phillips™ is nothing more than a puppet...I believe the word is "cuckolded" [Look it up, Texas patsies!!!]...How embarrassing--an 85" waistline AND nothing more than a figurehead...and a BIG figurehead he is, too...HA HA HA...I love you too "Bill in DC", when's the game of strip dominoes scheduled for? Just me, you, and a dog named Boo, baby...Hey, howzabout we invite Switzer too? He's got nuthin' really goin' on...kinda like you...and most former Cow-Bloke coaches...HA HA HA...
p.s.
Breaker 1-Niner, we've got a Big Boy sighting on the LBJ...be on the lookout for a Lincoln with doughnut jelly on the doors and checkered pants flyin' from the antenna...
Posted by Jim Burns @ 1:50 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
Bill in Dc think he knows everything, but knows nothing. I am related to the only real genius of this blog. My brother the one and only Tim Burns. Tim has been very busy since our Super Bowl mishap as we were arrested for getting on the field covered in peanut butter and honey but he is doing better. Pray for Tim.
Jim Burns
San Angelo
Posted by RAMS FAN @ 2:12 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
REDSKINS_DRULE,
PLESE HELP WATCHIN MY BACK.
JB AND TB AND ENTIRE BURNS FAMILY USING INNTERNET BLOGS TOO
PLOTTING CAR CRASH FOUR MEE. BUTT I COULD BEE WRONG,
MAYBEE ENTIRE BURNS FAMILY IS SAME PERSONA
USING MANY OTHR FAKER NAMES... LIKE BILL_IN_DC
HAIL TO THE RAMS FAN
RAMS FAN IS IMORETAL
SCOREBOARD RAMS FAN
...... BUTTNOPE SCOREBOARD FOUR EVERBODY_IN_DC
- Posted by Tim Burns @ 10:12 PM Tue, Jan 22, 2008
- I LOVE RAMS FAN. WHATS NOT TO LOVE? GOTTA LOVE HIS PERSISTANCE.
- DONT GET ME WRONG I DO WANT HIM TO HAVE A CAR CRASH AND LOSE
- BOTH OF HIS ARMS AND LEGS SO HE WONT BE HERE ANYMORE.
- TIM BURNS
- SAN ANGELO
Posted by RAMS FAN @ 2:43 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
EVRONE NOSE IM TWO SMART TOO BEE JERRYS PUPPET ANN
WIL ANSWER TOO NOBODY. SPECIALLY A FAKE JERRY JONES...
KLAMMY CHOWDAH POO FOUR... FAKE JERRY JONES *CHEETAH FAN
HAIL TO RAMS FAN
RAMS FAN IS IMORETAL
SCOREBOARD RAMS FAN
-- Posted by Jerry Jones @ 12:14 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
-- Hey RAMS FAN, can you please write in English for this blog.
-- ON DL, I will trade up to draft another Ellis (Sedrick) and let Ferguson go.
-- Parcell wants him.
-- ^ ^ ^
Posted by Jerry Jones @ 3:00 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
RAMS FAN
I still cannot understand what you're writing. for real. I cannot read your language. Go to a special ed school and learn to write with proper English. I suggest to call Sylvans Learning center to start with a very bonehead English class.
Comeback to this blog when you complete the class and talk about the 2008 Cowboys.
I just called Big Bill. We'll complete the trade to get McFadden and Ellis in this draft.
Posted by Moronbusters @ 3:29 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
-- Posted by Jerry Jones @ 12:14 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2008
-- ON DL, I will trade up to draft another Ellis (Sedrick) and let Ferguson go.
-- Parcell wants him.
-- ^ ^ ^
Parcells ...you moron even Jerry would spell that correctly.
Posted by Ouncey @ 11:47 AM Tue, Feb 12, 2008
What about Hatcher?