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The Cowboys just announced the consummation of a five-year deal between the team and long snapper Louis-Philippe Ladouceur, which will keep him in Dallas through 2012. Ladouceur was slated to become a restricted free agent on Feb. 28. According to the team's release, he has snapped cleanly on 196 punts, 86 field goals and 122 PATs in his regular and postseason career in Dallas.
The fourth in a seven-part series ... PAT WATKINS Watkins' 68-yard return of a blocked field goal against the Vikings was the key play in that game and the highlight of his young NFL career. Watkins, who was solid as a safety in the Cowboys' defensive substitution packages, was also a standout on the Cowboys' inconsistent coverage teams. He led the team with 25 special teams tackles, four more than Bobby Carpenter.  Comments (1) Leave comment
| E-mail entryThe entry "Cowboys Awards: Special Teams Player of Year" is tagged: Mat McBriar , Nick Folk , Pat Watkins Keith Davis has established himself as one of the league's best kickoff coverage men over the last four seasons. His job description is pretty simple: Find the ball, get there quickly and make a tackle. But actually covering kicks is a lot more complicated. You need to be fast and fearless to do the job as well as Davis does. But the key, Davis told me, is spending extra time in the film room to figure out which way the return is going and who is going to try to block him. He watches film over and over again, searching for a player who will give him a pre-kick read. "You'll find a guy who is going to give it away pretty much every time," Davis said. "If you find that guy, you'll be in a pretty good situation. Once you do that, it's all about really defeating the one-on-one battles. I don't ever feel like one guy can block me, no matter who he is. Once you defeat the one-on-one battle, then you just find the ball and make the tackle." Comments (1) Leave comment
| E-mail entryThe entry "Inside the mind of a kickoff kamikaze" is tagged: Keith Davis As I walked up to Nick Folk in the locker room this morning, he was messing with his iPhone. A teammate asked him a couple minutes earlier if he was the first rookie kicker to go to the Pro Bowl. He had to Google "Pro Bowl Rookie Kicker" to try and find out. Clearly, he wasn't prepared for the moment. In fact, despite being told by his buddies that he was leading fan voting at his position, Folk thought the idea that he'd be in Hawaii in February, without paying for a trip himself, was a pipe dream. "That was the last thing on my mind when I was drafted," Folk said. "The first thing was trying to make the team. And once that happened, it was trying to help the team win. So it’s been the last thing on my mind since the beginning of camp, and it’s been far from it ever since then and up until yesterday. "It’s still the last game of the year, so I don’t have to worry about it until we’re done here." Comments (6) Leave comment
| E-mail entryThe entry "Folk shocked by selection" is tagged: Nick Folk Pro Bowl Mat McBriar didn't get selected to the Pro Bowl, but he'll be in Hawaii during February anyway. He plans to get married there the week after the Pro Bowl. McBriar wasn't being presumptuous about his chances to return to the Pro Bowl when he made his wedding plans. "There are other things in Hawaii, you know," he said recently. McBriar met his bride-to-be while they were attending the University of Hawaii. It's also the halfway point between their homelands (Australia and Minnesota). McBriar is having another outstanding season, but San Francisco's Andy Lee deserved the Pro Bowl berth. Lee averages 48.3 yards per punt and 42.4 net, compared to 47.3 and 39.1 for McBriar. Comments (4) Leave comment
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