Dallas Cowboys "breaking camp" notes

Miles’ improvement was a great thing to look forward to this season.

Maybe it’ll lead Goodell to look into random drug testing for refs. I still say Hochuli’s on da juice… heh-heh :~)

PFW says 2-4 weeks. None of the press reports are actually citing any Cowboys sources. Spags and Archer seem to be the ones who started saying 4-6 weeks, as you linked to yesterday, and I think other outlets picked it up from them, but neither of them actually cited any source or gave any explanation to back it up. So I think they are just speculating based on typical recovery time. But there are MCL injuries that are only 2-3 weeks (QB knees take less stress then WR knees, but T. Jackson just had the same injury and the Vikes expect him back by the season opener). So at this point, until we actually get an MRI report and official estimate from the team, I think it is at least somewhat reasonable to still hope that it could be less, anywhere 2-6 weeks. It could end up being 4-6 once we hear about the MRI, but until then I don’t assume that is necessarily accurate. Of course we really won’t know until he actually plays again, but I will be more confident trusting the estimate based on an MRI than Spags and Archer just pulling numbers based on generic MCL injuries without actually knowing the severity of his.

FWIW

1989
Preseason 3-1
Regular 1-15

1990
1-3
7-9

1991
2-2
11-5

1992
2-3
13-3 (W SB)

1993
1-3-1
12-4 (W SB)

1994
2-3
12-4

1995
2-3
12-4 (W SB)

1996
2-3
10-6

Very little correlation between preseason and regular season, but I’ll still feel better if we can go 2-2.

he is what he is and thats a 4-3 OLB who is completely out of place trying to play inside in a 3-4, just simply isn’t tough or physical enough.

Burnett, please heal up quickly.

If the cowboys were a very young team, then I think its of some value that the club wins a game or twon preseason, but with this veteran team, i dont put any stock into whether they need to win these games. The starters are pretty much set in every position as is the 53 man roster.

Name the team that went 0-5 in preseason, then went 14-2 in the regular season and won the superbowl. As you can see the preseaosn win/loss record doesn’t carry any weight with me, I dont care what the score is in preseason games, its more about getting the young players and rookies reps. Teams dont gameplan or scheme, they are very vanilla on offense. And really, why would you want to show your offense to other teams in preseason.

Dallas looked like a team saturday night that was ready to end camp and head home. I’m sure this team will be alot better friday night against Houston. Its the thrid game of the preseason and thats where you get a real ideal of where the team is at. The starters will play into the third quarter, there will some game planning and you’ll see some scheming. The only issues for me with this team in preseaosn is getting the penalties under control and not sustaining anymore injuries. I’m not sold on brad Johnson and would still like to get a veteran legitimate number two receiver. One game doesn’t make a career for Ausiin Miles, especially when during the two practices against Denver, he was dropping plenty.

Most of the talk this preseason and training camp is whether we bring another quarterback to compete with Brad Johnson or whether we carry three QB’s on the roster, who the sixth receiver will be, I do think we carry six receivers, not five. Who will be the sixth corner, Oglesby or Ball, right now Ball is the odd man out. So its not a very interesting training camp which kind of shows on hard knocks. Just not alot of good story lines to follow except a rookie tightend with a poor attitude and a poor work ethic. Ofcource there’s always Patrick Crayton, who has the never ending problem of diarrhea of the mouth. Be very careful Crayton, Hochuli just might pound you into the ground.

it was pretty obvious to me atleast.

Crayton being Crayton!! :)

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game Saturday that he hoped Austin could be ready in time for the Sept. 9 opener against Cleveland.

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I think a lot of these writer are just pulling numbers out of you know where. If it is a grade one sprain there is no reason he shouldn’t be ready in three weeks for the opener.

i thought aj did some good things, he was all over and was making alot of tackles…so…i feel once their rested and back at it things will straighten out….

Ellis actually said on the sideline during an in-game interview that while he wasn’t happy with the way the team played, part of it was road fatigue. These guys haven’t been home in awhile. It’s way too early to use fatigue as an excuse, but between that and the vanilla defense, I’m feeling better about the defensive performance. I thought the offense looked ok considering they were playing with one arm tied behind their back, playcalling-wise.

Preseason record means nothing, but how the team plays means something. The big glaring problems from game 1 were addressed…ST looked better, BJ looked a lot better, and Austin really showed me something pre-injury. If those backslide in game 3, I’ll be a little more concerned.

Other bright spot from the game: Pacman looks like a legit burner on punt returns. He will return one for a TD this season, guaranteed.

Whether Crayton’s comments were made in jest or not, this really bothers me on several different levels.

• Crayton has not earned the right to run his mouth in this league. He is an average player whose mouth writes checks on a regular basis that his performance can’t cash.

• He should feel humiliated from his extremely poor performance in the playoffs last season, and look to make amends with his play, not his mouth. He should be embarrassed, not looking to draw attention to himself off the field.

• For a significant % of fans that follow the NFL, Crayton’s bonehead comments reflect poorly on the Cowboys organization. I understand some (or perhaps most) bloggers on this site just laugh it off and take it in stride. However, for a good number of people, is does reflect poorly on the Cowboys and I really don’t like that.

• There is no way this helps the Cowboys standing with the officials. Yes, the officials are professionals but they are also human. Why potentially invoke their wrath for no reason whatsoever? It was a meaningless preseason game.

And the two most important reasons:

• I’m simply tired of this team not playing up to their potential and I don’t want to hear any more excuses for poor performance. This crap has been going on since early December. Poor execution, penalties….all followed up by excuses. Time to shut up and play to your talent level.

• Crayton running his mouth is directly related to a leadership void on this team. The coaching staff and the veteran star players should have sat on Crayton a long, long time ago. I believe a lack of leadership was a big part of folding down the stretch last season, and from the early returns this season, it is more of the same. The most talented collection of players doesn’t win – the best team does. Maybe that void can be filled by Zach Thomas? I know one thing: when a team lacks leadership and gets off to a bad start, the downward spiral can be swift. Count me among those who are very concerned at this point.

especially when we lose the game, no wonder the refs watch us with eagle eyes, & throw a flag on every little thing they see, that mouth will only give them a sharper eye. trash talking gets you nowhere!
look at the French swimmer talkn bout crushing the Americans, oops, they lost, i bet he wishes he never said that.
Craytons gonna learn to keep stuff to his self, nothing wrong with sayn no comment.
he"s grown into a solid WR, but that mouth, BAD KARMA!