Glad to hear Igor getting some love too….
About Ellis….. I guess Wade is pretty confident about the rookies

As it is, Ellis wore out his welcome with an annual bitch session that we usually endured for several months. It became as regular as the smell of low tide.

I’m a Tar Heel fan, and absolutely LOVED Ellis for much of his career, but the only thread I was left hanging on was his production on the field. When that started to slip, so did my grip!

I’m a metaphor machine today!

In the end, it’s too bad we look to be parting ways on less than amicable terms. Greg Ellis was a rock through some lean years in Dallas; God only knows how ugly it would have been without his presence.

The guy that stands to miss him the most is Ware. Unless Spencer and the rest of these guys step up, Ware could face a much more regular scheme of double teams. For this reason, I was hoping for one more good year out of Ellis …

He’s been very up and down with injuries. Throw in the off season bad decision and he’s a huge question in my mind. I guess we’ll find out.

If I was Jerry, I’d be watching movies, playing video games, and everything on that screen when the stadium wasn’t in use.

Spencer, Williams and Butler are the real deals to trade away a proven pass rusher.

I love Ellis, and I’m upset about the lack of depth this would give us, and I also think that we should wait another season before doing anything, but if we need to shop Greg, I pray we get a WR in return, which would be the far bigger need now. I have enough hope from Spencer(who had a good rookie year followed by the typical sophomore slump), and I am excited enough about the rookies. I also like the idea that we kept Justin Rogers(at least, I think so?) and Bobby, both who have experience anyways in playing that LOLB spot.

Fact of the matter is, Greg is old, and we need to see what we have in Spencer this season. By the end of the year, Spencer would be starting anyway….do we really need to have to be listen to Greg complain all year?

unless we are trying to claer cap room for a trade of some kind

If I’m not mistaken he’ll be a FA next season, and the idea of a trade is probably out there for that reason. If we get good trade value for him, excellent, if not, he’ll be on the team again. What do we have to lose? He bitches and moans every off season so it ain’t like it can get any worse because of this. Make him unhappy? He’s ALWAYS unhappy. Big freakin whoop!

Greg’s put in some solid years for the team and for that I’m thankful, but I wouldn’t care in the least if we traded him. Quite the opposite, assuming we get decent value. Spencer has had plenty of time to learn the scheme and it’s time to give him a full off season of training with the 1st team. Even if Greg stays.

to emphatically put the leadership of the D in Demarcus Ware’s hands
to avoid the roster spot for the injury risk of a mid-30s player
Ellis had become a pass rush specialist because he couldn’t play the run as well anymore
to give Spencer a chance to handle the pass rush duty himself

Wade Phillips knows a lot about pass rushers

I don’t know what round draft choice he’d be worth in Cincy, but you can be relatively sure, every year, that it will be at the top of that round. :-)

I’ve said for a long time that Ellis was never right for OLB in either Tuna’s or Wade’s 3-4. He was drafted as a 4-3 DE and really has never lived up to his hype as the 8th pick in the first round. that said, he has fought the good fight in Dallas and I would love to see him get a chance to go back to his natural position.

I know people hate the idea of being weak opposite Ware, but it’s the same people who are touting the draft class, so I dunno what to think.

Either way, he’s not the guy he was supposed to be, and now he’s not the guy he was as early as 2 years ago. If you can get something that strengthens your future, do so.

I don’t understand all of the uproar about losing Ellis…How many multi-sack years has he had in his career again? Try 1 and that was with Ware on the other side. There is such a thing as diminishing return on your investment- see the TO departure in the off season- sure part of it was “chemistry” but I am sure his lack of ability to beat double teams played a part too.

You can’t pay a pash rush specialist $5MM a year if he isn’t going to get double digit sacks- and nothing that I have seen makes me think he can repeat his 2007 numbers. I trust that Wade- now that he is in total control of the Defense- will get Ware his chances through scheme or coaching up Spencer.

maybe the cowboys know something we don’t about ellis. maybe he failed drug test(steroids maybe). i don’t know. or maybe all this means nothing. we’ll see. soon i hope.

And let these young buckaroos play. Or else keep drafting four more linebackers every year because you don’t know if the guys you already have can play.

Or if we took out Bin Laden when we had him holed up in Tora Bora…

The world’s full of hindsight, but not sure the value.

I’d try to get Parrish away from Buffalo. The Bills could use an experience pass rusher BADLY. And I’d take Parrish for his punt return skills alone.