Who would have thought that among Pacman Jones, Terrell Owens, and Tank Johnson, Greg Ellis would go down as the least classy exit this offseason?

Jerry is missing a PR coup by not putting Drew in this year-say during the Thanksgiving game?

maybe Drew said some things back when JJ took over, about the way it all went down w/ Landry, etc. Even so, that was 20 years ago and the man needs to be put in!

Jason Hatcher asked Hodge, or should I say, Hodge jumped at the chance to help out with the camp when Hatch was talking about it in the locker room.

I’ve never read anything that says the players get paid for doing the camps. They usually do them as a favor to a city or region in which they group up.

I think the head coach typically coaches the the other coaches, so to speak, while the coordinators and position coaches handle the day to day coaching of the players. If there’s a problem with the D, Wade would go to the DC or OC to figure out a solution, not bypass them and go to the players. Likewise, if the players had questions, they would go to their position coach or DC, not go straight to the head coach about the DC’s schemes. Now, however, Wade is the Head Coach and DC, and he is hands on with the players. I think it’s telling that the D seems so different to James now that Wade is running it, because that further shows that Stewart was struggling at the Xs and Os and connecting with the players.

It’s Wade’s defense, he just had B.Stewart calling the plays. The scheme was all Wade. It will be nice to actually have the master crafter calling the plays though. I’m sure that alone will improve the defense.

usually coaches can do that through their coordinators, but apparently Stewart wasn’t quite ready to take the reins.

I recall wade saying in his introduction presser that he was going to run the defense; that one of his mistakes in Denver was not being more involved with the defense; and that he didn’t want to make the same mistake again. What happened? Somewhere along the way, Wade must have begun to think he was hired for his Head Coaching skills…

Ellis has been banging this drum for a while, Spencer took away snaps from Ellis during last season, so this is not ne ground for the kid. I think Wade knows how to find defensive talent; remember that Troy Hambrick went in as a rookie free agent, Spencer is a 1st round pick more to the point a player with 1-2 round draft value. The comparrison is not an apples to apples scenario. Emmitt was within his rights to make his comments, he was one of the three main faces of the franchise and never complained like ellis did to the msm. But dallas was in salary cap hell, and the team did not have any real talent; that means that there was some truth to Emmitt’s statement.

The core arguement over the concern of veteran players leaving and having rookies or younger players come in to replace them. The cowboys organization has not had a clear history of practicing a policy that other teams like the pats do; replace the player before they lose any value with talent developed players instead of FA aquisitions. Dallas does not have the credibility for fans or msm to give them theb benefit of the doubt that they know what they are doing.

Look at the trade for AH to get Kitna, a deal that was an even trade for an aging CB who could no longer play any press coverage. Burnett was going to leave because he was never going to get a starting role with the team. Ellis was an aging vet making too much to be a situational pass rusher who did not play special teams; I think that paying him 4-5 million because you do not have a capable back-up that could fill-in for 2-4 games is what lead to his release. Dallas was trying to trade him before and during the draft, it wasn’t until after the draft that news came out that he was on the trading block; no dance partners were found due to his contract. One last point on the vet vs. new player outlook, every fan including myself questioned the move to draft another kicker, it wasn’t until about 1-2 weeks after the draft that it was public that Folk was going to need surgery, with that in mind it made sense to get a good kicker who was athletic who could fill in if Folk had a setback in his recovery.

I just feel that dallas is trying to move in a different direction and that what we have seen this offseason is to avoid holding on to players when they have untapped talent that they could turn to.

had to do more with money than anything.

And Parcells wasn’t high on Hambrick AT ALL. I remember him making a comment when asked about Hambrick of him being fat.