Cowboys Backups Get Their Shot Tonight

If McGee fails to impress tonight and the skins cut Richard Bartel (which looks likely), would it be worth it to try and get him back?

I am not wild about the idea of having our only backup QB as Kitna and we need to get someone we can start grooming for the future.

Trade Gurode for Matt Leinert

And the backups are caught in a numbers game that doesn’t look all that good for them. Think about it this way: How many roster spots have already been decided, or better yet, how many spots are really up for grabs – 4, 5 maybe 6?

Let’s assume six. That would mean that tonight we’ll have 28 hopeful young players playing their hearts out for 6 roster spots. I don’t like those odds, and the cuts to 53 always make me a little sad. On Saturday, the Turk will come for 22 young men who’ll be absolutely crushed and devastated to not have made the team.

Seeing one’s dreams and hopes go up in smoke is tough. And the practice squad is only a small consolation, as is being picked up for the PS of another team. For most of the roughly 700 players that will be cut by NFL teams by Saturday afternoon, their football career is effectively over.

i say we move on from sam.

i think holley and ogletree have a way higher ceiling
and besides, sams contract is kinda big for a special
teams player.
i wish we could keep both holley and ogletree and i
wont be surprised if we keep at least one.

and by kinda i mean “way too.”

I read some comments over at the Houston blog, you’d think they just won the SB. They kinda remind me of the Philly fans, so jealous of the Cowboys it hurts. Houston has always been the red headed stepchild in Texas.

Pat Watkins visited the Bengals. So, I guess we can bet that if any of these bubble players don’t make the 53 tonight, a flight to Cincy will most likely be in their future.

Does it look like Dallas is happy to move forward with a roster of 53 comprised entirely of players currently on the roster, or is there any player on another team’s bubble that Dallas is keeping on eye on, (which would also mean that we’d be keeping one less player than people are expecting, and who might that be)?

i’m rooting for McCann to find his way on the 53 man roster, the kid has alot of potential. after that i like to see how McCray, Holley, Brent, Grokowski & all the young players on the OL/DL to see what kind of depth we have (arent the Phins giving the starters some reps early?)… i think their confident in Lee being able to play the nickle role at LB but his focus now is replacing a starter due to injury (and an audtion for the future if an injury occurs to a starter) & learning the base defense, which in my book is a step up & not a demotion like some have stated. Sensa covered the TEs for the most part last year but it’ll be interesting to see how JWill does in coverage but giving McCray snaps their is a positive thing for his chances at making the roster.
 i don’t see how they can keep McGee on the 53 man roster when so many other important positons lack depth, his progress hasn’t been impressive at all.
 also i find it wierd they haven’t let Buehler kick some Fgs in preseason when theirs been several chances for him to boot some 45-53 yarders, their has to be a reason why you dont want to see your FG kicker in a live situtation. either they plan on going w/ a vet & don’t want to pay a ton/trade or they’ve seen enough to ensure he can get the job done. seeing they didn’t take the chance against the Texans could mean their looking to try out which ever one they cut. K.Brown had some problems last season but he’s been a solid kicker up to that point. they could’ve hidden an injury w/ him last season also. N.Rackers is the other guy thats battling to win a job but w/ not many choices out their i hope Buehler turns out to be a great kicker. i felt sick watching Folk boom 40+ yarders for the Jets w/ ease the other night but Dallas should’ve put him on IR to heal 100% before just releasing him. a solid FG kicker is a must in the NFL & we need to sure up that position one way or another.
 also Scandrick has seemed to regress some since arriving & hopefully its just the basic defense thats the problem but were going to need him to be on top his game. Ball is still going through a learning curve & will make some mistakes but i think he will be better as the season goes.

having a chance. When he was drafted and through the 1st half of camp he looked like he was going to get cut. Now people say the only reason we’d cut him is because he’s hurt?

When did he start performing well?

He’d have to fail terribly to get cut.

I believe they are having him play a whole game because a) it’s the 5th preseason game and b) they’ve been under developing him with limited reps
and c) they want to get him a whole game of football in as he hasn’t played extensively in a year, and won’t for another year at least

In my opinion, this game is literally meaningless. The Cowboys have already decided on their 53 man squad.

This team has had 4 pre-season games to evaluate the players. They’ve had the longest training camp in the NFL to evaluate the players. In a recent interview, Coach D. said that after every single day of practice at training camp, the coaching staff meets to discuss who had a good game and what the 53 might look like.

So 5 weeks after the beginning of training camp, this 53 is already decided. There isn’t much that a player can show the coaching staff in one pre-season game that he can’t in 4 pre-season games and 30-some-odd practices. The needle just isn’t going to move that much.

If the team has already decided they don’t want to go with Jessee Holley and Holley runs up 200 yards and 3 TDs tonight, he’s still going to get waived on Saturday.

This game is literally meaningless.

Hated indeed. Can I get an “Amen”?

I want to see McGee. Preseason is wretched though. Camp battles are fun but the most important issue is injury watch.

All plays made are suspect, all results are irrelevant. Can’t wait for Sept 12.

At least this weekend CFB starts. Aggies play Stephen F Austin and U of Texas plays Rice. Egad maybe preseason NFL is better than that, certainly more competitive….

The HOF game is a pain for the teams involved. I think it threw off the Cowboys somewhat, and I am sure the veterans are not that thrilled about playing it. But since the owners are not going to give up one of their home preseason games, somebody has to go play there.

I think the HOF ought to be played by the two teams that finish last in the confernce the year before. Yeah, I know the league would never buy that, but I think it would be appropriate. And those guys could probably use the extra practice.

Just my random opinion.

but does anyone know of an internet radio station that I could listen to the game on tonight?