<p>Pats trade Mallett to Cowboys. He did not play well in the preseason and Jimmy Garopollo played better. I don’t know why the Cowboys would want him. </p>
<p><a href=“http://bostonherald.com/sports/patriots_nfl/the_blitz/2014/08/source_ryan_mallett_traded_to_texans_after_talks_with_cowboys”>http://bostonherald.com/sports/patriots_nfl/the_blitz/2014/08/source_ryan_mallett_traded_to_texans_after_talks_with_cowboys</a></p>
<p>That story says the Texans, not the Cowboys.</p>
<p>It says traded to Texans (Houston) not Cowboys</p>
<p>The Texans want him because they are still in the post Schaub era and don’t really seem to have a good plan B yet. They wisely took Clowney but they still have no quarterback of note. Maybe they should have taken Carr with their 2nd pick. He looked like the real deal the other night.</p>
<p>Oops I meant the Texans not Cowboys. Jones ain’t so dumb after all, he passed.</p>
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<p>With all due respect, it shows what you know. </p>
<p>The reason a player like Sam was released by the Rams is the same why no other team would make a spot on their team. There are few spots available for one-dimensional players who are not speedy enough to move into a hybrid LB position. After the Rams, you could eliminate all 3-4 teams and all that carry few DE specialists. The example if the Cowboys was one of the least competitive DE line in the NFL in … August. </p>
<p>Defensive player or not, he was drafted behind 248 other players and the flip side of the PR is a potential disruption. </p>
<p>By the way, I hope you know that the DMN version 2014 is one full of idiots masquerading as journalists. All the mediocre reporters left for a better outfit and only the worse ones stayed behind. Read a few columns of Gosselin, and you will understand that there is a lot worse than the team in Jones World. The coverage and the commentaries in the DMN are atrocious. </p>
<p>In the meantime, the Cowboys remain one of the most valuable franchises in the entire world. The parity of the NFL makes it hard to compete every year. Teams come and go. Teams that accept to spend years in the bottom of their division can rebound easier than the ones who try to compete year after. The Cowboys were great after a few seasons in absolute mediocrity. Did that not happen to the … Saints and the Seahawks as well? </p>
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<p>Let’s not get carried away…</p>
<p>Wow - SF DL Ray McDonald arrested on domestic violence charges</p>
<p>I guess that’s good news for Dallas</p>
<p>I wonder if the new violence rules will apply to McDonald or not? He better hope not. </p>
<p>They would if it is confirmed - they are in force an his offense was early this morning from what I heard</p>
<p>My guy made the practice squad! Can anyone explain what that means in terms of pay and chances of ever making the regular roster.</p>
<p>My guy made the practice squad! Can anyone explain what that means in terms of pay and chances of ever making the regular roster.</p>
<p>They get paid something like a minimum of 6k per week and stay on with the team to continue working and getting “seen”. Players can be activated and de-activated for games and there can be some movement during the season, I think only 45 are active for any given game regular season. They can shift up in the event of injury or other circumstances. Often guys who were on the practice squad make the team the following year. They’ve changed the rules so anyone in their first 2 years in the league can be on the practice squad.</p>
<p>Michael Sam didn’t make the practice squad. Not surprising but I suspect some team will want him based on his pretty good preseason tape.</p>
<p>Yep and Dallas took Korey Toomer for some linebacking help so he didn’t make “my” practice squad. Maybe Jerry Jones has some football sense after all. 
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<p>So who has an amazing “came from nowhere” guy who made their team? My favorite is Brock Coyle who was undrafted out of Montana. He started with the ones at middle linebacker most of pre-season due to injury and ran the defense like it was his. </p>
<p>Does the fact that you made your original team’s practice squad mean anything, like you’d get a leg up on moving in to a permanent spot? Seems like a team would hold on to people in positions where they might be thin.</p>
<p>Yes it does and it can be a kind of “red shirt” thing where they hope to be able to use you next year but you were too green to start. The Seahawks are “hiding” a great quarterback on the practice squad who will likely either be the back-up next year or the starter (heaven forbid) if something should go wrong with Russell Wilson either physically or contract-wise. They have engineered lots of cap room for next year to give Wilson many many many millions of dollars but they have mini-me on the practice squad. Sometimes they keep people in case of injury or because they love the guy they have now but know that they won’t be able to pay him when he goes to free agency next year.</p>
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<p>Didn’t the fact that he cleared waivers mean that no one else wanted to pick him up, or is there some advantage to a team waiting it out and gambling that no one else wants him?</p>