RJ Ochoa, Author at Inside The Star Archives

Trade History: Who Was The Last Player The Cowboys Dealt Away?

There’s been a lot of talk around the Inside The Star landscape, and Cowboys Twitter, about America’s Team potentially shipping off one of their players to a new home in exchange for something nice. The hippest trade hypothetical out there for the world to digest revolves around Ronald Leary. Considering he asked for a trade it seems likely, but I showed you how recent history suggests that a Dallas Cowboy requesting a trade doesn’t always go the way he wants. Say the Cowboys trade someone other than Ron Leary. Who would it be then?

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 31, 2016

LEEdership: 2016 Is To Jaylon Smith What 2014 Was To Sean Lee

It was just over two years ago that you were sitting at work, home, or scrolling along Twitter when your heart was blown to smithereens. Sean Lee, the stud linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, had torn his ACL. On the first day of OTAs. While being mauled by the team’s most recent 1st Round selection, Zack Martin. Ugh.

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 30, 2016

#RJOShow Ep. 15: Fantasy Football Strategies With Christopher Harris

Have you ever agonized over an NFL game that didn’t include your favorite team specifically for the purposes/well intentions of fantasy football? Have you ever basked in the glory of winning your league or had to put up with the shame of coming in last? We’ve all been there. This week the #RJOShow got fancy with fantasy football! It’s the time of year where people are starting to sniff around the fantasy landscape and we brought in someone who is one of the top dogs in that domain, Fantasy Football Expert Christopher Harris.

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 27, 2016

A Dallas Cowboy “Requests” A Trade: How Did It Go Last Time?

May is a weird time in the NFL. It’s beautiful in the sense that hope is as palpable as ever throughout the buildings of all 32 franchises, but it’s weird in that players tend to make demands before everything gets seriously rolling on the season. By now you surely know that Dallas Cowboys Offensive Guard Ronald Leary has requested to be traded to a team that doesn’t have a Star on its helmet. I’m not a professional football player, shocking I know, but the idea that someone would want to play for anyone but the Cowboys befuddles me. Ronald Leary is entitled to want what he wants, and he wants a new home.

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Published on: May 26, 2016

Another Reason To Love Dallas Cowboys Rookie Ezekiel Elliott

When I hit the treadmill I like to throw on some quality tunes (Walk The Moon’s “Shut Up And Dance” is a go to for me) and hit it hard. It feels like I’m moving at the speed of light and like I’m one of the coolest dudes in the world. A guy can dream, right? I have a feeling that when Ezekiel Elliott puts on his football uniform he feels exactly like I’m describing, except he’s actually one of the coolest dudes in the world. Whatever.

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 24, 2016

Tony And Candice Romo Open Up About Their Family With NBC 5

Tony Romo is a lot of things to Cowboys Nation. He’s our quarterback. He’s our hero. He’s our everything. While we are all part of Tony’s Cowboys Family, there are three people who comprise his actual family that he’s a few things to as well.

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 24, 2016

Which Games Could Kellen Moore/Dak Prescott Conceivably Win In 2016?

Last Wednesday the NFL Network was re-airing the Dallas Cowboys epic last-second win in New York from 2014. Giants fans tend to remember this as the “Odell catch” game as opposed to “just another miserable loss,” but hey that’s their prerogative. If you’ll remember that was a Sunday Night Football game so Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were on the call. Towards the end of the game Cris is talking about Romo’s influence on the team and how many Cowboys fans used to, incorrectly, announce that it was he (Romo) that was holding the Cowboys back. Collinsworth goes on to say how the Cardinals game that season (which Tony missed due to injury) was a horrific preview of what life without him might be like and how he is now our hero.

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Published on: May 23, 2016

PHOTO: Ezekiel Elliott In Full Cowboys Uniform For First Time

Imagine opening up a new toy on Christmas morning. You rip the wrapping paper off, you find out it’s exactly what you want, excitement floods your veins, and all of a sudden your parents say that you can’t play with it until April. That’s what it’s like for NFL fans after the Draft. We got not one, but nine new toys! We just want to play with them, but the 2016 season doesn’t begin until September.

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 21, 2016

Rookie Watch: Jaylon Smith Signs Rookie Deal With Cowboys

Not even 48 hours after the Dallas Cowboys inked Ezekiel Elliott, Anthony Brown, Kavon Frazier, and Darius Jackson to their rookie deals… another domino on that line fell. Jaylon Smith has signed his rookie contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Ezekiel Elliott has all of our love, admiration, and googly eyes as far as this Draft Class is concerned… but it could be Jaylon Smith that truly defines it.

Written by: RJ Ochoa

Published on: May 20, 2016

#RJOShow Ep. 14: How I Met Your Uniform With Marcus Mosher & Ted Nguyen

I’m starting to reach a point in my life where I have enough personal happiness that I’m ready to re-watch the series finale of How I Met Your Mother. The gang of five that frequented MacLaren’s bar in New York City is one that I grew close to, and I got closer than I ever have to being a true member when I hung out with my own Ted and Marshall, Ted Nguyen and Marcus Mosher on this week’s #RJOShow. The three of us have exchanged many a tweet when it comes to a wide-ranging number of topics concerning the great game of football, but it was a stylish one that was up for dissection on the #RJOShow – NFL Uniforms. Marcus, Ted, and I talked nothing but the get ups that our favorite players wear on Sundays. We dove into what we like about uniforms, what we don’t, and a whole lot of in between.

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Published on: May 19, 2016