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How Benson Mayowa Fits Cowboys Blueprint

The Dallas Cowboys’ approach to this offseason has been no secret. They have searched for bargains in the open market, adding youthful and athletic players with presumably high upsides but very little production to this point in their professional careers. Defensive End Benson Mayowa fits this blueprint to a “T.” The former Seattle Seahawk, but more recently former Oakland Raider, joined the Cowboys after the Raiders failed to match the Cowboys’ offer sheet to Mayowa during free agency. The questions surrounding the Cowboys’ pass rush and defensive end situation are clear, but the addition of Mayowa seemed to not mean much for the immediate future at first.

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Written by: Kevin Brady

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New Technology Helping Cowboys RBs With Ball Security

The Dallas Cowboys aren’t shy about trying out new technology if they believe that it will possibly help them gain a competitive advantage or help them improve in the way they go about preparing for the season. You may remember that the Cowboys coaching staff started using drones to help get a different vantage point while filming practices last year before the 2015 season kicked off. Well, fast-forward a year and the Cowboys organization is now trying out a new piece of technology to help put an emphasis on the correct way for running backs to carry the ball. If you’ve ever played the game of football, then you know how important ball security is and how there is probably no other aspect of the game that infuriates coaches more than  fumbling away the football. Well, thanks to inventor Tom Creguer, ball security has become much more coachable with his new invention the HighandTight training football.

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Written by: Brian Martin

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Rookie Watch: Cowboys Sign QB Dak Prescott & DE Charles Tapper

The Dallas Cowboys have signed two more of their nine total rookies from the 2016 draft. Quarterback Dak Prescott and defensive end Charles Tapper have inked their rookie deals with the team. Prescott will receive $2.72 million on his four year contract. The Mississippi State product has already had some pressure put on him with the Dallas Cowboys, as the coaching staff appears poised to enter training camp with Kellen Moore as the primary backup QB.

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Written by: Sean Martin

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Is Rolando McClain Key To Cowboys Defensive Success?

There are a lot of questions surrounding the Dallas Cowboys defense for the upcoming 2016. Who will be the starting defensive ends with Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence missing the first four games due to violating the substance abuse policy? How will the cornerback situation shake itself out? Who will be the starting outside linebacker? These are just a few questions that surround the Cowboys defense that should answer themselves once the off-season practices really start getting underway.

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Written by: Brian Martin

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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?

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Written by: RJ Ochoa

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Should Cowboys Pursue Dwight Freeney?

The names “Dwight Freeney” and “Cowboys” have been showing up in the same headlines recently – including this one. There has been some speculation as to how interested the Cowboys are in the veteran defensive end. Stephen Jones said that at this time, the Cowboys are not interested in Freeney, acknowledging that the NFL is a “younger man’s game.” But Jones also stated that Freeney has what it takes to be productive and thinks he’s a talented player. At the moment, the Cowboys are not interested in Freeney, but should the be?

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Written by: Dante Giannetta

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Cowboys Loaded Backfield Left Off Of NFLN’s Top 5

The Dallas Cowboys offensive line is capable of amazing things. Cowboys Nation certainly remembers what they did in 2014 with DeMarco Murray at the running back position. They then followed this up in 2015 by making Darren McFadden the league’s fourth leading rusher.  McFadden, for one of the first times in his career, looked like the running back the Raiders expected to get when they drafted him with the fourth overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. Still, the Cowboys entered the 2016 draft in search of even more explosiveness in the backfield, and used their very own fourth overall pick on Ezekiel Elliott – a dynamic play-maker that fits Offensive Coordinator Scott Linehan’s system beautifully.

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Written by: Sean Martin

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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.

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Written by: RJ Ochoa

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Falling Behind? Cowboys Offseason Graded A “C”

This weekend, ESPN released there offseason grades for all 32 NFL teams. The Dallas Cowboys ranked last in the NFC East and 25th in the entire league with a “C” grade. As I have said before, you have to take everything you see on media outlets such as ESPN and NFL Network with a grain of salt. These people are apart of the national media, and are the same people who left the Oakland Raiders off of the “top offensive lines” list while including the Green Bay Packers. Yeah, that was bad on NFL Network’s part.

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Written by: Kevin Brady

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6 Cowboys Players That Could Be Traded

This past week, news broke that the Dallas Cowboys turned down trade opportunities during the NFL Draft for a couple of their running backs. Also, former starting left guard, Ronald Leary, decided to skip OTAs and have his agent request a trade from the Cowboys. Players requesting a trade isn’t uncommon, but teams aren’t going to just give away their players. They want to get as much compensation as possible, but it often comes down to finding a trade partner that is willing to meet your asking price. Trades aren’t quite as commonplace in the NFL as they are in the NBA and MLB, but they still happen.

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Written by: Brian Martin

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