Cowboys hold 2 private workouts...

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From GBN Report:

Senior offensive guard CHRIS KEMOEATU had a private workout with Dallas on Monday, while senior defensive tackle SIONE POUHA had a private workout with Dallas on Monday, as well, and will be having a private workout with Miami later on today...

Chris Kemoeatu OG Utah

Strengths:
Chris has very good athleticism for his position. He is a good pass blocker and because they use a spread offense, he is a pretty good one-on-one blocker in the running game. He has good feet and stays with his blocks until the whistle blows. Chris has good balance and you don’t see him lunging for his blocks. He has excellent mental toughness and should be able to help a team right away at the RG position.

Needs to Improve:
Chris does play a little high when pass and run blocking. Although this is not a problem at the college level, it will be at the pro level. He also has a bit of a temper and you can get into his head very easily, which may cause him to make a lot of mental mistakes and penalties.

Bottom Line:
If it weren’t for Chris’s temper, he would be considered one of the best guards in this draft. It just so happens that this draft is full of very good tackles that will have to be moved to guard at the next level and Chris is getting swallowed up in the wash. Add that to the temper issue and you have a player that will be downgraded. I think he will still get picked on the first day, but I have seen weirder things happen in a draft. Chris will have some anger management issues; however, it’s also what makes him a pretty good player. As he matures, he will get better and I have no doubt he will become a core player for the team that drafts him. (I said that because I don’t want him to get mad at me and find out where I live!)

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Sione Pouha DT Utah

Strengths:
Sione has good size and natural strength for his position. He handles the double team very well and has decent lateral movement. He is a 2-gap run stuffing DT and he does a very good job of doing that. He has good feet and balance and does a good job of avoiding the cut block by the center and guard. Sione’s job is to control the line of scrimmage and he does it very well.

Needs to Improve:
His lack of change of direction abilities makes it difficult for him to rush the passer effectively, but he does have good straight-line speed and burst off the line and will flush the QB out of the pocket.

Bottom Line:
Sione should be a solid 2-gap DT. What you see is what you get with him. He should become a core player and a well-liked player of your defense. He shows some leadership qualities and will do all the grunt work that is required for a team to have a successful defense. Players like Sione for years have been 2nd day picks. That is, until the last few drafts where this type of player has been picked in the 3rd round. I suspect that before it is all said and done, Sione will sneak into the third round also. He is too valuable a player to wait too long.

[AsthmaField]

Ahhhh. I was hoping Pouha might slip into the 4th round. Now it looks like he won't make it that long.

[Nors]

Souhe stock rose at Combine -

Kid looks to be a player, Big, fast, agile.

Good read - thanks

[Avery]

Watched them both play. Chris is a fiery player, the type of mauler BP seems to like. Great talent but needs to play within himself. We're probably hoping he drops to the second day but seeing as how we just drafted Peterman, the chances of us nabbing him are scant at best.

Now Sione I really like. I'm hoping he's there early day two. He can be a very effective DT. He was unblockable most of the season especially in the Fiesta Bowl where he dominated anyone lined up against him. Great work ethic and attitude. He will be a sensational add in the 4th round if we're lucky to see him. He could be a Jason Ferguson-type player for us.

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Now Sione I really like. I'm hoping he's there early day two. He can be a very effective DT. He was unblockable most of the season especially in the Fiesta Bowl where he dominated anyone lined up against him. Great work ethic and attitude. He will be a sensational add in the 4th round if we're lucky to see him. He could be a Jason Ferguson-type player for us.

Yep... this is just the kind of player that Parcell's looks for/covets...

[jobberone]

Strong lines mask lots of problems. I'm still preaching the OL DL stuff.

Can't ignore some of the other issues but I'm starting to fear we aren't going to get it all done. At least now.

It appears there are just going to have to be some risks, compromises and we'll just hope and prays at some positions.

[SDogo]

Sione Pouha-Date Of Birth 2/2/1979


No thanks

[Chocolate Lab]

Both sound good to me. Chris K is the kind of mauling, mean, borderline dirty mofo that Parcells loves on the O line... Just look at Peterman, Rivera, even Al Johnson. We could use more of that.

And thanks for the info on the DT... If he's a good player, let's grab him. These guys who think 26 is too old... Well, 26 isn't old.

Right, CBZ? :D

[trickblue]

Sione Pouha-Date Of Birth 2/2/1979


No thanks

That Chad Hennings sure was a bust... :D

[SDogo]

we are already adding 30 somethings via FA. Do we have start out our rookies 2 years from it? lol

[Nors]

we are already adding 30 somethings via FA. Do we have start out our rookies 2 years from it? lol

Math not a strong point

26+4= 30

You for the Howard trade?

-22/23 +29

[SDogo]

Math not a strong point

26+4= 30

You for the Howard trade?

-22/23 +29

Thanks for the math lesson. I now see why I can't click on a post w/out someone wishing you would leave or taking a pot shot at you.

[Avery]

At 26, he's seasoned. He'll step in right away and be effective.

If you can grab a guy in the 4th round and get 8-9 efficient seasons out of him, it's a no-brainer.

[SDogo]

4th round yes, but some people are saying he could have worked his way into the 3rd. I think that might be to early for a guy that will more then likely only play out the length of 1 contract.

[NorthDalal]

The desciption of Chris K's skill sets suggest that he may be considered a candidate for the rare but not out of the question conversion from G to RT.

The key part of the analysis is that he played in a spread offense.A Guard in a spread offense must be adept at playing like a Tackle, he must be able to stand up in space and engage his defender without the reliance of directing his opponent into the natural traffic that is a guard's friend closer to the middle of the line.
A tackle must be more able to stand up his man and mirror him out in space as all lineman must do in a spread offense.

So this may be what thay are thinking of here---a G to RT conversion.

[trickblue]

4th round yes, but some people are saying he could have worked his way into the 3rd. I think that might be to early for a guy that will more then likely only play out the length of 1 contract.

That doesn't concern us then... as of right now we don't have a 3rd... although I think we may when it is all said and done...

[InmanRoshi]

Yep, sounds like a Bill Parcells offensive lineman.


Utah's Kemoeatu will sit one game for kick

By Steve Guiremand
<steveg@lasvegassun.com>
LAS VEGAS SUN

Utah head coach Urban Meyer, who told reporters after Saturday's game that starting guard Chris Kemoeatu would be kicked off the team for the rest of the season if it was determined he had been ejected for kicking Rebels nose guard Howie Fuimaono in the face, was singing a different tune on Monday.

Kemoeatu, who had been ejected a week earlier from a game at San Diego State for also kicking a player in a pile-up, will serve at least a one-game suspension and attend anger management classes instead. That punishment was agreed to by Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson.

Because Kemoeatu was ejected for a flagrant personal foul penalty and not fighting, the Utes technically didn't even have to suspend Kemoeatu for one game, according to Javan Hedlund, director of communications for the Mountain West Conference. NCAA rules mandate that a player who is ejected twice in a season for fighting, which Kemoeatu was at San Diego State, be suspended for the remainder of the season.

So it appears a rules technicality and a sudden change of heart by Meyer may have saved Kemoeatu, a 6-foot-4, 339-pounder from Hawaii, from sitting out the rest of the season.

UNLV coach John Robinson said the incident, which first saw Fuimaono get his helmet ripped off and then ended with Kemoeatu's straight-on kick into the face, "the worst I've seen in my time as an athlete. It was a serious, serious incident. I thought Howie was injured badly."

Fuimaono had blurred vision and headaches for several hours after one of Kemoeatu's cleats connected with his left eye socket but did not suffer any major injuries from the kick.

Meyer told the Deseret News that "there's no place for that" while announcing Kemoeatu's suspension and said the junior offensive guard is a quality player and person.

"He's a good person," Meyer said. "I think the worst thing that can come out of this is that Chris Kemoeatu is a bad person. That's not the case at all."

[SDogo]

That doesn't concern us then... as of right now we don't have a 3rd... although I think we may when it is all said and done...

I'll let you have him in the 3rd if Bill can get us an extra 2nd and 3rd in a trade down! Fair enough? lol

[trickblue]

I'll let you have him in the 3rd if Bill can get us an extra 2nd and 3rd in a trade down! Fair enough? lol

That's a likely scenario... someone will target a player and contact us... a swap of #1's and a two... or a #2 and #3 are likely offerings...

[SDogo]

That's a likely scenario... someone will target a player and contact us... a swap of #1's and a two... or a #2 and #3 are likely offerings...

This is a good year to collect those 2nd and 3rd rounders.

[trickblue]

This is a good year to collect those 2nd and 3rd rounders.

Yes it is... and that's why I think we will end up trading down...

The #11 will probably cost a swap of #1' and a #2

The #20 probaby a #2 and a #3

[jobberone]

Yes it is... and that's why I think we will end up trading down...

The #11 will probably cost a swap of #1' and a #2

The #20 probaby a #2 and a #3

The 20 is worth roughly 850 pts. It would take the first picks in the 2nd and 3rd to roughly equal that.

I think both the 20 pick is worth next years one and and second this year. If you could get a third thrown in that would be great but I doubt you can get it with the 20 pick unless someone falls to us that is high on someone else's board at a high need postion.

But I like trading down at least one pick in this draft unless the right players fall to us and no one is offering a great deal for the pick.

[trickblue]

The 20 is worth roughly 850 pts. It would take the first picks in the 2nd and 3rd to roughly equal that.

I think both the 20 pick is worth next years one and and second this year. If you could get a third thrown in that would be great but I doubt you can get it with the 20 pick unless someone falls to us that is high on someone else's board at a high need postion.

But I like trading down at least one pick in this draft unless the right players fall to us and no one is offering a great deal for the pick.


True... maybe the niners or the bears would be willing to deal in that case... they both need quite a few skill players...

[RoysAHitta]

eh, i'd rather walk away from the draft with two firsts and a 2nd.. just because other than julius we've had nothing but 2nd round busts for the last ten years.

i prefer 2 firsts and a 2nd instead of 1 first, 2 seconds, and a 3rd. thats just me though.

[nathanlt]

I'm glad to see Pouha on the radar for Dallas. It doesn't look like he'll last until the late rounds. Jason Jefferson is also an underrated late round pick.