RELEASED Taco Charlton - Officially Released

TheSkaven said:

It's not like the Cowboys haven't dealt with attitudes before. I think the kid could play - he showed something in the preseason.

Hope this doesn't come back to bite us.

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Some teams and players just aren't successful for whatever reason, but with his issues, he will be a problem with whoever he is with. Head case.

JoeKing said:

Taco and his agent are on their own to find him another NFL team. Does anyone think he'll get another opportunity? I think the giants are dumb enough.

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Oh he will be signed by next week for sure.

Wouldn’t surprise me for the Giants of Eagles for insight

Doomsday said:

Guess he is now a Street Taco

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nope, street tacos are good

tyke1doe said:

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, but the Cowboys were nowhere near close to drafting Gonzalez unless they gave up a boat load of picks.
Troy is right.

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That was the point that I was making. If there was a mistake in taking David LaFleur in the 1997 draft, it wasn't because Aikman convinced them to take him over Gonzalez - they never had the chance to do that. The mistake was taking a guy in LaFleur who had a known back condition. Why did LaFleur's career end in 2001? Because of a back condition.

rnr_honeybadger said:

Thank you Rod Marinelli for another excellent defensive lineman.

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No joke. Busta.

Cannibal_Cowboy said:

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Reverend Conehead said:

Does he beat out Bobby Carpenter for our biggest draft bust ever?

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For us old timers.. Rod Hill during the Landry era....

Most teams rated defensive back Rod Hill as a third-round pick at the earliest. But the Cowboys, vice president Gil Brandt said, were always known

''for pulling rabbits out of the hat.''

They were magicians who had come up with players like Calvin Hill, Duane Thomas and Thomas Henderson. Rod Hill played for a small school, Kentucky State, but he showed incredible athletic skills on the Cowboys` tests and had averaged 19 yards on punt returns his senior year. Brandt and coach Tom Landry figured he would return kicks until he developed as a cornerback. Picking 25th, they gambled.

Hill, who was cut by the Bills midway through the 1986 season and finished the year with Detroit, was ''not a player I felt comfortable taking,'' coach Tom Landry admitted the other day, although he has the final say on the Cowboys` picks in the first six rounds. Landry looked at Hill as boom or bust.

''It was a very high risk pick there,'' Landry said. ''There`s no surprise when you miss on a Rod Hill because you`ve taken a real calculated risk.''

Hill was a disappointment right from the start: The Cowboys felt he was immature, not a hard worker and didn`t take the game seriously enough. He alienated many of the veterans because he talked too much.

Why did they take him? Scout Walt Yowarsky gave him high marks for his coverage ability, although his toughness was questioned. Gene Stallings, then the Cowboys secondary coach, worked Hill in Kentucky and came back urging the Cowboys to draft him.

Brandt said his first indication that Hill was a mistake came in the first rookie scrimmage against the Rams: ''He got beat for a touchdown and it looked like he didn`t even try. That started to turn on the light.''

JoeKing said:

Taco and his agent are on their own to find him another NFL team. Does anyone think he'll get another opportunity? I think the giants are dumb enough.

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A desperate team will pick him up, but having a successful career is not a guarantee.

Rockport said:

It's hard to scout heart. I've seen a 110 WM force march with a rifle and 60 lb pack 25 miles while 17 males dropped out. Heart.

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No you didnt

Alexander said:

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Hmmm....who would we want from the Texans??

Doomsday said:

Guess he is now a Street Taco

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I bet you have been waiting weeks to be able to say that.

Good one!

maryquality said:

Hmmm....who would we want from the Texans??

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Maybe Keekee Coutee ... seems to be the odd man out at WR

Alexander said:

He will be the first to tell you that they just didn't like his personality. Of course, the team talks about the fact he couldn't flex to either side or to the interior.

Truth is probably right in the middle.

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Why in the hell didnt the FO know things of this nature before taking him?

They aren't able to tell if someone is "soft" or not position flexible??

Really, that's disturbing.....or not true.

I watch a lot of college ball.

I could hit on draft picks as much as these guys. This was a head scratcher pick.

Call me up Jerry, happy to work for 100k.

stasheroo said:

While some fans have to make attempts to excuse anything.

Thank goodness for lowered expectations.

Lower that bar as much as you need to for the team to make it over!

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This is a nonsense post. Being realistic about life is not "lowering expectations", and to expect what you know to be impossible is foolish.

Do you expect your co-worker to never make a mistake and if he does you go around the office talking trash about him?

How about you? Ever make a mistake in your job? In parenting, or driving a car or playing a sport? With difficult decisions has hindsight proven you made the right choice every time - you've never once in your life looked back and thought you wish you had done something differently?

Was it ever your true "expectation" that you would never make a mistake in your life, or is that just something you are okay being hypocritical about?

KingintheNorth said:

but Trysten Hill will work out. We promise.

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I admit to being a bit worried with him. Too early to dismiss him, but it would have helped to see at least a spark of something in the preseason.

I have to admit. I don’t feel he was given enough opportunities to succeed here. I saw him flashing this preseason more than ever. It seems to be personal between him and the coaching staff.

OmerV said:

This is a nonsense post. Being realistic about life is not "lowering expectations", and to expect what you know to be impossible is foolish.

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"Nonsense" and "foolish" is you and others trying to play damage control. Give it up. Nobody wants to read it. This is a colossal screwup.

Do you expect your co-worker to never make a mistake and if he does you go around the office talking trash about him?

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No, like you, when the annual budget gets 'lost', I tell the boss it's no big deal and we've done well in other years. Promotion, Here I come!

How about you? Ever make a mistake in your job, or in parenting, or driving your car or playing a sport? When you've had difficult decisions has hindsight proven you made the right one every single time in your life? You've never once looked back and thought you wish you had done something differently?

Was it ever your true "expectation" that you would never make a mistake in your life, or is that just something you are okay being hypocritical about?

Being realistic about life is not "lowering expectations", and to expect what you know to be impossible is foolish.

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Making lame excuses for monumental blunders is what's "foolish". Not being able to handle reality is "foolish".

Couldn't even get a 7th round pick for this loser smh. Please do not let Marinelli into the draft room no more.

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