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Cowboys' training camp will be a circus ... so what?
11:44 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon
There is absolutely, positively no doubt that the Cowboys' training camp will be a wild time.
You've got a team that hasn't won a playoff game in a decade but is considered by many the NFC favorite. You've got a head coach (coming off a 13-win season, in case you forgot) whose eventual replacement is on staff. You've got a celebrity quarterback who will put his golf clubs down and kiss his celebrity girlfriend good-bye to concentrate on football. T.O. will be there, filling up notebooks and providing soundbites, fresh off one of the best media-relations moves of all-time. The cornerback formerly known as Pacman will continue his image rehab while competing for a starting job. And on and on and on ...
Oh, yeah, and the Hard Knocks folks will be there to record every second. And the national media will surely flock to Oxnard. Just like Jerry likes it.
But anybody who believes that preseason drama hurts a team's title chances might want to take a look at last season's Super Bowl champs.
The Giants dealt with, among other things, Michael Strahan's cross-country holdout/retirement threats, retired RB Tiki Barber's war of words with Eli Manning (who had zero playoff wins under his belt at the time) and speculation that Tom Coughlin's head was on the chopping block.
So just enjoy all the sideshows for what they are: entertainment and excellent blog fodder, not obstacles to the Super Bowl.
11:44 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon
There is absolutely, positively no doubt that the Cowboys' training camp will be a wild time.
You've got a team that hasn't won a playoff game in a decade but is considered by many the NFC favorite. You've got a head coach (coming off a 13-win season, in case you forgot) whose eventual replacement is on staff. You've got a celebrity quarterback who will put his golf clubs down and kiss his celebrity girlfriend good-bye to concentrate on football. T.O. will be there, filling up notebooks and providing soundbites, fresh off one of the best media-relations moves of all-time. The cornerback formerly known as Pacman will continue his image rehab while competing for a starting job. And on and on and on ...
Oh, yeah, and the Hard Knocks folks will be there to record every second. And the national media will surely flock to Oxnard. Just like Jerry likes it.
But anybody who believes that preseason drama hurts a team's title chances might want to take a look at last season's Super Bowl champs.
The Giants dealt with, among other things, Michael Strahan's cross-country holdout/retirement threats, retired RB Tiki Barber's war of words with Eli Manning (who had zero playoff wins under his belt at the time) and speculation that Tom Coughlin's head was on the chopping block.
So just enjoy all the sideshows for what they are: entertainment and excellent blog fodder, not obstacles to the Super Bowl.
