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10:37 AM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Moose Johnston blasted the Cowboys when they signed Tank Johnson, so I was a little surprised with his take on the Pacman Jones trade.
"In this era of salary cap management, I like the way that they structured his contract," Moose said yesterday at the Cowboys Golf Club. "Now you've just got to keep your fingers crossed that he's learned from what he's done in the past and the support group within the Dallas Cowboys does its job. But it's a tough decision. It's a roll of the dice. You get tempted by talent."
Moose cited character concerns as the problem with signing Tank, so what's the difference with the Pacman deal? Real simple: Moose didn't think adding Tank to the defensive line mix got the Cowboys much closer to a Super Bowl. He sees Pacman as a guy who could be a major impact player.
"It's much more tempting than the [Tank Johnson signing], but it's more of a risk, too," Moose said. "I think he has the potential to be a complete corner in the NFL, a Pro Bowl-type cornerback, which obviously allows your defense to be much more aggressive. I think he adds a dimension in the return game that Dallas really needs to establish field position and give that high-powered offense a short field."
Maybe Moose was just in a Cowboys-friendly mood yesterday. After all, he was riding around on the team's course in a golf cart with his name stenciled on the side.
But his message made sense. If you're going to take a major PR hit and rely on a guy with an ugly off-field track record, make sure the potential payoff is big. And it is with Pacman.
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Moose thinks today's Cowboys can learn from yesterday's
9:32 AM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
You've heard a lot over the last couple months about the Cowboys not "babysitting" Pacman Jones, if and when the league sees fit to reinstate him.
At one time, ex-Cowboy Daryl Johnston wishes he had. Yesterday, in a talk with myself and Timmy Tabloid, Moose admitted that he and his teammates made a mistake in ignoring the legal misgivings of Michael Irvin.
"With Michael Irvin, I think we all tend to think we didn't step in soon enough," Johnston said, referencing incidents in the mid- to late-1990s. "We waited until it impacted all of us as a team. We should have seen the potential for that type of behavior to impact the team in a negative way before it became that. "
Johnston added that some of the free-agent losses, Kevin Gogan was one he pointed out specifically, in that period weakened what had been a very strong locker room that, in the early-1990s, may have staged some sort of intervention with Irvin or other players running afoul of the law. The good news is, with Pacman's return to the league probably coming at some point in the next few months, Moose is hearing that the Cowboys' locker room is very strong and ready to deal with such a problem child.
"Having talked to several people in the Dallas Cowboys organization, they said it's a very strong locker room, with a DeMarcus Ware, with Bradie James, the guys that are in that locker room hold everybody accountable," Johnston said. "And that's a critical element. You can have the best intentions from ownership to coaching staff. But if your players aren't policed in the locker room, then you have potential for something bad to happen."
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Tim MacMahon E-mail News tips
Moose Johnston blasted the Cowboys when they signed Tank Johnson, so I was a little surprised with his take on the Pacman Jones trade.
"In this era of salary cap management, I like the way that they structured his contract," Moose said yesterday at the Cowboys Golf Club. "Now you've just got to keep your fingers crossed that he's learned from what he's done in the past and the support group within the Dallas Cowboys does its job. But it's a tough decision. It's a roll of the dice. You get tempted by talent."
Moose cited character concerns as the problem with signing Tank, so what's the difference with the Pacman deal? Real simple: Moose didn't think adding Tank to the defensive line mix got the Cowboys much closer to a Super Bowl. He sees Pacman as a guy who could be a major impact player.
"It's much more tempting than the [Tank Johnson signing], but it's more of a risk, too," Moose said. "I think he has the potential to be a complete corner in the NFL, a Pro Bowl-type cornerback, which obviously allows your defense to be much more aggressive. I think he adds a dimension in the return game that Dallas really needs to establish field position and give that high-powered offense a short field."
Maybe Moose was just in a Cowboys-friendly mood yesterday. After all, he was riding around on the team's course in a golf cart with his name stenciled on the side.
But his message made sense. If you're going to take a major PR hit and rely on a guy with an ugly off-field track record, make sure the potential payoff is big. And it is with Pacman.
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The entry "Moose: Talent justifies taking risk on Pacman" is tagged: Daryl "Moose" Johnston , Tank Johnson
Categories: Pacman Jones
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Moose thinks today's Cowboys can learn from yesterday's
9:32 AM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Albert Breer E-mail News tips
You've heard a lot over the last couple months about the Cowboys not "babysitting" Pacman Jones, if and when the league sees fit to reinstate him.
At one time, ex-Cowboy Daryl Johnston wishes he had. Yesterday, in a talk with myself and Timmy Tabloid, Moose admitted that he and his teammates made a mistake in ignoring the legal misgivings of Michael Irvin.
"With Michael Irvin, I think we all tend to think we didn't step in soon enough," Johnston said, referencing incidents in the mid- to late-1990s. "We waited until it impacted all of us as a team. We should have seen the potential for that type of behavior to impact the team in a negative way before it became that. "
Johnston added that some of the free-agent losses, Kevin Gogan was one he pointed out specifically, in that period weakened what had been a very strong locker room that, in the early-1990s, may have staged some sort of intervention with Irvin or other players running afoul of the law. The good news is, with Pacman's return to the league probably coming at some point in the next few months, Moose is hearing that the Cowboys' locker room is very strong and ready to deal with such a problem child.
"Having talked to several people in the Dallas Cowboys organization, they said it's a very strong locker room, with a DeMarcus Ware, with Bradie James, the guys that are in that locker room hold everybody accountable," Johnston said. "And that's a critical element. You can have the best intentions from ownership to coaching staff. But if your players aren't policed in the locker room, then you have potential for something bad to happen."
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