DMN: Sean Lee and Lee Roy Jordan + You Can't Break Sean Lee

[percyhoward]

The film, friendship and ultimate phone call that link Sean Lee to Cowboys LB icon Lee Roy Jordan

By Brad Townsend , Staff Writer Contact Brad Townsend on Twitter: @townbrad

In a moment of reflection before Sunday's momentous occasion, his first playoff game in seven injury-scarred seasons as a Cowboy, Sean Lee cites several factors that finally got him here.

Countless hours of rehab. Perseverance. The training regimen implemented by the Cowboys' medical and coaching staffs. Lee's 2015 switch from middle linebacker to weakside linebacker.

"And I think I've had a little bit of luck," he says.

Then there was the epiphany, from the pivotal phone call about which the public never knew. It was a heart-to-heart. Linebacker-to-linebacker.

The caller was Cowboys great Lee Roy Jordan. Lee had undergone toe surgery that knocked him out of the 2012 season's last 10 games. Jordan wanted Lee to know that he, too, had serious career injuries early in his career.

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[Doomsay]

Lee Lee transference, awesome.

Never understood this caption as a little kid.

 

[T-RO]

Great read! Awesome men.

 

[Daillest88]

Sean lee!! Is the truth

 

[percyhoward]

You Can’t Break Sean Lee
by Robert Mays

“Sean’s the kind of guy who’s trying to play the perfect game,” Bradley says. “He’s never going to, but that’s what he’s trying to do.”

That begins every Tuesday, when Dallas starts installing a given week’s game plan. In addition to attending the Cowboys’ scheduled defensive meetings, Lee and fellow linebacker Justin Durant join Eberflus for 50-minute morning sessions they call the Breakfast Club, a signal-callers’ get-together aimed at digging through the minutiae of an opposing offense: every Darren Sproles carry, every Jordan Reed route, every Odell Beckham Jr. catch. Even after spending roughly 12 hours in the team facility, Lee likes to have a short study session at his kitchen table when he gets home. Each week, he grabs a new legal pad from the Cowboys facility and fills it with his thoughts on the cut-ups on his iPad. Earlier in his career, he would binge-watch film until the moment he went to bed; these days, to keep his mind from racing, he shuts down around 8:30 p.m., with few exceptions.

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[Doomsay]

I really like how the iconic vets have come out in support over the past 2-3 seasons, I think they feel something special playoff-wise.

 

[BruceWayne]

It's his time and I believe he is going to have one of those 20 + tackle games on Sunday

 

[Temo]

"An avalanche of trash is a worthwhile price for the type of night Lee had in the Cowboys’ 10–7 loss to the Giants in December. For four quarters, he diagnosed plays so quickly that he was able to undercut the lineman tasked with blocking him. Cowboys coaches credited him with 22 tackles, a franchise record, and he earned the highest single-game grade Eberflus has issued in eight years as an NFL position coach."

I had no idea he was that dominate in that game, I was obsessed with how bad the offense looked.