News: DMN: 'Sweet' Zack Martin became Cowboys draft pick thanks to football-savvy family

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[WoodysGirl]

Zack's mom is my kinda lady...

 

[dogunwo]

IRVING — Asked to describe her son Zack, the Cowboys’ 6-4, 308-pound first-round draft choice, Pam Martin took a breath and thought for a moment.

“Sweet,” she finally said.

“My mother was tougher than my father,” he said last week between rookie training sessions at Valley Ranch. “She always had her two cents to put in after a game.”

Then came a nod and a shrug.

And a smile.

Meanwhile, back home in Indianapolis, Pam Martin almost immediately regretted uttering the S-word in a conversation about her middle child, who arrived in Dallas billed to be a stellar starter on the offensive line for the next decade.

“Maybe I shouldn’t have said that,” she began to retreat. “Zack might not like that. He’s certainly not sweet on the field.”

But mother didn’t back down when asked about her postgame critiques of her son, who started on two state championship teams at Indianapolis’ Bishop Chatard High School before heading to Notre Dame, where he was a two-time captain and owns the school record for consecutive starts at 52.

“You can always move your feet better,” Pam Martin said. “You can always hold your block longer. You can always drive the defender back more.”

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The last O-lineman we drafted with the last name Martin was terrible. So let's hope this is different.

 

[Alexander]

The last O-lineman we drafted with the last name Martin was terrible. So let's hope this is different.

He was actually Marten with an "E" instead of an "I". That was his problem.

 

[casmith07]

I'm hoping that Zack Martin ends up playing RT and makes Doug Free expendable. Berny is good enough to hold down the RG spot without being sent to the bench, and I would rather go into next year's draft with OG/RG being a "nice find" rather than RG/RT being a bona fide need, so that we could instead spend our first round pick on either a Safety or another front 7 player.