I would strongly consider this player as a #3 RB and see what it might take to sign him to an incentive deal.
Remember, this was the guy that Seattle took with one of our 2 #1's we shipped to Seattle in the Joey Galloway deal.
I realize he's been injured, but if he's interested in a comeback with a team like us and pass a physical, we could sign him, let him rehab and take 2008 to recover for a run at starting in 2009.
We did this with Columbo before and it's paid big dividends now that he's emerged as a starter. We signed Columbo in mid-season in 2006 and he sat and rehabbed and didn't force trying to play after his prolonged layoff once being cut from the Bears.
There is upside to any of this if you don't have to force players immediately into playing.
And we have sort of actually taken the same sort of approach with Tank Johnson.
He was signed and was not really ready to play fulltime in 2007 after a 9 month layoff, but we still took him with an eye toward whatever he could do in 2007 and now he's replaced Ferguson at NT in 2008, along with Jay Ratliff and will see lots of snaps at NT and passing situations.
And we now have really done the same with Pacman.
He's not going to be expected to be a full-time starter at CB and depending on when he can actually practice with the team..it maybe July or later before he actually plays. And even then, it maybe weeks or months before he's really contributing regularly as he gets in shape and learns the defense.
He's had over year layoff and possibly as much as a year and a half by the time he makes the field again. You just don't throw him into the game immediately. There will be a transition period while he slowly works back into football shape and avoids any injuries due to inactivity and comes up to speed to play 100% full speed.
So even with him now a Cowboy, this is a future investment poised to pay nice dividends once it goes the distance.
So Dallas has a need at anywhere of a #1/#2/#3 RB position as this whole deal is not settled by a longshot at that position. Alexander might be ideal in Dallas. With MBIII still not under contract and asking for a huge deal and the Cowboys looking at drafting another RB at the top of this draft..who knows if MBIII will be here after 2008.
The gamble to stash Alexander on the team could be well worth it for both the team and the player by the tme 2008 ends and we shake out where it all ends up at the position.
And I'd love to see Alexander make a comeback with us. That would be some amount of re-couping of those lost draft picks for us giving up those 2 #1's for Galloway in some measure if he produced for us DTR.
I'm for it and taking a look as long as it's not too costly.
We'll see.
:starspin ReDBaLL ExPreSS:starspin
