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Tell you what, though. This Randy Gregory? Just might become the all-time steal of the draft, sort of the Randy Moss heist from 1998 when 20 teams, including the Cowboys, passed on the recalcitrant wide receiver who had been dismissed from two colleges before landing at Marshall University only to blossom into one of the NFL’s all-time best.
Gregory’s collegiate baggage, nearly testing positive for marijuana one too many times for Nebraska’s liking and at the NFL Scouting Combine evidently not to every NFL team’s first-round liking, caused the first-round talent to plummet into the second round, all the way to pick 28, passed over 59 times to that point.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remembers it well.
“I went back in our draft room, we were on the clock. Randy Gregory had been passed over in the first round. We were at our pick in the second, which was down the line,” Jones says of their 60th pick. “I got him on the phone, I said to Gregory, ‘Randy, it’s our time to pick,’ and he said, ‘Mr. Jones, pick me, please pick me.’ He said, ‘If you’ll pick me, I’ll do everything right. I won’t let you down. There’s nothing you can ask me to do that I won’t do. I want to show you I can be mature, be a credit to the Cowboys.’
“And he’s shown it every step of the way.”
Many a team had red-flagged him, as in do-not-touch. My eyebrows were quite arched, too, when the Cowboys rolled the dice on Gregory, but at least not with a first-round pick they might have been tempted to use since Jones has repeatedly admitted their inability to pressure the quarterback last season (28 sacks, fewest since 2002) being the ultimate reason the Cowboys lost that playoff game in Green Bay after the 12-4 season.
Man, so far, so great, although not to get ahead of ourselves since this will be only the second preseason game coming up at 7 p.m. back home on CBS-11. Fitting the kid for that gold jacket just yet might be a tad premature.
But here is what you see out here in practice, and increasingly in that first preseason game. His pass-rush skills are unique. He has an ability to contort his body, twist, get real low coming around the corner on the way to the quarterback. He is not as big as he’s going to be nor as strong, but already they talk of his “heavy hands,” meaning them mitts pack a wallop.
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...=10154209821922814&adbpl=fb&adbpr=99559607813
Gregory’s collegiate baggage, nearly testing positive for marijuana one too many times for Nebraska’s liking and at the NFL Scouting Combine evidently not to every NFL team’s first-round liking, caused the first-round talent to plummet into the second round, all the way to pick 28, passed over 59 times to that point.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remembers it well.
“I went back in our draft room, we were on the clock. Randy Gregory had been passed over in the first round. We were at our pick in the second, which was down the line,” Jones says of their 60th pick. “I got him on the phone, I said to Gregory, ‘Randy, it’s our time to pick,’ and he said, ‘Mr. Jones, pick me, please pick me.’ He said, ‘If you’ll pick me, I’ll do everything right. I won’t let you down. There’s nothing you can ask me to do that I won’t do. I want to show you I can be mature, be a credit to the Cowboys.’
“And he’s shown it every step of the way.”
Many a team had red-flagged him, as in do-not-touch. My eyebrows were quite arched, too, when the Cowboys rolled the dice on Gregory, but at least not with a first-round pick they might have been tempted to use since Jones has repeatedly admitted their inability to pressure the quarterback last season (28 sacks, fewest since 2002) being the ultimate reason the Cowboys lost that playoff game in Green Bay after the 12-4 season.
Man, so far, so great, although not to get ahead of ourselves since this will be only the second preseason game coming up at 7 p.m. back home on CBS-11. Fitting the kid for that gold jacket just yet might be a tad premature.
But here is what you see out here in practice, and increasingly in that first preseason game. His pass-rush skills are unique. He has an ability to contort his body, twist, get real low coming around the corner on the way to the quarterback. He is not as big as he’s going to be nor as strong, but already they talk of his “heavy hands,” meaning them mitts pack a wallop.
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...=10154209821922814&adbpl=fb&adbpr=99559607813
