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Cowboys Coping With Sudden Loss of Markus Paul
The Dallas Cowboys organization and people around football pay tribute to the team s beloved strength and conditioning coach, Markus Paul.
Regrets, we've had a few.
Here is one of mine.
Not getting to know Cowboys strength and conditioning coordinator Markus Paul better than I had during his three years with the Dallas Cowboys. The shame of that is not discovering my loss until after he passed away tragically on Wednesday, Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving and less than 24 hours before the Cowboys were to play Washington in the annual holiday classic.
Dying unexpectantly at the tender age of 54 is heartbreaking enough. But suffering the medical emergency he did – what Cowboys owner Jerry Jones termed a stroke – in his weight room office at The Star that Tuesday morning, less than an hour before the Cowboys' team meeting, intensified the pain of this organization.
Let special teams coordinator John Fassel explain the emotions of that day.
"Pretty extreme, to be honest with you. I was rounding, I was rounding – sorry, just a minute please," Fassel began, pausing for a good 10 seconds to compose himself during his conference call three days later. "We had a 7:30 special teams meeting Tuesday morning, and I was in the locker room about five minutes before the meeting was going to start, just kind of rounding guys up. And one of the trainers came racing through with, um, the defibrillator, and I followed him into the weight room and, um, was a witness to everything that happened. It was hard, hard to see."
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The Dallas Cowboys organization and people around football pay tribute to the team s beloved strength and conditioning coach, Markus Paul.
Regrets, we've had a few.
Here is one of mine.
Not getting to know Cowboys strength and conditioning coordinator Markus Paul better than I had during his three years with the Dallas Cowboys. The shame of that is not discovering my loss until after he passed away tragically on Wednesday, Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving and less than 24 hours before the Cowboys were to play Washington in the annual holiday classic.
Dying unexpectantly at the tender age of 54 is heartbreaking enough. But suffering the medical emergency he did – what Cowboys owner Jerry Jones termed a stroke – in his weight room office at The Star that Tuesday morning, less than an hour before the Cowboys' team meeting, intensified the pain of this organization.
Let special teams coordinator John Fassel explain the emotions of that day.
"Pretty extreme, to be honest with you. I was rounding, I was rounding – sorry, just a minute please," Fassel began, pausing for a good 10 seconds to compose himself during his conference call three days later. "We had a 7:30 special teams meeting Tuesday morning, and I was in the locker room about five minutes before the meeting was going to start, just kind of rounding guys up. And one of the trainers came racing through with, um, the defibrillator, and I followed him into the weight room and, um, was a witness to everything that happened. It was hard, hard to see."
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