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Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor answered your questions in his weekly e-mail newsletter - Inside the Dallas Cowboys. Here are some highlights.
Q: I hope that you can talk with Jerry to make him understand how important it is to sign or trade for — depending on a new CBA — Nnamdi Asomugha. We need him, and more important, we don’t need the stinking’ Eagles to sign him.
Steven Schreier
TAYLOR: I love your passion, but you can’t ever sign someone or draft someone primarily to keep them away from someone else. We don’t know what the rules of free agency will be, so we don’t know how much sense it makes to keep or release Terence Newman. And with a disjointed off-season, continuity reigns. More important, I don’t know that Jerry wants to pay a cornerback an average of $15 million a season.
Q: How noteworthy is it that if the Cowboys hadn't passed on Rashard Mendenhall three years ago, they wouldn't have had to spend a third-round pick on yet another running back?
Michael Roper
TAYLOR: It’s hard to say that, really. We don’t know how he would’ve assimilated into the team or the offense. The Steelers’ power running game may fit him better than the Cowboys’ multiple offense that focuses on its passing game. He’s never really been a good blocker, so maybe he would’ve been in the doghouse or lost confidence because the Cowboys didn’t use him on third down. Who knows? He’s a great fit for Pittsburgh , and I would’ve taken him because he’s a featured running back – not a niche guy like Felix Jones. But we can’t say for sure he would’ve been good in Dallas.
Q: I hope that you can talk with Jerry to make him understand how important it is to sign or trade for — depending on a new CBA — Nnamdi Asomugha. We need him, and more important, we don’t need the stinking’ Eagles to sign him.
Steven Schreier
TAYLOR: I love your passion, but you can’t ever sign someone or draft someone primarily to keep them away from someone else. We don’t know what the rules of free agency will be, so we don’t know how much sense it makes to keep or release Terence Newman. And with a disjointed off-season, continuity reigns. More important, I don’t know that Jerry wants to pay a cornerback an average of $15 million a season.
Q: How noteworthy is it that if the Cowboys hadn't passed on Rashard Mendenhall three years ago, they wouldn't have had to spend a third-round pick on yet another running back?
Michael Roper
TAYLOR: It’s hard to say that, really. We don’t know how he would’ve assimilated into the team or the offense. The Steelers’ power running game may fit him better than the Cowboys’ multiple offense that focuses on its passing game. He’s never really been a good blocker, so maybe he would’ve been in the doghouse or lost confidence because the Cowboys didn’t use him on third down. Who knows? He’s a great fit for Pittsburgh , and I would’ve taken him because he’s a featured running back – not a niche guy like Felix Jones. But we can’t say for sure he would’ve been good in Dallas.
