Last season, the Dallas Cowboys traded 1st, 3rd and 6th round picks in this years draft to Detroit for wide receiver Roy Williams to be the number 2 wideout behind Terrell Owens. After arriving, Williams caught all of 19 passes and 1 touchdown for the Boys. This season, TO is gone and Roy Williams finds himself at the top of depth chart in Big D. Can he handle the upgrade?
Past Cowboy greats Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders all have their doubts. So do I… After going to Dallas, Williams professed his love of being a Cowboy and being thrilled to return to his roots in Texas. A college superstar at the University of Texas, the former Longhorn indicated that he was ready for big things in Dallas after leaving the perennial losers, the Detroit Lions. Unfortunately, that prediction has not translated to the field though Roy blames that on lack of work with quarterback Tony Romo and a painful foot injury he played through last season.
Curiously, Williams is getting support from a former Cowboy wide receiver, all time great Drew Pearson (who as the original number 88, needs to be put into the Cowboys Ring of Honor at the next opportunity!) who says Williams gets a pass from last season and with his size and talent, should fly high this season in Dallas. Traditionally Pearson has been a little less optimistic when evaluating the current crop of Cowboys, so time will tell if he’s correct this time around.
Bottom line for me, Roy Williams needs to produce big time this year. The rumors of poor practice habits better go out the window as he realigns his gears from Detroit speed to Dallas speed. The Cowboys took a huge risk letting TO go and anointing Williams heir apparent. Only Roy can prove whether that risk was warranted or not!
The Dallas Cowboys are now Tony Romo’s team. Yes, they have been his team since he signed up as an undrafted free agent years ago, but now the crosshairs are squarely on Number 9. The report on the Terrell Owens Twitter over the weekend has made the City of Dallas atwitter over the “revelation” that it was ”the OC and Romo” that ran him out of town. This is the first season that Romo will not have Owens to throw to, and for Dallas to succeed, he and Garrett better be correct that they are better off without TO.
Do Dallas Cowboy fans see anything wrong with the picture to the right? Yes sir, that is Terrell Owens, the Cowboys top receiver the last three years (actually the last 10 years going back to Michael Irvin) with a BUFFALO BILLS backdrop behind him. I have been catching the talking heads giving their predictions for the 2009 football season and every one I heard expects the Cowboys to do better this year. Why? Well it’s addition by subtraction of course… Huh?!? 
Do these two idiots look like they know what they are doing?!? A Superbowl contending team previously, the Dallas Cowboys have been effectively dismantled by soft coaching and softer heads. The Cowboys wasted their 2009 NFL draft! True enough the actual draft occurred for the Cowboys when they traded for wide receiver Roy Williams last year, but a team that faltered and subsequently failed in 2008 needed to do something last weekend. The trendy preaseason Superbowl pick last year, Dallas stumbled in December again and completely missed the playoffs. After listening to all the nonsense coming out of Big D this year, one would expect an effective and well thought out draft. Armed with 11 picks, the Cowboys had enough to move around and grab a couple of impact players despite not having a first round pick. Instead, the Cowboys played the “value” card and completely traded out of day 1. What a crock! The Patriots and Belichek played the value card also and, oh by the way, made four 2nd round picks. Four! That’s outstanding if you are a Patriots fan and troubling for everyone else. Meanwhile Jerry and Wade traded down, reached in the third round for more Linebackers (Wade’s favorite position), and picked up a dozen no-names and stiffs. What the ___?! I almost puked when the ESPN roving reporter stated the the Cowboys felt that the draft was a crapshoot (my word) and that you miss on half the draft picks, so you need to go for quantity versus quality… Huh?! Did the Eagles or Patriots, Steelers or Packers feel like they needed to make 12 picks to improve their teams? Heck you don’t even need to go out of the division… The Eagles got Jeremy Maclin, the Redskins got Brian Orakpo and the Giants got Hakeem Nicks. Each team addressed major needs and helped themselves out; the Cowboys? They picked up special teams guys and back-ups. The Cowboys had great drafts with Jerry and Jimmy and Jerry and Bill. The thing Jerry needs to remember… He had nothing to do with it!
