Cowboys Trade For LB Rolando McClain

[NoDak]

Laugh if you want

Thanks.

 

[Simpleton]

RKG right here.

 

[ravidubey]

Low risk of loss in terms of draft picks but definite loss in terms of managing a head case.

I still remember Alonzo Spellman swinging four roundhouse punches in a nationally televised game. His only real contribution was breaking Greg Ellis' leg and severely setting back what was looking like the start of a very promising career.

The constant effort to support bipolar semi-whack-jobs like this guy is an unseen burden on any franchise.

 

[data]

I'd rather have drafted a 6th round QB

 

[ravidubey]

I'd rather have drafted a 6th round QB

 

[data]

 

[Smitty]

He's only 24, and was once considered a top LB talent. If he works out, great. If he doesn't, oh well. BFD.

I don't see much wrong with a move like this. Little risk for maybe a big gain. Even if it is a long shot.

Maybe I'm missing something, but didn't he retire? Doesn't that mean he doesn't want to play football anymore?

If we just traded ANYTHING for a guy who doesn't want to ever suit up for us, or any team, ever again, then it was pretty fricking dumb.

 

[boozeman]

Maybe I'm missing something, but didn't he retire? Doesn't that mean he doesn't want to play football anymore?

If we just traded ANYTHING for a guy who doesn't want to ever suit up for us, or any team, ever again, then it was pretty fricking dumb.

No way, man. In NoDak's cool guy world, BFD.

 

[L.T. Fan]

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Low risk of loss in terms of draft picks but definite loss in terms of managing a head case.

I still remember Alonzo Spellman swinging four roundhouse punches in a nationally televised game. His only real contribution was breaking Greg Ellis' leg and severely setting back what was looking like the start of a very promising career.

The constant effort to support bipolar semi-whack-jobs like this guy is an unseen burden on any franchise.

It's a shot. It might work and it might not but if not he goes and nothing is lost. It's not even a gamble because he had got to play before Dallas has anything at risk. If he plays then it was a good move. About being a head case, the team has folks that specialize in that. It's like playing on house money.

 

[NoDak]

No way, man. In NoDak's cool guy world, BFD.

Looks like somebody needs a hug.

 

[data]

I'm waiting for the first mention of Demetrius Underwood

 

[E_D_Guapo]

From a story during this year's minicamp (May 19 2014)

The eighth head coach in franchise history also helped clarify what is a “right kind of guy,” a term synonymous with the Jason Garrett era.

“I think there are a lot of different things,” said Garrett. “We want guys on our football team who are good people, who love to play the game of football, who play with passion, emotion, enthusiasm, work hard, team oriented, competitive, tough – all of those things; a lot of different intangible qualities. Loving football has a lot to do with being the right kind of guy.”

It's pretty much a no-risk move so I don't really care, but it's just funny that the head coach made these comments 6 weeks ago. McClain is literally the opposite of everything he is saying here.

 

[Jon88]

Given the history we had with Spellman and Umderwood I'm confident we can make him work out for at least a season.

 

[UncleMilti]

Wait till NoDak finds out that it was actually McClain who planted the Thermite at the WTC.

 

[Clay_Allison]

Laugh if you want, but there the dumb ass was, lamenting about it, even after Edgar Jones actually made the team.

If we signed him off the street, no big deal.

We actually traded potential value for a player on the Reserve-Retired list.

I would love to hear where that ever worked out for anyone, if it ever has ever happened.

Fill me in, cool guy.

Chuck Howley was retired due to a career ending injury and I think we had to trade something to the bears to get his rights.

 

[gator]

It sounds like Ozzie called up GMs across the league to shop his "motivated" retired linebacker and Jerry took the bait.

What a dumb fish.

 

[Clay_Allison]

Chuck Howley was retired due to a career ending injury and I think we had to trade something to the bears to get his rights.

Won't let me edit, so I'll quote. I checked and we gave up a second and a ninth round pick to acquire him.

 

[DLK150]

What, did Calvin Hill poke his head inside Jerrah's office and say "Hey, JJ...Since it seems Dez has kind of cleaned up his act, I'm getting kind of bored. Any misfits out there you'd be willing to take a flyer on?"

Yeah the guy has some talent but criminy, hasn't he been in trouble like half a dozen times or something like that since he was drafted? Sometimes I think JJ uses a magic eight ball to make decisions.

 

[Cotton]

Agent says Rolando McClain is committed to football this time

Posted by Darin Gantt on July 2, 2014, 8:20 AM EDT


Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

Former top-10 pick Rolando McClain hasn’t played in an NFL game since November 2012, but his agent says this comeback is different, after the Cowboys traded for his rights yesterday.

“He sounds as excited about football as I’ve ever heard him,” agent, Pat Dye told Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com.

The Cowboys certainly have a need at middle linebacker, with Sean Lee’s torn ACL which will cost him the season. And they certainly didn’t give up much for the chance to work with the twice-retired McClain, swapping a sixth-rounder for a seventh with the Ravens to complete the transaction.

Now the only question is whether McClain is ready to commit himself to football.

“I see, and Rolando sees, the Dallas situation as a great opportunity given Sean’s injury, and you’re talking about a great franchise and a great organization,” Dye said. “I’ve described to any of the clients we’ve had through the years there — Emmitt Smith, Dexter Coakley, DeMarcus Ware, Marcus Spears, Keith Brooking, DeMarco Murray — that playing for the Cowboys in football is kind of like playing for the Yankees in baseball. Just an iconic franchise.

“With kind of what he’s done going back to his time with the Raiders, I think that all of this has led him to a point where he feels like the game is too important to him to give up. He’s just 24 years old. He’s very talented. He’s very bright. Tough. Competitive. There’s a reason he was a top-10 pick at a position that is almost impossible to be a top-10 pick. Hopefully this situation will go smoothly.”

Perhaps it will. But last year was supposed to go smoothly as well.

When the Ravens signed him, it seemed like a natural fit, with a stable, winning organization, and a General Manager in Ozzie Newsome who shared his Alabama pedigree. Obviously, that didn’t last, and he didn’t play a snap for the Ravens before giving it up.

We’ll see if the star means that much to him. If it does, the Cowboys may have done good business. If not, they only wasted a few spots of draft position for the effort.

 

[NoDak]

“He sounds as excited about football as I’ve ever heard him,” agent, Pat Dye told Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com.

Considering he's his agent, I wouldn't expect him to say anything else.

But with that being said, I guess it's possible. Maybe he's matured some the last few years. Finally realizing he's thisclose to losing out on a very lucrative career that up until the last couple years had just been handed to him on God given talent alone. Maybe he's willing to put in the work to try and make something of it. Maybe, maybe not. But imo, it's worth the risk of a conditional 6th.