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The sudden focus on reconstructing a top-flight offensive line wasn't all Jerry Jones' idea. Tony Romo had a hand in it, too.
Jones has a reputation for loving to take credit for almost anything that pairs the Cowboys and success. He makes the final call, so there's no doubt that he decided to take left tackle Tyron Smith, center Travis Frederick and right guard Zack Martin in the first round of three of the last four drafts.
There was a concerted effort for the offensive line to be a strong point of the team, Jones explained, because not too long ago Dallas had a stable of Pro Bowl-level maulers and knew he could build a team around them. During his weekly radio spot on 105.5 The Fan, Jones noted players like Flozell Adams, Andre Gurode and Larry Allen had been the backbone of the team in the mid-2000s. All three of those players made at least five Pro Bowls.
They had all departed by 2010, and the next season, Dallas drafted Smith ninth overall. The rest, well, it might be history — we don't know just yet.
"The idea was Tony always told me, he said 'Now Jerry, I can see the right tackle and I can make that guy miss me if the right tackle doesn’t get his block. But he said I got to have protection on my blindside … I need to feel like we’re not getting pushed around, we’re soft in the middle. That really does influence me in terms of how much I can stand in there, how quickly I can spin and turn out, so to speak,'" Jones said Tuesday. "So there’s no question we’ve been wanting to get Tony confident in what his offensive line is about.
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No mention of Garrett's master plan to rebuild the ol
Jones has a reputation for loving to take credit for almost anything that pairs the Cowboys and success. He makes the final call, so there's no doubt that he decided to take left tackle Tyron Smith, center Travis Frederick and right guard Zack Martin in the first round of three of the last four drafts.
There was a concerted effort for the offensive line to be a strong point of the team, Jones explained, because not too long ago Dallas had a stable of Pro Bowl-level maulers and knew he could build a team around them. During his weekly radio spot on 105.5 The Fan, Jones noted players like Flozell Adams, Andre Gurode and Larry Allen had been the backbone of the team in the mid-2000s. All three of those players made at least five Pro Bowls.
They had all departed by 2010, and the next season, Dallas drafted Smith ninth overall. The rest, well, it might be history — we don't know just yet.
"The idea was Tony always told me, he said 'Now Jerry, I can see the right tackle and I can make that guy miss me if the right tackle doesn’t get his block. But he said I got to have protection on my blindside … I need to feel like we’re not getting pushed around, we’re soft in the middle. That really does influence me in terms of how much I can stand in there, how quickly I can spin and turn out, so to speak,'" Jones said Tuesday. "So there’s no question we’ve been wanting to get Tony confident in what his offensive line is about.
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No mention of Garrett's master plan to rebuild the ol
