This year, though, we’ve got some nice weapons coming into camp. Gallup has been rested a whole off-season now, after recovering from his injury. I expect him to be back, full swing. I don’t know how many receivers make the roster or how many, but I expect my boy Jalen Moreno-Cropper to show up to camp. If I have my eye on any player during camp, it’s going to be him. I want to see him fight his way onto the team, because he has to, if he’s going to make it. I know one thing. Jalen Tolbert looks in shape. But that’s what everyone thought about him last year, too. He looked flashy in the off-season. Come football time, he disappeared. Jalen Cropper is totally the opposite. This kid knows football. He had a supportive football family, so he’s been around it since he was very young. I expect him to push for a spot, on the field. My biggest fear is he’ll get pushed off the roster by a less talented player, and have a great career elsewhere. Like some felt about John Ridgeway last year.
That said, this roster is stacked. Pretty much from top to bottom. Even if we have to roll with Cooper Rush, I think this team is cut out for a QB like Rush. Dak can make it that much better with his athleticism. The thing about Dak is he really hasn’t ever thrown that many interceptions. I think he’s a great player. Then again, I still think Cooper Rush is somewhat underrated, too, as a player.
Mostly, I don’t have much to say, other than I’m very happy to have most players back from last year. That’s the whole thing with Zeke. If he comes back, he’s going to have to come back in a new role, and I think a FB-oriented role might suit him, say, if Fant, Luepke don’t work out for that role. The Cowboys say, they don’t want to insult him.. Well, the biggest insult was cutting him and not making any offer. But it does send a message. They paid him when he was super good. Then he came back the next couple of year and was just good, not super good. So, it ended up bad. Oh, well. I just expect to hear the Zeke drama as camp nears. It’ll be interesting to see what happens, and who makes this team, who doesn’t.
I know we’ll have several players poached, just like last year, so that’ll be interesting to see as well. I feel like they’ve done well in the past assembling rosters. So we’ll see how that goes.
Now that our draft picks are in, I’d say my pet cats are pretty much all of them. I’m like the pet cat lady this year, for the draft. I actually like all of our players. I can see the Cowboys keeping 6 WRs again this year. But this year, they’ll have the players at other positions to do it.
That’ll wrap it up until things finally get started. Man, that was a long off-season….
