Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the Dallas Cowboys defensive, the Cowboys placed defensive end Marcus Spears and rookie safety Akwasi Owusu-Ansah on injured reserve. Owusu-Ansah was retuning kicks for the team and Spears was coming into his own playing opposite DeMarcus Ware.

To fill the two roster spots, the Cowboys are signing defensive ends Jeremy Clark and Jimmy Saddler-McQueen to address depth at that position.

Cowboys WR Roy Williams, coming off his best performance as a Cowboys, said he would get his revenge on rookie WR Dez Bryant, and on Monday night it was time to pay the piper! According to Calvin Watkins of ESPNDallas.com, Byrant offered to bring the Cowboys offensive unit to dinner at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse.

As a way to get back at the rookie for the training camp incident where Bryant wouldn’t carry Williams shoulder pads into the locker room, Williams decided to invite the defense as well. With all the extra mouths at the dinner, the bill came to just under $55,000. Apparently, some of the players took home some very expensive bottles of wine.

David Wells, Bryant’s adviser said,

They got the young fella. What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month.”

That must been one heck a of a dinner, and I imagine the wait staff got a pretty hefty tip as well.

Next time Dez, carry the damn shoulder pads!

Ex-Cowboy Michael Irvin, one of the greatest wide receivers in Cowboys history, had some interesting things to say about current Cowboys WR Roy Williams. While making his Super Bowl prediction on NFL Network Irvin said,

I won’t take Dallas until Dallas has whatever it needs to stop playing 10 vs. 11. And with Roy Williams on the field, they’re playing 10 vs. 11. Now, if they put the young boy Dez Bryant in? You better believe I’ll take Dallas.”

Hear that? 10 vs 11.

According to the Dallas Morning News, in 25 regular-season games with the Cowboys, Williams was the target of 128 passes from QB Tony Romo. He only caught 57 of them. And once again during the preseason, Williams and Romo did appear to be on the same page.

Don’t worry Michael. These things will work themselves out on their own and once Dez starts producing more than Roy on the field, the Cowboys will be hard pressed to keep Bryant out of the starting lineup. In my opinion, the Cowboys traded the wrong player to the Chargers. They should have kept Crayton and shipped Roy to San Diego.

Miles Austin has signed a six-year contract extension worth about $54 million with the Cowboys on Thursday. Add the $3 million salary he received for his one-year restricted free agent tender this season, and that brings his total to about $57 million over seven years. That’s big time!

Austin said,

It feels great to be wanted by this team because I want to be here. I wanted to be here all along. My career started here. You guys gave me a shot and obviously I put my all out here every day, and I’m going to continue to do that and hopefully for a long time.”

Looks like Miles is here to stay and that is a good thing. Right now, QB Tony Romo is on the same page with two players, Miles and TE Jason Witten. Hopfully, Miles will put up the kinds of numbers worthy of such a lucrative contract. Go Miles!

So much for all the critics! What do they all know anyways? Today, Cowboys rookie WR Dez Bryant, selected 24th overall, squashed all their doubt and uncertainly regarding the possibility of him looking to get paid top 10 money and becoming a rookie hold out.

Dez became the first first-round draft pick of the 2010 NFL Draft to sign a contact with his team. Bryant’s deal puts to rest all the naysayers and guarantees the rookie wide receiver will be on the practice field when the Cowboys open training camp practices in San Antonio on Saturday.

Bryant said in a statement,

This was very important to me to be able to get this done in time for the first practice. I want to help this team. I want to compete. I can’t wait to start playing football again.”

Bryant signed a five-year deal worth a reported $11.8 million dollars with $8.5 million dollars guaranteed. The contract is just shy of last year’s 24th pick, Peria Jerry, ($13.25 million), but has more guaranteed dollars than Peria’s $7.55M guaranteed.

Bryant also said,

This was my call. I told Eugene (his agent) that I wanted to be in camp on time. I just want to play football.”

And so here he is, signed and ready to play in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys. Forget the past kid, go out and make then say, “WOW!” Bryant is nor worried about playing time or even starting, but he wants to be on the field. “Don’t get me wrong. I would love to start, but I don’t care about it,” Dez said. “I just want to earn my playing time and do whatever it takes to help this team.”

Roy Williams, you have just been put on notice!

The Dallas Cowboys have finalized their training camp schedule for 2010, and it looks like they will split time between Texas and California. Two large states for one big team!

The Cowboys will open camp in San Antonio, TX on Friday, July 23rd and close camp in San Antonio on Friday, August 6th. At that point, the Cowboys will head to Canton for the Hall of Fame game between the Cincinnati Bengals. They will then return to Dallas for their game versus the Oakland Raiders on Thurs., Aug. 12 then head to California to finish up training camp at the Marriott Residence Inn River Ridge Complex in Oxnard, CA.

The teams full training camp schedule is below.

	Fri., July 23: Training camp opens to media in San Antonio Sat., July 24: Practices begin in San Antonio Fri., Aug. 6: Break camp in San Antonio
	Sat., Aug. 7: Team travels from DFW to Canton Sat., Aug. 7: Emmitt Smith Hall of Fame Induction – 7 p.m. (ET) Fawcett Stadium Sun., Aug. 8: HOF Game, Fawcett Stadium – 8 p.m. (ET) Dallas vs. Cincinnati
	Tues., Aug. 10-Wed., Aug. 11: Practices in Dallas (closed to the public) Thurs., Aug. 12: 8 p.m. (CT) – Dallas vs. Oakland
	Fri., Aug. 13: Travel to California Sat., Aug. 14: Practices begin in Oxnard Fri., Aug. 20: Travel to San Diego Sat., Aug. 21: 6 p.m. (PT) – Dallas @ San Diego Fri., Aug. 27: Break Camp in Oxnard – Travel to Houston
	Sat., Aug. 28: 7 p.m. (CT) — Dallas @ Houston Tues., Aug. 31: Practice resumes at Valley Ranch Thurs., Sept. 2: 7 p.m. (CT) — Dallas vs. Miami

After months of speculation, it is official, Terry Glenn is no longer a Dallas Cowboy.

There were three players who missed the start of training camp. Both first round rookies, Felix Jones and Mike Jenkins who had not reached a contract agreement with the Cowboys and Glenn, who was asked to sign an injury waiver. For a brief moment on Friday it appeared as if all three would be signing and joining the team for practice on Saturday.

It was a very brief moment.

During the late afternoon practice, Cowboys Owner and GM Jerry Jones told the media that the Cowboys would be releasing the veteran wide receiver. It was a pretty cut and dry decision by Jerry and it does not appear that it had anything to do with the fact the Glenn had refused to sign the $500,000 injury waiver. It appears that the Cowboys are moving forward with the young receivers and hoping that they can step up and contribute along side veteran stand out Terrell Owens.

Good move? Bad move? Only time will tell.

Now, I cannot confirm this as of right now – been pretty hard communicating with anyone in the states, since I am still in London. It is almost 1am, early Tuesday morning in London which is around 6pm in Los Angeles, but here is the deal everyone in the states will hear sometime tomorrow during the day and folks out here in London tomorrow night.

Tony Romo is getting a BIG FAT contract! Jerry Jones, Romo and the Cowboys organization are having a press conference tomorrow and will be announcing that Romo is getting a 6-Year, $68 million extension. The contract will include $30 million guaranteed.

Jerry Jones knows how to make someone feel secure in his job and I think he has seen enough. How much more confident will Romo be playing the rest of the season and the rest of his football career knowing he is secure financially.

Good job to Jerry getting this done. Hopefully, I am right on this one, and I do not look like a boob when my plane touches down tomorrow at LAX around 4pm.

With the Cowboys needing help on the defensive side of the ball, with the season ending injury to Jason Ferguson, they went out and nabbed a “tank” to help out later on in the season.

The Dallas Cowboys signed suspended defensive tackle Terry “Tank” Johnson to a two year deal. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.

According to both head coach QB Wade Phillips and owner QB Jerry Jones, the Cowboys were already doing the research on Johnson. This was something they were already looking into and it was not something done to fill a need.

Steven’s take:
I do not like this signing at all. Do I believe in giving people a second chance? Yes.

However, I believe Tank Johnson was already given a 2nd and even a 3rd chance in Chicago. I am not sure he has learned anything from his past mistakes. I certainly hope he proves me wrong and he stays out of trouble. Right now, the Cowboys are on a roll and the last thing they need are distractions.

The Cowboys have their share of players that are all banged up, but the news is getting worse for their regular-season opener against their division rival, the New York Giants.

Head coach Wade Phillips confirmed in his press conference on Friday that WR Terry Glenn will not play against the Giants. Phillips also informed the media that the Cowboys medical staff is in the process of gathering more information on the knee injury that will sideline Glenn. Glenn was re-injured during his first practice after having arthroscopic knee surgery on the 1st of August.

Phillips also said that this knee injury is a new one, and does not relate to Glenn’s previous injury and that the receiver’s status beyond Sunday is not known.

Matt Mosley of ESPN, is reporting that Terry Glenn is actually out for the season, but that the Cowboys do not want to go public with that just yet. We shall see, and a story definitely worth keeping a close eye on.

Other injuries that are of concern, CB Terrance Newman missed practice again and although some feel he will be ready to go on Sunday night, others are not that sure. The defensive side of the ball has the most injuries. Besides Newman, the Cowboys are still unsure of LBs Greg Ellis and Kevin Burnett.

Steven’s Take:
Glenn will be missed, but if the Cowboys have strength on offense it is their receiving corp. WR Patrick Crayton will fill the No. 2 spot behind T.O. and Sam Mills and Miles Austin will have to step up and contribute. Look for TE Jason Witten to get more looks as well as RB Marion Barber to make catches coming out of the backfield.

The defensive side of the ball is where the Cowboys should be concerned. With the aggressive 3-4 defense the Cowboys will be running, linebackers are a necessity. With the injuries to Ellis and Burnett, the Cowboys will have 6 healthy linebackers, meaning they will only be able to rotate 2 players in and out of the lineup.