LeBreton: Vanderjagt More Important Signing than T.O.
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| Friday, March 24, 2006 |
Veteran sportswriter Gil LeBreton argues, convincingly, that “[Mike] Vanderjagt could end up making more of an impact on the Cowboys’ final 2006 record than Terrell Owens will.”
No one should have to remind Cowboys fans of this, but three times last season a field goal — either by Jose Cortez or Billy Cundiff –would have averted a heartbreaking fourth-quarter defeat. That would have turned a 9-7 also-ran into a 12-4 division winner. And how different would this Cowboys off-season have seemed then?
If you groaned aloud, therefore, at Owner Jones’ Thursday acquisition of Vanderjagt, you’re just not doing the arithmetic. Vanderjagt could end up making more of an impact on the Cowboys’ final 2006 record than Terrell Owens will.
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A team with championship ambitions can’t afford not to have a dependable place-kicker. The NFL record books show that the Cowboys just signed the most dependable kicker of all time. I’m guessing that Parcells’ cardiologist also approves of the signing.
Forget the Pittsburgh kick. Three years and $5.4 million isn’t much for a guy who could end up being a playoff team’s MVP.
Indeed not.
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