He’s opening a brand new, $1.5 billion dollar stadium. To make sure the team on the field matches the quality of the building they’re playing in, Jones has gone through and weeded the team of any problematic players.

Adam “Pac-Man” Jones got his marching papers, then probably made it rain with them. Greg Ellis and Terrell Owens got released and signed with other teams. So did Tank Johnson, but somehow it didn’t seem right to put his name beside Ellis and Owens.

Jones cleared all these players out because they were diseases. They spread through the locker room and turned the team upside-down late in the season last year.

My question for Jones is this: Did you get everyone?

The name that sticks out to me still is 2nd year tight end Martellus Bennett. His attitude problems were well-documented on last year’s Hard Knocks miniseries that followed the Cowboys through training camp and the preseason. He’s had some public relations hiccups as well, considering his now-famous “Black Olympics” video and raps with explicit, race-related content.

This was a knock on Bennett before he even left college, as scouts often said that Bennett was best remembered for something he would say after the game more than for any play he ever made in a game.

I’ve seen Bennett on tv several times before, and as a frequent viewer of his Marty B TV, I know he’s a young man that likes to have fun. But at what point does all that fun start to affect someone on a football field?

In a way, it follows all the things in the news about Tony Romo recently; nothing football-related. And that’s a concern.

I like that Bennett wants to have fun. Good, let him have his fun. Let him make episodes for his internet TV show and write his blogs (they’re pretty hilarious most of the time), but when he isn’t being a multimedia mogul, he has to prove that he’s worth the occasional headache he creates.

In his first season, he was probably one of the more impressive tight ends and he put up numbers comparable to most rookie wide receivers. He gave the Cowboys offense another tight end who could cause tremendous matchup problems. You could say that he’s on his way to being a premier tight end in this league.

Or, if he keeps messing around, he could find himself out of a job in Dallas.

“We can fast forward through this preseason, through the regular season, get to the playoffs and get to the Super Bowl or whatever and be there now. But so much of the fun and so much of the excitement is this whole process. I mean, it’s the old saying: The journey is the funnest part.”

Let me be the first to say that what Romo should do is REWIND, because the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback, or anyone on that team, does not have the authority to make statements like that. Maybe I am misinterpreting it, and possibly so, but no one on this team should be talking Super Bowl before a game is even played. Leave that to us.

Believe it or not, I think it is telling that only three or four bloggers in the Fansided Network actually picked the Cowboys to win it all. People have seen enough of the playoff blunders. We fans vividly remember the Seahawks game. I am still not over the loss to the Giants last season, what I consider to be the worst loss I have ever witnessed in my 34 years as a fan. 

So, step back, Tony. No need to put more pressure on the team or yourself. Because what we have seen for the last 12 years is no one has been able to handle that pressure very well.

Well, after three shows have aired, we are sorry to disappoint you that it has been all business, where stars try to become champions and work hard to run down their dreams. There is no drama. There are no shoot outs, no fights, no disagreements, no strippers, no drugs and no girlfriends. It is all business. We are so sorry.

“When you get here in camp, you are playing football,” said quarterback Tony Romo.

The third of four shows was boring, uneventful and almost too lovey-dovey.

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