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The request for arbitration of the cap penalties imposed on the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins by the NFL has been denied.

ATLANTA (AP) — An NFL official says that an arbitrator has decided to let the league’s salary cap reductions against [...]

Our Writer’s Mock returns with it’s third installment, selections 17 through 24. While our Dallas Cowboys were originally slotted at 14, a trade down to pick up an extra second and a fifth-rounder has Dallas sitting at number 24 hoping all of their like-graded prospects aren’t gone by the time they hit the clock. Surprisingly, [...]

It’s hard sometimes to understand where some people are coming from. You probably know what I mean. You run into an idea or opinion that is just so completely the opposite of how you feel about things that you cannot even imagine why someone would suggest that.

I’m not getting into any specific examples, of course, [...]

The combine starts in exactly ten days, on Feb. 22. Right off the bat, each one of the 318 draft-eligible prospects invited to this year’s combine will be subjected to the toughest test they’ll face at the combine: the Wonderlic Test, or what the NFL euphemistically likes to call the ‘psych test’.

The Wonderlic test is a fifty question [...]

Just when you think you’ve heard all the names that could possibly fall within range of the Cowboys’ 14th pick in the 2012 draft, somebody comes along and smacks you upside the head with a new name.

This week that somebody is Nolan Nawrocki of Pro Football Weekly. Nawrocki isn’t just some dude with an internet access[...]

On Tuesday this week, we looked at how NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock ranked the top five players per position in this year’s draft.

Rankings like that always lead to interesting questions about positional value. Is a tackle more valuable than a corner or a pass rusher? [...]

Lost amidst all the recent additions and subtractions from the Cowboys’ coaching ranks was a bit of news that may prove to have the most positive impact on the Cowboys fortunes in 2012 and beyond: the fact that the Dallas Director of Player Personnel Tom Ciskowski will remain with the team (of course, we were all over it here at BTB; [...]

A lot of the recent discussion about the Cowboys O-line has revolved around the guard position, specifically around David DeCastro as one option for the Cowboys’ first-round pick in the April draft. What has gotten a little lost in that discussion is that the weakest link in the interior offensive line was arguably the center position.[...]

With the 2011 season in the rear-view mirror for Dallas Cowboys fans, I figured it’s time to recap all the fun and glory that was the second successful season of KDP’s 10 For 10 Pick’Em Contest. Oh wait, hookerhome already took care of that! Just kidding! HH has been a lifesaver in keeping up with the results from each week’s contest, and trying to give all the participants reminders [...]

Imagine the Cowboys would have won against the Giants. We’d be in the playoffs. With some luck, we might even have gotten a win against the Falcons in the wild-card round, or perhaps not. In any case, the season would have been considered a moderate success.

We could have looked back on the season and surmised that the Cowboys were actually better than their W/L record indicated. After all, we were just a little unlucky [...]