Cowboys news: Mini-camp an important date for some players

Cowboys news: Mini-camp an important date for some players

certain players rely heavily on certain offseason calendar days.

1. QB Trey Lance

This is the clear elephant in the room. The Cowboys want to get as many looks as possible at the quarterback for whom they traded a fourth-round draft pick, and minicamp will provide them with another opportunity. Mike McCarthy claims Lance has improved, even adding “he’s close to being a master of the system” and “has a really high understanding” of the offense. However, Lance requires the repetitions. All of them matter, including the ones in June.

2. Cooper Beebe

Although the third-round rookie will not earn the starting job until the pads are on, it will be critical to observe how many first-team reps he receives and, more significantly, who is giving him a run for his money. Brock Hoffman, T.J. Bass, and even Dakoda Shepley have received reps at center, and the Cowboys coaching staff appears to be approaching it as a free-for-all competition. Does Beebe start to differentiate himself?

The success of the other local teams has turned Jerry Jones and the Cowboys into a meme, Moore writes, but cautions not to make it more than what it is and provides some historical perspective.

The truth is the Cowboys lend context to what’s currently transpiring. The Cowboys are, like it or not, the standard by which these other local franchises are judged.

How about this one: How many championships has each franchise won?

Mavericks: 1

Stars: 1

Rangers: 1

Add those together, and it equals the number of Super Bowl championships the Cowboys have won. Well, the number they have won under the ownership of Jerry Jones. Throw in those two others before he assumed control and the total is five.

That may not resonate in today’s, “Come on, I mean Billie Eilish hasn’t had a global hit in weeks’’ world, but it makes a difference.

Individual championships excite. The chase for the title enthralls and energizes the fan base. But a franchise with multiple championships endures. The loyalty that accomplishment inspires runs deep and crosses generational lines. It extends the expiration date on goodwill.

The Cowboys pushed Pittsburgh as the 1970s’ best team, but fell short. Dallas was the team of the 1990s. Have the Rangers ever been considered the team of the decade in Major League Baseball? What about the Mavs and the Stars? Sure, Bill Clinton was president the last time the Cowboys won the Lombardi Trophy. Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News, and actor Mel Gibson won an Academy Award for Braveheart. All of this demonstrates that what the Cowboys did was ancient history.

But consider this: now that the Mavericks have gone to the NBA Finals, will they be treated equally because each organization has won one title in the preceding 16 years, or will the Celtics be lauded as NBA royalty up against an unintentional tourist? History matters.

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