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With the NFL in a lockout and the players unable to train in official NFL facilities there isn’t much to do if you’re an NFL player. This is evidenced by the fact that there is a growing number of NFL players who are finding themselves in a bit of legal trouble. The cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys, Bryan McCann, is the latest NFL player to find themselves in potential legal trouble.

A news station in Dallas, Texas has reported that Bryan McCann was arrested early Saturday morning for public intoxication. Official police reports have not been released but there’s speculation about what has occurred. The speculation includes that Bryan McCann was arrested early Saturday morning and taking to the main Dallas detox center at 3 AM. He was released eight hours later after being declared able to go home on his own.

Bryan McCann has denied any public intoxication and released a statement early Sunday through his agent. The statement denied any public intoxication and thanked friends, family members, coaches and teammates for their support and understanding. It also further thanked the American public for being understanding allowing due process to show the world that he was innocent of the charges filed against him.

Bryan McCann was a free agent with the Dallas Cowboys signed and played in a total in nine games last season. His biggest highlight in his first year as the Dallas Cowboys was 101 yard interception for a touchdown against the New York Giants. He is also known for a 97 yard punt return in a game against the Detroit Lions.

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It was misleading.

It took an 80-yard fumble recovery return from safety Barry Church to make it happen, and he should have gotten into the end zone. But Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers didn’t give up on the play and weaved through three Cowboys to make the tackle at the Chargers’ 8-yard line.

The first-team touchdown came only after a drop by tight end Jason Witten inside the 5.

The Cowboys’ offensive numbers were bad, at least for the first team.

Tony Romo finished the first half with a quarterback rating of 37.3. He threw an interception and misfired on two passes to Miles Austin. He threw a third pass to Austin that was dropped.

Romo also directed a pass to Roy Williams. The problem with that pass was that Williams was sitting down.

Oh, did we tell you the touchdown pass was a 9-yarder from Romo to Austin on a back-shoulder fade? That route has been worked on to death at camp in San Antonio and Oxnard, Calif.

But you would never know it by the offensive execution we’ve seen in the Cowboys’ first three preseason games. The first-team offense has seven possessions: three punts, two field goals, one interception and one touchdown.

You can go on forever about whose fault it is, but the reality is that with two preseason games remaining, the Cowboys’ offense needs something.

“I understand why,” said Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones. “We’re working on things out there, but I do not at this time have a concern. You like to see it a little smoother, but it will get there.”

Yeah, maybe the Cowboys’ offense was vanilla, and the Chargers blitzed more than expected. But you don’t think the other teams in the NFL are working with limited offensive packages?

Take New England. The Patriots’ first-team offense with Tom Brady has five possessions this preseason with three touchdowns, one punt and one field goal.

Let’s go to Buffalo. The Bills’ first-team offense led by Trent Edwards has nine offensive possessions with two touchdowns, one field goal, five punts and one interception.

Why not take a look at Donovan McNabb and Washington? In nine possessions, including seven Saturday night, the first-team offense has had five punts, one interception, one touchdown, one field goal and a missed field goal.

It’s not just the Cowboys having offensive problems. But New England, Buffalo and Philadelphia each scored at least one touchdown by its second preseason game.

The Cowboys will tell you that Saturday was like their second preseason game and that their first preseason game versus the Cincinnati Bengals, the Hall of Fame game, was like an exhibition.

Sure.

With two more preseason games to go, we’re not saying the Cowboys have to light it up on the offensive end. But they have to produce a bit better than this.

You want the offense to have some confidence going into the regular season. You don’t want the offensive players thinking, “Hey, we’ve got all these plays here and once we use them all, we’ll score a ton of points.”

“As far as looking smooth, that’s from the perspective of [the media],” Romo said. “If 10 people do something right and one person does something wrong, that play’s doomed and those are the things you can correct. It’s when you got four people that can’t do it, that’s when you’re in trouble.”

Dallas has one more week of practice in Oxnard. Then it’ll play a game against the Houston Texans, and the preseason finale versus Miami awaits.

The Redskins will wait on the Cowboys for the season opener in Landover, Md.

Maybe things will get better for Dallas’ offense.

Maybe.

“Yeah, it was good to score,” Romo said. “We needed a touchdown, just for confidence in the preseason but also in this game. But we struggled a little bit in the beginning [and] we needed to do something good there.”

Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/columns/story?columnist=watkins_calvin&id=5483271

The Dallas Cowboys, who are on schedule to debut their new stadium in week 2 of this season, are still looking for a partner to purchase the naming rights to the new building.

Michael Vick, who is due to be released to a halfway house in the near future, has signed an agreement to work exclusively with defense attorney Daniel Meachum. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also noted that Vick wrote a book while in prison, though does not yet have a publisher.

Former Steeler and Hall of Fame receiver John Stallworth was added to a group of investors that will help Steelers owner Dan Rooney to acquire ownership shares from his brothers.

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