OXNARD, Calif. – Luke McCown had been through 13 NFL seasons and worked for five different NFL clubs, but the chance to play for the Dallas Cowboys was a different matter entirely.
The veteran quarterback fielded plenty of phone calls this offseason, gauging interest from several different teams across the league. But as a native of Jacksonville, Texas, he admitted there was one in particular he was holding out hope on.
“I was evaluating a couple of other options, knowing that this could be a possibility,” McCown said Saturday evening. “I was holding out hope – as an East Texas kid, I was holding out hope that something would go down here.