Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Cowboys just signed a free agent that nobody else wanted and he could become a legitimate contributor for the team. It happens every year, really. Stephen Jones has become notorious among Cowboys fans for avoiding big free agency spends, instead looking for diamonds in the rough.
Every time Dallas brings in one such player, the hype machine starts to pick up a bit. It’s an unstoppable force, the never-ending well of optimism that is the NFL offseason. And sometimes for the Cowboys - in the cases of players like Malik Hooker, Jayron Kearse, David Irving, Laurent Robinson, Jeremy Mincey, and others - it actually comes true.