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Hardknocks is back for another five weeks of blood, sweat and training camp heartache. Teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys, HBO Sports and NFL Films brings you exclusive access to the five-episode cinema verité series will focus on the daily lives and routines of players and coaches as the Dallas Cowboys, an organization steeped in championship tradition, prepare for the 2008 NFL season in the ultra-competitive NFC East.
Discuss this show here!
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Sep 3, 2008 11:49 AM
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Were you a Cowboys fan before you watched this season's shows? If not, does watching it make you want to follow their season a little closer than you might otherwise?
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Sep 2, 2008 1:59 AM
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hes the owner he can do what he wants and he also played football at the university of arkansas where barry switzer was his coach
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Aug 31, 2008 2:21 AM
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I'm proud to be a fan, and im glad to get such an inside view of the team ive loved for so many years! Jerry Jones does what's best for the COWBOYS. What role would you play if you owned your own football team? This is our season!!! T.O. ,baby your on fire!!
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Aug 30, 2008 10:11 PM
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Oh, yeah ... I forgot to add:
The entire NFL family was devastated by the death of Gene Upshaw.
No reason to keep the camera on Wade's reaction.
I'll bet Wade wasn't particularly pleased with that choice either.
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Aug 30, 2008 9:57 PM
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> How do you think they're going to handle the mass
> cuts this weekend?
I just don't want them to humiliate athletes, ya know?
It takes a helluva lot of talent to get invited to a professional football team's training camp.
The Cowboys draft room is under scrutiny in this show. Why was Michael Jenkins drafted instead of Kenny Phillips? Why would you put the camera pressure on the #2? Bennett was good in college. He has to make this team, no matter how much he bucks being coached and smiles at the camera.
It seems like an edited soap opera.
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Aug 30, 2008 9:11 PM
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How do you think they're going to handle the mass cuts this weekend?
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Aug 30, 2008 8:44 PM
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I was sorry to see Daniel Polk's being cut as the the "drama" segment. That young man got ambushed by the cameras, and I didn't think it was fair. He was invited to Cowboys camp and Dolphins' camp. He's a quality athlete willing to work and I feel that this show did him a disservice.
They did that on the first Hard Knocks ... following a player that was going to be cut to the Head Coach's office ... I didn't like it then, and I didn't like it this time.
If anything, this show has at least exposed to the general public that you better have somebody on the coaching staff pulling for you to make the team.
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Aug 30, 2008 8:31 PM
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> Hey CameHeavy- Your unhelpful and mean spirited
> response is not welcome on this forum. For most of
> us, we are sincere Cowboy fans sharing an rare
> opportunity to watch our team in a way most of us
> never get the chance.
Madam, I've been a Cowboys fan since their inception ... since LeBaron was the starting QB. I had Cliff Harris tell me that I "used to be good" when I failed to impress enough at open tryouts.
I'll not apologize for my manner.
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Aug 30, 2008 8:23 PM
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> I could not help but reply to "CameHeavy's" 40 of 55
> lovely comment.
> Being that I am stationed overseas right now I don't
> have the luxury of subscribing to HBO. Not everyone
> is out to get something for free so being so hateful
> really isn't necessary.
Yo! odellsix! Thanks for your service.
You felt compelled, from whatever spot on earth you're deployed, to sign up to this HBO site and inject a comment about me being "hateful" because I think that people should pay for what I'm paying for?
You "could not help but reply"? I know for a fact that you've got better things to do.
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Aug 29, 2008 7:06 PM
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This is a really high quality show. The camera gets some great angle. I love T.O. He dominates on the field. The press is always giving him a hard time but he's a great guy. I recently saw him in a video with Three 6 Mafia just talking about football, music and girls. Those guys are hilarious. Here's the link if you want to watch it: http://tinyurl.com/6qt4ra
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Aug 28, 2008 5:51 AM
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I could not help but reply to "CameHeavy's" 40 of 55 lovely comment.
Being that I am stationed overseas right now I don't have the luxury of subscribing to HBO. Not everyone is out to get something for free so being so hateful really isn't necessary.
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Aug 26, 2008 5:25 PM
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Love this show. Martellus has this don't-give-a-sh** attitude though, and I think that's lame. He has the opporunity to be a great player..a great, rich, player...I hope his attitude stays in check.
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Aug 25, 2008 9:54 AM
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I hear this type of comment periodically and my thought is this: Jones has been succesful in everything he's done. Football (see below), business, team ownership, family. He knows how to win--in various things. And many of the players (who weren't always great team types) seem to love him. Terrell, Tank, Pac. As far as football experience, see below:
"As a co-captain of the 1964 National Championship Arkansas Razorbacks, Jones is one of a very small number of NFL owners who actually earned a significant level of success as a football player. He is the only man in the history of the National Football League to play for a collegiate national championship football team and own a Super Bowl winner. A man of varied interests who will not rest on yesterday's achievements, he is a dedicated businessman and family man - sharing a vivid enthusiasm for both." --DallasCowboys.com
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Aug 21, 2008 7:53 PM
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> Wondering what everyone thinks of Jerry Jones
> constantly shadowing the players and coaches? Also -
> what are his football qualifications? Has he done
> any coaching or playing professionally? Or is he
> just rich and annoying?
Well like someone else already said, he owns the team so he can be wherever he want to be. He signs the checks. Besides playing at Arkansas on a National Championship team, owning the Cowboys, running the day to day operation as the CEO and President, he is also the General Manger of the team and has put together a winning team. As a general manger he has put togehter 3 Super Bowl Championship teams. So he has been a GM for 20+ years now. His reputation proceeds him, that is why he is not considered one of the best GM's in the game. If he was not the owner, an outspoken owner at that, and just a GM, teams would love to hire him as their GM. How many other GM's active in the NFL have 3 Super Bowl rings?
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Aug 21, 2008 3:16 PM
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i look at the nfl and safety play is HUGE!!!!dexter jackson superbowl mvp,polamalu huge in pitts success,bob sander for indy...roy williams can change his number but what happens the first time he's burnt deep to his confidence.we can look at all these stars on one field but all it takes is one overatted player to screw it all up!!!!!!!!
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