Cowboys Amassing Losers at an Alarming Rate

Anthony Henry Sent To Detroit For Veteran QB

The Dallas Cowboys sent starting CB Anthony Henry to Detroit for Jon Kitna. A starting corner back for a backup QB from a team that lost ALL of their games in 2006.

Aside from looking like a skinnier version of Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket, he's actually an upgrade from noodle arm Brad Johnson and probably the best option amongst all the available free agent QB's out in the market. Also, this is a cap friendly deal, the Cowboys freed $3.6 million off of their books for 2009.

Now that was the good part. The bad? Why would you give up a starting CB for someone who the Lion mostly would have cut in a few days anyways? If Kitna had hit the open market, it would be a huge stretch that a massive bidding war would ensue for a backup QB from a 0-16 team.

Who needs a backup when your I.Q. is 130? What? You don't think so? Who are YOU to argue with the Internet?!!

Now the Cowboys have fortified their backup QB spot (which most likely had cost them a playoff spot in 2008 - and the chance to lose again in the first round), they have seriously weaken their defensive backfield. Once again, veteran Terence Newman is the only proven commodity at the position. If he should miss games like he has in the last few years, the Cowboys are left with a bunch of second year players and possibly rookies or Pros vs. Joes Pacman Jones. In a related note, this opens the door for me when I win a spot in the Cowboys training camp; the probability of a 5'-6" Asian man with 5.63 40 speed playing corner back for the Cowboys has increased tenfold.

A trade that would have made more sense would be trading Safety Roy Williams for Kitna. The Cowboys are probably going to release him to gain cap space anyways, but then the Lions probably knew that too; and the prospect of being able to copy and paste names from their 2008 game program templates for the 2009 season was not enticing enough for them to pull the trigger.

Oh well, it could be worse. I have had a recurring nightmare in the last few weeks that Jerry Jones backed up the Brinks truck to lure Farve out of retirement to play for the Cowboys.

In other news, columnist Jay Mariotti is calling on Roger Goodell to investigate the Cassel trade.

Mariotti is arguing that the trade is too one-sided, too much of a sweetheart deal for the Chiefs.

Now I am probably the biggest Beli-cheat hater in the New England area and completely agree with people who believe Belichick got off light for Spygate, even I have to say Mariotti is completely off base here.

Investigate what? The fact that Belichick is not his usual complete cheating asshole who would stab his own grandmother to improve his team? What league rule has he broken really? If making bad executive decisions is against NFL rules, Matt Millen would be serving a 100 game suspension right now, if not banned from football completely.

The fact that Belichick may or may not have play his hand to the fullest is not up to the NFL to investigate, it's between Kraft and the the Grey Hoodie. Who knows why Pioli got the sweetheart deal? Maybe he has pictures of Belichick drawing swastikas and penises on drunk college boys.