The Cowboys agreed to terms with veteran outside linebacker Von Miller on Sunday. He is expected in camp on Monday night and will begin the ramp-up process on Tuesday.
B.T. Jordan, a pass rush consultant for the Cowboys, is the personal pass rush coach for Miller. Jordan vouched for the 37-year-old Miller, who had nine sacks last season while playing 37 percent of the snaps in 17 games.
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“You get someone that’s been there and done that,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said of Miller, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. “He trains with our consulting trainer, and boy, [Jordan] had been telling us for all this past year, ‘Boy if we could get [Miller].’ He knew first-hand because he works with him all the time and knew that he could help us. And of course, that trainer is working with all of our guys. We feel real good.
“We’ve really been communicating with him for a lot of weeks here. [Jordan] couldn’t say enough good things about what kind of shape he’s in, how much quickness he has, how he thought he could really help us.”
The Cowboys have hinted at a “substantive” trade for a defensive player since training camp opened, and Jones said Miller’s signing doesn’t change that.
“Yes, if we had an opportunity, I would be [open to a trade],” Jones said. “It’s as much about what I think of where we are, which I’m more positive than when we started camp, seriously, about what our chances are. And so I think if we saw an opportunity to take a little of the future and put it on this team, I’d do it if it would help us.”
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Jones seems to feel the Cowboys are one defensive player away from winning another Super Bowl. They traded for Charles Haley before the 1992 season and won back-to-back Super Bowl titles. They signed free agent Deion Sanders before the 1995 season and won a third Super Bowl in four years.
They haven’t been back since.
“I’m even more excited today than I was when we started camp that our team is going to be one that if we can have some things go right for us, avoid some injury, we could really be something that we all want to be, and that’s a team that’s competing for the big game,” Jones said. “Bottom line is, the answer is yes. If we saw something that would help us anyplace, we’d do it.”
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