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Dallas Cowboys free agent running back Darren McFadden was on SiriusXM NFL Radio with Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan recently talking all things football. Here are some highlights:
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Question: I would think some teams are going to be real interested in talking to you [after not playing much in 2016]. Do you feel that way?

Darren McFadden: Oh yeah, definitely. For me, I still feel fresh. Like you said I didn't get a lot of wear and tear on my body from the season. I only played in the last three regular season games and the playoff game. I feel like I have a lot that I can offer any team as far as being out there and a guy that can carry the load. I don't feel like I've lost a step at all. I feel like that any team that want to take a shot at me I don't think it'd be a bad deal for 'em.


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Question: First of all let me ask you this because you're from Arkansas and Jerry [Jones is] an Arkansas guy. Do you think they wanna keep ya? Would you like to stay?

Darren McFadden: I kinda get the feel that they wouldn't mind keeping me. I was raised in Arkansas. I live here now. Set up my home here in Texas. I'm a Cowboys fan regardless of whether they decide to bring me back or not.
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Question: Do you have any potential landing spots or maybe schemes that intrigue you that you think you could thrive in?

Darren McFadden: I won't go out there and say I want to go with this team or be with this team because of this situation. I'm a ballplayer. I feel like whatever situation I land in I'm a ballplayer. I'm going to be ready to play ball. For the pro personnel people who know football they see the numbers that I had at the end of 2015. Even the few games that I played this year I had maybe two or three 20-yard runs. For someone who knows football and they see that they know that he still has it and he can go out there and have the capability of still making big plays.

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Question: You mentioned being reinvigorated. This year the wear and tear was not there with Ezekiel [Elliott being the starting running back]. I gotta believe that was refreshing too that you were able to help out a young, up-and-coming running back like Ezekiel.

Darren McFadden: He's a great kid. He came in and he's just excited about learning and playing the game. As a running back that's something that you love. You look at guys coming in as high as a draft pick as he did at No. 4 and you'll see a guy come in and they think they just know everything already. He's a guy he sits there, listens and takes great advice and it shows when he goes out there on the field.


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Question: Tell me about Dak Prescott from your veteran point of view.

Darren McFadden: He's a great kid. Just watching him camp and seeing how he went about his business and the reps that he got in there and got to take; he was just doing a hell of a job with them. He made every one count. The thing what surprised me as a rookie quarterback coming in with him was he was so poised. It was like he doesn't get rattled. He sits back there in the pocket and he makes his reads. If it doesn't work out the way he was supposed to when the play is called, he knows how to make a scramble with his legs and make something happen.
 
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McFadden doesn't seem to have any idea that he is supposed to think. I wonder if he knows he is not in Arkansas anymore.



Q: What do you think of Ezekiel?
A: He's a great kid. He runs the ball.

Q: What do you think of Dak Prescott?
A: He's a great kid. He scrambles with his legs.
 

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More to what story?

Of why you'd cut a pretty physically gifted rookie RB that you drafted and had under contract 3yrs and kept on the roster the entire year, only to release him to make room for a 30+ yr old veteran RB who was a free agent after the season and cost much more money anyway.
 
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Of why you'd cut a pretty physically gifted rookie RB that you drafted and had under contract 3yrs and kept on the roster the entire year, only to release him to make room for a 30+ yr old veteran RB who was a free agent after the season and cost much more money anyway.

Are you sure that they had to release Jackson for Gregory and Lawrence like Archer (I think it was him) said.
 

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Are you sure that they had to release Jackson for Gregory and Lawrence like Archer (I think it was him) said.

They released Jackson to make room for McFadden

They released that DE Zach Moore to make room for Gregory, and Moore was claimed by SF before we could get him back on the PS.

I cant fault them for releasing Moore for Gregory, but I do think cutting Jackson for McFadden was stupid and short sighted.
 
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Of why you'd cut a pretty physically gifted rookie RB that you drafted and had under contract 3yrs and kept on the roster the entire year, only to release him to make room for a 30+ yr old veteran RB who was a free agent after the season and cost much more money anyway.

No I get that. I just didn't know If there were character or other issues related to Jackson that I hadn't heard about.
 

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No I get that. I just didn't know If there were character or other issues related to Jackson that I hadn't heard about.

Me either. It was just so pathetically stupid to release the guy, there just HAS to be something else going on there.

Really dumb move IMO if it was truly just to get McFadden on the active roster.
 
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