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Just two years ago Amari Cooper Jersey White , Malik McDowell was the top draft pick made by the Seattle Seahawks. After an accident prior to training camp left McDowell with multiple injuries, he ultimately ended up never appearing in a game for Seattle before being officially released earlier this month.While McDowell’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, claims McDowell has been cleared to return to football, the team that drafted him and waited two years to see if he could recover had a different evaluation.According to Bob Condotta of the , head coach Pete Carroll said Tuesday that the team’s medical staff wouldn’t clear McDowell to play.“The doctors wouldn’t let him play,” Carroll said. ” … He had an accident that he was injured and they couldn’t clear him. So …”The Seahawks have always been vague about the full extent of McDowell’s injuries. Outside of referring to it as “a really bad concussion,” details have been scant as the team has said they couldn’t speak on the subject. The team had been excited about McDowell’s prospects when they selected him in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft.“He’s too unique,” general manager John Schneider said that night. “We’ve been looking for a pass rushing three technique, we’ve talked about this a lot, since we’ve been here together.”Instead, he was never able to practice with the team following mini-camps his first year as the Seahawks couldn’t clear him.“Great for him because I know he’d love to play in a game and all that Womens Michael Gallup Jersey ,” Carroll said on Tuesday. “They’ve got that figured out and he’s gotten (cleared) and all that, but we had to deal with it the way we did. So it’s surprising.”Asked what was surprising, Carroll said that “it sounds like somebody cleared him, doctors cleared him to play.”McDowell met with the Dallas Cowboys last week. Whether the Cowboys, or any team, will agree with the independent doctors that cleared McDowell to play or whether they will agree with the assessment of the Seahawks’ staff remains to be seen. Every year we can expect a handful of the same things at Cowboys training camp." Dallas Cowboys 2019 Training CampDallas Cowboys Podcasts & VideosFive Dallas Cowboys training camp cliches that will start making the rounds next weekNew,44commentsEvery year we can expect a handful of the same things at Cowboys training camp.CDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Five Dallas Cowboys training camp cliches that will start making the rounds next weekTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Josh Lefkowitz/Getty ImagesWe’re within a week of the Dallas Cowboys officially beginning training camp out in Oxnard, California. This is such an exciting time of year.Soon enough, we’ll be debating how one player deserves that final roster spot over a different one as well as exuding over highlights from various pet cats. A lot of it is predictable, really. If you’ve been through a handful of Cowboys training camps then you know that certain trends pop up on an annual basis.Of course, such is the nature of football really. So much of what’s happening is what happens every year. 90 players are vying for 53 spots, some are determined and others are up for grabs. Very little changes barring something dramatic Demarcus Lawrence Jersey , but the things that stay the same can be somewhat counted on. I discussed this on the latest episode of The Ocho with NFL Network’s Bobby Belt. You can almost set your watch by particular narratives that manage to rise up every year. Here are five training camp cliches that you can absolutely count on seeing starting next week.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="k9rpVD">A member of the coaching staff will captivate everyoneEntering training camp a year ago all eyes were fixed on then-new Cowboys secondary coach Kris Richard. He completely delivered.Richard brought a tenacity to the staff many felt had been absent for too long. That disposition seemed to carry through the regular season and beyond just the secondary down through the entire defense. There’s a prime candidate for a captivating coach for this particular training camp.With the offense of a year ago drastically needing to improve, you can almost guarantee that people will be seeing what they want to see with Kellen Moore, if that makes sense. If he’s unable to revive the side of the ball that scores points then things are going to get bad quickly, as a result people will be looking for that spark.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="nV1DGe">One of the skill players will be regarded as a potentially serious new weaponTwo years ago Ryan Switzer was thought to be the weapon that was going to take the Dallas Cowboys offense to entirely new levels. That... didn’t happen.A lot of this mystique is likely attributable to the fact that Switzer was a rookie, we saw the same sort of thing with Michael Gallup a year ago. Obviously the hope with rookies is that the Cowboys have drafted one of the league’s more promising new players that can really help their team, offensive playmakers are a great way for that idea to be fulfilled.This idea sort of piggybacks off of Kellen Moore’s offense shining, but there’s a name that’s likely on the tip of your brain with this idea when it comes to players. Tony Pollard has all the makings of someone who will show off during practice and raise your blood pressure.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="J6aDcJ">An older player will look [insert number of your choice here] years youngerJason Witten is returning to the Cowboys after a year away in the Monday Night Football booth, but despite the advancements of makeup techniques and the like he did not rewind the clock on his age. He’s one of the more savvy veterans on the squad if you catch my drift.I’ll be out in Oxnard myself for a week (July 27th through August 2nd, hit me up if you’ll be there) and I can tell you that the sunshine certainly feels better in July there than it does where I live in San Antonio. It relaxes you and sometimes that makes you see things.We’ll all be seeing Jason Witten “look” a lot younger. It will happen. Give it time. No pun intended.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="hOkSnE">Field goals and extra points will be countedThis isn’t exactly a Cowboys-specific cliche as far as recent history is concerned, but it happens a lot across all NFL training camps. Kickers are going to be put under the microscope.If you rewound 365 days you wouldn’t find a single person who thought that Dan Bailey’s job was in jeopardy yet when the final roster was announced he wasn’t on it. The saga wouldn’t have exactly had another chapter save for the fact that Brett Maher was shaky while replacing Bailey in 2018.Considering so many games for Dallas finished with a margin of one score (12) last season, people are going to want a reliable kicker. If Maher can’t be that guy then there will be a lot of noise for the team to go find him. If he makes all of his kicks during camp though, well Womens Dak Prescott Jersey , the noise will be a lot less loud. <hr class="p-entry-hr" id="c9Ntem">An undrafted free agent wide receiver will be everybody’s darlingDeath, taxes, and Cowboys fans falling in love with an undrafted free agent during training camp.There is zero doubt that one of this year’s UDFAs are going to make some noise in the receiver room. Training camp open threads will be filled with people planting their flag for various players, it’s a tale as old as time.Interestingly, watch me do it myself, this year could be the one where an UDFA stands a legitimate shot at making the team. The only spots at receiver that seem undeniably set belong to Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup, and Randall Cobb so there is room for someone to impress. Get ready for it.