Cowboys Pro Bowl left tackle Flozell Adams had successful arthroscopic surgery on his right knee to clean up some debris that had been causing swelling in the knee. Adams was not seen participating in either of the two organized team activity workouts we were able to watch over the past two weeks because of the swelling in the same knee he suffered the torn ACL during the 2005 season. Such a cleanup surgery is not abnormal for a player coming off a reconstructive surgery. Adams is fully expected to be ready for the start of training camp.
The Cowboys worked out two tight ends on Monday, their former practice squader Landon Trusty and two-year veteran Adam Bergen. The Cowboys apparently will sign Bergen, who spent the past two seasons with Arizona playing in 30 games, starting nine as a rookie free agent in 2005. Bergen missed the final two games of the 2006 season with a sprained knee and finished the season on injured reserve.
Another three-day OTA session begins Tuesday at The Ranch, followed by the weekend’s three day mini-camp, so I’m guessing we’ll have another round of screeching about the guys who are missing from these OTA’s. I find it funny how writers seem to pick and choose who they bust for missing these voluntary workouts. I’m guessing tight end Anthony Fasano, now sitting with a sprained A.C. joint in his shoulder, is wishing he had missed the non-pad practice when someone fell on his shoulder. Must be slow time of year, because also see where Antonio Winfield doesn’t plan to attend any Minnesota OTA’s and is working out on his own, and now that Cincinnati’s Deltha O’Neal doesn’t believe in OTA’s either.
Got to thank Gary Henley of Warrenton, Ore., for this one, sending in that former Cowboys kicker Jose Cortez, currently working as a $14-an-hour dockworker, will soon be an Oregon State Trooper. Yep, the former Oregon State kicker, who spent part of that 2005 season with the Cowboys thanks to Billy Cundiff tearing a quad the final day of training camp, will report to pre-academy training on July 30. Boy, Cortez, who tried his foot for a slew of NFL teams as well as kicking for L.A. in the XFL, sure has come a long ways since sneaking into the country though Tijuana, Mexico, at age 15 from El Salvador.