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The Dallas Cowboys came to terms with third round pick J.J. Wilcox on Wednesday, signing the safety to a four-year contract.

With the OTAs and minicamp concluded, we have until training camp to mull over what the 2013 edition of the Dallas Cowboys will look like.

David Moore: It will certainly be inexperienced bunch. Barry Church flashed some nice things last season and would appear to be an ideal fit for this scheme, but he only played in three games before going down with an injury.

The pass-rushing ends for the Cowboys' return to the 4-3 won't carry out their new marching orders together until training camp starts next month in California, with Ware still recovering from shoulder surgery and Spencer a week removed from hyperextending his left knee in an offseason practice.

One of the keys to sustaining a winning football franchise is the ability to build a team through the draft.

Yesterday, I explained why the Cowboys should rotate their interior defensive linemen pretty heavily.

Latest Dallas Cowboys headlines: the three-day mandatory minicamp kicks off today, the Cowboys still have $9.7 million in cap space available, and the 12 personnel was not invented by the Patriots.

The next phase in our look at the Right Kind of Guy is taking a look at the mental side of the game.

The Cowboys signed safety Eric Frampton on Wednesday. To make room for Frampton, Dallas waived/injured defensive tackle Robert Callaway.

The Dallas Cowboys and their fans have been anticipating the arrival of Matt Johnson for over a year now.

For secondary coach Jerome Henderson, the jury is still out on safety Matt Johnson, who missed his entire rookie season--aside from 12 snaps in the team's third preseason game--after suffering a hamstring injury that would nag at him all season in training camp.

With this being the final week of organized team activities for the Dallas Cowboys, SportsDayDFW.com special contributor Jon Machota gives us 10 observations from the previous two weeks of off-season work.

In the weeks since the draft has ended, there has been a lot of talk about the Dallas Cowboys.

TEN THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT MATT JOHNSON: Johnson injured his hamstring during rookie minicamp last year, then reinjured it after just 12 snaps in the Cowboys' third preseason game.

As we approach the second set of Organized Team Activities, or OTA's, it makes sense to start looking at the real drama of this part of the offseason.

Secondary coach Jerome Henderson has said second-year safety Matt Johnson is essentially a rookie, since he missed his entire rookie season with a string of injuries.

The Cowboys have an enormous amount of confidence in safety Matt Johnson - so much so that fans have commented on numerous occasions that the team really knows nothing about him.

"Going into 2012, many said the Cowboys looked like an improved team..barring injury.

Latest Dallas Cowboys Headlines: ESPN's Todd Archer argues that Miles Austin's value goes beyond a bunch of stats, secondary coach Jerome Henderson apparently doesn't think much about hypng his players and Brandon George of the DMN provides a snapshot of the O-line-in-progress. Rabblerousr's story on the leaked Cowboys draft board was hands down ... (more)

OTA's have to be the melding of pro football and Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up material.