Vanderjagt kicked to the curb by Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys11/28/2006 11:04 AM The Star-Telegram reports Cowboys owner Jerry Jones called K Mike Vanderjagt on Monday afternoon to inform him that he had been released. While Jones said he was sick about the decision, he told Vanderjagt that "some people in the organization lacked confidence in him." "Some people" would be HC Bill Parcells, who clearly never trusted the most accurate kicker in NFL history. The decision came 48 hours after Vanderjagt spoke with Parcells and told him he believed he had corrected some of the technical problems that caused him to make only 13 of 18 field-goal attempts this season. Read more