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IRVING, Texas – Amid the clutter of linebacker Zach Thomas’ locker is a stack of three notebooks, the type with a couple of hundred sheets of college-ruled paper. The pages are filled with Thomas’ small, neat notes and diagrams about the Dallas Cowboys defensive scheme he is furiously trying to learn.
“That’s not all of them,” Thomas said with a self-deprecating grin, opening a shoulder bag filled with three more. A couple of them are leftovers from his 12 years with the Miami Dolphins. Even so, in less than three full months with the Cowboys, Thomas has four notebooks filled with information.
To say Thomas is a football junkie is like saying Sid Vicious and Bradley Nowell had a couple of issues with heroin. Thomas’ brain scans register in Xs and Os, not a contiguous line.
“That’s not all of them,” Thomas said with a self-deprecating grin, opening a shoulder bag filled with three more. A couple of them are leftovers from his 12 years with the Miami Dolphins. Even so, in less than three full months with the Cowboys, Thomas has four notebooks filled with information.
To say Thomas is a football junkie is like saying Sid Vicious and Bradley Nowell had a couple of issues with heroin. Thomas’ brain scans register in Xs and Os, not a contiguous line.
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