How much more? He's now running with the ones.
According to Clarence E. Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Austin practiced on Monday with the first team, displacing Patrick Crayton to the role of third receiver.
Receivers coach Ray Sherman declined to confirm the obvious fact that Austin and Roy Williams are now the starting receivers.
"Right now, we are going through practice," Sherman said. "We have to make that decision when it comes."
Williams returned to practice after missing all of the Chiefs game and crunch time of a loss to the Broncos with a rib injury.
Austin re-signed with the Cowboys as a restricted free agent, at the second-round tender level of $1.545 million. Absent a new labor agreement, he'll be a restricted free agent again in 2010.
I thought Austin was already announced as a starting wide receiver. I remember hearing that after his 250-yard game.
This guy's success kinda confirms how well young healthy receivers who play with a lot of heart can do....
Who would you rather have right now, Crabtree or Austin?
As long as Jones, Philips & Romo are still around, the Cowgirls are going nowhere.
@basicinstinct
Crabtree. He is signed on to a team friendly contract for 6 years, Austin had one good game playing the chiefs and is a free agent. I doubt Miles Austin is anything special, that might be unfair becuase he will have a mediocre QB throwing to him for a awhile but that's the way it is. I would probably take my chances that Crabtree becomes a great WR of course I would have kept TO and traded Romo.
Austin will play for the Eagles next year.
Florio with more late news. this was announced awhile ago.
he was already starting anyway. he just moved from the 3rd to the 2nd spot.
btw, nice loss against the Raiders EAgirls. we may have pulled out one against the lowly Chiefs (btw, Haley knew our offense inside and out) but you guys lost to the Raiders and couldn't score a TD.
Good on him. I remember watching him last year and thinking he had a lot of potential given a chance. Wish he wasn't on a doomed-to-fail team full of overrated douchebags and primadonnas. Oh, and Flozell Adams too.
# leatherneck says: October 20, 2009 8:55 AM
I thought Austin was already announced as a starting wide receiver. I remember hearing that after his 250-yard game.
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Not really. What Phillips said was he would get more playing time, not that he would start.
The move makes sense tho and, Austin most likely would have displaced Crayton last season except he got hurt during the Washington game, then this season he was hurt in training camp and Crayton had a good TC so he got the spot.
What Austin gives the Boys is a deep threat at the #2 that Crayton didn't give, much like Alvin Harper used to. With Austin over there having demonstrated that singling him up is dangerous because of his ability to break tackles, defenses will have to roll coverage his way (safety help over the top) and that will be good for Witten/Bennett (since the safety won't be able to roll to them and they'll see more LB coverage) and it will make teams think twice about walking the safety up into the box against the run as well. Austin will most likely never have another day approaching last week, but he will make it easier on Roy, Witten, & Bennett. He makes all out blitzes a little more risky for teams as well.
"I doubt Miles Austin is anything special, that might be unfair becuase he will have a mediocre QB throwing to him for a awhile but that's the way it is."
Well at least he'll have THAT over Crabtree.
"As long as Jones, Philips & Romo are still around, the Cowgirls are going nowhere."
Aren't you the guy that fantasized an extra Super Bowl appearance for McNabb?
Kid drops balls, and broke pathetic excuses of tackles for his big day. But he can't run a route, has mediocre hands, and has Tony Romo throwing to him. This game was an abberation. He will never be close to duplicating it.
# VoxVeritas says: October 20, 2009 10:05 AM
Aren't you the guy that fantasized an extra Super Bowl appearance for McNabb?"
No, I'm the guy that fantasized that Opie Romo would be a SB caliber QB.
/ whoopsie
/ 1996
# dcfan-1212450 says: October 20, 2009 10:08 AM
Kid drops balls, and broke pathetic excuses of tackles for his big day. But he can't run a route, has mediocre hands, and has Tony Romo throwing to him. This game was an abberation. He will never be close to duplicating it.
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"can't run a route", where did you find this out? do you observe practice, TC, games? Amazing how media just make stuff up and the sheep happily bleat it. Austin runs good routes, its one of the reasons he was pushing Crayton for the #2 spot last year before he got caught (the one who can't - or won't run the route called for in the play was TO, not Austin). He's continuously open.
"has mediocre hands" lol, he has better hands than TO, and that sorry collection of redskins WRs.
"This game was an abberation. He will never be close to duplicating it." Most likely true, but, given that this is also true that most of the best receivers in the game will never duplicate it either, I don't quite understand why you feel this is a denigration of Austin.
Austin isn't a HOF WR, he isn't a #1 WR etiher. He's a decent WR with great speed and I'm happy to see a FA from a small college finally make it in the NFL, good for him. He'll have a nice career and is a valid #2 WR.
BTW, he won't be a FA in 2010, since it will be the last year of the current CBA he will be a RFA and Dallas can retain him by putting the 1st + 3rd rd tender on him (or even the 1st, but the difference in salary isn't that great so tender him at the 1 & 3). Although I'd be very happy if some team gives Dallas their #1 & #3 for Austin.
Wo Wo Wo,, Whats up with all these Cowboys fans in here being haters on there own team. The Boys are struggling yes. But some of you sound like its over for ever. As for Miles Austin he is for real. Some of you are saying he will never be close to duplicating this amazing game of 250 again,, well it might be a while till he beats it again but Austin will definentily get there. And during that time he will be explosive. So many people already hate on the Boys I hate to see Cowboy fans hating on there own team to.
P.S. And as for that Eagles fan earlier calling us Cowgirls,, Maybe you better take a big look in the mirror and remember how The Eagles were embarrased last week bye the RAIDERS... WHOS THE GIRLS NOW.
Good to see the Cowboys have nailed down the No. 2 WR spot. Now if they just had a legit No. 1 WR, and a QB they'd be all set.
This is perfect. Floped WR Roy Williams in the sh!tter (Nice trade) and one hit wonder comin in! I love it.
Bill In DC
you appear to be the only Dallas fan on this blog.
Austin will be a good second wide out.
Cowboys will clip the Falcons wings Sunday!!!
I'm a Patriots fan, and if you need to resort to another team beating your nemesis, that's sad. Oh yeah, 44-6 and Romo fainted in the shower. Do you believe anything different will happen this year?
Romo will go 1-4 in December, Dallas misses playoffs. The drought continues. Eagles make playoffs, McNabb chokes in the NFC Championship game. Brady wins Super Bowl.
If he was healthy against the Giants it would have been a different story, believe me.....and we all know it.
If who was healthy against the Giants? Brady? Give me a break already..
As a Giants fan I happen to think austin is 1000 times better than crayton and more of an open field threat than williams. He has good size and speed, what's to hate on? Everyone was ripping the giants for over a yr how bad they would be this yr w steve smith, manningham, hixon and nicks. Guys emerge, plain and simple. Someone had to step up for the cowboys. It's funny, he's a bum, hes this and that but maclin has one good game and they cant wait to drop curtis and he's the second coming of Jerry rice.
Miles Austin isn't a rookie, and he's not replacing someone in the 30's.
Steve Smith (NYG) is a huge surprise. Never would have thought Eli would command a squad like that ---- it's Brees junior.
The main problem in Dallas is that Romo isn't fit to be a starting QB. You need poise, and guys like Romo, McNabb, Delhomme, Rivers, etc don't have it.
People tend to forget Brady was walking around in a cast less than a week before the Bowl.
I have been a Cowboys fan my whole life. I cant figure out why we have one of the biggest offensive lines in the NFL and we keep throwing the football. Go back to the Giants game everytime we ran the ball we gashed them for 8 to 12 yards at least. Line up and let our backfield run it down their throats over and over again, then let Romo do a little play action to our wide receivers. Enough of this talk about receivers and making them happy. Quit throwing fade routes and let our line push the defense in the endzone.
Those of us who have actually been watching Austin for the past 3 years know he is a great player with amazing potential.
If you watched his highlight reel from the past 3 years it would be very impressive especially considering his lack of opportunity.
Anyone who thinks what Austin accomplished is a fluke probably also thinks that Eddie Royal is a flash in the pan for what he did last night.
Records are hard to achieve. He woke some people up and now deserves gametime to prove it wasn't a fluke.
What's with all the people saying Austin's a one-hit wonder? He had several big games last year before he was injured. And it's alright if he doesn't perform this amazing again. After all, he's an good but great receiver who just broke a record previously held by a Hall of Famer. People just seem to want a reason to hate the Cowboys.
Vox, did I miss anything in that last post?
thecree:
"Vox, did I miss anything in that last post?"
Other than even the slimmest regard for spelling, grammar, and punctutation? No.
stevemcguigan says:
October 20, 2009 9:33 AM
Good on him.
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Is that considered "grammatically correct" steve? I'm not sure that it is. Wow, it seems the spelling police might be corrupt......
I love it when morons start trash talk with me.
hint hint, I'm talking about you Steve mc"I cant spell for shit but want to point out that thecree missed one word out of a thousand while my 25 word post was in fact as bad if not worse than the post i was criticizing"
Damn son, that's a long ass name.....
Your overall problem is this young Steven-
You hate Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys, and you love crushing them every chance you get. That part is okay, but you get into trouble when the time comes to back up the shit you talk. Obviously, you can't and so you start to look for spelling errors instead. The entire time, your hatred is blinding you from the fact that you yourself can't spell and are definitely the last guy that ought to be pointing out grammar related mistakes. You are an embarrassment to idiots like yourself everywhere.
It was a pleasure doing business with you sir and thanks for the laughs!! I look forward to hearing from you soon,
Your Daddy,
thecree
thecree:
"Vox, did I miss anything in that last post?"
Other than even the slimmest regard for spelling, grammar, and punctutation? No.
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Oh, and by the way-refresh my memory, what does punctutation mean exactly?
A question for you smart guy, how much regard did you pay to spelling in your post?
You're too east to take apart.....Moron...
I will say this though, your post to me punctutates your level of stupidity. Was my usage there grammatically correct???