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I've probably seen 10 minutes of "The Two Coreys," and it's about what you would expect: two former washed-up, teenage actors who have spent most of the 20s and 30s looking up from rock bottom. Feldman is in much better shape than Haim, but that's sorta like saying the Bengals are closer to winning the Super Bowl than the Rams.

I mention this because the Dallas Morning News' Tim MacMahon writes that "Adam" Pacman Jones has been serving as Chris Henry's life coach. Why this isn't a reality series defies logic; I mean, two guys who were last relevant in 1988 are somehow more compelling than listening to Jones wax philosophical? Um, okay, whatever you say high-powered teevee executive.

Whether there's video evidence or not, it's still going down, however:

There was a touching moment in the Valley Ranch locker room today when Adam "Pacman" Jones was asked about his ex-West Virginia running buddy Chris Henry, the Bengals WR who happens to be making his return from suspension against the Cowboys this week.

"That's my boy," Pacman said.

Pacman added that he talks to Henry often, offering wisdom gained by coming back from an unpaid, involuntary, season-long vacation. Henry had the first half of last season off, too, but apparently needed another four-week session in Sheriff Goodell's Scared Straight program.

The word from Peter King this afternoon on the NBC halftime show -- where craziness ensues, apparently -- is that the Rams plan on firing Scott Linehan if the Rams lose to the Bills on Sunday. (Via Bills.com)

On the Notre Dame halftime show on NBC this afternoon SI's Peter King reported that if the Rams lose to the Bills on Sunday that Scott Linehan is expected to be given his "walking papers" as King put it.

A few thoughts run through my mind when I hear that. First of all, well, wow! Shocking! Or not. The Rams are horrible. They haven't been remotely involved in a close game yet this season, and they had Pacman openly mocking them after the first week of the season.

On the other hand, well, maybe this isn't really fair. Wait, forget I said that. Linehan is the guy who thinks benching Marc Bulger in front of Trent Green is the right move to bring this team out of the funk. I suppose that losing to the Bills -- a clearly superior team -- is kind of a silly and unfounded way to judge whether he keeps his job (why not just fire him now?) but, hey, it worked for the Raiders.

As we get ready for this week's matchup between bitter rivals Cowboys and Redskins, I exchanged e-mails with Dave Halprin from Blogging The Boys. Dave was nice enough to offer some insights on Dallas for this week's Behind Enemy Lines feature.

Sportz Assassin: As a Redskins fan ... I will humbly admit that Dallas is the best team in the NFL. Is there any flaw on that team right now?

Dave Halprin: We're as excited about the potential of this edition of the Cowboys as we've been in a long time. In terms of personnel, I would still have to say our secondary can be exposed on occasion; the Eagles did it a couple of weeks ago, but the window on that might be closing. Terence Newman has returned to the lineup in full health and played a great game against the Packers. Adam "Pacman" Jones is starting to round into form after his long layoff from competitive football and rookie Mike Jenkins is getting some valuable experience that should help his game. So this unit should be getting better as the season progresses.

The Cowboys also have problems with self-inflicted wounds like penalties that we are racking up in alarming numbers. It hasn't hurt us yet in the final score but somewhere down the road it could. We also haven't been getting enough turnovers from our defense, something I would like to see get better.

When Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson made the bonehead play of the year by dropping the ball just before he crossed the goal line on Monday night against the Cowboys, I wrote that Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones should have jumped on the loose ball.

But NFL.com has a video with head of officiating Mike Pereira in which it's made clear that in reality, Jones saw that Jackson had fumbled, and he was about to go recover the fumble -- until he saw an official incorrectly signaling that Jackson had scored a touchdown.

"Adam Jones really stopped because he heard the whistle and saw the signal," Pereira said.

So as it turns out, Jackson's bonehead play was followed by a heads-up play by Pacman: Except that the officials negated the heads-up play by their own bonehead play. Kudos to Pacman, and those officials are lucky that their mistake didn't make a difference in the outcome of the game, or else they'd be getting the Ed Hochuli treatment this week.

It's clear that Vince Young has a lot of work to do to convince his Tennessee Titans teammates that he's the guy who can lead them to the Super Bowl.

Although Young once looked like one of the league's most promising quarterbacks, in the last week we've learned things that call into question whether he has the right mental makeup to be an NFL quarterback, including that Young asked out of the Titans' playoff game in January, and that the local police say they were told by Young's therapist that he was contemplating suicide.

And then there's this, which Peter King says someone inside the Titans' organization told him:

"Vince definitely is going to have to win the locker room back. As bad as Pacman was when he left the building or at 3 o'clock in the morning, it never interfered with his football. He loved football. Loved practice. The guys loved him. Players are going to be on your side if you show that you're going to help them win. Vince has to prove that to this team.''

Young seems like a nice man away from the game of football, while Pacman Jones is a menace to society, but the bottom line is that football players care mostly about whether their teammates are helping them win, and it's telling that players on the Titans think more highly of Pacman than they do of Young.

Remember us talking about the new and improved Pacman Jones (I'm still calling him that, I don't care what he wants) and how foolishly he seemed to open his mouth against Brandon Marshall?

Yeah, well, Pac is back. And this time, he is responding to curious minds wondering whether he's worried abotu the impressive Philadelphia passing attack that piled up yards last week against St. Louis.

"They played the Rams, dude," Pacman said.

There are many of us who feel that way, but that doesn't mean he has to say it. Much like the rest of us, sure, but that doesn't mean he has to say it.

Here I would normally say "Please stop talking, Pac", but as MJD pointed out, this isn't something that the Eagles should really be offended by. We all saw the game and the Rams do in fact stink.

If it were Belichick coaching the Iggles or anyone else that seemed more inclined to play the "Us Against the World" card, I would fully expect to hear more talk about this. But Andy Reid doesn't really seem like that type of guy.

Of course, that probably won't stop Tony Kornheiser from grabbing hold of it -- this applies with almost any storyline -- and turning it into a bloody horse carcass next to Tirico.

Emmitt Smith is the NFL career rushing leader, Dancing with the Stars champion, and an ESPN on-air butcherer of the English language. In a recent "Outside the Lines", Smith joined Page 2 columnist and author Jeff Pearlman, and Dallas Morning News columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor to discuss the the Cowboys' fondness for reclamation projects.

Not the first time the subject's been broached, but Pearlman wrote a book, "Boys Will Be Boys," that chronicled the Cowboys' teams of the 90s, both on and off the field. According to the DMN Blog's Tim MacMahon, Smith refused to be interviewed for it, so there was some underlying animosity heading into the OTL segment.

Awkwardness ensued. If you're too lazy to watch six minutes of relatively boring television, here are the Cliff's Notes: Smith supports the Cowboys and believes in giving people -- even Pacman Jones -- second chances, and Pearlman is skeptical of owner Jerry Jones' motives. Hardly riveting. But as the segment ends, Smith offers Pearlman this: "Jeff, keep selling books." Everybody laughs uncomfortably, and that was that.

But on his website, Pearlman fills in the details on his history with Smith:

Every year we read about seamy stories from the bottom of the pile; muscle-bound players doing whatever it takes to gain possession of the football. It's all a bit weird, really, but no weirder than fans packing stadiums and planting themselves in front of television screens to watch grown men in costumes run full speed into each other.

In any event, courtesy of MDS st PFT, here's the first such tale from 2008 and it involves "Adam" Pacman Jones. But unlike Jones' time away from the game last year, he wasn't the guy doing the grabbing. That would be Browns backup safety Nick Sorensen.

Adam "Pacman" Jones said the Browns did a lot of cheap stuff in Sunday's game. DB Nick Sorenson [sic] grabbing and squeezing Pacman's groin region topped the list.

Pacman said that act occurred in the pileup after he muffed a punt.

"I told that dude, 'Man, you're lucky I'm trying to do better, because I would have got 15 yards for kicking your [rear],'" Pacman said.

Oh, the humanity. I wonder if the Browns special teams routinely practices bottom-of-the-pile junk-grabbing during the Saturday walk-through. If so, I have an idea who runs that scout team.

As for Jones, maybe he has grown up a bit, because if this had happened at the club, there's a pretty good chance somebody would've gotten shot.

He hasn't played in an NFL game in over a year ... but Adam DigDug Pacman Jones may be a starting CB on Sunday when the Dallas Cowboys visit the Cleveland Browns.

Terrence Newman has been sidelined with a groin injury and may not be ready on Sunday.

Coach Wade Phillips said the team has limited Newman's activities in practice the last two days as a precaution. If Newman isn't ready, Adam Jones will start at left corner despite missing the entire 2007 season.

A decision could be made today.

"I don't think he's completely back yet," Phillips said. "That's why I say we're being cautious. We want to see how it feels [today]."

Newman could play as a nickel or dime back -- limiting the amount of plays he'd be on. Hopefully, it won't keep him off the roller coasters.

In yesterday's DMN Cowboys Blog, Tim MacMahon directed us to some comments from May, 2008, where owner Jerry Jones admitted to being intrigued by the possibility of "Adam" Pacman Jones occasionally playing wide receiver.

As a general rule, it's prudent to ignore roughly half of what Jones says, but in this instance, there could be a better than 50 percent chance "Adam" actually lines up at wideout against the Browns on Sunday. Wide receivers coach Ray Sherman is all for it, and Wade Phillips hasn't ruled it out, although he admits that it probably makes sense to get Jones up to speed defensively before giving him more responsibility.

Fair enough ... so how about Sunday?

"It's a little early and we don't want to give out any secrets," Phillips said with a smirk, "so I'd say right now we don't expect him to play much receiver."

Which means that the Cowboys are perfectly happy with Terrell Owens, Patrick Crayton, Jason Witten and Felix Jones as the team's primary pass catchers. Pretty impressive group, actually.

Almost as impressive as Jones' get-up unveiled at the Cowboys Kickoff Luncheon. And by "almost" I mean "not even close." Obviously.