Quote:^exactly. Many players want/wanted to go to Dallas. It's instant popularity. Heck, ESPN is basically "Dallas Cowboys' Sports Network".


No matter how successful the team is, the Star on the helmet basically makes the player an NFL celebrity/Household name if that player is halfway decent.


Randy Moss wanted to be a Cowboy (he stated he wanted to play for the "Star on the helmet". Dallas passed him up in the 1998 draft and picked Greg Ellis instead. That season (Moss' rookie year), Randy absolutely torched the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day in front of the whole nation in a "payback for not drafting him" situation. It was awesome! Moss basically cemented the Rookie of the Year award for himself during that game.


Heck, even freaking Lebron James has stated that if he wanted to play in the NFL at TE, he would want to be a Cowboy. Dallas is immensely popular, and on national television all the time. You can't blame players for wanting that.


On a small market team like Jax, players are rarely in national television prime time games, barely get any notice outside of the team's region, and don't get ESPN and NFLN to talk about you most of the day.


A player is stuck in anonymity unless the team starts winning or the player himself is just an absolute, number producing stud.


Who can blame a player for that?


When Jax starts winning, Ramsey (and the other defensive players) will start getting noticed much more.