Trash talk between Jon Kitna & Cowboys defense

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Should add some spice to the Lions vs Cowboys game this weekend. Bulletin board material in the Cowboys locker room have several
players riled up and vowing to "get Kitna" and teach him a lesson.

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IRVING – Bounties are illegal in the NFL.

The Cowboys' Bradie James has found a way around it.

Lunch.


James, upset at comments made by Detroit quarterback Jon Kitna following last season's game, said he may take a teammate out for a meal if they make a clean hit on the quarterback Sunday.

"Everybody knows that a guy on the opposing team has been talking a little too much," James, an inside linebacker and team leader, said before practice Wednesday. "So, we'll see. I might have to take someone out to lunch after the game."

Dallas visits Detroit on Sunday.

The venom directed toward Kitna stems from when he threw for 306 yards and four touchdowns in the Lions' 39-31 win at Texas Stadium to close the 2006 regular season.

Days later, Kitna took shots at the Cowboys' defense on a Seattle radio talk show.

"There were some times that we were watching on film before we played Dallas," Kitna said, "that we really felt like [James], sometimes, I don't know that he knew where he was at."

In the same interview, Kitna took a perceived shot at cornerback Terence Newman.

"We definitely felt like Terence Newman was the best corner that they had, so we knew we needed to be careful with him," Kitna said. "But even with him, I mean, he's not [Seattle cornerback] Marcus Trufant, in my opinion. He doesn't have that kind of ability. It wasn't like you were scared to throw at him, I guess."

Newman, who wasn't available for comment in the locker room Wednesday, responded on a satellite radio interview.

"Basically what it boils down to is you've got to watch what you say," Newman said Monday. "He better just hope I don't blitz off the edge because I've got 15, 25, 30 [thousand dollars], however much it would be for a fine. ... Revenge will be sweet definitely."

Kitna backed out of a conference call with Dallas-Fort Worth media Wednesday, but he did speak to Detroit reporters and said his comments were taken out of context.

"That was something that unfortunately has been taken as something that was serious," Kitna said Wednesday. "It was something that I said to my hometown radio station after our season was over, and we were having a good time back there. It was really nothing that was a personal thing."

Lions quarterback Jon Kitna is tackled by linebacker Bradie James during Detroit's win in 2006. Kitna later said Dallas' inside LBs weren't effective. There is a printed copy of Kitna's comments on a bulletin board outside the Cowboys' locker room.

James, who found out about the comments during the off-season, said he felt disrespected by Kitna's comments. When the captains come to midfield Sunday for the coin toss, James said he won't have much to say to Kitna.

"No, I don't know him, and I don't want to know him," James said. "He's going to get to know me. I'm going to talk it before the game and back it up, not after the game. That's how I feel about it."

With the NFC East title and home-field advantage within reach, most Cowboys said they will remain focused.

"It's the nature of the business," Marcus Spears said. "We know our mission, and we just have to beat those guys on the football field."

stown

Could this be the beggining of the end for the Cowgirls?!?

jradke4

maybe they had one on favre last week. just kidding.

but you know this cowpoke is not the brightest bulb in the box. he seems to forget that a few weeks ago the packers were investigated because they had a pot of money on the line for keeping rb's from gaining 100 yds. nothing about someone making a hit on any of them. now this dude offers to take someone out for lunch if they hit kitna. i am sure the nfl will look into this. after all they have nothing better to do. it sure wouldnt be figuring out some way to get the refs better trained to make correct calls, not blow the whistle too soon, etc.

lawnmowerman

The Lions suck

perkdog

Kitna might want to concentrate on maybe making the game respectable- which I highly doubt is possible.