Cowboys secondary coach Dave Campo always thought Terence Newman was one of the league's top five cornerbacks. Campo felt that way even watching him deal with a groin tear and sports hernia in training camp and early in the season.
"I thought he looked quick because I had never seen him (before the injury)," said Campo who was fired as head coach in 2003 just months before Newman was drafted.
But Cowboys coach Wade Phillips knew better and kept telling Campo that Newman didn't look right.
"Wade said he didn't have that same burst. And this was when we thought he was close to 100 percent," Campo said. "Now this past weekend I saw a different guy. He had the burst, the quickness.