{"id":165898,"date":"2025-06-28T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165898\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:51:15","slug":"dallas-cowboys-countdown-to-the-season-opener-day-68-greg-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165898\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys countdown to the season opener: Day\u00a068 Greg Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"5WGakQ\">We\u2019re counting down the days until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> battle the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedinggreennation.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> in the season opener of the 2025 NFL season. To pass the time and mark the days, we running through 100 Days of Cowboys. So sit back and enjoy some Cowboys history while we countdown to football.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3ygwWk\">Today &#8211; number 68.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Ellis<\/p>\n<p id=\"rrgQUR\">Born: August 14, 1975. Wendell, North Carolina<br \/>Position: Defensive end<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>: 1998-2008<br \/>Awards:\tNFL Comeback Player of the Year &#8211; 2007<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl-pro-bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Bowl<\/a>&#8211; 2007<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"   alt=\"Buccaneers v Cowboys\" loading=\"lazy\" data-upload-width=\"2336\" width=\"2336\" height=\"3504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2165122225.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Photo by Tom Hauck\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"4FOvj9\">Greg Ellis played defensive end and linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys from 1998 to 2008 after being selected in the first round out of North Carolina. Known for his consistency, professionalism, and pass-rushing ability, Ellis spent much of his career as a reliable edge presence in Dallas\u2019s 4\u20133 defense. Late in his career, he successfully transitioned to outside linebacker when the team moved to a 3\u20134 scheme under Bill Parcells. In 2007, Ellis had a career year with 12.5 sacks, earning Comeback Player of the Year and his first Pro Bowl selection.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FtDLCw\">Best known for:<br \/>Ellis was known for his quiet leadership and consistent production as a pass rusher. But he\u2019s best known for being the draft pick made over Randy Moss.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4ZJXDs\">Lesser known fact:<br \/>After retiring from football, Ellis became a film producer and director, focusing on faith-based and inspirational films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re counting down the days until the Dallas Cowboys battle the Philadelphia Eagles in the season opener of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[434,435,15693,230,229,257,13823,2461,21,32415,7,29,6096,6,11943,189,24,528],"class_list":{"0":"post-165898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-blogging","9":"tag-boys","10":"tag-countdown","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-dallas-cowboys-history","15":"tag-dallascowboys","16":"tag-day","17":"tag-ellis","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-front-page","20":"tag-greg","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-opener","23":"tag-season","24":"tag-the","25":"tag-to"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114762500600786870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}