EmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsOXNARD, Calif. -- Not long after news broke that the Dallas Cowboys and Von Miller had entered into a one-year agreement, DeMarcus Ware made a FaceTime call to his former Denver Broncos teammate.The smile on their faces told the story."I can go all the way back to when we played the Broncos [in 2013], and I remember talking to Von after the game, and he's like, 'Man, it would be so cool to play for the Dallas Cowboys,'" said Ware, who played for the Cowboys from 2005 to 2013.Over the past two months, the conversations between Ware and Miller had mentions of him joining the Cowboys this year. Miller told Ware that the Cowboys were the only team to make serious inquiries about signing the edge rusher. More than once, Miller posted pictures of himself in a Cowboys uniform."He kept saying, 'I think I'm going to the Dallas Cowboys,'" Ware said. "He was over [near The Star] working out. He just felt like something was going to work out."Miller's homecoming is not just about the DeSoto native, who played his college ball at Texas A&M, playing for his boyhood team. It's about helping the Cowboys win games and maybe even get to the Super Bowl. Miller can bring to Dallas' locker room his championship experience from winning Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos, when he teamed up with Ware, and Super Bowl LVI with the Los Angeles Rams."You got a lot of guys that come in, older guys that come in, former guys and they can teach, but it's different when you got somebody sitting in the seat with you that's going to get padded up with you, learning the same things as you and performing," Ware said. "Those guys, they looked up to you their whole careers, but now [they realize] I get to play with him? It's a totally different mindset that the boys are going to have now."Ware believes Miller can help the Cowboys' young edge rushers, such as Donovan Ezeiruaku and Malachi Lawrence, just like Ware helped Miller when he joined him on the Broncos in 2014 as a free agent."It's the same mentality as when I came to Denver," Ware said. "It's like, 'I know I'm not going to get 20 sacks,' but I do know that he can make all the guys around him [better]. ... As a conglomerate, everybody's going to get better from the expertise, how to prep for the game, all the little keys and things he can teach, and you're still probably going to get 8-11 sacks out of this guy. I would sign up for that any day."Miller had nine sacks last season in Washington. The Cowboys view him as a piece of their pass rush group, not the leader of the group. At 37, it would not be fair to ask Miller to be the player he was in Denver.Miller's 138.5 sacks are the most among active players and tied with Ware for 13th all time. Ware thinks it's somehow fitting Miller will surpass him in a Cowboys jersey."I don't think the Dallas Cowboys know how big of an opportunity this is for them, but not just them, for Von, too," Ware said. "For him, putting that jersey on, this is like icing on the cake. Like this is all he wanted. I know that's how he feels."I know a lot of people might downplay it, but right now this dude is like a kid in the candy store."
