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There are two ways to look at being on a new team with a one-year contract. One approach would be to want to showcase an individual game to earn the attention of a new team next summer. Brand points out that few teams will have as much cap space as Dallas, so the better way to approach the season might be to understand that a player who fits in and shares the bigger team goals might be in Dallas long-term.

"I don't think he was his regular self," Drew said. "There had to still be some concern lingering of the possibility of the arm being pulled back and reinjuring it. He spent such a long time and he had the surgery and started the rehab so that was a long process.