Well, okay, Pacman will arrive in Dallas if and when the commish gives him the thumbs up.   The terms of the deal:  Dallas gives Tennessee a fourth round pick in this draft and an additional sixth round pick in the 2009 draft if Pacman steps on the field this year.  If he doesn’t, Dallas gets Tennessee’s fourth round pick in 2009.

(Correct me if I am wrong on those details — I’m doing it from memory.)

Good deal?

I think so.  Essentially, what you need to ask yourself is if a cornerback who is in the top 10 and probably top 5 of his position in the NFL is worth a fourth round pick for one year of service.   Because, lets face it, we can’t count on him for much more than a year.   If he turns his life around and becomes a great and outstanding fellow, that’s great, but we can’t count on it.

Is it worth it?  If Dallas was still that 5-11 team that was in dire need of long term talent, I’d say no.  But Dallas is a championship caliber team, so a fourth round pick (who would no doubt have to fight to even be a backup) is well worth adding an excellent player for a year in the hopes that the boost will be enough to get you into a Super Bowl.

Because its Super Bowl or Bust, right?  I mean, is anyone going to be happy with just going to the NFC Championship game this year?  With this type of talent on the team?

It’s a small window we have.  It’s hard to count on Glenn for this year, but if he does play and play well, it’s probably his last year.   And Owens isn’t getting any younger.  And our young stars are going  to want paydays, which means we could lose some.  Heck, we could even lose our superstar offensive coordinator.

It’s a good time to take a gamble — so long as that gamble is just a fourth rounder.

And is it me, or is it eerie that last year New England took a ‘gamble’ on a fourth rounder to get a little old receiver named Randy Moss who was supposed to be ‘washed up’ and ‘not the same Randy’?

Now, here’s the downside of the deal.  And no, I’m not talking about the risk of spending a fourth rounder for a guy that might play two games and then get suspended, or for a guy who might be out-of-shape and not make it back to form (if there’s one thing I am confident on is that he’ll come to camp in shape — he’s supposed to be almost as much into working out as T.O.).

No, here’s the real downside:  Personality.  Pacman came into the league pretty full of himself and didn’t endear himself to his teammates in Tennessee.  Has he changed?  Who knows.   But it’s not particularly something I’d want in my locker room.

Though, I must say, T.O. has been a model citizen ever since being here.   Wade Phillips might be just what Pacman needs.