DALLAS (Reuters) – Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan has fired an early shot at National Football League (NFL) division rival Philadelphia, describing the big-spending Eagles as “all hype”.

Following in the same brash style of his twin brother Rex and their father Buddy, Ryan told reporters he was unimpressed by Philadelphia’s recent spending spree and predicted the Cowboys would have few problems beating them this season.

“I don’t know if we win the all-hype team, I think that might have gone to somebody else,” he told reporters at Cowboys training.

“But we’re going to beat their ass when we play them.”

Philadelphia were in the spotlight last week when they signed prized cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, defensive linemen Cullen Jenkins and Jason Babin and quarterback Vince Young and traded for cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.

Ryan’s comments did not go unnoticed by the new Eagles with Jenkins responding on Twitter.

“Talk is cheap,” Jenkins wrote. “Let them talk.

“We are focused here and I could care less. We are worried about ourselves n getting better. He must be nervous.”

The Cowboys were one of the favorites to win the Super Bowl last season but failed to make the playoffs after a poor season (6-10) in which they gave up 436 points, the most by any team in their conference.

The Eagles (10-6) made the playoffs but were eliminated in the first round by the Green Bay Packers, who went on to win the Super Bowl, at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

For Ryan, who is in his first season with Dallas after coaching the Oakland and Cleveland defenses, trash-talking is a family trait.

Rex, who steered the Jets to the AFC title game in each of his first two seasons in charge, has already made his annual prediction that his team would win the Super Bowl.

Buddy, who once coached the Eagles, had a war of words with then Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson, who accused him of putting a bounty on some of his Cowboy players.

The Eagles and Cowboys will meet in Philadelphia on Oct 30, and again in Dallas on Christmas Eve.

(Writing by Larry Fine, Editing by Julian Linden)

Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan has fired an early shot at NFL division rivals Philadelphia, describing the big-spending Eagles as “all hype”.

Following in the same brash style of his twin brother Rex and their father Buddy, Ryan said he was unimpressed by Philadelphia’s recent spending spree and predicted the Cowboys would have few problems beating them this season.

“I don’t know if we win the all-hype team, I think that might have gone to somebody else,” he said at Cowboys training.

“But we’re going to beat their ass when we play them.”

Philadelphia were in the spotlight last week when they signed prized cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, defensive linemen Cullen Jenkins and Jason Babin and quarterback Vince Young and traded for cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.

Ryan’s comments did not go unnoticed by the new Eagles with Jenkins responding on Twitter.

“Talk is cheap,” Jenkins wrote. “Let them talk. We are focused here and I could care less.

“We are worried about ourselves n getting better. He must be nervous.”

The Cowboys were one of the favourites to win the Super Bowl last season but failed to make the play-offs after a poor season (6-10) in which they gave up 436 points, the most by any team in their conference.

The Eagles (10-6) made the play-offs but were eliminated in the first round by the Green Bay Packers, who went on to win the Super Bowl, at Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

For Ryan, who is in his first season with Dallas after coaching the Oakland and Cleveland defenses, trash-talking is a family trait.

Rex, who steered the Jets to the AFC title game in each of his first two seasons in charge, has already made his annual prediction that his team would win the Super Bowl.

Buddy, who once coached the Eagles, had a war of words with then Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson, who accused him of putting a bounty on some of his Cowboy players.

The Eagles and Cowboys will meet in Philadelphia on October 30, and again in Dallas on Christmas Eve.

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The NFL and the Dallas Cowboys have asked a judge to dismiss the class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Super Bowl XLV ticket holders who were denied their seats at February’s game.

A motion filed Thursday says the NFL went “beyond its contractual obligations” with offers of compensation to the displaced ticket holders. It also says no one was defrauded because the league worked through the afternoon on the day of the game to deal with the issue.

“These offers were made to be accommodating to the NFL’s valued fans, but in fact, they exceed the amount to which any of the ticket-holders is entitled,” Jones and the NFL stated in the filing, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The suit was filed after about 1,250 temporary seats couldn’t be completed in time for the Feb. 6 game between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington.

Class counsel Michael Avenatti says the filing shows the league and the team don’t understand their legal obligations. The lawsuit claims fans suffered damages in excess of $5 million.

An earlier filing by Jones and the league said they made an offer to pay 3,296 fans $4.5 million to $9.3 million.

The league’s first offer to displaced fans in February was for $2,400 — three times the face value of the affected seats — and a ticket to next year’s Super Bowl. The league soon added a second option of a ticket to any future Super Bowl plus airfare and hotel costs.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league later emailed fans with a subsequent offer of either $5,000 or reimbursement for “actual documented” Super Bowl XLV expenses, whichever figure is higher.

When 1,250 seats were declared unsafe hours before the Super Bowl, the NFL scrambled to find new seats for about 850 fans. The remaining 400 were forced to watch from standing-room areas or on televisions from places with no view of the field, which led to the suit against the league and Cowboys.

Documents released after the game show the Cowboys were slow to respond to requests for building permits needed to install the seats and indicated that a contractor walked out on the job in the days before the game.

Earlier this month, Cowboys Stadium manager Jack Hill told the Star-Telegram he plans to leave his position June 1, but he said the seating problems at the Super Bowl in February didn’t factor in his decision to resign.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Charlotte Jones Anderson — the name would suggest that she is Dallas royalty.

Anderson, the daughter of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, is one of the few women in power in the NFL.

She is the one who has her father’s ear.

“All growing up, that was always my role,” Anderson said. “I was always the one that could get him to soften and pretty much agree to anything that we might suggest.”

Anderson manages the Cowboys’ brand, one of the most valuable in all of sports.

She is in charge of crafting the Cowboys’ image, reputation and marketability — everything from T-shirts to the design of Cowboys Stadium.

“Here, you are on a national stage, you’re in a sport that is one of the most viewed things by all Americans and you’re [one of] the most visible entities in sports. Well, that comes with it a lot of responsibility to use your brand in the right way, to protect it and to leverage it and to really make the most of it,” Anderson said.

The Stanford graduate said that being a woman in a man’s world has never fazed her.

“My father never saw the gender difference,” she said. “He was always quick to be inclusive in any discussion, in any decision.”

Anderson is credited with bringing Super Bowl XLV to North Texas.

“I heard all the details about how it went down, how the vote was tough, but it finally swung our way, and I think she was one of the important reasons that it did,” Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said. “She is a very powerful person and can get things done that others perhaps can’t.”

Even Jerry Jones says his daughter ultimately sealed the deal. But she won’t take that credit.

“I don’t know. It took a lot of people to get that and to get us there, and I think people don’t understand the mystery of that owner’s room and what actually happens when it goes to vote,” she said.

Now Anderson says she wants another Super Bowl in North Texas.

“It’s really too early to tell when we will get another shot at it, but I know we will,” she said.

Anderson broke another gender barrier recently, becoming the first female National Advisory Board Chair for the Salvation Army, a charity she and the Cowboys have supported for 15 years.

“We have been blessed beyond what we deserve, and if you can give back in any way, then you need to find a way to do it,” she said.

Anderson shrugs when asked if she will one day run the Cowboys when her father steps aside.

“I tell you what — our whole family is so involved,” she said. “My mother is so involved. Obviously, my brothers are — everyone knows that. Now coming up, hopefully our kids will be involved. The point is, this is a family business, and there is something for everybody in it.”

Anderson is the mother of three — Haley, Shy and Paxton.

“They love what I do, they love that I’m involved and, hopefully, I’ve set an example that they will be interested in following,” she said.

Her oldest, Haley, already helps out with some of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader events.

Whether Anderson will run her father’s $2 billion empire remains to be seen. But she said she is just getting started.

“You know, at some point you try to figure out why you’re here and what you’re supposed to do with what you have,” she said. “I don’t know, it’s hard to make a projection of five years. Maybe another Super Bowl ring?”