Now a Seahawk, spurned Jones spurred to burn Cowboys

That's one of the reasons the Seahawks pursued him. The guy can do almost anything, and someone with those qualifications is a perfect fit in Holmgren's backfield. Remember Dorsey Levens in Green Bay? Yeah, so do I, and I remember how effective he was running and catching the ball.

Jones could fill that same role for Seattle, though let's get something straight: Nobody has named him the starter. In fact, Holmgren insists he'd like to have Jones and Maurice Morris share the position, with T.J. Duckett coming off the bench, and he will go with the guy who is hotter at the time.

"I'm not going to go 50-50," he said. "I'm going to go by 'feel.'"

I would, too, and right now I feel like Jones is someone who is going to excel here. As I said, he's perfect for this offense, and if you don't believe me you should have been at Friday morning's practice. Jones was one of quarterback Matt Hasselbeck's favorite targets and seemed comfortable catching the ball.

"We like everything about him," said Tim Ruskell, the team's president of football operations and general manager. "He can catch the ball. He's a good pass protector. And then there are the run skills: He has vision, burst and speed. I figured out with Mike that if you give him a guy who can do a lot of things he will press all those buttons."

Just a hunch, but nobody will need to push Jones' buttons.

"I can't remember the last time I wanted something so bad," he said. "I'm going to try to make life miserable for every team I face and every player I face."

I can think of one team in particular. Sign me up for the Nov. 27 game in Dallas.

"Nobody wants to go out like (the way I did in Dallas)," he said. "I was a starter there, and in the most important game there in -- what? -- four years, and I'm on the bench? They did what they wanted to do, and that's fine."

Somehow, I don't think it was. Happy Thanksgiving, Big D.