\u201cThis is the healthiest I\u2019ve felt the last two years,\u201d he said. \u201cI finally got my right knee cleaned out, so everything is fixed, and fingers crossed I can stay on the field and stay healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Game-day conditions are set to suit the Cowboys, with the forecast temperature of 28 degrees set to make it the hottest February day in Vegas for 40 years.<\/p>\n
Taumalolo was last in the US a decade ago, when he and Valentine Holmes \u2013 who is also in town with St George Illawarra \u2013 tried their luck at an NFL combine. Holmes returned a few years later for a second crack, and featured in four pre-season games with the New York Jets before being released.<\/p>\n
Taumalolo passed on the chance of a second trial, and inked the lifetime deal with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw Val and we spoke about how crazy it was to think the last time we were here together, we had the NFL combine stuff happening,\u201d Taumalolo said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was meant to come back, but I had a big decision to make with the Cowboys. Val chanced his hand and came here [a few years later].<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I have a bit of regret? Maybe slightly. I would have been curious to see how I went. There were a few teams that wanted to do an individual [assessment].<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I signed the deal here. I wouldn\u2019t change it again if I went back. I enjoy playing for this club, I love giving it my all, and hopefully I can do that the last two years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is the healthiest I\u2019ve felt the last two years,\u201d he said. \u201cI finally got my right knee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-509834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}