Cowboys Pro Bowl safety Roy Williams has always been a brooding presence in the locker room, but he's not the type of player who criticizes management.

Williams expressed anger Monday over the release of veteran cornerback Aaron Glenn, who quickly signed with Jacksonville. Glenn had become a mentor to several of the club's young defensive backs, and most of them were stunned by his departure.

When local interrogator Calvin Watkins asked Williams if he'd expressed his feelings to anyone in the organization, he said, "Why? I'm just going to be preaching to the choir. It doesn't really matter. They took care of what they had to do, right?"

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it appears Roy may have his faith-based cliche turned around. But anyway, I can't say I disagree with him on the Glenn release.

The Cowboys could say it was a financial decision, but Glenn's $1.7 million salary wasn't a problem. After all, this club will pay reserve cornerback Nate Jones more than $800,000, and no one expects him to be an integral part of the defense.

"I feel that if Terence [Newman] couldn't play, Aaron would be the person that would have started," Williams said.

Now it appears that former Purdue great Jacques Reeves would get the call if Newman's heel injury keeps him out against the Giants on Sunday. I realize Glenn had lost a step, but it's not like this locker room is teeming with veteran leaders.

The last time the Cowboys tried to make it through a season (2004) with a patchwork situation at corner, things didn't work out so well. And in other Cowboys news, former Falcons GM Harold Richardson will serve as an interim assistant coach while quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson is suspended for violating the league's substance-abuse policy.

Yes, that's the same Harold Richardson who pulled the trigger on the Michael Vick trade in 2001.