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Rivera learned leadership as a rookie inside the Green Bay Packers locker room in 1996. He shared space with Reggie White and Leroy Butler. He took orders in the huddle from Brett Favre and learned tricks in the trenches from veteran center Frank Winters.

Rivera was a 300-pound sponge that year, squeaking onto the Packers' final roster as a sixth-round pick and soaking it all in for 16 weeks. Green Bay cruised to its first Super Bowl title in 29 years, and Rivera learned plenty from the veteran cast despite being inactive for all 19 games.

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"That trickled down to the rest of us," he said. "I was one of those rookies that came in, was quiet, never spoke much, just tried to learn and get better. As the years went on younger guys came in and I kind of assumed the role that those older guys had. And this is what's left."

That would be an accomplished 33-year-old right guard who has played with the very best and will now try to impart his wisdom onto the Cowboys' fledgling offensive line. Rivera sat out the Cowboys' May mini-camp while he continues to rehab his surgically-repaired back - a result of the herniated disk he suffered in March - but expects to be ready for full contact by training camp.

Rivera is entering his ninth season and has only gotten better with age. His three trips to the Pro Bowl have come in the past three years as part of Packer lines that allowed a total of 57 sacks on Favre and paved the way for three straight 1,000-yard seasons by running back Ahman Green.

Rivera instantly became the Cowboys' starting right guard and the offensive line's vocal leader when he arrived at Valley Ranch March 3 for the news conference announcing his five-year, $20 million deal, which included a $9 million bonus.

One week later, Rivera was in a bad way. The man who started all 16 games and reached his first Pro Bowl in 2002 playing with torn MCLs in both knees, the man who is scheduled to start his 100th consecutive regular season game in the Sept. 11 opener at San Diego, feared his career was in jeopardy after seriously injuring his back while exercising.

"When something like that happens, especially to me, nothing like that has ever happened to me, it kind of puts things into perspective," he said. "You're like, 'Wow, you're not invisible.' It scares you and it scared me."

But doctors assured Rivera he would make a full recovery, and sure enough, the veteran guard expects to put the pads back on in late July and take on that leadership role.

It's a role Rivera embraces. He wants to push a decent offensive line to elite status, but not by his presence alone. Helping younger players like center Al Johnson and the Cowboys' right tackle, whomever that may be, is part of the process.

"I've seen a lot of things," Rivera said. "I've been in a lot of games and there's pretty much nothing out there a defensive lineman is gonna do to me that I haven't seen. With younger guys it's all about confidence, and if you have an older guy playing next to you and you have a question, I can answer that for them. I'll give them the confidence they need to play."

Last year's offensive line certainly wasn't lacking in talent, though they didn't always play like a confident bunch. Vinny Testaverde was sacked 34 times, an average total for a starting quarterback but too many hits for a creaky 41-year-old. Favre, on the other hand, was only taken down 12 times thanks to Rivera and Co.

The Cowboys' line seemed reenergized when running back Julius Jones returned at midseason from a broken shoulder blade. Jones exploded for 803 yards in the final seven games (4.2 avg.), while Eddie George averaged just 3.3 yards per carry as the starter for the first nine games.

Rivera is here to curb those inconsistencies. The talent is certainly in place with left tackle Flozell Adams only two years removed from a Pro Bowl season and Johnson emerging as a capable young center. The biggest question mark is at right tackle, where as many as five players (Kurt Vollers, Torrin Tucker, Ben Noll, Jacob Rogers and Rob Pettiti) will compete for the job in Oxnard, Calif.

"Adding Marco into the mix is great for us because it brings another player with some credibility to that offensive line right now," offensive line coach Tony Sparano said. "(He's) a guy with some stripes that has done it in this league and he's a physical player."

Tucker started the first 13 games at right tackle with mixed results until head coach Bill Parcells replaced him with Vollers, and right guard also was a problem before Rivera's arrival. Former starter Andre Gurode was benched for the final games in favor of Noll.

Parcells and his coaching staff believe the currently-anonymous right tackle will benefit from playing alongside Rivera and commit less mental errors.

"He's been in Green Bay where he's had to play next to a rookie tackle and play next to a backup tackle at some point," Sparano said. "Because he's so smart and you have a take-charge guy there, a guy that's confident and doesn't panic when movement happens out there, he can help the guy next to him."

Rivera's arrival has also coincided with an attitude change in usually stoic left guard Larry Allen. Allen looked dominant in the mini-camp and was surprisingly more vocal, offering advice to the younger linemen.

The Cowboys now have three Pro Bowlers on their revamped offensive line. Whether the group keeps new starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe out of harm's way remains to be seen, but it looks promising on paper.

Rivera is here to help translate that potential into production on the field.

"We've got an offensive line that's got to prove a lot of things, and that's good because it's a challenge," Rivera said. "We know we were kind of the Achilles heel the last couple years and we don't want to be that anymore. When people talk about the Dallas Cowboys, we want them to think they've got a great offensive line."

Only time will if it becomes great, but the addition of Rivera instantly made it better.