Rex Ryan: Rob wanted to draft JJ Watt

[jday]

Originally Posted by cowboysooner

Wade Phillips is a top echelon defensive mind and talent evaluator. Anyone that says different does not know much about the NFL or the fact that good defense has followed the guy around for 25 years as a coordinator/ coach.

He was set up to fail as a head coach here. You can't have head coach in waiting at the NFL level unless it is a father son type of relationship. That said, Wade did a poor job his last year here.

Nobody thought Watt would be as great as he is or he would be the #1 pick. He is the best defensive player in the NFL in his second year. If you put him in defense beside Demarcus Ware there would be laws against that. I'm glad we have Smith, but Watt is a hall of fame player in his second year.
[View Full Quote]Jason Garrett is a very smart, very organized guy who is not a very good offensive coordinator. Now that his duties are split further, he is a worse coordinator. He would be a fine head coach if he gave the play calling duties to someone else.

We are running a Norv Turner / Earnie Zampese based system when out talent fits better with something from the Shanahan- Alex Gibbs family. I do expect our offense to look better when we stop trying to futily run the ball into the Bears, Bucs and Seattle's fronts. I'm also very excited for what our front can be with Ratliff's disruptive presence.

I could not agree more with this post!

[Kilyin]

This is pretty impressive for a guy that size.

[Frozen700]

Originally Posted by Zordon

http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs/blue-sta...172700611.html

Romo's O-line is not that great. Even with Smith. Romo can make magic happen with a bad o-line at times.

With that said, Ware is the guy who needed the most help. JJ Watt, Ware, Ratliff, Hatcher, and Spencer?

That's Dangerous....

This D would be so much better....instead 1 guy gets hurt and its a 1 man show(Ware)

[CyberB0b]

Originally Posted by Frozen700

Romo's O-line is not that great. Even with Smith. Romo can make magic happen with a bad o-line at times.

With that said, Ware is the guy who needed the most help. JJ Watt, Ware, Ratliff, Hatcher, and Spencer?

That's Dangerous....

This D would be so much better....instead 1 guy gets hurt and its a 1 man show(Ware)

I thought this was the most talent Robby ever had? Which is it? I thought his magical scheme was supposed to generate a 50 turnovers and 100 sacks?

[BraveHeartFan]

Originally Posted by MartinRamone

Just imagine Ware + Watt

Just imagine us scoring only 3 points again because Romo is sacked twice as much because an already lousy O-Line is even worse because we did nothing to address it.


Geez people.

[Risen Star]

Originally Posted by CyberB0b

I thought this was the most talent Robby ever had? Which is it? I thought his magical scheme was supposed to generate a 50 turnovers and 100 sacks?

I am surprised we haven't seen more exotic looks.

It's like Dallas is where creativity comes to die.

[FiveRings]

Of course he wanted to pick Watt, he's a defensive coordinator, he'd go defense every round if he could. But at the end of the day, Smith had a phenomenal rookie campaign and it just wasn't exposed as much because of the nature of the position.

[Tezz]

I think Tyron Smith will be very good for many seasons to come, but this is a case where I think JJ Watt is just a special not seen often player. Three down, 3-4 ends arent suppose to be getting this many sacks coupled along with his ability to tip balls is amazing. Watt seems to cause a lot of INTs with his deflections and even have opportunities to catch INTs himself... We shall see if Watt can keep it up, but you could argue he is already the best at his position.

[Apollo Creed]

Who cares? We need(ed) o-line help, Smith was unanimously the best prospect on the board at that position, he was a safe pick that could anchor the tackle position for a decade.

Had we not taken Smith imagine how terrible we'd be up front. Our running game is literally a joke, it's not even mediocre, if you spliced all our runs consecutively in a low-light film - you'd have to send the kids out the room and then you'd cut it off because it's embarrassing.

So how exactly would have selecting Watt helped our offense?

The 'we should've drafted' threads are ridiculous, it's a crap shoot, even the best teams hit and miss.

Sure I'd like to have Watt, he's a monster, but taking Smith in the first round was safe and practical given our situation up front at the time.

No sense in *****ing about it now.

So, here's a random picture of Quincy Carter.

[Kilyin]

Originally Posted by Apollo Creed

I see your Quincy pic and raise you...

[Apollo Creed]

Originally Posted by Kilyin

I see your Quincy pic and raise you...

Lol. Not bad.

I'll see your Felix-Quincy face crop and raise you a serious Garrett face. Man, he means business.

[Kilyin]

Originally Posted by Apollo Creed

Lol. Not bad.

I'll see your Felix-Quincy face crop and raise you a serious Garrett face. Man, he means business.

It's terrible actually, but it was a 2 minute hack-job.

[Deep_Freeze]

Originally Posted by Apollo Creed

Who cares? We need(ed) o-line help, Smith was unanimously the best prospect on the board at that position, he was a safe pick that could anchor the tackle position for a decade.

Had we not taken Smith imagine how terrible we'd be up front. Our running game is literally a joke, it's not even mediocre, if you spliced all our runs consecutively in a low-light film - you'd have to send the kids out the room and then you'd cut it off because it's embarrassing.

So how exactly would have selecting Watt helped our offense?

The 'we should've drafted' threads are ridiculous, it's a crap shoot, even the best teams hit and miss.

Sure I'd like to have Watt, he's a monster, but taking Smith in the first round was safe and practical given our situation up front at the time.

No sense in *****ing about it now.

Well I don't see the regret of not drafting Watt at all. This team has good history with finding guys who can play the 3-4 DE position later in the draft and its something we can leverage to improve other positions.

Watt is a great young player, and I more than most on this board it seems, care about the impact a player like him would make on our defense. But LT is a premium position (sorry, its not the same as the other OL positions), and having a chance at someone with the talent of Tyron is something we just couldn't pass up.....no way I would've been happy at that time about taking Watt over Tyron.

Now I will say this though, Tyron has to improve or this will make us look like idiots. Watt has become one of the faces of his franchise, and Tyron has been mediocre.....hopefully articles like this will be motivation for Tyron.

[Apollo Creed]

Originally Posted by Kilyin

It's terrible actually, but it was a 2 minute hack-job.

Speaking of 2 minute hack jobs, here's a Troy Hambrick mugshot.

[jobberone]

Originally Posted by Risen Star

I am surprised we haven't seen more exotic looks.

It's like Dallas is where creativity comes to die.

Ryan has had two DTs drop into coverage in a blitz package. Just how exotic do you want?