Video: Tyron is looking pretty good

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My God he's a man mountain !
No predictions on how his health will hold up this year, but with getting the 2 procedures done early. His body should have plenty of time to heal.
Huge year for him if he can remain healthy.
My take, unless Sewell falls to us, I'm not taking a tackle in the 1st this year. Tyron gets the benefit of the doubt, but I would take a 4th - 5th round tackle to back him up.
if he can't make it thru this season- I'm looking at a LT early next year - but not this year...
 
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Training camp trip to IR, give him 3 weeks in if that unfortunately
 

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Mr Cowboy said:
He's looking pretty good, says his neck and back won't be a problem this year.

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Fake News. That's not what he said.

He said "I want to prove to everyone, and prove to myself that, you know, even after being a year out, that I'm coming back stronger than ever, that the neck's not going to be a problem, that the back's not going to be a problem, just proving to everyone that I can still play at the same level I've always been playing at ..."

There's a very big difference between "I want to prove to everyone and myself that I can do X" and "I can do X".

I want to prove to everyone and myself that I can play at the same level Tyron has always been playing, but that's not an assertion or prediction that I will do it or that I am able to do it.
 

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ABQCOWBOY said:
That's the problem with Smitty. When he's healthy, he's as good as there is out there. The problem is that he can't recover the way he used to and that's just science. He's got a lot of games played. Great player but you can't count on him being there for an entire season. If the opportunity is there to take one of the top LTs, I'd do it for sure.

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I thought he looked recovered in 2019 from the back issues. Didn't have that "old man, bad back" look to his movement that he had in 2017-2018. Players *can* get better. A season off probably has some positive benefit for him as well, after playing for 10 years.

Much like WR last year, drafting LT this year would be a short term malinvestment that *could* pay off into the future. Unlike WR, we won't go to a 3 T formation to get value out of the pick, and we're stocked at LG this year with Williams being a *good* LG, and McGovern looking nearly as good until his play dropped off at the end of the season.

But like Lamb, I can only see taking a LT if great value dropped to us at 10. Or later in the round, if we traded back.

From the way the draft looks, I would only take a LT at 10 if Sewell fell to us.
 
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buybuydandavis said:
I thought he looked recovered in 2019 from the back issues. Didn't have that "old man, bad back" look to his movement that he had in 2017-2018. Players *can* get better. A season off probably has some positive benefit for him as well, after playing for 10 years.

Much like WR last year, drafting LT this year would be a short term malinvestment that *could* pay off into the future. Unlike WR, we won't go to a 3 T formation to get value out of the pick, and we're stocked at LG this year with Williams being a *good* LG, and McGovern looking nearly as good until his play dropped off at the end of the season.

But like Lamb, I can only see taking a LT if great value dropped to us at 10. Or later in the round, if we traded back.

From the way the draft looks, I would only take a LT at 10 if Sewell fell to us.
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I would take Sewell or Slater or Darrisaw. I might trade down a little bit if at 10, Slater and Darrisaw were both still on the board. Hell, I like Darrisaw even better then Sewell, TBH.

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Not Sewell, Slater.
 
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McKDaddy said:
? He could have had the surgery any year (cause lord knows we weren't in the playoffs) and been ready for the next year.
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The start of his injuries was literally wedged inbetween the cowboys being the #1 seed in 2016 and then making it to the 2nd round of the playoffs in 2018.

Pretty delusional to spin it as "eh we where garbage he could of had the surgery whenever"
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Even if it did require missing some time, no one would have complained if it got him healthy and reliable.
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Yeah BS on that. Tyron having surgery after the team being the #1 seed and having lots of young talent would of resulted in half of this forum screaming "why is he taking an optional window during our window to win" or "back in my day players would of toughed it out, this new generation is soft"
 
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I love Tyron Smith- 5 years ago, he was literally the best football player on this team. Injuries like the ones he’s had the last few years changed things.

We all HOPE Tyron is back. That’s what fans do. We hope. But one of the biggest problems with our owner also being the GM is he thinks like a fan. He believes/hopes everything will work out. Most GMs who think that way are unemployed within 3 years. GMs that are consistently successful have contingency plans in addition to hope.

Hope is good. As a Cowboys fan I have hope too. But hope is not a strategy. I hope Tyron works out. But what I really want to know is- what’s the plan if he doesn’t? Because the likelihood of him being “back” are not even close to a good bet.
 
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He probably needed time off. If he get a nagging injury this year time to move on.
 
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buybuydandavis said:
I thought he looked recovered in 2019 from the back issues. Didn't have that "old man, bad back" look to his movement that he had in 2017-2018. Players *can* get better. A season off probably has some positive benefit for him as well, after playing for 10 years.

Much like WR last year, drafting LT this year would be a short term malinvestment that *could* pay off into the future. Unlike WR, we won't go to a 3 T formation to get value out of the pick, and we're stocked at LG this year with Williams being a *good* LG, and McGovern looking nearly as good until his play dropped off at the end of the season.

But like Lamb, I can only see taking a LT if great value dropped to us at 10. Or later in the round, if we traded back.

From the way the draft looks, I would only take a LT at 10 if Sewell fell to us.
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That is because his Neck/back issue was managed, it was never if he needed surgery it was always when, he got the stinger last year and that pretty much cemented it.
 
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