Twitter: Parsons was target one

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JBS said:
Mods - please edit title...#1 target

Many have wondered this. People have kind of mentioned it. Ian is very straightforward about it in this clip.

For the record. Im not buying it.

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I mentioned this before the draft...............the fact that the Cowboys have NEVER mentioned ONE thing at all about Parsons was a give away how much they wanted him. They talked about both corners, Pitts, ect.....ect....
 
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CATCH17 said:
Let me guess... Our pick at 44 will have had a first round grade as well...

This team sells the same crap / different year.
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This is true. But just about every team does. But yes, this team is all about marketing. On every level.
 

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I mentioned this before the draft...............the fact that the Cowboys have NEVER mentioned ONE thing at all about Parsons was a give away how much they wanted him. They talked about both corners, Pitts, ect.....ect....
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This would be more believable if not for the fact this team has never done something like that before. If you go over our last first picks in the draft, they've been pretty well projected. Frederick was one guy that came out of nowhere. But Martin? He was always considered a likely target unless Jerry went Manziel crazy. They were linked a ton with Chaisson last year and the Cowboys basically admitted if Lamb hadn't been there they likely would have gone there. LVE was linked to us a lot. Hill was definitely linked to us a lot, especially in the last week leading up to that draft. Elliott? It was basically a debate those last couple of weeks as to whether we'd go Ramsey or Elliott.

The simplest answer tends to be the accurate one. They wanted one of the CBs. When they went off the board early, they enacted their fall back strategy which was Parsons and were able to leverage the fight for Devonta Smith into an extra pick while still getting their back up option after the CBs.
 
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morasp said:
He could add some Energy to our defense. We upgraded our run defense and pass rush with one pick.
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If we do nothing else for the defense in this draft just run Parsons, Smith, and LVE down hill on every play, what do we have to lose...
 
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CATCH17 said:
Let me guess... Our pick at 44 will have had a first round grade as well...

This team sells the same crap / different year.
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Put yourself in the player's shoes. How would you like to show up at work and the boss says 'I really wanted someone else but other companies hired the four people I ranked higher than you?' Not much of a welcome, is it?
 
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CowboyRoy said:
I mentioned this before the draft...............the fact that the Cowboys have NEVER mentioned ONE thing at all about Parsons was a give away how much they wanted him. They talked about both corners, Pitts, ect.....ect....
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That’s a McCarthy thing. He did it a lot in Green Bay and same with ceedee last year
 
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We’re the best at drafting, hands down. We wanted Lamb, Jerry used his Jedi power to make him fall to us. We never wanted Pitts, that was crap, Jerry fooled everyone and used mind control over Roseman to give him the Eagles third round and leave their number one target on the board. Everyone wanted Dak and Jerry just said he wanted Paxton Lunch to throw everyone off so Dak would still be there. Jerry spread the LVE neck rumor and embellished it so everyone would be too scared to draft him.

Jerry gets what Jerry wants, I can’t remember the last time the Cowboys didn’t have the best draft in the league with the exception of Taco. If the draft were equivalent to the Super Bowl, the Cowboys would be undefeated.
 

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Bowdown27 said:
That’s a McCarthy thing. He did it a lot in Green Bay and same with ceedee last year
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There was nothing surprising about them taking CeeDee. It was reported before the draft they viewed him as the best WR so when he kept slipping it became obvious he was likely going to be a real option. The guy they had largely been linked to leading up to the draft - Chaisson - the team basically admitted he likely would have been the choice if not for the crazy fall of Lamb.

Lamb's selection didn't come out of left field. In fact, if you go back to the draft thread from last year, when Lamb started to fall and the two other WRs went before him, people were going nuts because there was a real chance we'd take him if he made it all the way to our pick.
 
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Whether or not they would have taken Parsons if one of the corners was there is another story, but the fact that they didn't pick up LVE's option and the fact they tried to avoid linking themselves to Parsons tells you that LB was always a high consideration in this draft.
 
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Sydla said:
This would be more believable if not for the fact this team has never done something like that before. If you go over our last first picks in the draft, they've been pretty well projected. Frederick was one guy that came out of nowhere. But Martin? He was always considered a likely target unless Jerry went Manziel crazy. They were linked a ton with Chaisson last year and the Cowboys basically admitted if Lamb hadn't been there they likely would have gone there. LVE was linked to us a lot. Hill was definitely linked to us a lot, especially in the last week leading up to that draft. Elliott? It was basically a debate those last couple of weeks as to whether we'd go Ramsey or Elliott.

The simplest answer tends to be the accurate one. They wanted one of the CBs. When they went off the board early, they enacted their fall back strategy which was Parsons and were able to leverage the fight for Devonta Smith into an extra pick while still getting their back up option after the CBs.
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I could interpret all those differently.
  • Frederick was a surprise
  • Martin was known to be a likely bpa candidate at 16 that fit our obvious needs if Donald didn't slide. We were linked to OL, not Martin.
  • Byron Jones was known to be a likely bpa candidate in the late 20s that fit our obvious needs. We were linked to DBs, not Jones.
  • Zeke was picked 4th. How many people do you expect to be in the conversation in the top 5?
  • Honestly I don't remember and don't want to talk about Taco and his pre-draft hype.
  • LVE was linked to us because he was a first round grade from Boise State at a position of need. At a certain point the link is inevitably made.
  • Lamb was a surprise. You can't say "so and so surprised but it doesn't count because they were gonna get the linked guy if they didn't surprise us". They still picked the surprise.
Not to mention, we're linked to lots of people every year. If a simple link is all you're judging by, then how many teams actually surprised anyone last night? We were linked one way or another in the media to like 6 people and we were picking 10 lol
 
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Sydla said:
This would be more believable if not for the fact this team has never done something like that before. If you go over our last first picks in the draft, they've been pretty well projected. Frederick was one guy that came out of nowhere. But Martin? He was always considered a likely target unless Jerry went Manziel crazy. They were linked a ton with Chaisson last year and the Cowboys basically admitted if Lamb hadn't been there they likely would have gone there. LVE was linked to us a lot. Hill was definitely linked to us a lot, especially in the last week leading up to that draft. Elliott? It was basically a debate those last couple of weeks as to whether we'd go Ramsey or Elliott.

The simplest answer tends to be the accurate one. They wanted one of the CBs. When they went off the board early, they enacted their fall back strategy which was Parsons and were able to leverage the fight for Devonta Smith into an extra pick while still getting their back up option after the CBs.
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I agree that Jones probably isnt that smart. And its no coincidence that in ALL The first 3 rounds the EXACT guys that many of us wanted..................Horn/Sutain...........Moerhig...............McNeil/DT all went right before the Cowboys. And in certain scenarios teams like LV trading up right before us to take them out from under us. They are complete idiots and its NEVER a secret who they want.
 
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