jujoboys
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https://fansided.com/2021/05/06/3-mistakes-cowboys-made-nfl-draft-year/3/
So I know we all want to read about the shiney side of our draft..but there appears to be so.e hiccups too. Remains to see how it all works out.
#1 - Helping the Eagles? Either the Giants or the Eagles were going to get Smith. They are both rivals. Nothing we could do to stop it. Got an extra 3rd round pick and took the guy we were going to draft at 10. This is the first website that I have heard say this was a bad move. To me it was a non-brainer. I would rather see Smith teamed up with a bunch of scrub WRs in Philly than teamed up with Golladay, Sheperd, and Slayton in NY.
#2 - Drafting Josh Ball - This one I could agree with to some extent. Hopefully his issues are behind him and he doesn't have any additional situations happen in regard to his past issues. The issues happened over 3 years ago so hopefully the guy has matured and straightened himself out. I probably would have gone in a different direction with this pick but they must have had him very high on their draft board to take the risk.
#3 - Totally disagree with this one. We don't know how the scouts and coaches had the CBs rated. Supposedly they had him rated very high on the draft board. So should we just fire our scouting department and start choosing players based on how the media has them ranked? Bye Bye Will McClay we are going to use Mel Kiper's draft guide from now on instead of you. Doesn't seem to be working out so well for the Raiders and Mike Mayock. The Raiders don't start drafting better then Mayock will be back on ESPN/NFL Network with Kiper, McShay, and Jeremiah.
The only real issues I had with our draft is the selection of Josh Ball and Nahshon Wright. Ball - I have a daughter about to leave for college so this is a touchy subject for me. I would have definitely gone in a different direction. Nahshon Wright - I have no issue with taking the player but I think we could have gotten him much later in the draft. However, I am not a scout so I could be totally wrong.