Cowboys refrain from splash pick and go with need

[Pass2Run]

I am starting to think the Cowboys might let Booker play LG and move Tyler Smith to LT.

Guyton was a McCarthy/Solari project last year. Schotty and Klayton Adams might see him in a different light. Maybe Guyton lets the Cowboys move on from Steele at RT or maybe they just chalk him up as a first round miss and move on.

Uh . . . Yeah. Imagine the line. Smith, Booker, Beebe, Hoffman/Steele, Guyton.

Now that's a line! You'd be silly to keep Guyton at LT when you have a top 10 LT already on the team.

 

[Creeper]

I don’t quite understand what you are saying in this post. Do I think Booker was their highest rated player on their board when we picked? Probably so.

I don’t believe that the Cowboys went into this draft targeting OL. I think that’s the way the board fell. We will probably never know for sure.

I will say that I doubt that the Cowboys graded the top end WRs as high as the talking heads graded them. I think that the Cowboys really did only have 12 first round grades and I would guess that Booker was one of the last ones left on that list.

I am against the idea of forcing a WR pick at 44. We just need to stick to the board and draft BPA. Otherwise we end up with an over drafted player and still have a hole that wasn’t filled.

I do like the idea of trading for a WR/DL/RB if we don’t end up getting what we need out of this draft.

I am not suggesting they force the pick. I am saying, given the WRs in this draft there might be only a couple left who would be better than Tolbert, Mingo and Flournoy. If they don't get one of the two better WRs left then why take a WR at all? I am saying if Dallas is determined to upgrade the WRs squad, they pretty much have to do it at 44 - or make a trade after the draft.

 

[atlantacowboy]

I must applaud Jethro & Son. I thought for sure we’d go WR or CB. But we went in the trenches which is a much better building block. And Booker is a 1st round talent while being touted further down. And hopefully sound replacement for Martin .

This is a deep WR draft and there should be ample talent for a WR2 further down. Hopefully we’ll also look to shore up DL in middle rounds.

Now that we are back to three 1st round picks on OL we don’t need a 1st round talent at RB. There’s two picks I’m looking at for RB with Arizona State in 3rd round or Texas Tech in 5th round .

Too high for a G. I like the player but it wasn't our biggest need or even a great draft value pick, and that's how you get ahead in this league.....particularly on a team that barely dips its toes into free agency. This should have been a trade back if G was the pick. It's not even clear we got the best G. Many publications had grey Zabel rated higher and he didn't go until 18.

I'm not buying this business about no deals were out there. Sometimes you have to get on the phone and sell a trade rather than just sit back waiting for the phone to ring. Or, better yet, make a trade before you get on the clock.

 

[Blackspider214]

The pick doesn't surprise me. Adding more receivers isn't going to help this team, an offensive line that can facilitate running the ball to ensure that your game plan doesn't come down to relying on Dak Prescott's arm is. His best season is still the rookie year where they had one of the best running games in the league.

Except that team had Zeke as a rookie RB who was dominant in college and dominant up until his suspension in 2017. This team doesn't even have close to that this year. I know the old saying "OL makes the RB" but having a game changing RB, like Zeke 2016 or 2014 Murray makes a world of a difference. Look at the Eagles. Getting Barkley took their offense to another level. Contrary to what so many believe, there is a difference of the tiers of RBs. A lower tier RB is going to miss a lot of holes and leave a lot of potential yards on the field, even behind the same OL.

At some point, this team needs weapons on offense. An OL can only do so much. Great protection and run blocking means little in the end if the skill players aren't capitalizing.

This is why Dallas can never keep building a solid overall team. We don't utilize free agency at all. So we rely on the draft. Yet, we keep using all these 1st rounders on one single position.

 

[plymkr]

The pick doesn't surprise me. Adding more receivers isn't going to help this team, an offensive line that can facilitate running the ball to ensure that your game plan doesn't come down to relying on Dak Prescott's arm is. His best season is still the rookie year where they had one of the best running games in the league.

Exactly, Dak played the best with an elite offensive line. WRs were an aging Bryant, Twill, aging Witten (tho still good), Beasley.

Dak thrived with a power running game. He did not do as well with an average running game and Lamb, Cooper and that one guy who ripped his ACL, I can’t remember his name. ADHD moment here.

Anyway point being with a great WR corps and an average running game attack and offensive line Dak didn’t do as well. Also if/when Adam goes down a good offend line will help the backup as well. Nothing helps a struggling quarterback than a strong line and run game attack.

 

[plymkr]

*Dak goes down, not Adam. Stupid autocorrect.

 

[Johannes44]

Except that team had Zeke as a rookie RB who was dominant in college and dominant up until his suspension in 2017. This team doesn't even have close to that this year. I know the old saying "OL makes the RB" but having a game changing RB, like Zeke 2016 or 2014 Murray makes a world of a difference. Look at the Eagles. Getting Barkley took their offense to another level. Contrary to what so many believe, there is a difference of the tiers of RBs. A lower tier RB is going to miss a lot of holes and leave a lot of potential yards on the field, even behind the same OL.

At some point, this team needs weapons on offense. An OL can only do so much. Great protection and run blocking means little in the end if the skill players aren't capitalizing.

This is why Dallas can never keep building a solid overall team. We don't utilize free agency at all. So we rely on the draft. Yet, we keep using all these 1st rounders on one single position.

Yea but I doubt Zeke by himself would have been that much of a difference without the aide of the oline he was running behind.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Yea but I doubt Zeke by himself would have been that much of a difference without the aide of the oline he was running behind.

Zeke never surpassed the 2014 season of Demarco Murray who also ran behind that OL winning the NFL offensive MVP that year. That was a generational OL that we wasted.

 

[charron]

I disagree that guard was a need. They had adequate talent on the line, actually got better run blocking after martin left. But now they still have major holes at WR, RB, NT, LB, possibly CB.