windward
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XFL!Released for David Fales.
Think it's time to retire Cook.
XFL!Released for David Fales.
Think it's time to retire Cook.
No way Dak would have been on PS. 3rd QB at minimum.What's interesting, if Romo or Kellen doesn't get hurt, Dak likely spends 2016 season on the practice squad.
No way Dak would have been on PS. 3rd QB at minimum.
We kept 3 QBs for a few years now. Look at where Rush and White were drafted........ Rush wasn't drafted and White was a late 5th. Dak was a 4th round pick, no way he goes to the practice squad and if he did another team would have signed him.I get that but what are odds we would have had three QBs on the active roster. Again, remember Romo was the starter and they'd already named Moore as his back-up. Hell, at that time Dak was just a 4th round pick trying to make the team.
With a rookie? Good. They kept Mike White on active roster all year for example and he was a 6th.I get that but what are odds we would have had three QBs on the active roster. Again, remember Romo was the starter and they'd already named Moore as his back-up. Hell, at that time Dak was just a 4th round pick trying to make the team.
exactly , and it wasnt just connor, there was another guy they wanted, went to denver i think and he was a bust too.see this is one reason i favor paying Dak now,our inability to scout QBs,even Dak was drafted as a backup.We have a long history of drafting duds and being associated with failed QBs for a long time since Romo emerged.
yes lynch and cook were way above dak on the draft board, and had they fell enough for dallas to get one of them , I dont think they draft Dak.I think he meant having interest after QBs in the draft that flamed out quickly with their 1st team.
Manziel, Lynch, Cook are some recent names.
But, jmo
What were Rush's 2017 numbers?Not with his rookie preseason numbers:
78.0% 454 (9.1) 5 td 0 int 137.8 - 7 rushes 53 yds 7.6 avg 2 td 0 fumbles
The alternatives - as Paxton Lynch and Connor Cook were - were horrifying. We can be thankful that other teams saved Dallas from themselves. And then think about the idea of watching this quarterback walk and trusting these folks to identify, acquire, and coach up another one.
Yeah, I'm not trusting that for a second.
Exactly, give Dak the tools and knowledge to grow. I was a fan of Cook but was on the fence about Lynch. Dak is gamer in the playoffs and has nearly eclipse Romo in the number of come backs. Some Cowboys fans don't see a good thing staring them in the face.
Yea if only Dak had not taken that tire iron to Tony Romo's back during the Seahawks game your wet dream would still be out there playing.
see this is one reason i favor paying Dak now,our inability to scout QBs,even Dak was drafted as a backup.We have a long history of drafting duds and being associated with failed QBs for a long time since Romo emerged.
Since 2000 (Aikman's last season), the Cowboys have drafted 4 QBs (plus Isaiah Stanback, but I don't count him), tied for fewest in the NFL (the average team drafted nearly 8 QBs over that time and 6 teams including the Patriots drafted 11 or 12). Carter, McGee, Dak and White. The team they're tied with is the Colts, who of course had Manning through most of this period and then after a one-year lull got to pick Luck.
It's not that the Cowboys draft duds, it's that they simply don't draft QBs at all. Not a great strategy to my mind, but it's what they do.
And I think it's unfair to talk about "our inability to scout QBs" when the entire NFL evaluated these guys pretty much the same way--that's why Dak was there for us at the end of the 4th and we missed out on the other guys. Drafting is hard and unpredictable. I don't see any reason to think the Cowboys are worse at evaluating QB prospects than anyone else.
We kept 3 QBs for a few years now. Look at where Rush and White were drafted........ Rush wasn't drafted and White was a late 5th. Dak was a 4th round pick, no way he goes to the practice squad and if he did another team would have signed him.
yes lynch and cook were way above dak on the draft board, and had they fell enough for dallas to get one of them , I dont think they draft Dak.
That is why most of us know it was just luck we wound up with Dak.
Add to that kellen breaking his ankle and romo getting hurt all allowed Dak to step in fresh out of college.
Had Dak sat on the bench 2-3 years, he might never had become a starter in NFL.
He could have wound up on another team too.
So Dak was lucky too, and now here he is looking at a 100 mil contract! so he is real lucky, but he made the most out of the luck he had.
INDY. Because they got lucky twice.Can anyone think of a team or teams that consistently drafts good QBs?
Is Cook better than DAL current backup QBs?
DAL probably have enough Connors' on the roster.
We kept 3 QBs for a few years now. Look at where Rush and White were drafted........ Rush wasn't drafted and White was a late 5th. Dak was a 4th round pick, no way he goes to the practice squad and if he did another team would have signed him.