News: Cowboys expected to waive Taco Charlton, barring last-minute trade

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Alexander

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I can't be too upset...we were bound to have a few busts after hitting on so many 1st rounders this decade. It's too bad but best to just move on
You have to go back 37 years to find another Cowboy 1st rounder this bad. So it really is not something that is all that common. Makes it that much worse in my eyes.
 

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The Cowboys basically killed whatever value. They are often late to react to things. They probably should have moved him long before this, maybe in the offseason.

But they make him inactive, basically put him in the doghouse, any team with a brain knows a cut is inevitable.

Well and telling everyone that you're going to release him if nobody makes an offer doesn't encourage anyone to make an offer.
 

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Yeah, examples, not excuses.

As for your attempt, was Flowers cut after just two years?

He would have been if the Giants hadn't sucked as bad as they did. If the Dallas DL looked like it did 5 years ago Taco would be here two more years. Thread recap:


Stash: Can someone name a bigger draft bust?

Kaiser: Flowers

Stash: Why are you talking about other teams???
 

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Then you can remember ol' Forum meltdown over drafting Frederick instead of Shariff Floyd and think improvement comes from having more hits than misses.

Or you can keep crying and continue being unable to deal with the fact that the team failed?
 

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Well and telling everyone that you're going to release him if nobody makes an offer doesn't actually encourage anyone to make an offer.

The main talk of the offseason was that Dallas had more quality DL than spots, even casual fans knew Dallas was going to cut a good player so every NFL front office did as well.
 

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Between this pick and Hill can we just keep Rod out of the war room? Maybe just let him coach what they give him. I know Hill is not a 1st round pick, but basically this year he was. So far not even dressing is concerning.

The tackle position is pretty straight forward. Push the guard into qb’s lap, or tackle the running back. Not exactly a steep learning curve like other positions.
 

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You have to go back 37 years to find another Cowboy 1st rounder this bad. So it really is not something that is all that common. Makes it that much worse in my eyes.

Not really. They may have lasted longer, but Morris Claiborne,Felix Jones, Bobby Carpenter, David LaFleur were all pretty bad. Maybe take Claiborne out of it, but LaFleur was really bad
 

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Or you can keep crying and continue being unable to deal with the fact that the team failed?

I called it a fiasco, a disaster and an implosion in this thread. If you don't see that as criticism, its because you are too busy potbanging.
 

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The main talk of the offseason was that Dallas had more quality DL than spots, even casual fans knew Dallas was going to cut a good player so every NFL front office did as well.

That's the main talk of every offseason. At best, all it does is make Taco this year's Darius Jackson.
 

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Dimitrius Underwood got cut in training camp his draft year. Oh course he had some mental demons.

There's a blast from the past. He's probably institutionalized I'm betting. Set a record for getting cut less than a week after camp opened.
 

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The main talk of the offseason was that Dallas had more quality DL than spots, even casual fans knew Dallas was going to cut a good player so every NFL front office did as well.

Man, look at the price we pay for all of this talent. We had to surrender a good player for nothing because we are just too darn good at talent evaluation.
 

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Every workplace, to succeed you need talent and fit with culture.

Not his fault but he didn’t fit with the culture. D line for Marinelli is blue collar work ethic where no one gets privilege just for draft status.

He’s going to do good elsewhere. It still doesn’t mean letting him go is a mistake.
 

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He would have been if the Giants hadn't sucked as bad as they did.

If the Dallas DL looked like it did 5 years ago Taco would be here two more years.

Really? Your desperation has now reached woulda, coulda, shoulda levels? Now it's just embarrassing.

Thread recap:


Stash: Can someone name a bigger draft bust?

Kaiser: Flowers

Stash: Why are you talking about other teams???

And you failed.

Flowers played for the Giants for four years and started 48 games. Nowhere even close to Taco level of bust, but in your desperation to minimize it, you'll try anything.[/quote]
 

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Not really. They may have lasted longer, but Morris Claiborne,Felix Jones, Bobby Carpenter, David LaFleur were all pretty bad. Maybe take Claiborne out of it, but LaFleur was really bad
Sure they were not very good. But they weren't that annoying and/or untalented that the team was willing to eat the bust pick and get rid of them after just two years.
 

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Man, look at the price we pay for all of this talent. We had to surrender a good player for nothing because we are just too darn good at talent evaluation.

It's just sad the lengths and lies that some fans feel compelled to tell themselves in order to live with this team's failings.
 

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Every workplace, to succeed you need talent and fit with culture.

Not his fault but he didn’t fit with the culture. D line for Marinelli is blue collar work ethic where no one gets privilege just for draft status.

He’s going to do good elsewhere. It still doesn’t mean letting him go is a mistake.

The question everyone should be asking but most aren't, is how exactly did this player make it through the interview process and nobody caught the fact that he did not fit the team's culture?
 

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In my opinion the fault lies with Charlton, he's the head case, blaming our coaches and personnel people serves no purpose other than feeding the odd desire to scapegoat our own.

Why didn't they know they were drafting a "head case"?

I will say that this Tristan kid better better pan out though, otherwise Marinelli will be banned from the draft room.

Early returns aren't encouraging.
 

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It's an ego bruise for any team to release a 1st round pick but when you can look at Big Smitty, Yosemite and Martin as 1sts, that eases that pain. They've not been good with 4/3 DE's in the 1st and haven't done a DT so they're better off staying away from the DL.

I wasn't in favor of Charleton or Spears because of the defenses they came from, Spears played on a better D than he came to with Dallas. Charleton didn't make the D at Michigan, he was made by it.
 

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It's just sad the lengths and lies that some fans feel compelled to tell themselves in order to live with this team's failings.

And you are so desperate to have a tantrum you are calling Ereck Flowers a good player.
 
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