agreed. it tends to happen that way. there was a time that jerry listened to players to make picks, ala Aikman liking LaFleur which was a huge bust or Jerry reaching for players he liked and were popular with fans. I think we have made draft day mistakes in the past by not making small trades up to get players we wanted (and got lucky other times by it not happening)....I think the cowboys liked another DE and once he was off the board a couple of spots ahead of us, then they settled on Charlton. happened years ago when we didn't trade up to get Max Unger and seattle jumped us to pick him, same with Dallas Godert last year. rumors were we liked him and Philly jumped in front of us and picked him and we took Williams and acted like we like him. now we have Williams, McGovern and signed Collins to an extension. seems like waste of a 2 or 3 ifyou expect them to be starters...its good to have depth, but 2nd and 3rd rounders you are looking for down the line starters.
but bad draft picks happen to every team.....given history of the rest of our picks, we can sign this one as a big loss and lets stick to process