If Sewell & Pitts fall who do you take?

Adreme said:

Its not really a gamble. Generational talents do not outright bust. It does not happen. For them a floor is they were only in a few Pro Bowls. There is a reason 1st round pick tend to do better than 7th round picks and that is because it is not purely gambling.

Also, "if the starter goes down maybe our 10th pick can get playing time otherwise he is warming the bench for 2 years" is not a good recipe for success. That still makes it a bad pick. Trevor Lawrence could get hit by a car the day after getting drafted and never play in the NFL and it would not have been wrong to make that pick. You plan around what your team is, not what they could be. The very thinking that the lower-tier starters on the team could completely become Pro Bowl level players, despite that they have not in the years they have been in the league so far, is exactly how you end up having such poor drafts and free agency periods because "we like our guys".

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jrumann59 said:

Elite talent fails all the time. This term generational talent gets thrown around. What the hell is Generational talent, the are "expected" to be better than all those that came before them. Guess what a lot of the time the guys that are considered the measuring stick before them were not first round talents. Lets use Pitts, is expected to be better than Gonzalez, Witten, Gronk, Gates, Graham, Kelce, Kittles?

here is an interesting article on some "Generational" Talents in teh NFL right by Bucky Brooks, written last year.
NFL's generational talents under 25: Kyler Murray belongs in club

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Adreme said:

They really do not fail. Let us look at QBs for example because the number 1 pick is also being considered generational. The last 3 picks who had grades like his were: Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, John Elway. No I did not skip anyone. The quality of grades do not get thrown around casually. A player becoming a generational talent is not the same as having his pre draft grade showing as such. Calvin Johnson was another who was considered a freak of nature who was generational. I am trying to think of a generational pre draft talent that ended up as a bust and I honestly cannot think of a single one. There have been a LOT of busts but none who were considered generational talents pre draft.

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Adreme said:

Its not really a gamble. Generational talents do not outright bust. It does not happen. For them a floor is they were only in a few Pro Bowls. There is a reason 1st round pick tend to do better than 7th round picks and that is because it is not purely gambling.

Also, "if the starter goes down maybe our 10th pick can get playing time otherwise he is warming the bench for 2 years" is not a good recipe for success. That still makes it a bad pick. Trevor Lawrence could get hit by a car the day after getting drafted and never play in the NFL and it would not have been wrong to make that pick. You plan around what your team is, not what they could be. The very thinking that the lower-tier starters on the team could completely become Pro Bowl level players, despite that they have not in the years they have been in the league so far, is exactly how you end up having such poor drafts and free agency periods because "we like our guys".

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johneric8 said:

Dude, Greg robinson offensive talent was drafted by the browns #2 and considered a generational talent and flopped. zach martin was drafted much later and we all know how that turned out. There are so many stories like this. Heck even Blake Bortles was considered a can't miss super stud.... I guess if you're putting Pitts on par with randy moss I see your logic but I'm not sure you can do that.

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acr731 said:

Jerry has his sights on another tight end. Someone else for Dak to over throw. Or behind. Or at his feet.

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ABQCOWBOY said:

Well, to be fair, only those who really never payed attention believed anybody who said Bortles was as good as his billing. Bortles was a guy with significant natural talent but he wasn't a sure thing or even a generational talent. He wasn't better then anybody who can come before him for 20 years or whatever. Pitts, he is that guy at TE. The problem for him is that he doesn't play a position that is all that critical to our success. Our success hinges on Prescott. Not on Pitts.

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johneric8 said:

I get it, but if you can get a guy like Pitts, does it make sense to build you offense around what he can do? Me thinks that is smart.

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Sydla said:

Maybe neither.

I try to trade the pick.

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johneric8 said:

I get it, but if you can get a guy like Pitts, does it make sense to build you offense around what he can do? Me thinks that is smart.

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Dak_Attack_09 said:

If both Pitts & Sewell fall to Cowboys @ 10 who do you think they take?

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Dak_Attack_09 said:

If both Pitts & Sewell fall to Cowboys @ 10 who do you think they take?

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kskboys said:

Sewell is rated higher, has almost no bust potential, is plug and play, and is a top 5 lock and pro bowl/all pro fixture.

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ABQCOWBOY said:

Sewell, 100% There is not a single question in my mind which I would take. I posted the other day that I was rewatching video on Sewell and I gotta say, he may be the best LT prospect I've watched, ever, athletically. To me it's simple, you've basically put yourself in a situation where you have created sunken costs into Dak. You literally have to protect that investment, like it or not. It might very well turn out to be good money after bad but, you have no choice IMO. You have to secure the the OL. That must be locked down and after QB, the most important position on the Offense is the LT. Maybe on the entire team.

We already have a very potent Offense. The problems we have on Offense are related to the QB performance and the Offensive Line. We don't need a TE to be successful. We need to fix the OL.

Sewell, he does that.

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