Who were the Best and Worst Drafting teams in the past decade

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https://www.ganggreennation.com/202...worst-drafting-teams-of-the-decade-in-the-nfl

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So many rich players we went for. I wish we stuck with the more of majority. Although I don’t agree with majority most often myself
 
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I don't know, but the Cowboys are certainly one of the best over the last 2 years and if they hit again next year, they will be one of the better teams in the league.
 
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basel90 said:
coaching and position selection plagued the cowboys. Offensive heavy strategy sells tickets but does not get you a super bowl. I think jerry is realizing this lately. i hope
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We have draft an awful lot of defensive players. We have just gotten very few studs out of those picks. Pretty much just Lawrence in the last 10 years. The D picks that did "hit", were usually middling guys like Awuzie and Maliek Collins
 
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CowboysFaninHouston said:
we drafted well offensively. I wish there was a similar report for offensive/defensive draft breakdown.
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Depends on what you would consider a good pick. Alot of the defensive players we have draft that become starters left after their rookie contract.

If you want to go by the "drafting starters" model. We have done well. However we are also probably a prime example of the limitations of that method of evaluation.
 
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A big problem is the positions drafted, not who was drafted. Zeke is the perfect example. He is a very good player, but it was a tragic mistake to use a #4 overall pick on a RB. Look at the past 10 years or so. How much draft capital was allocated to WR and RB, compared to the DL?
 

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darthseinfeld said:
Depends on what you would consider a good pick. Alot of the defensive players we have draft that become starters left after their rookie contract.

If you want to go by the "drafting starters" model. We have done well. However we are also probably a prime example of the limitations of that method of evaluation.
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well, I did this analysis prior to the draft...nothing official. I wasn't just looking for starters, but contributors and high level performers. excluding 2020 (as its still being evaluated), we had drafted 1 impact, high contributor defensive player since 2005, namely Lawrence. we can argue about a few more ala Spencer, Crawford.....LVE....but some may consider LVE, but too injury prone...but offensively same period we had Smith, Dak, Zeke, Gallup, Martin, Pollard, Cooper (kind of), Fredrick, Collins (UDFA), , Murray, Bryant, Rico Gathers (LOL, just joking)...we drafted 54 offensive players and 45 defensive players so it wasn't like we didn't draft defensively, we just couldn't hit on any...even first rounders ala LVE (yes, injury prone) and Taco, Claiborne

for whatever reason...we were really good picking offensively, but sucked defensively.
 

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darthseinfeld said:
We have draft an awful lot of defensive players. We have just gotten very few studs out of those picks. Pretty much just Lawrence in the last 10 years. The D picks that did "hit", were usually middling guys like Awuzie and Maliek Collins
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actually lawrence in the past 15 years is about it.
 
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JD_KaPow said:
I'd interpret it the other way. Even with letting Rod throw away picks on his pet cats, the Cowboys drafted very well. Imagine where they'd be on the list if they'd muzzled him?
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but but but i thought our gm sucked i mean isnt primary job of gm is to acquire players and the drafts important..sure maybe JG hung around bit long but for sure form say 2006-2021 we have had enough players to go further then we did..that fact we saw the talent preseason favorites many times form this that chose them but fell short..

Jerry and Stephen should at least get more credit for great drafting, i meant look at that company they are in..
 
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