Cowboys drafting this year is like grocery shopping

davey999 said:

Who's afraid of it? The 49ers?

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We may have the fastest defense in the league when Sam is on the field with Micah and Jabril.

i agree,this is complete needs based draft.it is also a risky one which can pay off or go horribly wrong.

WillieBeamen said:

Thata why you fill holes in free agency. If Tyler Smith is an average guard or tackle and Tyler Linderbaum becomes a perennial all-pro, it makes it a foolish pick.

This isnt hard

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It's not that easy Willie.
Filling holes in FA can get very expensive in a hurry. If the FA is good, he was probably a cap casualty because he was too expensive. Then we'd have people screaming that we OVERPAID a FA. Course, people around here never complain about overpaying a player do they?

Sure we might find a less talented FA, but we just got rid of a loser to FA, Conner Williams. If Tyler Smith becomes a perennial all-pro, it'll be a great pick.
Yes I liked Linderbaum too, he'd be a quality pick and IMO we could use an upgrade at C, but that wouldn't fill the hole at LG. The Cowboys felt they needed a LG more than an upgrade at C.
I don't pretend to know if Smith will prove to be a great pick, but hey we had a few people claiming that Parsons was a mistake, until Parsons proved them wrong.
Like I said, it's just not that easy.

I made the same observation on another thread while adding that the grocery list was given to him by his wife with specific instructions not to deviate because she didn't believe he was capable of making the right choices.

If the rumors that started swirling the day before the draft of Smith being the pick and passing on Jermaine Johnson wasn't enough, the Williams pick made it obvious that they had a list made up before the draft started and were going to follow it regaurdless. Learning that Dak called Tolbert a week before the draft confirmed it for me.

All rooks have pluses and minuses. Some more than others. You never really know until they go up against legit NFL talent and face NFL coaching on the practice field. Some of draftees will be major help (perhaps starters) their first season. Others will likely be gone during training camp. We will all know about this class about the middle of October. The one big positive to cling to for us fans is the Cowboys have been good at drafting recently. That is the ONE thing they are really good at.

Can't obviously be the BPA, if you don't go to all the schools. Only one HBCU guy selected. You can't tell me there isn't more than one player to be interested in, that is country-strong and moves likes a jack rabbit from the HBCUs. With this take, we'd have never had an Erik "Big E" Williams, Nate Newton, or a Larry Allen (small school).

The general best strategy is to trade up and down in the draft to get a BPA who fills a position of need. That's frequently hard to do as it takes two to tango. I generally agree that if you just sit still and take "BPA" then you can end up with a wildly unbalanced roster and some of those "BPA's" won't get to play, making it a wasted pick even though the guy isn't a bad player.

This weekend, Dallas probably should have traded back a little and got the same players in the first two rounds and then used the additional draft capital to trade up in the middle of the draft to get better players at position of need. Not sure what trades were possible.