When were you glad the team didn't get who you wanted to draft?

Reverend Conehead

Reverend Conehead

Well-Known Member
Messages
9,936
Reaction score
11,815
For me that's easy. I wanted Paxton Lynch in this last draft. Man, was Dak ever a better deal. Lynch might end up being a good QB. Time will tell, but Dak was a once in a lifetime find.

Second place is Melvin Gordon. I wanted him after we lost Murray, but Zeke is way, way better.

Your turn. Who is a player you wanted, but are glad we didn't get?
 
Bullflop

Bullflop

Cowboys Diehard
Messages
24,582
Reaction score
29,941
Reverend Conehead said:
For me that's easy. I wanted Paxton Lynch in this last draft. Man, was Dak ever a better deal. Lynch might end up being a good QB. Time will tell, but Dak was a once in a lifetime find.

Second place is Melvin Gordon. I wanted him after we lost Murray, but Zeke is way, way better.

Your turn. Who is a player you wanted, but are glad we didn't get?
Click to expand...

Like many others like yourself, I wanted Paxton Lynch as well, although I haven't looked back since we got blessed with Dak instead. I also wanted Zeke as my #1 pick last year. Needless to say, things turned out extremely well and then some!

I hope either Takk McKinley, Charles Harris or TJ Watt as our #1 guy this year. Give me CB Quincy Wilson as our #2 and I'm well pleased.
 
Last edited:
Stash

Stash

Staff member
Messages
78,365
Reaction score
102,292
CowboysZone ULTIMATE Fan
I wasn't be sure about Tyron Smith and actually wanted to trade down for the two-for of Anthony Costanzo and Danny Watkins. D'oh!
:facepalm:
 
bsheeern

bsheeern

Well-Known Member
Messages
2,067
Reaction score
417
One of the biggest debates this board had for a while was D Ware vs Merriman. I slightly preferred Merriman over Ware. He was just Nastier at the point of attack vs Ware. Ware was more speed & finesse. Come to find out, it was steroids that made Merriman that way. Glad we got Ware.
 
Leadbelly

Leadbelly

Well-Known Member
Messages
2,174
Reaction score
1,592
Easy. 2013 draft.

Chance Warmack and Jonathan Cooper topped my wish list (and I was far from the only one). Can't miss guys. CAN'T. MISS. Position of severe need. Pair with Tyron Smith and create a dominant OL for a decade.

Unfortunately, they both go top 10. "Dang Jerry. You should have traded up," I said.

BUT WAIT! A top DT in Shariff Floyd inexplicably drops all the way to our pick. We lucked out! Don't look a gift horse in the mouth Jerry. Take the stud DT.

Nope. We trade down. "What the hell is this team doing," I said. We should have picked Floyd.

Cooper busts.
Warmack busts.
Floyd busts.

These were the 5th (Floyd), 6th (Cooper), and 8th (Warmack) rated players on our leaked draft board, by the way.

We "settled" for some Center from Wisconsin.

If either Warmack or Cooper dropped to our pick, we don't draft Frederick. We likely don't draft Zack Martin the following year either. We'd still be trying to make it work with Warmack/Cooper. Very different team without those two. Also, the pick we got from the trade down was used on another offensive starter - Terrence Williams.
 

tyke1doe

Well-Known Member
Messages
53,658
Reaction score
32,037
If we're not taking into account the player not being available when it's our pick, I'd say ...

Ted Ginn Jr., Steve Smith (the former Giants receiver), Rashaun Wood, Marquis Walker, Brady Quinn, Johnny Manziel, James Francis, Reggie Bush.
 
Reverend Conehead

Reverend Conehead

Well-Known Member
Messages
9,936
Reaction score
11,815
tyke1doe said:
If we're not taking into account the player not being available when it's our pick, I'd say ...

Ted Ginn Jr., Steve Smith (the former Giants receiver), Rashaun Wood, Marquis Walker, Brady Quinn, Johnny Manziel, James Francis, Reggie Bush.
Click to expand...

Almost forgot about Brady Quinn. I wanted him. Thought he would be great. Oh, well.
 
JoeKing

JoeKing

Diehard
Messages
35,512
Reaction score
31,000
Reverend Conehead said:
For me that's easy. I wanted Paxton Lynch in this last draft. Man, was Dak ever a better deal. Lynch might end up being a good QB. Time will tell, but Dak was a once in a lifetime find.

Second place is Melvin Gordon. I wanted him after we lost Murray, but Zeke is way, way better.

Your turn. Who is a player you wanted, but are glad we didn't get?
Click to expand...
Same here, I wanted the Cowboys to draft Lynch and Prescott wasn't even on my radar of consideration. After Moore broke his leg I thought Dak would just get more grooming to be the backup if needed but still never considered him a viable starter. And then Romo got hurt and I wanted to panic but knew if our rookie could produce like he had in the preseason that we might be okay. I'm happy how things worked out... and Lynch is still waiting for is first start in the regular season.
 
Dallas_Cowboys50

Dallas_Cowboys50

Well-Known Member
Messages
1,749
Reaction score
1,890
Leadbelly said:
Easy. 2013 draft.

Chance Warmack and Jonathan Cooper topped my wish list (and I was far from the only one). Can't miss guys. CAN'T. MISS. Position of severe need. Pair with Tyron Smith and create a dominant OL for a decade.

Unfortunately, they both go top 10. "Dang Jerry. You should have traded up," I said.

BUT WAIT! A top DT in Shariff Floyd inexplicably drops all the way to our pick. We lucked out! Don't look a gift horse in the mouth Jerry. Take the stud DT.

Nope. We trade down. "What the hell is this team doing," I said. We should have picked Floyd.

Cooper busts.
Warmack busts.
Floyd busts.

These were the 5th (Floyd), 6th (Cooper), and 8th (Warmack) rated players on our leaked draft board, by the way.

We "settled" for some Center from Wisconsin.

If either Warmack or Cooper dropped to our pick, we don't draft Frederick. We likely don't draft Zack Martin the following year either. We'd still be trying to make it work with Warmack/Cooper. Very different team without those two. Also, the pick we got from the trade down was used on another offensive starter - Terrence Williams.
Click to expand...


Same here. And also as others have said, I really wanted Paxton Lynch lol......
 
rbr651

rbr651

Active Member
Messages
696
Reaction score
61
It's a loaded question, many of these players would perform differently when playing for different teams. You can't evaluate them based on how they play for another team. I think Merriman would have been just as dominant in Dallas as Ware was.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top