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Jason Garrett Changed Dallas’ Draft Strategy, Will Mike McCarthy?
What impact will Mike McCarthy have on the Dallas Cowboys 2020 NFL Draft strategy?
by
Brian Martin January 15, 2020, 7:00 am
I think it’s high time Jason Garrett receives some of the praise he rightfully deserves. He may not have gotten the Dallas Cowboys back to the Super Bowl, but he did change their approach to the draft forever and helped build this roster into the team it is today. It’s easy to forget the good he’s done, but it’s there.
In his “official” first-year as the HC he convinced Jerry Jones to do something he’s never done since purchasing the Cowboys, draft an offensive lineman in the first-round. With the ninth overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys selected Offensive Tackle
Tyron Smith out of USC, thus changing the Cowboys draft strategy forever.
Let that sink in for a little bit…
Jason Garrett could’ve easily chosen J.J. Watt over Tyron Smith and nobody would’ve blinked an eye. But, he went against the grain and did something the Dallas Cowboys hadn’t done since Jerry Jones became the owner by selecting an offensive lineman in the first-round. It’s a trend that continued with
Travis Frederick and
Zack Martin, building one of the best OL units in the entire league.
Just how good do you think the Dallas Cowboys would’ve been the past decade without those three players anchoring their offensive line? How much shorter would
Tony Romo‘s career have been? I think we can all agree this team wouldn’t have been as successful as they have been for the better part of a decade without Smith, Frederick, and Martin and we have Jason Garrett to thank for that.