A better draft strategy than standing pat in draft order

[ArtClink]

Yeah our player trade options might be slim.

But other than Parsons, Lamb and Tyler Smith, who is untouchable? In my mind anyone else is a trade option if it makes us better in the long run.

You have great, logical ideas to improve the roster. Unfortunately our GM has the emotional maturity of a teenager and loves to make impulsive decisions which overrule all the hard work that Will McClay and other scouts have done. It’s telling when there’s such a short list of untouchable players.

 

[CowboysLakerBamaFan]

I think Aubrey and Ferguson are attractive to other clubs.

For low round picks....sure. A 6th? 7th? Ok... but the OP was talking about acquiring Top100 picks. Nobody is giving a Topp 100 pick for Ferguson. Or a top 150 pick for that matter

 

[ArtClink]

But “Birth Certificate Boy” says teams like Philly, LARams and KC are doing it all wrong with free agency. He says they will regret it later. (Laughing while they polish their Lombardis)

lol and great point!!

 

[75boyz]

But “Birth Certificate Boy” says teams like Philly, LARams and KC are doing it all wrong with free agency. He says they will regret it later. (Laughing while they polish their Lombardis)

Not only Birth Certificate Boy though. Several Cowboy Zoners post their opinions under this delusional fantasy as well.

And like you said Stephen keeps waiting on this Salary Cap Grim Reaper to take those other teams down a notch and it never does.
And then you look up and those teams GMs have already made a proactive move to avoid the pending so called salary cap hell they were "supposed to" endure.

Then it just boils down to people who know how to do their jobs as compared to people who dont.

The Cowboy Front office does not know how to properly manage the salary cap.
Period.

 

[blueblood70]

When I look at the mock drafts, I don't see talents available at 12 that are significantly better than players 10 picks lower. Particularly at Dallas' areas of need. This would be a good year for a trade down.

Bob is also correct that Dallas lands almost nothing in the back end of the draft. A trade up there also makes sense.

The back end is what like the 4th the 5th the 6th the 7th??? are you telling me that teams just clean up after the 4th round? you want to show me all those consistently good players coming from the 6th and 7th round like what area of the draft we talk about back end?

In my opinion most teams take Flyers after the 5th round you know that word camp body when people are talking about free agents and guys are bringing in that's exactly what these guys are almost on any team unless you get lucky and we all get lucky in there right teams just happen to get a guy happens with undrafted free agents as well.. But that's one thing Dallas has done pretty well is undrafted free agents so that should count for something.

. So typically, there aren't a lot of happening after the 5th round... So yes, if they have an opportunity, they should trade some of those away even a 5th rounder and move up that makes sense, but it has to be the right moment, and you have to have a drape partner...

So yeah, they've had a lot good luck in the 4th round ,

outside of that recently its bland in the 5th, Anthony brown and Donovan Wilson were 6th rounders,

And I think my point is that pretty much for all teams I don't know many of them cleaning up you get lucky occasionally and that's what you're hoping for..

 

[blueblood70]

Jerry doesn’t typically trade players, likely because he thinks every year is our year (he was even a buyer at last years deadline when he knew the QB was gone…that after doing next to zero in the off-season).

The kings of misevaluation.

However if Warren is there at 12 I don’t see how that isn’t a major upgrade to the offense, then Ferguson may be worth like a 4th to the right team, which would replace the pick he threw away on Mingo.

Jerry was never any good at this, but he is getting much worse quickly, so I wouldn’t expect much in the way of wheeling and dealing to get better. They just collect players.

That's because there's not a lot of tradable players they do trade players just not in the draft very often but I don't know too many teams that are actually trading players in the draft 4 other draft picks yes it happens but it's not on a regular basis most of them are either costing too much money you're trying to do a money dump from a big salary cap hit on the star let's just say this year it could be TJ Watt or something but how many teams can do that give away high draft picks and then turn around and have to pay a guy $42 million?

Most of the draft movement as far as trades go are usually or later you're trading guys that are role players on your team to pick up some draft picks like a 4th or 5th round or something like that they're not a lot of dynamic trades for players for picks yes people trade and move up and down most of the time it's just picks...

But we picked Ferguson in the 4th round the how you think you're going to get a 4th round or for him now being he just came off an injury and his career hasn't gone too well I mean he's got all that potential in the world but you're expecting to get a 4th rounder for a guy you picked in the 4th round even though he's got a big question mark I think at best you're going to get a 5th rounder for him sometimes our fans are the ones overrating these alleged tradable players and really they're overvaluing them... I guess you can Get Lucky and find a team willing to take a risk but it's very rare..