According to NFL.com, Cowboys wanted Unger

[Pappa Cheeto]

and traded down once he was gone.

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/04/25/cowboys-jones-moves-down-for-better-value-on-day-2/

 

[Cowboys22]

They could have moved up 2-3 spots to get him for a 5th or a 6th.

 

[Common Sense]

They could have moved up 2-3 spots to get him for a 5th or a 6th.

Exactly.

But we need a bunch of camp bodies...

 

[JPM]

ESPN reported pretty much the same thing.

 

[Wezsh0T]

With all our late round picks, I'm not sure why we didn't trade up to get him...

 

[jumanji]

11 frickin picks the 2nd day and you don't package a few of them to move up???

 

[marchetta]

Unger = Stepnoski. Both technicians. Dallas got cute instead of being proactive and going up for him.

 

[TNCowboy]

This just makes Jerry Jones look like even more of a moron. If that's possible.

 

[Gaede]

Unger = Stepnoski. Both technicians. Dallas got cute instead of being proactive and going up for him.

agreed...my biggest problem with this draft so far is that the Boys did have targets but were unwilling to go and get them. Now we have 12 day two picks to look forward too. :

 

[RamziD]

They could have moved up 2-3 spots to get him for a 5th or a 6th.

That's what I've been saying for the past hour. It would've only required a 5th or 6th to move up to #48 to get him. It was a no-brainer move! That was plain just being greedy. Because of that, we were forced to make a trade down that didn't get us much value.

 

[Hostile]

I'm fine with today.

 

[DallasGirl50]

Fine...but why not package some of the 11 picks you already have and move up 2-3 slots to get him?

 

[Oh_Canada]

If they land Duke Robinson and Brandon Tate in the third I will be more than ok with the move.

 

[NinePointOh]

What makes you think any of the teams 4-5 picks ahead of us wanted to trade down?

 

[bbgun]

We've heard this song and dance before (i.e. Greg Jennings). If there's no difference between pick #51 and #75 (so I've been told), then there was no need to "lock in" on Unger.

 

[Common Sense]

What makes you think any of the teams 4-5 picks ahead of us wanted to trade down?

Maybe the fact that they did?

 

[jobberone]

Maybe they tried to move up and couldn't. Unger was coveted by more than one team. Still there were people around who could have helped our lines. Loadholt, Moala, Vollmer, Smith, and Kruger would have been solid picks for us.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

What makes you think any of the teams 4-5 picks ahead of us wanted to trade down?

Well of course they did!

Or that's what some of the know-it-alls want you/us to believe.

 

[RamziD]

What makes you think any of the teams 4-5 picks ahead of us wanted to trade down?

Fail. The teams at #48 and #49 both traded down.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Maybe they tried to move up and couldn't. Unger was coveted by more than one team. Still there were people around who could have helped our lines. Loadholt, Moala, Vollmer, Smith, and Kruger would have been solid picks for us.

Not at 51 they weren't.