CZ POLL Are you happy with the Cowboys drafting CB Nahshon Wright with the 99th pick?

[Big_D]

LOL that 17% of the board is happy with this pick

LOL that you think you're a draft expert while the Super Bowl winning DC doesn't know what he's doing! Quinn thinks he's worth a 3rd. I'll take that. See where it goes.

 

[DoctorChicken]

No. Awful pick. The fact they took him over Melifonwu, who is projected to start almost immediately, is the safer prospect, AND has a higher ceiling due to his athletic prowess, is so, SO asinine.

I hope the kid plays well, but it is an unforgivably dumb pick.

 

[JBS]

HELL NO



And its the player AND when he was selected.

An unathletic, frail corner with poor speed?

Wingspan from endzone to endzone! Championship

 

[DoctorChicken]

Wingspan from endzone to endzone! Championship

With all these long arms, the defense can just all hold hands and cover the entire length field, completely removing any lanes for the ball carrier to advance.

Offenses won’t stand a chance.

 

[unionjack8]

LOL that 17% of the board is happy with this pick

List those that said yes.....go

 

[_sturt_]

Ever the contrarian... hehe... I proudly cast a "yea" vote...

Why? Just to be contrarian? Well, perhaps... but more so...

I'm very inclined that anytime something this unanticipated/unusual arises in a Cowboys draft, it is highly likely that our folks knew more than they were supposed to know about other teams' boards and enthusiasm for the player, and that our covert agents were fairly certain that another team was prepared to draft Wright before #115.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it only takes one team to also love the same player to be left w/o a chance to get him.

Notably, between our #99 and our #115, five-count-em-five CBs went, 3 of those immediately after Wright. Moreover, another five were drafted in the rest of the 4th round, which means that there plausibly were five others who potentially may have considered jumping up in front of us @ #115.

Right?

So, what about LBs? How much of a chance did our people take that Cox might be gone? Well just looking at the numbers, there were 3 taken b/t #99 and #115. And one more taken in the rest of the 4th.

Granted, to the intense skeptic, there's still some substantial presumption embedded in the logic, and those guys/gals aren't going to be persuaded.

But for those of us who attempt balance and critical thought... there's some solid reason for believing our people had some insight that none of us nor any of the media nor any of the draft-niks would have had.

Is Wright worth that value?

That's a different question, of course.

Clearly our people thought, for what our new DC has in-mind, he is. And likely, at least one other team thought the same.

And looking at the faces of our people after Day 2 and hearing them talk about having debated six different players @ #99, I'm confident that they fully recognized they were going to take some outside heat for making the Wright pick, but they ultimately didn't let that dissuade them from the conclusion that their best strategy was to accept the likely criticism and get their second CB, and hope for Cox to still fall to them. And it did. Smiles all around, then.

So, in that light, it all makes sense.

 

[Gaede]

Not at all. But their confidence to take him has me intrigued. I can't wait to follow him this offseason, more than any other player.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

LOL that you think you're a draft expert while the Super Bowl winning DC doesn't know what he's doing! Quinn thinks he's worth a 3rd. I'll take that. See where it goes.

That's the irony of this all. Everyone wants to sit here and tell me he wasn't high on "their" board so it was a bad pick. Like these people have actually seen him play. I do agree I wouldn't have drafted him that early but if the Cowboys had him high on their board then I get it.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Not at all. But their confidence to take him has me intrigued. I can't wait to follow him this offseason, more than any other player.

He's not my favorite prospect they got but like you I really want to see what his progression is like......

 

[Melonfeud]

I don't know enough about this player. He seems to have good ball skills but, he's rail thin and doesn't appear to be very strong.

He seems too high wasted to play corner in the NFL but, the Cowboys scouts, coaches and front office knows a hell of a lot more than I.

* Kinda' the same attributes I'd inadvertently labelled our Cee-Cee Lamb w/ after seeing the first couple of games into the start of last season
( pretty much)

 

[ondaedg]

No. He’s ours though. You hope he succeeds. I can see this pick easily in Rd 7. We’d be talking a fun, longshot. I just think we wasted it in the 3rd with more seasoned guys there. But I don’t think people are cheering against him

Yep we all want him to be an all pro. But we could have held his name until the 6th or 7th round.

 

[Big_D]

That's the irony of this all. Everyone wants to sit here and tell me he wasn't high on "their" board so it was a bad pick. Like these people have actually seen him play. I do agree I wouldn't have drafted him that early but if the Cowboys had him high on their board then I get it.

Plus no one knows where he falls on the other 31 teams boards. I’ll give Quinn the benefit of the doubt in year 1 of building his defense. He knew what he wanted and went after it while everyone around here assumes scheme fit and talent on their own made up draft rankings without watching a down of college football or acknowledging that he’s the one putting it all together…

If this was his 8th year and the D still sucks, then we have a problem! I get having a favorite in the draft and seeing where they end up and how things turn out, but to whine about it at this level claiming they know better than the DC himself??? We all have an opinion but at the end of the day we don’t spend the time, money or resources that these teams do. And no one still has any idea how he’s going to run this D.

 

[visionary]

LOL that you think you're a draft expert while the Super Bowl winning DC doesn't know what he's doing! Quinn thinks he's worth a 3rd. I'll take that. See where it goes.

here is something that might have your head explode: there is a reason good teams have scouts and competent GMs and coaches don’t do the drafting

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Pick made no sense at that spot.

 

[Melonfeud]

Ever the contrarian... hehe... I proudly cast a "yea" vote...

Why? Just to be contrarian? Well, perhaps... but more so...

I'm very inclined that anytime something this unanticipated/unusual arises in a Cowboys draft, it is highly likely that our folks knew more than they were supposed to know about other teams' boards and enthusiasm for the player, and that our covert agents were fairly certain that another team was prepared to draft Wright before #115.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it only takes one team to also love the same player to be left w/o a chance to get him.

Notably, between our #99 and our #115, five-count-em-five CBs went, 3 of those immediately after Wright. Moreover, another five were drafted in the rest of the 4th round, which means that there plausibly were five others who potentially may have considered jumping up in front of us @ #115.

Right?

So, what about LBs? How much of a chance did our people take that Cox might be gone? Well just looking at the numbers, there were 3 taken b/t #99 and #115. And one more taken in the rest of the 4th.

Granted, to the intense skeptic, there's still some substantial presumption embedded in the logic, and those guys/gals aren't going to be persuaded.

But for those of us who attempt balance and critical thought... there's some solid reason for believing our people had some insight that none of us nor any of the media nor any of the draft-niks would have had.

Is Wright worth that value?

That's a different question, of course.

Clearly our people thought, for what our new DC has in-mind, he is. And likely, at least one other team thought the same.

And looking at the faces of our people after Day 2 and hearing them talk about having debated six different players @ #99, I'm confident that they fully recognized they were going to take some outside heat for making the Wright pick, but they ultimately didn't let that dissuade them from the conclusion that their best strategy was to accept the likely criticism and get their second CB, and hope for Cox to still fall to them. And it did. Smiles all around, then.

So, in that light, it all makes sense.

* Extraordinarily AWESOME post , @_sturt_ ,,,er,,, following,,,NOW

 

[cowboyec]

I think he was picked too early
But if he’s contributing by next year and turns into a solid player it doesn’t matter at all
So hopefully he proves me wrong

exactly.
if he makes it...non of this angst over when he was drafted matters.

 

[Big_D]

here is something that might have your head explode: there is a reason good teams have scouts and competent GMs and coaches don’t do the drafting

lol pretending to know how all 32 teams operate. Yes Jerrys' a dumazz, but the drafts the past 2 years have been better. If this was a Marinelli pick, I'd be right there with you. But Quinn will be a big part of improving this defense and I'm sure he had a hand in picking players at his other stops. My heads exploding just thinking how Atlanta or Seattle would ever allow it?

 

[J12B]

Horrific pick.

These players were available right after Wright:

Elijah Molden
Ifeatu Melifonwu
Baron Browning
Jay Tufele
James Hudson

Melifonwu should have been the pick

 

[UncleOscar]

Melifonwu should have been the pick

Fully agree

 

[Zekeats]

Imagine if he starts over Joseph