CCBoy
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Completely wrong, among them Dallas always drafts BPA.
The very next year they drafted Smith, they went ahead and got Claiborne and leveraged a few players to get him. Even Jason Garrett admitted that the year of Claiborne, they would be drafting BPA and were forced to draft via 'need' the year before, thought again, it could legitimately be argued that was Smith anyways.
The year they drafted Frederik, they were slotted to take Sharif Floyd, and Stephen Jones admitted it. In fact, Stephen confirmed the 'chaos' in the war room. Jerry over-ruled last minute and took Frederik, who was worked out by Callahan. And our DC didn't want Floyd, meaning he was the impetus in rejecting him. Plus, Dallas the last two years has admitted holes on defense even last year they did, Jerry stating 3 defensive players were slotted before Zach and they would have taken one of them, provided they weren't picked. He said this right after the draft, before Zach set the world on fire.
They fired Rob Ryan and when Garrett talked about it, he said explicitly that they needed to generate more TOs to give the offense more opportunities. They were looking at defense.
To argue that the building of this OL was done by design, is belied by pretty much everything. Jason Garrett brought Houck here and they ran a power-blocking scheme. They drafted big, hefty guys and followed that very same style, Garrett always coached with. It was only with Callahan coming here that they revamped the line to smaller, shiftier guards based on his zone-blocking schemes. And Callahan and Garrett were feuding two seasons ago and Callahan wanted to leave before last season.
Wade in fact wanted Solari, a zone-blocking guy...
I forget now, where is it that Callahan is now head coach?