Cowboys 2015 Draft: Why Things Almost Certainly Will Surprise Us - A Lot

[waving monkey]

Do you love doing mock drafts? Are you convinced you know who the Dallas Cowboys should take? Have you spent hours going over video of college players to dissect their game and slot them into rounds, or project how they would fit or not for Dallas? Are you starting to feel like you have a good grasp on how things will, or at least should, play out for the Cowboys when the draft arrives?

I hate to tell you this. You are wrong. Not just a little, but a lot. Oh, there is always a chance one of those mocks may get somewhat close, but that falls more under the blind squirrel/acorn principle than anything else. Your chances increase somewhat the more of them you do, but even then, your most probable reaction after the real picks are all in will be "Where did that come from?" My fellow writer Michael Sisemore gave his pre-draft thoughts earlier, so here are mine.
It's not your fault. You are facing a deck that is not only totally stacked against you by 32 NFL franchises that do a better job of controlling the leak of information than any major U.S. government agency, but where you don't know for sure which cards are even in each of the individual decks that each team has. So the best approach to the draft is to be ready to be amazed and at times dismayed, but to enjoy the ride anyway.

Unless you are fairly new to being an NFL fan, you should have a good grasp of this, but for some reason a form of selective amnesia sets in, and every year as the draft rolls around, we all have a tendency to delude ourselves into thinking we can predict to some degree what is going to happen. Here is why that is not true.


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[Risen Star]

Yeah. It never goes to form and won't this year either.

The Cowboys will select players completely off anyone's radar. Players who were never mentioned here. Then most of the board will pretend they really like these players. They're so excited for the season after getting these prospects they never felt the need to talk about prior to the draft.

Enjoy your summer, see you at camp in late July. Rinse, repeat every year. Go Cowboys.

 

[jnday]

Yeah. It never goes to form and won't this year either.

The Cowboys will select players completely off anyone's radar. Players who were never mentioned here. Then most of the board will pretend they really like these players. They're so excited for the season after getting these prospects they never felt the need to talk about prior to the draft.

Enjoy your summer, see you at camp in late July. Rinse, repeat every year. Go Cowboys.

Are you still laughing about the Matt Johnson pick?

 

[Risen Star]

Are you still laughing about the Matt Johnson pick?

After drafting Kyle Wilber with their first 4th round pick that year and saying they had to sweat it out to see if Johnson "fell".

Horrific.

 

[jnday]

After drafting Kyle Wilber with their first 4th round pick that year and saying they had to sweat it out to see if Johnson "fell".

Horrific.

But, but, but all these posters knew these guys like they were family. You would think that these guys was first round talents that had dropped on draft day. Kinda reminds me of the theme song for "Cheers" , where everybody knows your name.

 

[theogt]

Or everyone will pan the pick and it ends up a saving grace of the entire defense and one of the smartest picks in recent history.

 

[Gaede]

After drafting Kyle Wilber with their first 4th round pick that year and saying they had to sweat it out to see if Johnson "fell".

Horrific.

Good times

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Yeah. It never goes to form and won't this year either.

The Cowboys will select players completely off anyone's radar. Players who were never mentioned here. Then most of the board will pretend they really like these players. They're so excited for the season after getting these prospects they never felt the need to talk about prior to the draft.

Enjoy your summer, see you at camp in late July. Rinse, repeat every year. Go Cowboys.

Then the other half of the members will pretend like they know anything about the player drafted and will call them scrubs, jags, and will talk about how poor the organization is run. These people will be so excited for the season so they can pound their chest and tell everybody how they knew player John Smith was nothing but a scrub and relish in the Cowboys demise.