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Assessing Picks' Ability To Meet Needs
Josh Ellis
DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=A9427B9E-A805-A574-18F430744916E0C5
IRVING, Texas - For the first time since 2003, the Cowboys sat perfectly still during the NFL Draft, making no trades and simply picking in their assigned slots.
They kept it simple, and will attest that they honored the board with every pick. But the NFL Draft isn't just about picking good players. It's also about improving the team by shoring up weak spots on the roster. The Cowboys didn't do that with every position, but it doesn't mean they're content to retain the status quo, particularly on defense, where only two draft picks were used, tied for the fewest the team has spent on that side of the ball since 1962.
Free agency is still to come following the NFL lockout, unlike in years past when it would precede the draft, allowing teams a more crystallized picture of their holes.
"If you look at player acquisition, it comes in more than just the draft," team vice president Stephen Jones said. "You do it through unrestricted free agency, you can do it through trades, there's a lot of ways to do it. At the end of the day, what we thought, by not having free agency ahead of time, it would probably enable us to really follow our board, and I think we did that. Going in here, I think we thought this was a draft that was really weighted more toward offense."
Here we check how the Cowboys addressed - or failed to address - their biggest needs:...
Assessing Picks' Ability To Meet Needs
Josh Ellis
DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=A9427B9E-A805-A574-18F430744916E0C5
IRVING, Texas - For the first time since 2003, the Cowboys sat perfectly still during the NFL Draft, making no trades and simply picking in their assigned slots.
They kept it simple, and will attest that they honored the board with every pick. But the NFL Draft isn't just about picking good players. It's also about improving the team by shoring up weak spots on the roster. The Cowboys didn't do that with every position, but it doesn't mean they're content to retain the status quo, particularly on defense, where only two draft picks were used, tied for the fewest the team has spent on that side of the ball since 1962.
Free agency is still to come following the NFL lockout, unlike in years past when it would precede the draft, allowing teams a more crystallized picture of their holes.
"If you look at player acquisition, it comes in more than just the draft," team vice president Stephen Jones said. "You do it through unrestricted free agency, you can do it through trades, there's a lot of ways to do it. At the end of the day, what we thought, by not having free agency ahead of time, it would probably enable us to really follow our board, and I think we did that. Going in here, I think we thought this was a draft that was really weighted more toward offense."
Here we check how the Cowboys addressed - or failed to address - their biggest needs:...
