News: DMN: Sturm: How The Cowboys Were Built

[Wolfpack]

Garrett drafted a lot of pet cats as a o- coordinator that did not work out.

Wade wanted to draft Chris Johnson and Garret wanted Jones.

Martellus Bennet was another Garrett pick.

It's very disingenuous to act like Garrett was not getting any pull in the draft room under Wade.

Indeed. Also don't forget the pull / influenza of Red's family in the organization.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Amazing that there's almost as many left from the Parcells' era (3) as from the Phillips' era (5).

I loathed the hiring of Phillips and have grown to hate it even more as the seasons pass.

One of the Wades biggest issues as a coach (and it was like this as a HC in Denver amd Buffalo as well) is that he doesnt trust young players and cant develope talent. I think back to Jason Williams. It still blows my mind that Phillips couldn't coach up a very talented player in a scheme where ILB is very basic.

He didn't even play Lee as a rookie. In 2010 it was very clear both James and Brooking were ineffective from game one and he still would even put Lee in the Nickle

 

[darthseinfeld]

I disagree completely with the last line.

2009 was an awful draft all the way around the league. The draft was very thin in talent - a fact that was discussed in detail by many of the draftniks. The Cowboys strategy failure went FAR beyond selecting pet cats - rather than package picks to move up and get guys who would help immediately, they traded down and acquired extra picks in a draft lacking depth in talent. That's an idiotic strategy in a draft that called for quality over volume, especially when the team is saying that their starters are set.

2010 was a better result, aided in part by better talent being available throughout the draft. The reason why I don't think that there was a paradigm shift was for the following two reasons:

1. The 2012 draft, where they traded up for Claiborne when they hadn't done a serious work up on him, was a poor class for the Cowboys.

2. The 2013 draft, where the scouts and coaching staff were not on the same page in terms of positional prototypes and preferences, was set up to be a disaster, but was saved by the Jones' insisting on a trade down, and then selecting Frederick when many believed it was an early pick. Even the Jones' fed into this by admitting that they picked him because the top interior linemen were picked clean at that time.

I think the real changes began last year.

Dumb luck has a part to play in any teams success. Sometimes you play it perfectly and you squander everything. Look at the 49ers where a couple seasons ago they were coming off a Super Bowl birth and were loaded with Day 2 picks, and stole Lattimore in the 4th. Every one thought they set the stage for many SB runs. And Seattle where the first couple drafts under Carrol the draftniks thought were terrible.

It truely is a roll of the dice