IRVING, Texas -- In his first draft as a head coach, Jason Garrett had to decide whether the Dallas Cowboys needed to take a game-changing defensive end or a left tackle he could plug in and play for a decade with the Cowboys’ first-round pick. Ultimately, Garrett and the Cowboys chose Tyron Smith over J.J. Watt -- and the decision wasn’t really that difficult. The offensive line needed to be re-built because the Cowboys had released Marc Colombo, Leonard Davis and Kyle Kosier in the offseason and the defensive line, at the time, was in good shape with defensive ends Kenyon Coleman and Jason Hatcher and noseguard Jay Ratliff.
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