InPhiltraitor
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Like many of you, I’ve been spamming mock draft simulators for amusement. Without trades this year, the results have been leaving the same taste in my mouth. I’m one guy short! Each time I complete the draft exercise I find myself wishing the Cowboys would have found a way to keep one of four players – Tyron, Tony, Tyler, or Hankins. I realize these guys all have their shortcomings but being able to pencil at least one of them in to start the season would have made a big difference.
Just did a mock and with my first selection I took Newton just to see how things played out. I felt like I was in scramble mode for the rest of my selections as players I was thinking would be there for my next pick were being grabbed 1 and 2 selections ahead of me. Hmm…it’s almost as if the application is learning my tendencies and responding in a manner to counter my moves. Scary.
Have any of you reached a similar conclusion in that if just one of the guys (warts and all) was kept a Cowboy part of the pressure of this draft could be measurably decreased? If keeping one of the aforementioned (or not mentioned) players would have made life easier in terms of the draft, who would it have been for you?
I wonder to what degree the Jones’ have thought through (to the not being able to sleep degree I would hope) how this period of mass player exodus correlates to the amount of pressure it’s going to put on the draft and 2nd year personnel. I get “All in” doesn’t mean going on a wild spending spree but possibly restructuring a couple contracts could have paved the way to keep at least one key contributor. To me, the longer this goes, the worse the optics.
I’ve been very hesitant to consider what’s taking place as being some kind of hard reset cuz I just don’t believe that’s in Jerry’s nature, and I’ve maintained that a Dak deal is forthcoming. Again, that’s what the Jones’ do. But many of you have hopped the fence and believe that the times they are a changin’. I don’t know. Maybe the fence-hoppers are getting it right.
Just did a mock and with my first selection I took Newton just to see how things played out. I felt like I was in scramble mode for the rest of my selections as players I was thinking would be there for my next pick were being grabbed 1 and 2 selections ahead of me. Hmm…it’s almost as if the application is learning my tendencies and responding in a manner to counter my moves. Scary.
Have any of you reached a similar conclusion in that if just one of the guys (warts and all) was kept a Cowboy part of the pressure of this draft could be measurably decreased? If keeping one of the aforementioned (or not mentioned) players would have made life easier in terms of the draft, who would it have been for you?
I wonder to what degree the Jones’ have thought through (to the not being able to sleep degree I would hope) how this period of mass player exodus correlates to the amount of pressure it’s going to put on the draft and 2nd year personnel. I get “All in” doesn’t mean going on a wild spending spree but possibly restructuring a couple contracts could have paved the way to keep at least one key contributor. To me, the longer this goes, the worse the optics.
I’ve been very hesitant to consider what’s taking place as being some kind of hard reset cuz I just don’t believe that’s in Jerry’s nature, and I’ve maintained that a Dak deal is forthcoming. Again, that’s what the Jones’ do. But many of you have hopped the fence and believe that the times they are a changin’. I don’t know. Maybe the fence-hoppers are getting it right.
