FN: How the Dallas Cowboys blew their 2016 draft

[Hardline]

Caring what Fox sports says is like getting your news from Fox News.

Just clock bait stories to try and prey on people's worst emotions.
It's the corporate culture at Fox I guess.

Getting your news from CNN,Msnbs or any of the alphabe networks would have been a far better example to use with your analogy.

 

[iceberg]

If this was written by sports illustrated cnn would have been the example. Your political ideology isnt a target.

anyone dismissing a site as "biased" would have gotten me "involved" so to speak. they're all biased. to pretend one isn't is just silly.

 

[YosemiteSam]

If I look at it this way, it still works.

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[FuzzyLumpkins]

Selecting a RB top 10 is contrary to conventional wisdom. That doesn't mean it cannot work.

 

[percyhoward]

Q: Who, worried about their defense, goes offense instead, trusting it to help that defense?

A: Somebody who's really more worried about the offense, after watching the team go 4-12 without its QB.

If you want to win with Romo now, you draft defense. If you're thinking Romo's next snap could be his last, you get a top QB, and if you're not prepared to pay that price, you try to get a cheaper QB and make the offense as comfortable for him as possible. Just dump it off to Zeke.

 

[unionjack8]

Any journalist calling deforest Buckner an edge rusher should be fired instantly.....I was already in full on this is bullsugar mode and that just topped it off

 

[gimmesix]

Yep. Just like the Martin and Fred drafts. Some mediots thought we blew those picks also. Hope the same happens with Zeke/Jaylon.

That's my only issue. I can't say what the front office did is foolish if Elliott turns out great and Ramsey and Buckner don't. I think Elliott was the safer pick of that bunch, but it doesn't mean he'll be better. It just doesn't mean he'll be worse either.

All things being equal (all three turn out great), I would have taken the end over the corner/safety and running back because of the value of the position, but I don't know if all things are equal.

 

[superonyx]

Getting your news from CNN,Msnbs or any of the alphabe networks would have been a far better example to use with your analogy.

It wouldn't have made any sense since this story was written by Fox Sports not Cnn Sports, MSNBC Sports ect.

Why would anyone say getting your sports news from Fox Sports is like getting your news from CNN? That just makes no sense.

It's funny how defensive people are of the "fair and balanced" network..

 

[DFWJC]

The riskier pick was 34

But the OP is wrong if he thinks this was a Jerry draft. All of these guys sound like players Garrett for sure signed off on...Elliott most of all

If anything, Jerry gives payback when he thinks he owes someone something.

Pretty sure Garrett wasn't thrilled with the Gregory pick or bringing in Hardy.
He had a bit more pull this year as a result

When Rob Ryan whined a few years ago, he got both Carr and Claiborne in the same offseason

Hopefully this turns out better

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

So Philly's draft is great since they gave away a buttload of picks to a FBS QB who nobody knew a year ago? Or the Giants laughable reach with Eli Apple is a great move? OK, I get it.

 

[AJC]

How the Dallas Cowboys blew their 2016 draft

By Chris Chase

Published May 02, 2016
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Dallas Cowboys executives in the "War Room" with head coach Jason Garrett, left, and team principals Charlotte Jones Anderson, owner Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones, right, as the Cowboys take part in the NFL Draft on Thursday, April 28, 2016, at the team Headquarters at Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas. (Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS via Getty Images)

Okay, every NFC East team that thinks it had a great draft, step forward.

Not so fast, Dallas.

Despite Jerry Jones believing that taking running back Ezekiel Elliott at No. 4 was a game-changer ("I've had my finest hours in business going against the grain," he told MMQB's Peter King), it's a move only DC, New York and Philadelphia could love. It's yet another example of what the mediocre-to-awful Cowboys of the last 20 years do best: putting star power and skill positions ahead of needs, consequences be damned.

Over the past two years it had looked like cooler, wiser heads had been prevailing in Dallas when they'd been presented with choices between flash and substance. This was most famously shown when the Cowboys passed on Johnny Manziel for some offensive lineman in the 2014 NFL draft, a pick that still annoyed Jerry Jones even after Manziel began his downward spiral in Cleveland. Meanwhile, that offensive lineman, Zack Martin, is now two-for-two in Pro Bowls and has a first-team All-Pro honor as well.

Solid, measured drafting like that would be the key to breaking through and becoming a dominant team in a division that hasn't seen one in a decade. Shoring up an offensive line, however unsexy, is how DeMarco Murray became a star in 2014 and even gave the oft-injured Darren McFadden the second-best season of his career in 2015, much to the delight of his fellow Arkansas Razorback Jerry Jones. The idea of getting another good back is sound: A solid rushing attack helps Tony Romo which helps Dez Bryant and the receiving corps and, thus, goes back to helping the offensive line. Football is all about symbiotic relationships.

Doing the same to the defense - by, say, drafting FSU cornerback Jalen Ramsey or edge rusher DeForest Buckner - could have had the same sort of domino effect. A shutdown secondary could allow Dallas to load the box to stop the run or attack on more blitzes with the knowledge that coverage would be taken care of downfield.

But the lessons Dallas should have learned from the Manziel/Martin situation were already forgotten. Instead, Jones went for a position that has more first-round busts and more late-round successes than any other. It's rare the Cowboys are in a position to draft such a big prospect. After taking Elliott, it might not be long before they're in the same spot again.


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I wonder if that's the same dolt that used to write for yahoo sports. His articles were so bad that people used to troll the hell out of him in the comments section. The #1 thumbs comment on every article was "Fire Chris Chase".

Anyway, I don't see how people can write crap like this unless they have a crystal ball at their discretion

 

[Echo9]

Just like his loyalty to Arkansas players. When's he's only drafted 1.

Funny. I got to that sentence and stopped reading right there. I realized that there would be no substance to it at all.

 

[iceberg]

It wouldn't have made any sense since this story was written by Fox Sports not Cnn Sports, MSNBC Sports ect.

Why would anyone say getting your sports news from Fox Sports is like getting your news from CNN? That just makes no sense.

It's funny how defensive people are of the "fair and balanced" network..

It's funny how people attack stereotypes then sit next wonder at reactions...

 

[jobberone]

I wonder if that's the same dolt that used to write for yahoo sports. His articles were so bad that people used to troll the hell out of him in the comments section. The #1 thumbs comment on every article was "Fire Chris Chase".

Anyway, I don't see how people can write crap like this unless they have a crystal ball at their discretion

Looks like most of the trash we see but that's just me. I try to post the good ones.....Not so many available......and mostly pick a new angle....human interest....or conversational.

 

[JPostSam]

please. the giants have been spotty in the draft the past few years. the chip kelly show in philly was a train wreck that they just tried to fix by giving up a boat load of picks for one guy. the Commanders just let rg3 walk after giving up a boat load of picks to try to fix their own train wreck.

if the cowboys are doing things differently than the rest of the nfc east, that's a good thing.

(washington's new GM not included.)

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Bashing the draft based on Elliott is stupid. He was the only player to draft after we couldn't get the QB's. Now the rest of the draft, we'll see. Nobody knows how a draft will shape out until a few years later.

 

[DFWJC]

Bashing the draft based on Elliott is stupid. He was the only player to draft after we couldn't get the QB's. Now the rest of the draft, we'll see. Nobody knows how a draft will shape out until a few years later.

One pick doesn't make or break a draft. Though the 4th overall would be about as close to as you can get.
The draft value is literally worth entire rest of the draft and all of next years draft beginning with the 2nd round... combined.

I'm psyched about seeing Zeke this year, but I know you realize that your statement was, of course, opinion, and not fact.

They had several option at 4, including taking other players or trading down

 

[The Quest for Six]

The article is DEAD on with why this organization continues to spin it's wheels, flash over substance.........

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

One pick doesn't make or break a draft. Though the 4th overall would be about as close to as you can get.
The draft value is literally worth entire rest of the draft and all of next years draft beginning with the 2nd round... combined.

I'm psyched about seeing Zeke this year, but I know you realize that your statement was, of course, opinion, and not fact.

They had several option at 4, including taking other players or trading down

Yes and none would have much of an impact this year. Zeke will. The only way to win now is to take the pressure off of Romo and you do that with a running game. You force your will onto other teams. Of course if you want to right off the Romo years and start planning for the future than yea.

 

[DFWJC]

Yes and none would have much of an impact this year. Zeke will. The only way to win now is to take the pressure off of Romo and you do that with a running game. You force your will onto other teams. Of course if you want to right off the Romo years and start planning for the future than yea.

That's the argument for drafting Zeke.
I understand all that.

There are many well (football) educated arguments against it too though.

I'm just looking forward to this season at this point. I'm a Zeke fan.
The Genie is out of the bottle.