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.
--They spent 3 #1 picks on the offensive line....Please excuse them if they take a skill player capable of actuallty maximizing that O-line investment.
Shoring up an offensive line, however unsexy, is how DeMarco Murray became a star in 2014
-- Right......let's forget about his 250 yard game in his very first start in 2011 three years prior, how he ran for over 700 yards in his first 7 games as a pro. It's not like he did anything in 2013 like.....being a Pro Bowler.
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.
---Calling him Captain Obvious doesn't give him justice. He needs a promotion to General Knowledge.
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.
--Yeah....because, as the Cowboys have demonstrated, CB and DE are two positions where you never see busts. No, it wouldn't have the same domino effect.
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.
--Total and utter falsehood, if not outright deceptive. There is distinct measurable difference between a high 1st rounder, a low 1st rounder, and every subsequent round.
