Free agency/mock draft

[Cowboys1fan]

Restructure- Tyron smith, Tyrone Crawford and Dez Bryant
Sign- trumaine Johnson or janoris Jenkins/CB
Sign- James Laurinaitis/ Mlb
Sign- tajuan gibson/safety
Sign- Demarcus ware/ end
Sign- Lamar Miller
Sign-Travis Benjamin

1st round- Joey bosa
2nd round- josh doctson
3rd round- Vernon butler
4th round- scooby wright
4th round- Christian hackenberg

 

[Sydla]

A few things.

One, Laurinaitis seems a bit washed up for MLB.

Two, I see people keep saying resign Ware but can Ware play DE on every snap as opposed to an OLB in a 3-4?

Three, I doubt Butler is there in the 3rd. He seems to be moving up on up in the draft charts. But I suspect there should be a decent DT there in the 3rd.

 

[Direwolf63]

Ware is an OLB edge rusher. Not a 4-3 DE. That was clearly proven in his last days in Dallas and his time in Denver.

Hackenberg..............Yuck.

 

[Cowboys1fan]

A few things.

One, Laurinaitis seems a bit washed up for MLB.

Two, I see people keep saying resign Ware but can Ware play DE on every snap as opposed to an OLB in a 3-4?

Three, I doubt Butler is there in the 3rd. He seems to be moving up on up in the draft charts. But I suspect there should be a decent DT there in the 3rd.

Ware would be situational rusher. That's why I have bosa with the first pick.
Laurinaitis isn't washed up. He's has 100 tackles every season and hasn't missed a game since joining the Rams. That's the consistency we get in him. His work ethic favors Sean lee's.

 

[Cowboys1fan]

Ware is an OLB edge rusher. Not a 4-3 DE. That was clearly proven in his last days in Dallas and his time in Denver.

Hackenberg..............Yuck.

Hackenberg is a great talent in a bad situation in penn st. Learning under romo and good coaching would help him tremendously. Under o'Brian his freshman year he did great.

 

[phildadon86]

Hackenberg is a great talent in a bad situation in penn st. Learning under romo and good coaching would help him tremendously. Under o'Brian his freshman year he did great.

You lost me at good coaching.

 

[Bizwah]

Ware can play 4/3 DE. How many times have we seen him with his hand in the dirt? Plus, he's not coming here to be the man. He'd be part of a rotation...which would help save him. Saying he can't play as a 4/3 DE is a myth.

I'm not understanding the Travis Benjamin love. I know there are many on the board that think we have to have a speedster on the roster. We need a deep threat. We have two....both Williams and Dez can get deep. We need a healthy Romo. Our deep game is just fine with those two WRs (healthy) and Romo (healthy).

 

[RandyOh]

Hmm so 4 young and in prime players looking for paydays, 1 3-4 OLB who will have real contenders calling for his services, and a Un athletic and declining MLB as our free agent haul. How u gonna pull all that off? Also Butler and Hackenburg won't make it out of the 2nd round. And speaking of the 2nd round, why would we want the T Williams clone?

 

[Cowboys1fan]

Hmm so 4 young and in prime players looking for paydays, 1 3-4 OLB who will have real contenders calling for his services, and a Un athletic and declining MLB as our free agent haul. How u gonna pull all that off? Also Butler and Hackenburg won't make it out of the 2nd round. And speaking of the 2nd round, why would we want the T Williams clone?

Doctson a twill clone??? Williams has no hands. Doctson has great hands. he would be a tremendous upgrade over Williams. Williams is trash

 

[Cowboys1fan]

Ware can play 4/3 DE. How many times have we seen him with his hand in the dirt? Plus, he's not coming here to be the man. He'd be part of a rotation...which would help save him. Saying he can't play as a 4/3 DE is a myth.

I'm not understanding the Travis Benjamin love. I know there are many on the board that think we have to have a speedster on the roster. We need a deep threat. We have two....both Williams and Dez can get deep. We need a healthy Romo. Our deep game is just fine with those two WRs (healthy) and Romo (healthy).

We actually need a receiver opposite side of Dez that would take pressure off of Dez and could constantly win the one on one battles.

 

[RandyOh]

Doctson a twill clone??? Williams has no hands. Doctson has great hands. he would be a tremendous upgrade over Williams. Williams is trash

His pro comparison is T Will. He may have better hands but if he compares to T Will overall then no thanks in a draft that's full of beast DT that can be had in the 2nd instead.

 

[Sydla]

Ware would be situational rusher. That's why I have bosa with the first pick.
Laurinaitis isn't washed up. He's has 100 tackles every season and hasn't missed a game since joining the Rams. That's the consistency we get in him. His work ethic favors Sean lee's.

His production has gone down substantially in recent years.

2011 - 142 tackles
2012 - 142 tackles
2013 - 116 tackles
2014 - 109 tackles
2014 - 109 tackles

If he's cheap, maybe.

 

[BAT]

His production has gone down substantially in recent years.

2011 - 142 tackles
2012 - 142 tackles
2013 - 116 tackles
2014 - 109 tackles
2014 - 109 tackles

If he's cheap, maybe.

Still pretty good numbers. When is the last time Ro had over 100 stops? But agree that Cowboys only interested "if cheap".

 

[Cowboys1fan]

Well yea I wouldn't pay a lot for him. He will be cheaper than McLain and will be consistent with no red flags and one failed test from year suspension

 

[Cowboys1fan]

His pro comparison is T Will. He may have better hands but if he compares to T Will overall then no thanks in a draft that's full of beast DT that can be had in the 2nd instead.

I think we need a 1 tech badly. They have ignored it year after year. I wish somehow we could trade back in the first 4-6 picks and snag two 2nd rounders and come away with doctson and someone like rankins

 

[Cowboys1fan]

His pro comparison is T Will. He may have better hands but if he compares to T Will overall then no thanks in a draft that's full of beast DT that can be had in the 2nd instead.

Watch some tape on doctson. He is nothing like twill imo. He reminds me of a more athletic miles Austin in his prime. He is going to be one of the top wr in this class. Someone is going to get a playmaker in him

 

[RandyOh]

I think we need a 1 tech badly. They have ignored it year after year. I wish somehow we could trade back in the first 4-6 picks and snag two 2nd rounders and come away with doctson and someone like rankins

I don't Think Rankins falls out of the 1st. He is a 3 Tech which means he holds alot more value then some of the 1techs in this years draft. Especially seeing how is getting some comparisons to Aaron Donald

 

[RandyOh]

Watch some tape on doctson. He is nothing like twill imo. He reminds me of a more athletic miles Austin in his prime. He is going to be one of the top wr in this class. Someone is going to get a playmaker in him

miles Austin is not another players name i want to hear as a cowboys fan lol but ill do my due diligence on him. I watched a little on him but i wasn't saying oh wow i need to watch more of him. I will say defense has always been more exciting to me then offense so that might play a part in it too.

 

[jazzcat22]

Doesn't Ware still have a year left on his contract?

 

[Oh_Canada]

Restructure- Tyron smith, Tyrone Crawford and Dez Bryant
Sign- trumaine Johnson or janoris Jenkins/CB
Sign- James Laurinaitis/ Mlb
Sign- tajuan gibson/safety
Sign- Demarcus ware/ end
Sign- Lamar Miller
Sign-Travis Benjamin

1st round- Joey bosa
2nd round- josh doctson
3rd round- Vernon butler
4th round- scooby wright
4th round- Christian hackenberg

Don't like the Rams LB at all, would rather spend the Gipson money on Trevathan, a linebacker who can cover.

Draft seems to good to be true, Butler is probably an early second, if not first unless he bombs at the combine. Love the Wright pick though.