High tech meets history: Cowboys will break in new 'war room' at The Star when draft begins Thursday

[TonyS]

No more writing or magnetic tabs on the wall.

We need a systems hacker in the Zone so we can get their draft board......

Probably joking here, but there is a lot not to like about an "all digital" draft system. In a time during which no information technology mistakes can be made, there's something to be said for a white board and dry erase markers. I hope that is at least in their plan B should a screen "go out". I am sure they'll also have printouts and most of the "digital" stuff will be videos of the players, the actual televised draft, etc... Just hate for a glitch to take down our 2017 draft. I am sure Spaulding has this covered.

 

[tyke1doe]

I like how the middle of the table is open. Leaves room for jed to saunter around half liquored up with little chance for injury.

 

[Longboysfan]

Probably joking here, but there is a lot not to like about an "all digital" draft system. In a time during which no information technology mistakes can be made, there's something to be said for a white board and dry erase markers. I hope that is at least in their plan B should a screen "go out". I am sure they'll also have printouts and most of the "digital" stuff will be videos of the players, the actual televised draft, etc... Just hate for a glitch to take down our 2017 draft. I am sure Spaulding has this covered.

I'm sure the Cowboys have a secondary server they can Fail over to if there are problems.

 

[movaughn88]

I can't wait until the CPU glitches out right when we are on the clock and the whole room panics and we accidentally select Mitch Trubisky.

I hope someone prints out some backups!

 

[lostar2009]

On a more serious note, developing the draft info software they use for that big video wall would be sweet.

Yeah they could have just integrated it into a surface pro or some hand held dumb terminals. Nobody really need to see everthing.

 

[SportsGuru80]

Innovation at it's finest... I love it.

 

[Wood]

I am wondering if Jerry will be obnoxious enough to just have his face on screen during entire draft.

 

[DoctorChicken]

They are always sitting next to each other(close) in the war room and chit chatting it up with huge smiles. That's what the joke is.

ehhhh it usually seems like Garrett is trying to brush her off to me. She looks like she makes him kind of uncomfortable

 

[Plankton]

It looks pretty sweet from what they've been showing on NFLN.

It's very slick in person. They can do a lot of things in that room to display information and video - very customized.