Home Grown

[cowboyeric8]

What I love most about this team. Is that for the most part the impact players are all Cowboys draftees, with a few exceptions like Brooking, Columbo, Davis, Williams, Hamlin, and Sensabaugh.

 

[Hostile]

Romo...UDFA
Kitna...Trade
McGee...4th round

Barber...4th round
Jones...1st round
Choice...4th round

Anderson...6th round

Willaims...trade
Austin...UDFA
Crayton...7th round
Hurd...UDFA
Ogletree...UDFA

Witten...3rd round
Bennett...2nd round
Phillips...6th round

Adams...2nd round
Kosier...free agent
Gurode...2nd round
Davis...free agent
Columbo...free agent
Free...4th round
Holland...free agent
Procter...UDFA
McQuistan...7th round

Spears...1st round
Ratliff...7th round
Olshansky...free agent
Hatcher...3rd round
Siavii...free agent
Bowen...UDFA

Spencer...1st round
James..4th round
Brooking...free agent
Ware...1st round
Butler...4th round
Carpenter...1st round
Williams...3rd round
Johnson...free agent
Octavien...UDFA

Newman...1st round
Sensabaugh...free agent
Hamlin...free agent
Jenkins...1st round
Scandrick...5th round
Ball...7th round
Hamlin...5th round
Watkins...5th round

Folk...6th round
Buehler...4th round
McBriar...UDFA
Ladouceur...UDFA

 

[Bluefin]

Same here.

I much prefer drafting players to signing other teams' free agents.

 

[theogt]

I think picking up guys like Colombo, Kosier and Davis in free agency is as good as having a "home grown" starter. These guys were young players that were considered trash by other teams. People laughed at Jerry when he signed Leonard Davis. That is good scouting just like in the draft.

You can add guys like Hamlin and Sensabaugh to that description as well.

 

[Bluefin]

I think picking up guys like Colombo, Kosier and Davis in free agency is as good as having a "home grown" starter. These guys were young players that were considered trash by other teams.

Nothing against Bigg Leonard Davis, put he wasn't signed to a free agent bargain contract akin to Kyle Kosier or a reclamation project like Jumbo Colombo.

Bigg was paid absurd money to play guard and be a potential future left tackle option solely due to our struggles developing OL talent using the draft.

It's one thing to make a splashy signing because you want you and something else when you have no choice but to do so.

 

[theogt]

Nothing against Bigg Leonard Davis, put he wasn't signed to a free agent bargain contract akin to Kyle Kosier or a reclamation project like Jumbo Colombo.

Bigg was paid absurd money to play guard and be a potential future left tackle option solely due to our struggles developing OL talent using the draft.

It's one thing to make a splashy signing because you want you and something else when you have no choice but to do so.

I didn't say anything about being signed cheaply. If you remember the signing at all, you'll remember that Jerry was ridiculed for signing him. It was not a "splashy" signing in the least. It was panned. But the scouts knew better. They thought he'd be one of the better guards in the league and that's what they paid him like. Kudos to Jerry and the scouts for that one.

 

[Bluefin]

It was not a "splashy" signing in the least. It was panned. But the scouts knew better. They thought he'd be one of the better guards in the league and that's what they paid him like. Kudos to Jerry and the scouts for that one.

Paying a guard like a left tackle, a player who didn't live up to expectations with his first team at that, is a flashy signing.

Yes, the move was criticized and not universally met with approval.

But it was still a big splash.

I like Leonard Davis and he's a good player, but I hate having to go to such an extreme due to being unable to draft offensive line talent.

 

[theogt]

Paying a guard like a left tackle, a player who didn't live up to expectations with his first team at that, is a flashy signing.

Yes, the move was criticized and not universally met with approval.

But it was still a big splash.

I like Leonard Davis and he's a good player, but I hate having to go to such an extreme due to being unable to draft offensive line talent.

He's paid like a top end guard. And he plays like one. Perhaps it's a high risk, high reward decision on Jerry's part, but that it was against the grain either shows good scouting or luck. I tend to think it's the former.

 

[The Panch]

But....but....but....I thought we tried to by championships???

 

[Bluefin]

He's paid like a top end guard. And he plays like one. Perhaps it's a high risk, high reward decision on Jerry's part, but that it was against the grain either shows good scouting or luck. I tend to think it's the former.

Bigg is paid like a top end guard because we and Buffalo (Dockery) helped set the market for paying them akin to left tackles.

And if a player is a two time Pro Bowl alternate at tackle while playing on pitiful teams in the desert that got zero attention, how much concern could there have been?

Davis also played guard for the Cardinals, we knew he could make the switch.

I didn't have any worries about Bigg's ability.

I just don't like having to use free agency to fix gaping holes due to draft miscues.

At least it wasn't another Marco Rivera.

I just hope our draft fortunes take a turn for the better on the line.

 

[theogt]

Bigg is paid like a top end guard because we and Buffalo (Dockery) helped set the market for paying them akin to left tackles.

Top end tackles are paid more than top end guards. The market is not the same for both positions. Davis is paid like a top end guard, not a top end tackle.

And if a player is a two time Pro Bowl alternate at tackle while playing on pitiful teams in the desert that got zero attention, how much concern could there have been?

Davis also played guard for the Cardinals, we knew he could make the switch.

I didn't have any worries about Bigg's ability.

I just don't like having to use free agency to fix gaping holes due to draft miscues.

At least it wasn't another Marco Rivera.

I just hope our draft fortunes take a turn for the better on the line.

And, yet, the signing was almost universally panned. It's easy to think it was a slam dunk after it turns out in our favor.

 

[Bluefin]

Top end tackles are paid more than top end guards. The market is not the same for both positions. Davis is paid like a top end guard, not a top end tackle.

It was the richest deal ever for a guard.

It landed Leonard Davis in the top 20 highest paid athletes of the year when he signed.

We paid him exactly like he was a left tackle.

There was a very real chance he could've become our left tackle in a year with Flozell Adams set to hit free agency the following season.

We are talking crazy money.

And, yet, the signing was almost universally panned. It's easy to think it was a slam dunk after it turns out in our favor.

I agree that it was.

But it was still a huge story and an "attention getter" for the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones.

It was a big splash.

And it worked. I'd just rather not be backed into a corner and have no choice but to use free agency to find a starter, whatever dollar amount is involved.