I don’t think they had a good plan at all. They seem to have fallen into the trap of deciding on one specific player with their first pick and then sticking with that pick no matter what happens and who else may be there. My biggest problem with this strategy is that they appear to be settling on a player they feel confident will be there and then won’t move off him if better players they didn’t think would be there actually are. If you watched the war room, there was a fairly animated discussion for several minutes leading up to the pick of Hill. It’s pretty obvious to me that that discussion involved Hill vs the unexpected availability of several safties. They stuck with Hill and missed out on their biggest need in the deepest draft at that position maybe in history. That’s a reoccurring theme with them. Don’t even get me started on the rest of the picks. While everyone was moving up to get value on the guys they liked, Dallas sat on their hands and then started moving down. They missed opportunity after opportunity to have a much better draft. They could have used a middle round pick next year to move up and ended up with much better players. What they ended up with are rotational guys, tall db projects for Richard, and low ceiling prospects no one else seemed to want. In three years, when Richard is no longer with the team, no one from this draft will be contributing much. Wait, maybe the OL will and he is the one guy picked that made them deviated from there flawed plan.
