Just how confident are you, that the Cowboys, with their current GM and front office, would select good players with those high draft picks anyway?
This is one reason I've never bought into the notion that it would be better for the Cowboys to lose and get high draft picks, rather than win and stay in the playoff race. There's NO guarantee that those high draft picks would be put to good use.
Another reason: Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russell were drafted in the 1st round. Tom Brady was drafted in the 6th round. Jason Witten was drafted in the 3rd round. High draft positioning is really overrated.
Anecdotal instances seem to be the excuse du jour for politicians in regard to legislation.
Troy Aikman is an example of a first over-all pick that succeeded. This game can be played all day long and in the end there is a reason teams rank players for the draft. That reason is backed up mostly by paychecks.
So if we were to boil down the draft, it is about slotting for the team's financial outlay to acquire said player.
The only point I find has merit of the tired argument you illustrated is this management and how they fare with picking winners and losers.
But there is a core issue here that goes beyond drafting that is as evident as the hubcaps on Dolly Parton.
Until a core change has been made in management, and their world view in regard to the NFL changes, playing for the high picks is like putting your money on the crap table.
Sometimes even the unlucky can hit a winner.
But drafting players with less talent because of the management - even with the coming, "Hey dude, but what about Romo," arguments, it is a speedy way to find mediocrity as we have witnessed for most of the last seventeen years.
