Jaylon Smith's nerve has no significant improvement yet

[Joe Realist]

no impact until 2018. Injured reserve him in august

 

[Sydla]

Dodd and Ogbah right in front of us took the wind out of my sail. Imagine if we got Hunter Henry. This place would have been a riot

Smith is high risk. If you wanted a LBer, Ragland was available and is a tackling machine

The Cowboys didn't want just any old LB. They wanted a LB that has position flexibility. Ragland is a straight MLB. They didn't want a pure MLB that had no position flexibility.

This really isn't that hard to figure out and makes it more and more bizarre you keep bringing up Ragland when people keep telling you this.

 

[Nightman]

It looks like we did good getting Collins and Tapper is the 3rd and 4th........so does it really matter the order if they all work out........we could have grabbed Collins or another similar DT at 34 and then got JSmith at 68.....or switch with Tapper in the 4th

We needed DE, DT and MLB and that is what we got.......taking JSmith early insured we got him and say he is 10x better than the next LB versus Collins might only be marginally worse than the DTs at 34

 

[stilltheguru88]

Should've just taken Jack. Dumb front office

 

[Nightman]

Should've just taken Jack. Dumb front office

 

[Floatyworm]

man I love the player and it has only been 2 months. but if he can never play football again, especially with tony romo at the end of his career. this pic will haunt us, I say that because there was plenty of talent left on the board. I tell ya these 2nd round picks piss me off.

And to think Myles Jack was still there too.....I'll never understand this pick. Especially...now after finding out the plan is to play him @ the Mike position. He'a a run and chase LBer. Not a guy that is gonna step into a hole and take on lead blockers. If that is the plan...and it sounds like it...Cowboys are gonna ruin another player by playing him out of position.

 

[visionary]

I see it this way. You have enough money to pay the mortgage. But not enough to pay the car payment. You go to Vegas to gamble with the mortgage money. You win big. Does it make it the right move or just luck? Which eventually runs out..

Great analogy

 

[bayeslife]

And to think Myles Jack was still there too.....I'll never understand this pick. Especially...now after finding out the plan is to play him @ the Mike position. He'a a run and chase LBer. Not a guy that is gonna step into a hole and take on lead blockers. If that is the plan...and it sounds like it...Cowboys are gonna ruin another player by playing him out of position.

Jaylon healthy is better than Jack.

 

[NorthwestDallas40]

And to think Myles Jack was still there too.....I'll never understand this pick. Especially...now after finding out the plan is to play him @ the Mike position. He'a a run and chase LBer. Not a guy that is gonna step into a hole and take on lead blockers. If that is the plan...and it sounds like it...Cowboys are gonna ruin another player by playing him out of position.

In our 4-3, the MLB does not generally "step in the hole and take on lead blockers." Maybe in a 3-4. But guys with Smith's physical traits can thrive in a 4-3 because they are covered by 2 DTs in front of them.

 

[Alohawg1]

Dumb da da dumb dumb...dumb. Maybe, we'll see, we always do, eventually.

 

[NorthwestDallas40]

Jaylon healthy is better than Jack.

Maybe true, but our "Romo window" is closing quick and Jack for this year, to me, was better than waiting for Jaylon to regain his full health next year, if at all

 

[DandyDon52]

Maybe true, but our "Romo window" is closing quick and Jack for this year, to me, was better than waiting for Jaylon to regain his full health next year, if at all

yeah using a 2nd round pick now, for a player who wont have a impact till probably 2018 is not all that smart.
He may play in 2017 but will have not played in a year, and will then have to adjust to the nfl.
It may be good in the long run, but not a sure thing.

 

[DFWJC]

Hopefully he works out for us.

Every year of lost devalues the pick significantly though. The rookie contract for him is 4 years; after that, any team can get him. Losing one of those years is a big deal...losing two..well, I don't want to talk about it.

 

[Chuck 54]

man I love the player and it has only been 2 months. but if he can never play football again, especially with tony romo at the end of his career. this pic will haunt us, I say that because there was plenty of talent left on the board. I tell ya these 2nd round picks piss me off.

I don't see any 2nd round pick haunting us. True, we should do better in the draft, but recently we've taken Bruce Carter, Escobar, and Gregory in the 2nd round. It hurts that we don't do better, but we've been pretty notoriously bad in the 2nd round anyway.

 

[Chuck 54]

And to think Myles Jack was still there too.....I'll never understand this pick. Especially...now after finding out the plan is to play him @ the Mike position. He'a a run and chase LBer. Not a guy that is gonna step into a hole and take on lead blockers. If that is the plan...and it sounds like it...Cowboys are gonna ruin another player by playing him out of position.

He was a MLB at ND....Jack would have required Lee to move to MLB. Jack has never played in the middle.

 

[ConstantReboot]

This thread makes me nervous.

 

[Daillest88]

Well, I thought Spence has a shot at being good (particularly in Marinelli's defense) but I don't think Dallas was going to take him at all because of recent events with Gregory, Hardy, etc.

I like Shepard a whole lot but I doubt Dallas would have taken him that high because IMO, they view him as a slot guy and they have a young Beasley who is very good.

I would have been upset with Cravens. Not a fan of his at all. Too slow and can't cover good enough for safety and won't have enough anchor to play LB very well. He would be a sub package player and a good nickle backer, IMO. There were plenty of guys like that who could have been had much later. I actually don't see him as very different from Frazier.

Nassib I didn't like, particularly that high. Thompson wasn't good enough to take at in the second at all, IMO.

Again, not saying I'm right but that is my thought process and why I struggle with who I would have taken at 34 in their shoes.

The only guy I personally would have been happy with (of those you mentioned) is Shepard.

I hear ya. but if we would of traded down and picked up extra picks , nassib and Thompson even Tyler boyd could of been options.

 

[speedkilz88]

Should've just taken Jack. Dumb front office

So you would go against the advice of the team doctor, the guy who is possibly the best knee surgeon in the nation?

 

[DeaconMoss]

The Cowboys didn't want just any old LB. They wanted a LB that has position flexibility. Ragland is a straight MLB. They didn't want a pure MLB that had no position flexibility.

This really isn't that hard to figure out and makes it more and more bizarre you keep bringing up Ragland when people keep telling you this.

Our straight up MLB is as stable as Charlie Sheen. Im not saying I wanted either, Im just saying I would have picked a player who could actually take the field at the time he was picked

 

[aikemirv]

I am not sure where the report came from, but is there a medical device that can measure the growth of the nerve?

Or is it that the nerve could be re-growing at the expected pace without seeing a result in the foot drop issue? I mean, I don't see anything in the report that gives medical evidence of "no significant progress"