Let's Look At This Logically

[Carson]

And now Fowler is out of the DE equation. Probably two guys needed, or 1 bigtime guy and Sam significantly increasing snaps.

Fehoko and Golston were drafted for this reason

 

[thunderpimp91]

No way....the idea of walking away with 4+ starters is a pipe dream. A good draft you'll land a legitimate starter plus a couple role players. Most drafts will see only a hand full of 3rd round picks make a pro bowl in their entire careers.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Dallas needs a big bodied DT. Maybe Mazi makes a huge leap next year, but Hankins isn’t playing 800 snaps. There’s a vacancy there that you can feel.

At least one offball LB. Mike Zimmer’s defenses in Minnesota and Cincinnati have featured linebackers, and this is spot that everyone wanted in FA.

One, maybe two Runningbacks. A bigger dude and a change of pace back. Is Dowdle ready for 100+ carries? Very likely the best case scenario is Thunder and Lightning are new additions this year.

One, maybe two Offensive Linemen. The replacement for Tyron is probably on the roster, but that then was your best depth guy, gotta replace him. And a 17 game starter at Center isn’t likely in the room right now.

Shore up DE rotation. Dorance played a lot last year. Like DT, is Sam Williams ready to be the every down guy? He had 300 snaps last year; he’d have to almost triple that to cover for Dorance. Meanwhile, going on 32, Demarcus Lawrence had the fewest snaps of a full season in his career. First time he was under 60% of the team’s defensive snaps. That’s probably not a number expected to get much higher as he gets older.



Is it realistic to go into the draft fully expecting 4-5 day 1 starters to come out of it?

Why is a Eagle fan trying to get us to look at this logically lol?

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Why is an Eagle fan trying to get us to look at this logically lol?

You guys are too close to the source; lots of emotional reactions today

 

[slick325]

Dallas needs a big bodied DT. Maybe Mazi makes a huge leap next year, but Hankins isn’t playing 800 snaps. There’s a vacancy there that you can feel.

At least one offball LB. Mike Zimmer’s defenses in Minnesota and Cincinnati have featured linebackers, and this is spot that everyone wanted in FA.

One, maybe two Runningbacks. A bigger dude and a change of pace back. Is Dowdle ready for 100+ carries? Very likely the best case scenario is Thunder and Lightning are new additions this year.

One, maybe two Offensive Linemen. The replacement for Tyron is probably on the roster, but that then was your best depth guy, gotta replace him. And a 17 game starter at Center isn’t likely in the room right now.

Shore up DE rotation. Dorance played a lot last year. Like DT, is Sam Williams ready to be the every down guy? He had 300 snaps last year; he’d have to almost triple that to cover for Dorance. Meanwhile, going on 32, Demarcus Lawrence had the fewest snaps of a full season in his career. First time he was under 60% of the team’s defensive snaps. That’s probably not a number expected to get much higher as he gets older.



Is it realistic to go into the draft fully expecting 4-5 day 1 starters to come out of it?

No! Not realistic at all.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You guys are too close to the source; lots of emotional reactions today

Rightfully so. You aren’t close enough to the source to give a damn lol

 

[TheDude]

Dallas needs a big bodied DT. Maybe Mazi makes a huge leap next year, but Hankins isn’t playing 800 snaps. There’s a vacancy there that you can feel.

At least one offball LB. Mike Zimmer’s defenses in Minnesota and Cincinnati have featured linebackers, and this is spot that everyone wanted in FA.

One, maybe two Runningbacks. A bigger dude and a change of pace back. Is Dowdle ready for 100+ carries? Very likely the best case scenario is Thunder and Lightning are new additions this year.

One, maybe two Offensive Linemen. The replacement for Tyron is probably on the roster, but that then was your best depth guy, gotta replace him. And a 17 game starter at Center isn’t likely in the room right now.

Shore up DE rotation. Dorance played a lot last year. Like DT, is Sam Williams ready to be the every down guy? He had 300 snaps last year; he’d have to almost triple that to cover for Dorance. Meanwhile, going on 32, Demarcus Lawrence had the fewest snaps of a full season in his career. First time he was under 60% of the team’s defensive snaps. That’s probably not a number expected to get much higher as he gets older.



Is it realistic to go into the draft fully expecting 4-5 day 1 starters to come out of it?

no. this blatant mismanagement

 

[Sydla]

Dallas needs a big bodied DT. Maybe Mazi makes a huge leap next year, but Hankins isn’t playing 800 snaps. There’s a vacancy there that you can feel.

At least one offball LB. Mike Zimmer’s defenses in Minnesota and Cincinnati have featured linebackers, and this is spot that everyone wanted in FA.

One, maybe two Runningbacks. A bigger dude and a change of pace back. Is Dowdle ready for 100+ carries? Very likely the best case scenario is Thunder and Lightning are new additions this year.

One, maybe two Offensive Linemen. The replacement for Tyron is probably on the roster, but that then was your best depth guy, gotta replace him. And a 17 game starter at Center isn’t likely in the room right now.

Shore up DE rotation. Dorance played a lot last year. Like DT, is Sam Williams ready to be the every down guy? He had 300 snaps last year; he’d have to almost triple that to cover for Dorance. Meanwhile, going on 32, Demarcus Lawrence had the fewest snaps of a full season in his career. First time he was under 60% of the team’s defensive snaps. That’s probably not a number expected to get much higher as he gets older.



Is it realistic to go into the draft fully expecting 4-5 day 1 starters to come out of it?

Is it realistic? Of course not.

But have you met our owner and his doofus of a son?

These guys have zero idea of risk mitigation. Take your Eagles. They added a mid-level guy in Hennessy because he can play C and OG and gives them a big of flexibility given Jurgens is moving to C, etc.

The Cowboys lost their center and have shown zero interest in finding a veteran that can come in and maybe provide some insurance. Jerry and his stooge son think they'll find their starting C in the draft.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Is it realistic to go into the draft fully expecting 4-5 day 1 starters to come out of it?

Of course not. Though I guess it's possible.

But there is a thing called free agency, Dallas can add 1-2 starters there, doesn't have to be All Pros, no team is fully staffed with Pro Bowlers at every position.

Realistically Dallas can afford 2 good, not great, free agents. So that leaves needing at least 2 draft day starters, 3 would be better. That's also possible, remember nobody expected Lamb to be available at #17 and he was a bona fide top-10 ranked player.

As with some drafts, it can depend on what position gets a run on, oftentimes if several top, say, OTs start coming off the board very early, teams may panic and start grasping at straws to get one "before the good ones are all gone", leaving a very good OG or DT just there for the taking.

We'll see...