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http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/01/13/dallas-cowboys-2016-playoffs-draft-class
This time of year, all 32 teams are in draft meetings, heading out to college all-star games, gearing up for the combine and preparing to renovate their rosters for 2017. An inevitable part of it, for everyone, is looking back at past success and failure. So here’s what best illustrates how absurd the Cowboys’ 2016 draft class has been: The failure that COO Stephen Jones and scouting chief Will McClay have examined closest over the last few months just happens to be their greatest success.
“[McClay] and I put our heads together all the time—How are we gonna be better next year?” Jones said over the phone on Tuesday night. “The parts we did miss, why? And believe it or not, we’re saying, ‘How did it happen that happen that we took [Charles] Tapper ahead of Dak [Prescott]? Gotta be better than that. How do we learn from those situations, so we can be better in the future?”
Tapper is on IR. Prescott is an MVP candidate. And Dallas will open the playoffs in three days as the No. 1 seed after tying the franchise record for regular-season wins.
Photo: Wesley Hitt/Getty Images :: NIck Wass/AP
Anthony Brown and Maliek Collins have made big contributions for Boys.
Suffice it to say, the Cowboys are in a very different spot than they were 12 months ago, when the franchise’s championship window was seemingly closing. Now it’s wide open for the foreseeable future, and the team’s vast fan base has a group of players in their early 20s, players preparing to climb on the playoff stage for the first time, to thank for it.
How ready are they? The answer could well determine who comes out of the NFC.
This time of year, all 32 teams are in draft meetings, heading out to college all-star games, gearing up for the combine and preparing to renovate their rosters for 2017. An inevitable part of it, for everyone, is looking back at past success and failure. So here’s what best illustrates how absurd the Cowboys’ 2016 draft class has been: The failure that COO Stephen Jones and scouting chief Will McClay have examined closest over the last few months just happens to be their greatest success.
“[McClay] and I put our heads together all the time—How are we gonna be better next year?” Jones said over the phone on Tuesday night. “The parts we did miss, why? And believe it or not, we’re saying, ‘How did it happen that happen that we took [Charles] Tapper ahead of Dak [Prescott]? Gotta be better than that. How do we learn from those situations, so we can be better in the future?”
Tapper is on IR. Prescott is an MVP candidate. And Dallas will open the playoffs in three days as the No. 1 seed after tying the franchise record for regular-season wins.
Photo: Wesley Hitt/Getty Images :: NIck Wass/AP
Anthony Brown and Maliek Collins have made big contributions for Boys.
Suffice it to say, the Cowboys are in a very different spot than they were 12 months ago, when the franchise’s championship window was seemingly closing. Now it’s wide open for the foreseeable future, and the team’s vast fan base has a group of players in their early 20s, players preparing to climb on the playoff stage for the first time, to thank for it.
How ready are they? The answer could well determine who comes out of the NFC.
