Morris Claiborne Draft Pick Announced

[big dog cowboy]

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Is his destiny to become the worst draft pick in Cowboys history or will start to make some plays this year?

 

[KingintheNorth]

I don't know if he is the "worst draft pick in Cowboys history" but if you consider all of the factors, it might have been the worst draft decision in Cowboys history. We shouldn't draft guys we didn't do real homework on, talk to at least once, trade a 1st and 2nd for, etc.
The Rams desperately needed a CB and traded away from Claiborne. That should have been a huge warning.

"You never trade away from a great player"

 

[Manwiththeplan]

I don't know if he is the "worst draft pick in Cowboys history" but if you consider all of the factors, it might have been the worst draft decision in Cowboys history. We shouldn't draft guys we didn't do real homework on, talk to at least once, trade a 1st and 2nd for, etc.
The Rams desperately needed a CB and traded away from Claiborne. That should have been a huge warning.

"You never trade away from a great player"

You're right, it really comes down to not doing our homework on Claiborne. Imagine if we traded up and took Fletcher Cox....

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I don't know if he is the "worst draft pick in Cowboys history" but if you consider all of the factors, it might have been the worst draft decision in Cowboys history. We shouldn't draft guys we didn't do real homework on, talk to at least once, trade a 1st and 2nd for, etc.
The Rams desperately needed a CB and traded away from Claiborne. That should have been a huge warning.

"You never trade away from a great player"

You can't go by what other teams do though. Because other teams thought Romo wasn't worthy of atleast a 7th round pick. Or thought Tom Brady was only worth taking a flyer on in the 6th round. Not only that but they took Janoris Jenkins who at the time who had a history of legal troubles in his past.

 

[AzorAhai]

It isn't destined to be anything, it already is one of the worst draft picks in team history. Even if he has a good season, it is almost assuredly his last season in Dallas. I can't see the Cowboys risking a long-term deal of any significance on Claiborne so it's a lose lose. If he sucks this year, he's a completely wasted pick. If he plays well, he's still practically a waste since we only get one good season from a top 6 pick and a mid 2nd Round pick.

I'm not faulting the move up just because it didn't work. It's the series of events that led up to taking this player in a trade up. It seems the Cowboys have learned their lesson on doing homework, so there is that. If the trade up is for Kueckly, no one cares about the trade up, but you can't pay that high of a price and miss on the player. I hope he returns some value on the pick, but as far as I'm concerned it's one of the worst draft moments in the teams history that I'm old enough to remember.

 

[BAT]

Gruden nailed it.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Said it on draft day it was a dumb decision, this was clearly a Jerry Jones decision, because that's how he thinks, he believed you build from the outside/in and that never works especially when that team had more holes than Swiss cheese, you NEVER trade up in a draft.....this will be Claiborne's last year in Dallas since he can't cover his own shadow,..

 

[landroverking]

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Is his destiny to become the worst draft pick in Cowboys history or will start to make some plays this year?

That's been taken a long te ago by
Rod Hill.

 

[black label]

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Is his destiny to become the worst draft pick in Cowboys history or will start to make some plays this year?

 

[Bowdown27]

Man I was so pumped to trade up for him. I though the was the next Deion. How everyone hyped him up. He's better than Patrick Peterson. Ranked higher than Deion etc. and now we're looking at a guy who prob isn't back next year.

 

[CF74]

I remember just thinking, what the heck...

 

[EST_1986]

Man I was so pumped to trade up for him. I though the was the next Deion. How everyone hyped him up. He's better than Patrick Peterson. Ranked higher than Deion etc. and now we're looking at a guy who prob isn't back next year.

A guy that probably shouldn't have been back 2 years ago

 

[CosmicCowboy]

Geez, did Mel say (cover corner) Humm !!! in that clip. ?

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Claiborne played well his rookie season. The issue is that we bought into Rob Ryan and his philosophies and his defense didn't work out for us and we went to a D-Coordinator with almost exactly opposite scheme and philosophies. The real mistake we made is that we bought too much into a D-Coordinator who had yet to prove himself. We should have let Ryan prove himself that he can make a good defense with some holes in it and then look to fill those holes. Instead, we assumed that if those holes were filled he would create a great defense.

The only silver lining here was that we didn't give up a lot for Clainborne in the end since we moved up from 14 to 6.






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[TheMarathonContinues]

How is Claiborne a worst pick than Barbie Carpenter? Mo has had injury problems but he's atleast started and can get on the field. Carpenter simply couldn't play.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

A guy that probably shouldn't have been back 2 years ago

Huh? You'd let a young player go after a solid rookie campaign?

 

[Avery]

Sometimes picks don't work out; it's not an exact science.

 

[CATCH17]

I don't know if he is the "worst draft pick in Cowboys history" but if you consider all of the factors, it might have been the worst draft decision in Cowboys history. We shouldn't draft guys we didn't do real homework on, talk to at least once, trade a 1st and 2nd for, etc.
The Rams desperately needed a CB and traded away from Claiborne. That should have been a huge warning.

"You never trade away from a great player"

The pick turned out bad but I had no problem with it on draft day.

Myself and many others would've been wrong about Claiborne.


IMO, he still does have some hope to turn into a above average player.

I think he was more raw then we all believed and he dominated in college because of his physical traits.

Then he gets to the pros and he misses every training camp for the most part.

 

[The Natural]

 

[Manwiththeplan]

How is Claiborne a worst pick than Barbie Carpenter? Mo has had injury problems but he's atleast started and can get on the field. Carpenter simply couldn't play.

If you give him bonus points for being the 6th pick, then I guess one could make that argument, I wouldn't though