See, this thread is why I just can't and refuse to dive deep into the draft anymore.
Too many times would I do my "pre-draft homework", find the guys I really liked, find the guys that I thought were overrated, and then when the Cowboys didn't select "my guy" or even worse, draft a guy, who in my infinite wisdom as a "couch scout", thought was overrated.
I get it, when you "find" that one guy, and he becomes a Cowboy, there isn't a much better feeling in the world. Like a 250 lbs DE from the little college of Troy who was as fast as the fastest good LB in that draft (Derrick Johnson) as strong as the best edge rusher in the draft (Shawn Merriman) but somehow was more agile than both, even being able to put most DBs in that year's draft class to shame.
But then you get the other side of it. I never liked Anthony Spencer and his career ended up being as meh as I thought it would play out. But it sucked when I could not enjoy Cowboys games because I was too busy trying to point out how bad Spencer was on every-freaking-snap. Even snaps where he did something good. Spencer may have never produced like a 1st Rounder "should", but he did not play like complete garbage on every snap either.
Then you have a guy like Tyron Smith, who like Spencer, was not a fan of pre-draft. He's proven me wrong on his ability, I can't or will not argue that. I was flat out wrong about how good he could be. Now the one argument that I seem to be right about (or at least it looks like it may end up right) is that he will not be able to play in the NFL (or at least the Cowboys) for 15+ years. Because he was so young, fans kept on talking about how he could be the All-Pro LT for the Cowboys for 15 years (until he was 35). But to me, his age did not matter really at all. If he was going to play at a high level at the NFL level, he was going to put NFL mileage on his body. To expect ANYONE at the NFL to play as such a high level in the NFL for a decade+ is stretching it. Obviously that is what you hope for when you draft a guy, but the odds of that happening is not in your favor.
Anyways, enough about my old draft wins/losses.
This post reeks of what I would do to both Spencer and Smith during their careers (before I pulled my head from my ___).
Was it "perfect coverage"? No. But it was pretty darn good coverage.
Was it a "perfect pass"? Obviously not as the defender touched the ball.
Was it not an "NFL quality" pass? No. There are dozen of those types of passes, and typically a handful from every QB, in every game in every year.
Am I ready to induct Wright into the Hall-of-Fame? LOL, no.
But to say that it was a "bad play" or suggest anything other than it was AT MINIMUM a good play by Wright is just blind hatred.
Again, I understand. No one "wanted" Wright on draft day, let alone so high in the draft when he was a "nobody".
Yet I can't help to root for ALL Cowboys players now.
I hope Jospeh become a Pro-Bowler along with Wright.
I hope that Parsons becomes a HOFer.
I hope Jaylon and LVE can recapture their play from a couple of years ago.
I hope Tyron can stay healthy all 16 games.
I hope that if we are going to play Williams at center, he gets MUCH better with his snaps.
I hope that one or more of our young DTs are the Anti-Poe (who WAS my pet cat in the 2012 draft) and not play like they are on ice skates.
And probably my #1 hope on the list ... I hope Dak can lead this team to a Super Bowl win, while pulling in the season and SB MVPs in the process, just so I can see the haters squirm. (Not nice of me, I know, but it would be entertaining reading how the Cowboys won DESPITE of an MVP Dak)
The only real way to watch football (or at least for someone like me that hates to be wrong about anything) is hope that every player meets or exceeds expectations. That, along with a non-idiotic coaching staff, should produce favorable results.
In the end ... Go Wright. Go Joseph. Go Cowboys.