Norm Draft Day tidbits...

[Gaede]

Sounds good. Give me Decastro, Barron or Brockers and I think we've had a successful first round. Just don't get cute trading down, is all I ask

 

[InmanRoshi]

Sounds good. Give me Decastro, Barron or Brockers and I think we've had a successful first round. Just don't get cute trading down, is all I ask

Agreed. Anyone of those guys gives you a blue chip player and a Day 1 starter at a position of huge need. The only way to screw this up is if you get too cute.

 

[dmq]

If we took DeCastro, it would play out a bit like last year did with Tyron. We were in love with the guy. Then a month before the draft we didn't hear a word about him.
IR is right too, Norm nails a bunch of these picks. He is just a baffoon for the other 364 days of the year.

 

[xwalker]

Actually, I've listened to him throughout the years and he's been pretty good at tipping off picks. Spencer, Jenkins, Felix, Sean Lee.

Look around at the board today and all the stuff being thrown against the wall right before draft time. It's like this every year. Everyone is predicting everything. In about 7 hours the Dallas Cowboys will make their pick and revisionist history will be rewritten to say "Oh, everyone knew that's what they were going to do all along." B.S.

In the past, Norm and Mickey seem to have the best idea of what the Cowboys are thinking about a player. They won't come right out and say who the target(s) are, but they will throw out a lot of hints. Once a targeted player is picked, either by the Boys or another team, they will immediately verify that the player was a target. This is usually verified later. For example, they both freaked when Seattle pick Max Unger 2 picks ahead of the Boys in the 2009 draft. It was later verified by most media that Unger was the player that the Boys targeted.

Norm's own opinion of players is usually meaningless.

 

[InmanRoshi]

In the past, Norm and Mickey seem to have the best idea of what the Cowboys are thinking about a player. They won't come right out and say who the target(s) are, but they will throw out a lot of hints. Once a targeted player is picked, either by the Boys or another team, they will immediately verify that the player was a target. This is usually verified later. For example, they both freaked when Seattle pick Max Unger 2 picks ahead of the Boys in the 2009 draft. It was later verified by most media that Unger was the player that the Boys targeted.

Norm's own opinion of players is usually meaningless.

In the last couple of years, Bob Sturm has shown he's got a pretty good source at the Ranch. He was all over Sean Lee and saying the Cowboys absolutely loved him when he was completely off the radar for most.

 

[Sasquatch]

Sounds good. Give me Decastro, Barron or Brockers and I think we've had a successful first round. Just don't get cute trading down, is all I ask

Yup, keep it simple and go home feeling good about the pick.

 

[newlander]

Oh, me either. But if the Jets wanna hand me a coupla mid-round picks and I can still grab DeCastro two picks later, why not? Philthy isn't trading back.

......we don't draft WELL enough to get cute and trade down. Knowing Jerrah's luck, if he did what you suggest Philly would take DeCastro:bang2: (yeah, yeah, I know everyone says they want Brockers BUT.....I can see them taking decastro just to screw us over)

 

[TNCowboy]

-- Cowboys aren't touching the character risks of Coples, Jenkins, Jeffery, Denard. Also Dre Kirkpatrick and Bruce Irvin.

ESPN was saying just a bit ago that the Cowboys were in love with Jenkins.

Really isn't any rumor you can trust, especially in the last few hours.

 

[newlander]

Yup, keep it simple and go home feeling good about the pick.

.....lets' just do what we did last year: stay at our pick and take the BEST guy out there from Cox, Barron, DeCastro and Brockers

 

[newlander]

ESPN was saying just a bit ago that the Cowboys were in love with Jenkins.

Really isn't any rumor you can trust, especially in the last few hours.

...I just don't believe it with all the money we have invested in the def. backfield: it's a smoke screen IMHO

 

[The30YardSlant]

Trade back with the Chargers and still land Decastro?

Don't risk it, if you want DeCastro take him at #14 and never look back. He WILL be a great player almost as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, and there's no shame in picking a sure thing at #14 even if it is a guard.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

ESPN was saying just a bit ago that the Cowboys were in love with Jenkins.

Really isn't any rumor you can trust, especially in the last few hours.

In the first or second?

 

[jswalker1981]

Sounds good. Give me Decastro, Barron or Brockers and I think we've had a successful first round. Just don't get cute trading down, is all I ask

Yeah, it has got to be either an offer too good to pass up, or all the guys we want are gone for me to trade down. If DeCastro is there, take him.

 

[The30YardSlant]

He is just a baffoon for the other 364 days of the year.

No he's not. Norm is quirky, but he knows his sports. He's just more brutally honest and loud about it than many. I contend there isnt a better NFL draft and MLB guy on radio, anywhere.

 

[TNCowboy]

In the first or second?

Didn't say. Cowherd just said that's what he was told.

 

[TNCowboy]

Don't risk it, if you want DeCastro take him at #14 and never look back. He WILL be a great player almost as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, and there's no shame in picking a sure thing at #14 even if it is a guard.

I agree.

I don't like drafting guards as high as 14, but if they love Decastro, trading down to pick up a late 4th or something would be silly if it means risking losing the guy you love.

 

[Nightshade]

I agree.

I don't like drafting guards as high as 14, but if they love Decastro, trading down to pick up a late 4th or something would be silly if it means risking losing the guy you love.

I agree as well. The Cowboys should be like Tammy Wynettte and... Stand by their man! <sniff>