Offensive Linemen?

[STAR GAZER]

For those who are disappointed with the lack of OL prospects, could you please help me understand why we didn't focus more on this dilemma.

This is not intended to be a gripe thread. So please try to offer some constructive reasoning.

I really don't get it?

 

[burmafrd]

Brewster looks promising- I think in a year he might be able to unseat Kosier. He is bigger and faster and quicker. Just have to see if he can pick up all the nuances of the position.

 

[STAR GAZER]

Brewster looks promising- I think in a year he might be able to unseat Kosier. He is bigger and faster and quicker. Just have to see if he can pick up all the nuances of the position.

You're right. I do like the addition of Brewster no doubt. But I really expected more prospects. At the least, one or possibly two more would have served us well IMO.

 

[cobra]

Well, I think the team likes Free. I don't where they are with Marten and McQ.

Brewster could be a future starter at guard, and we signed Holland last year who is a very nice backup guard.

So we still are looking at the issue of a backup center and whether Marten or McQ are good options opposite Free at tackle.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

this draft was weak on OTs who fit our scheme
Cs were real good, but obviously the staff wants Gurode to stay at C, which I think is a mistake
OGs were meh, but teams usually like to have their OGs be athletic, so they move OTs w/o great quickness inside, so that's why Brewster is a pretty good pick

 

[BAT]

I think Brewster is smart enough & agile enough to play center. He's certainly big enough for our scheme.

 

[RamziD]

While this draft was heavy on LB and secondary, I expect next year's draft to be heavy on OL and DL. We have need for depth at those positions, but nothing immediate.

 

[punit328]

i too was disappointed.I was hoping we wouldve drafted a guard. I wanted Herm Johnson and he was still available too. Im also disappointed we didnt take a DT.

 

[STAR GAZER]

this draft was weak on OTs who fit our scheme
Cs were real good, but obviously the staff wants Gurode to stay at C, which I think is a mistake
OGs were meh, but teams usually like to have their OGs be athletic, so they move OTs w/o great quickness inside, so that's why Brewster is a pretty good pick

Ya, I am concerned about Gurode as well.

And quickness is something I was hoping to improve upon in the draft. Our OL is too big and slow to endure the pass rush. Something that appeared to reveal itself last season.

 

[STAR GAZER]

I see that some of you are concerned with the DL as well. I have similar thoughts. OL and DL improvements, were what I was hoping for, and we didn't see that. I'm not disappointed at all with the players we did pick up, but I wish we had focused more on these areas.

 

[Doomsdayblitz]

I don't get most of this draft, but especially the OLs. I mean, Brewster is more of an OG, which is probably where he will play in the NFL. Even so, as an OT, he was rated at #15 by Draft Countdown & #22 by Draft Blitz, lower than Lydon Murtha of Nebraska, whom they passed on several time.

The biggest problem I have is that they took Brewster with the #75 pick, ahead of Kraig Urbik, Louis Vasquez, & Antoine Caldwell. Those guys were ranked WAY ahead of Brewster. Jones & Co. did this throughout the draft. It's like Jerry wants to prove he's smarter than the so-called experts, so he makes picks of much lesser value. Does anyone really think Brewster is as good as the players I mentioned?

While Murtha is an unfinished product, he was dinged up most of his college career. He showed his athletism at the Combine, placing first in the: 40 yd. dash (4,89), 3-cone drill (7.06), 20 yd. shuttle (4.34), and vertical (35"). Dude is flat-out filled with potential, and will start for Detroit before Brewster will start for Dallas.

I mean, if we had taken Urbik at 75 & Murtha at 227, we would have an OG for the present, and an OT to take over for Flo in a year or two. Now, we have a back-up freaking OG taken in the 3rd rd.

 

[irishline]

Well, I think the team likes Free. I don't where they are with Marten and McQ.

Brewster could be a future starter at guard, and we signed Holland last year who is a very nice backup guard.

So we still are looking at the issue of a backup center and whether Marten or McQ are good options opposite Free at tackle.

Well considering Marten has been a Raider for almost a year now I think we know how they feel about him.

 

[CF74]

The kid we drafted won't beat Holland for another 3-4 years imo unless I'm missing something. Also mystified we didn't draft a DT, I guess they weren't lying about Siavii and Anderson, or there's a FA secretly waiting in the wings...

 

[Bluefin]

I hope this means the staff is quietly pleased with current reserve left tackle Doug Free.

Flozell Adams may bounce back after struggling last season, but the clock is ticking and that is not a position we want to suddenly be scrambling to fill.

Kyle Kosier will be back, but I'd still like someone to unseat him, even though missing him clearly hurt the Hotel.

And will we find someone who can replace Corey Procter as the game day reserve center/guard?

Give me Cecil Newton or Dallas Reynolds.

Pretty please?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I'm with you. I was really hoping we'd focus more on OL, and DL for that matter. I do like Brewster a lot, though, after learning more about him and especially after hearing Houck talk about him.

We know we liked Unger, though, so I don't think it's that we weren't trying. I guess the draft just didn't fall right, and if that happens, the worst thing you can do is reach for people just because they play a certain position.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I would have like to have seen a center drafted to but apparently after the "Big 3" were off the board, Dallas wasn't impressed with Caldwell or any other of the centers-- hey, I can live with that.

The one OL they did draft looks more like a potential guard.

Holland is a former starter in the league and Davis can swing out to LT. There is some versatiliy to this line as it now exists.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

It's hard to say what's going on because we have no idea what the Cowboy scouts thought of the players available,,, but I'm still at a complete loss why they would stand pat with the OL prospects they have, or even with the starters they have. They have a great trio of RBs but when it's 3rd and 1 we might as well throw it,,,

 

[Aikbach]

Beyond the starting five Dallas definitely showed its stable was bare last season when the backups filled in for the injured.

This has got to be Adams' last season as a starter, hopefully Brewster can step in and start in place of either Kosier or Adams in 2010.

Expect first round picks or free agents next off season to shore up the o-line.

 

[STAR GAZER]

We know we liked Unger, though, so I don't think it's that we weren't trying. I guess the draft just didn't fall right, and if that happens, the worst thing you can do is reach for people just because they play a certain position.

Not falling right and not reaching has crossed my mind. I'm just having trouble accepting it I guess. BPA has always been the way I thought it should be. Looks like it just bit me in the *** this year.

 

[Angus]

I don't get most of this draft, but especially the OLs. I mean, Brewster is more of an OG, which is probably where he will play in the NFL. Even so, as an OT, he was rated at #15 by Draft Countdown & #22 by Draft Blitz, lower than Lydon Murtha of Nebraska, whom they passed on several time.

The biggest problem I have is that they took Brewster with the #75 pick, ahead of Kraig Urbik, Louis Vasquez, & Antoine Caldwell. Those guys were ranked WAY ahead of Brewster. Jones & Co. did this throughout the draft. It's like Jerry wants to prove he's smarter than the so-called experts, so he makes picks of much lesser value. Does anyone really think Brewster is as good as the players I mentioned?

While Murtha is an unfinished product, he was dinged up most of his college career. He showed his athletism at the Combine, placing first in the: 40 yd. dash (4,89), 3-cone drill (7.06), 20 yd. shuttle (4.34), and vertical (35"). Dude is flat-out filled with potential, and will start for Detroit before Brewster will start for Dallas.

I mean, if we had taken Urbik at 75 & Murtha at 227, we would have an OG for the present, and an OT to take over for Flo in a year or two. Now, we have a back-up freaking OG taken in the 3rd rd.

He is. And richer, too.