Past Cowboy draft pick is DPOW

[btcutter]

Defensive Players of the Week
Erik Walden, LB, Green Bay
Starting at right outside linebacker because of a knee injury to incumbent Frank Zombo, Walden, an itinerant 2008 sixth-round pick of the Cowboys, led the Packers with 11 tackles and two sacks in their playoff-clinching 10-3 win over the Bears. Green Bay has had outstanding front-seven depth this year, and Walden was the cherry on top of that Sunday.

How come our scrubs become someone else's gem more often than I care to remember???



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/01/02/week-17/index.html#ixzz1A22Y9dqc

 

[casmith07]

merge.

 

[jblaze2004]

what how did he win that over ware
3 sacks and a fumble recovery for a touchdown.
-must be because it was vs basically philly back ups.

 

[btcutter]

what how did he win that over ware
3 sacks and a fumble recovery for a touchdown.
-must be because it was vs basically philly back ups.

because no one besides Cowboys and Eagles fan actually watched or paid attention to the game.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

I noticed Walden playing more.. didn't realize he actually started. Good for him.

Another episode of terrible talent evaluating at Valley Ranch.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

I noticed Walden playing more.. didn't realize he actually started. Good for him.

Another episode of terrible talent evaluating at Valley Ranch.

man this place gets aggravating

the team that used a 6th round pick on a player is the one bad at evaluation

really?

 

[RoyTheHammer]

man this place gets aggravating

the team that used a 6th round pick on a player is the one bad at evaluation

really?

Did we not have him on the team and then drop him? Its not a secret that alot of our castoffs go on to be contributors on other teams.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

Did we not have him on the team and then drop him? Its not a secret that alot of our castoffs go on to be contributors on other teams.

we drafted him in the 6th round.

so every other team could of had him for a bag of donuts, and chose not too.

they must all suck at talent evaluation

 

[NinePointOh]

Like I said in the other thread ... the guy has been in the league for three years with four different teams, and these are his first two career sacks in the NFL. He's hardly a gem based on one two-sack game.

 

[TNCowboy]

what how did he win that over ware
3 sacks and a fumble recovery for a touchdown.
-must be because it was vs basically philly back ups.

You answered your own question.

 

[TheHustler]

His stats for the YEAR: 40 tackles, 2 sacks. One game does not a gem make.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

Like I said in the other thread ... the guy has been in the league for three years with four different teams, and these are his first two career sacks in the NFL. He's hardly a gem based on one two-sack game.

knee jerkers are out in full force.

 

[Avery]

This thread reminds me of those guys in fantasy football who release someone week one due to a poor showing and places him in with someone who shines once all season and disappears.

 

[TNCowboy]

He was Wade Phillips pet cat if I remember right.

 

[The Emperor]

Defensive Players of the Week
Erik Walden, LB, Green Bay
Starting at right outside linebacker because of a knee injury to incumbent Frank Zombo, Walden, an itinerant 2008 sixth-round pick of the Cowboys, led the Packers with 11 tackles and two sacks in their playoff-clinching 10-3 win over the Bears. Green Bay has had outstanding front-seven depth this year, and Walden was the cherry on top of that Sunday.

How come our scrubs become someone else's gem more often than I care to remember???



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/01/02/week-17/index.html#ixzz1A22Y9dqc

The Baltimore Ravens are the stupidest franchise in the history of the NFL by your definition. They let Tom McCann and his shoes get away from their practice squad to join us and then he ended up winning Defensive Player of the Week AND Special Teams Player of the Week for us.

Tom Landry is also the biggest fool in the history of professional sports by your definition. He let Todd Christensen get away from us in 1978 and then he went on to have a great career with the Raiders.

And Jimmy Johnson must also be a dunce of some sort because he let Jimmy Smith go to Jacksonville and have a nice career when he could have stayed here in Dallas and far and away had a better career than Alvin Harper.

Dude, get over it. Teams let folks go that end up doing good elsewhere. It's the nature of the business.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

His stats for the YEAR: 40 tackles, 2 sacks. One game does not a gem make.

Does he have to be a gem? 40 tackles isn't bad man. He's not even a starter.

Make him a starter on this team this season.. and i have to believe he could be approaching or even past Spencer's 60 tackles and 5 sacks. Not every player has to be a superstar.

 

[CoCo]

knee jerkers are out in full force.

Agreed. Some are extremely hungry to find any data that can be construed negatively and proclaim it loudly.

If the body of evidence for misjudging talent is Walden, Proctor & McQuisten I don't think that is too damning. And you may recall that Dallas was pretty bummed they couldn't slip Walden through to the PS. Which of course brings us to Matt Moore again since I'm sure someone will bring him up. He had value. Dallas knew he had value but tried to sneak him through and failed. But lets not make him, along with the above, big time talents. They've shown no such thing.

The counterpoint to this post will be that some of the happy fans are being equally narrow-minded about teh success Garrett is GUARANTEED to have. And on, and on, and on, it goes...

No middle ground. Only extremes. That is the rule here.

 

[AdamJT13]

It should be noted that Walden was Peter King's pick for DPOW, not the actual DPOW. That hasn't been announced yet.