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SAN ANTONIO – Jerry Jones said before he was inducted into the Leadership Hall of Fame for the National Football Foundation on Thursday night that he was disappointed in some of the team’s younger players.
Second-year player Morris Claiborne has been routinely torched this season. The Cowboys envisioned another Deion Sanders when they traded up from No. 14 to No. 6 – gave up a second-round pick in the process – to select the former LSU star in the 2012 NFL Draft.
But instead of Sanders, Claiborne has been just a guy, intercepting only one pass.
“I think the real way for me to say it is we would have (done the trade again) because of what we think of him and what we know of him,” ESPNDallas.com quoted Jones as saying. “And those first, second and third-round picks that are good athletes, we think they would have played at a higher level. We don’t have anymore (excuses). But the big thing that I would want to say and I think they (Claiborne and linebacker Bruce Carter) will step up their game and correct the kinds of things that are (wrong). There’s one thing that you can’t correct; a lack of speed or lack of athletic ability.”
So did the Cowboys make a mistake by trading up to draft Claiborne? Let me know what you think.
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Second-year player Morris Claiborne has been routinely torched this season. The Cowboys envisioned another Deion Sanders when they traded up from No. 14 to No. 6 – gave up a second-round pick in the process – to select the former LSU star in the 2012 NFL Draft.
But instead of Sanders, Claiborne has been just a guy, intercepting only one pass.
“I think the real way for me to say it is we would have (done the trade again) because of what we think of him and what we know of him,” ESPNDallas.com quoted Jones as saying. “And those first, second and third-round picks that are good athletes, we think they would have played at a higher level. We don’t have anymore (excuses). But the big thing that I would want to say and I think they (Claiborne and linebacker Bruce Carter) will step up their game and correct the kinds of things that are (wrong). There’s one thing that you can’t correct; a lack of speed or lack of athletic ability.”
So did the Cowboys make a mistake by trading up to draft Claiborne? Let me know what you think.
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