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2014 Cowboys Draft Weekly Notebook - Episode 5 - Safeties
We continue our weekly series of player evaluations for the 2014 draft with a strong batch of safeties. Last week, we grabbed defensive tackles and worked our way through 6 who have a chance to be Top 50 picks, and now we want to look at 7 different safeties who all are regarded as strong prospects in the right situation or scenario.
Like I said, we want to make sure we hit the 6 most obvious positions that may be addressed by the Cowboys in the Top 100 picks (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Round) which are: DT, DE, S, OT, OG-OC, and QB. When we wrap those 6 spots up, we will do our best to clean up the scraps, consider some other spots, and then perhaps build some sort of board of preference.
I really don't want to reference other people's work, but rather just watch a ton of football and trust the eyeballs. It certainly doesn't account for character details - whether the guy is a fantastic human or a hardened criminal - nor does it offer the intimate details of a medical exam that should all be considered, but it does break down at least 3-4 games of his college work to really "know the player" and what kind of guy he is at the college level.
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Safety is a spot that is fantastically important on the NFL stage and as the passing game is becoming more and more center stage, and as the most important component of the passing game is isolating defenders in bad match ups in space, it is now imperative that safety is not ignored by a team.
Of course, you cheer for the Dallas Cowboys, and if any team has spent a nearly a decade undervaluing and under-prioritizing the safety position as a whole, it is this team.
http://sturminator.blogspot.com/2014/02/2014-cowboys-draft-weekly-notebook_19.html
We continue our weekly series of player evaluations for the 2014 draft with a strong batch of safeties. Last week, we grabbed defensive tackles and worked our way through 6 who have a chance to be Top 50 picks, and now we want to look at 7 different safeties who all are regarded as strong prospects in the right situation or scenario.
Like I said, we want to make sure we hit the 6 most obvious positions that may be addressed by the Cowboys in the Top 100 picks (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Round) which are: DT, DE, S, OT, OG-OC, and QB. When we wrap those 6 spots up, we will do our best to clean up the scraps, consider some other spots, and then perhaps build some sort of board of preference.
I really don't want to reference other people's work, but rather just watch a ton of football and trust the eyeballs. It certainly doesn't account for character details - whether the guy is a fantastic human or a hardened criminal - nor does it offer the intimate details of a medical exam that should all be considered, but it does break down at least 3-4 games of his college work to really "know the player" and what kind of guy he is at the college level.
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Safety is a spot that is fantastically important on the NFL stage and as the passing game is becoming more and more center stage, and as the most important component of the passing game is isolating defenders in bad match ups in space, it is now imperative that safety is not ignored by a team.
Of course, you cheer for the Dallas Cowboys, and if any team has spent a nearly a decade undervaluing and under-prioritizing the safety position as a whole, it is this team.
http://sturminator.blogspot.com/2014/02/2014-cowboys-draft-weekly-notebook_19.html
