The Micah Draft

[Risen Star]

I'm satisfied that we draft well.

 

[Risen Star]

If you asked for a top 10 of players I thought would pan out here but didn't Jabril Cox would be on that list.

 

[phildadon86]

IIRC Dallas really wanted Surtain or Horn. When both were taken, Parsons was still BPA but they still did a small trade down to gain a 3rd.
With no corner taken in day 1, they sort of shoehorned a CB pick in day 2. Cause using FA is for the devil per Helen Boucher our VP of pro scouting.
Jospeh had red flags but they ignored it due to "potential". But the flags were flying day 1 here.

Kind of like when they drafted Schoonmaker? They hyper fixate on a position and if they don’t get it they panic and force the pick.

Terrible asset management.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

There are solid, safe 2nd players in every draft......Jerry's problem is that he's always looking for a former 1st round talent that needs rehabbing. Thinking he will hit a home run, or that he has a system that's smarter than the rest of the league.

Look at any person with Jed’s personality traits and they always think they are the smartest person in the room. That is what narcissists do and think. It’s that trait that keeps this team from getting real football people to run this organization, which is the only team in the league ran like it.

 

[Creeper]

Four years after a draft is a good time to judge how well a team drafted. In 2021, with extra picks, the team did very poorly other than Micah and Osa.

Another 2nd round bust, Kelvin Joseph. Does Dallas lead the world in 2nd round busts? Trystin Hill, Kelvin Joseph, Gavin Escobar, Schoonmaker. I do not see Sam Williams taking a leap as he should have.

I recall in past years Larry Allen, Flozell Adams, Solomon Page, Darren Woodson, as great 2nd round picks. Now, Diggs, another 2nd rounder, is on his way out, following in the footsteps of 1990's CB Kevin Smith who could not get back his great talent after a serious injury. Selecting an OL in the 2nd round is safe based upon historical analysis.

Was not our secondary better last year with Jordan Lewis? Great move Jerry. Even Israel Muakuamu was better than some of these 2025 stiffs in the DB department.

Jerry overpaid for DLAW when it was obvious his skills were declining and thus had no money for free agents. He should have signed a rising DE from another team instead of resigning DLAW who needed serious shoulder surgery, and lost his elite sack-making ability.

nd	Player	Pick	Pos	Yrs	From	To	AP1	PB	St	wAV	G	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Att	Yds	TD	Rec	Yds	TD	College/Univ
1	Micah Parsons	12	LB	5	2021	2025	2	4	3	56	69				0				0			0	Penn St.
2	Kelvin Joseph	44	DB	4	2021	2024	0	0	0	2	33				0				0			0	Kentucky
3	Osa Odighizuwa	75	DL	5	2021	2025	0	0	4	27	74				0				0			0	UCLA
3	Chauncey Golston	84	DL	5	2021	2025	0	0	0	12	68				0				0			0	Iowa
3	Nahshon Wright	99	DB	5	2021	2025	0	0	0	2	39				0				0			0	Oregon St.
4	Jabril Cox	115	LB	3	2021	2023	0	0	0	3	26				0				0			0	LSU
4	Josh Ball	138	OL	1	2022	2022	0	0	0	1	13				0				0			0	Marshall
5	Simi Fehoko	179	WR	5	2021	2025	0	0	0	1	30				0				0	10	139	1	Stanford
6	Quinton Bohanna	192	DT	5	2021	2025	0	0	1	8	35				0				0			0	Kentucky
6	Israel Mukuamu	227	DB	4	2021	2024	0	0	0	4	50				0				0			0	South Carolina
7	Matt Farniok	238	G	2	2021	2

The Cowboys penchant for drafting athletes over football players hurts them. Joseph has superior athletic ability but no brain for football.

I would argue that Golston and Wright were solid picks for where they were drafted. I think Cox had a chance to be good until he got hurt.

They wasted too much time on Josh Ball. I liked Fehoko coming out of college but he never developed or learned how to use his speed. I think they could use Mukuamu this year. He can play safety and CB. And I liked Farniok when he was drafted but he too never really developed.

 

[youngjerryjones]

Defensive heavy draft that should be paying benefits now.

It's not and we see the results every week.

The first 6 picks are all influenced by DQ - so who is really the issue?

No one is bringing this up - but the issue at hand is we let the DEF coaches pick their players and then we fire them - and the next staff wants nothing to do with these guys. Kelvin was a bust, bro had a music video with a gun and cough syrup before he was drafted - what was our scouting department thinking?

 

[diamonddelts]

D-Law was never elite at sacking anyone. Dude lucked out on playing in the NFC East right as the giants and Commanders were headed downward. Go look at his big sack number seasons (oddly they coincided with the years he was up for a new contract) and you will find most of his sacks came against teams like the Giants and Commanders and other minnows. When faced against better competition guy just disappeared.

THIS

 

[CowboyoWales]

Sean Lee was a great 2nd round pick even with the injuries

I never said he wasnt. The point was Jerry's strategy of getting 1st Rd talent that fall's into the second. Drafting imperfections and hoping.

 

[goshann]

THIS

lol sure

 

[OGSixshooter]

There are solid, safe 2nd players in every draft......Jerry's problem is that he's always looking for a former 1st round talent that needs rehabbing. Thinking he will hit a home run, or that he has a system that's smarter than the rest of the league.

On this we agree. He's always trying to make that dollar sing...a cheap billionaire at heart. It's why he won't fire a coach because he can't see paying $10mm for McCarthy to do nothing so...let's keep him around another year and see what happens. At least I've balanced my checkbook.

 

[CowboyoWales]

The first 6 picks are all influenced by DQ - so who is really the issue?

No one is bringing this up - but the issue at hand is we let the DEF coaches pick their players and then we fire them - and the next staff wants nothing to do with these guys. Kelvin was a bust, bro had a music video with a gun and cough syrup before he was drafted - what was our scouting department thinking?

Yep, there's a lot to blame on this topic. Top of the list is 'Jerry doesnt care about D___'. We pick up Defensive players as an afterthought. Then again the way McClay banged the table for Mazi should of meant his sacking, he should be shown that War Room footage on a daily basis.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

The first 6 picks are all influenced by DQ - so who is really the issue?

No one is bringing this up - but the issue at hand is we let the DEF coaches pick their players and then we fire them - and the next staff wants nothing to do with these guys. Kelvin was a bust, bro had a music video with a gun and cough syrup before he was drafted - what was our scouting department thinking?

That’s the problem they were not thinking because that was a big red flag number one.

 

[AstroPilota]

I'm not sure that the Cowboys 2nd rounders are any better or worse than any other team's. From what I can see, I think we are drafting at least average, if not a little better.

But what I am pretty sure of, is that our Head Coach's for quite some time have been way below average. And the the GM..... well....

 

[pansophy]

There are solid, safe 2nd players in every draft......Jerry's problem is that he's always looking for a former 1st round talent that needs rehabbing. Thinking he will hit a home run, or that he has a system that's smarter than the rest of the league.

100% this and if it isn’t physical it’s mental. Pickens has worked out so far but most of these guys aren’t on the field enough to make it worth it.

 

[CCBoy]

If you wanna make yourself some work check all our other drafts for the last 10 years. They look just the same.

We find one or two players the rest ist crap.

I did that already and posted here. Just becaue i had enough of that stupid Stephen and Jerry advertising us as a "build thru the draft" and "we are a good drafting team". Thats BS. We are a bad team when it comes to drafting. And the results show for years now.

We got the lable "good drafting team" under Garrett when we hit on 3 OL with first rounders. But that is long long gone. Since then we more than suck.

in the last few years we hit on some OLmen but that should also be taken with a grain of salt. We tried to find a new LT with two prime picks. Both picks busted. One is now a good OG the other one is medicore at best. Not something you want from spending your premium pick on. We also spent a premium pick on another OG.

You dont spent premium picks on guards. Thats bad resource management. thats another sign we are bad at drafting. We need to overspent for talent. Why? Because we are not able to judge talent.

What? Dallas has consistently ended up with top market players at guard. That is for most of that dirty 30 year calendar.

 

[TwentyOne]

What? Dallas has consistently ended up with top market players at guard. That is for most of that dirty 30 year calendar.

And that is what i wrote. I never questioned that our OL guards we picked with Premium picks werent good ones.

I questioned our need to invest a premium pick to find one .

 

[DuncanIso]

If you asked for a top 10 of players I thought would pan out here but didn't Jabril Cox would be on that list.

JCox had a lot of talent too.

that knee injury robbed him.

kid was dominate in NCAA.

 

[shabazz]

Defensive heavy draft that should be paying benefits now.

It's not and we see the results every week.

Once the FO saw Mazi jumping those training steps, it was all over but the crying.

For full disclosure, I didn't care if he was falling down the steps.....I just wanted so badly for them to take a DT in the 1st round.

Swing and a miss.

 

[ghst187]

Look at any person with Jed’s personality traits and they always think they are the smartest person in the room. That is what narcissists do and think. It’s that trait that keeps this team from getting real football people to run this organization, which is the only team in the league ran like it.

 

[atlantacowboy]

D-Law was never elite at sacking anyone. Dude lucked out on playing in the NFC East right as the giants and Commanders were headed downward. Go look at his big sack number seasons (oddly they coincided with the years he was up for a new contract) and you will find most of his sacks came against teams like the Giants and Commanders and other minnows. When faced against better competition guy just disappeared.

That's not true. He got his big contract based on double digit sack years in 2017-2018. He was a pretty dam elite pass rusher in 2017 in particular. But in any case, he always generated a ton of pressure, if not sacks to pair with the fact he was consistently the best run defender at his position in the league.

A lot of cowboys disappear in big games. That's been the defining team quality of the past 30 years. Whose played well in big games?