News: Versatility, patience ruled the roost in Cowboys’ solid draft

[CCBoy]

Versatility, patience ruled the roost in Cowboys’ solid draft
By Gil LeBreton

http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/gil-lebreton/article147692359.html



To use Owner Jones’ own amusing analogy, the buzzard has left the draft room.

An older, more trusting bird now sits in Jerry Jones’ draft chair, and as the owner put it, “When you’ve danced with it as much as I have and had some of the bruises, then you’re not just needing another thrill.”

Jones referenced the old cartoon with the two buzzards in which one of them colorfully expresses his disdain for patience.

“That can get you in trouble,” Jerry said.

And thus, for three days and most of seven rounds the Dallas Cowboys waited like the good birds they have become under the guiding hands of Stephen Jones, coach Jason Garrett and personnel chief Will McClay...

 

[CCBoy]

The Dallas Cowboys were able to select five of the top 68 players on their draft board, according to executive vice president Stephen Jones.

That’s quite an accomplishment considering they drafted Louisiana Tech safety Xavier Woods in the sixth round with the 191st pick after making a trade with the New York Jets.

At the time they picked them, Chidobe Awuzie (second round), Jourdan Lewis (third round) and Woods (sixth round) were the highest players left on the Cowboys’ draft board.


http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas-cow...pick-cowboys-get-five-of-their-top-68-players

 

[gmoney112]

It was pretty incredible how BPA matched need.