Wes Buntings 1st mock

[28 Joker]

Tyron Smith going at 10. Rob Rang gave Smith to Dallas at 9 and his partner gave Dallas Costonzo. I smell the rising smoke of Smith, and Bunting gave Pouncy a big time high grade last year. Smith is starting to heat up, and I'm hoping and betting that he's around 303 or 305 during the combine and that he could be 310 by April. Smith will be making that trip to Valley Ranch.

I think Smith and Sherrod fit what the Cowboys want at LT and both could plug and play very good at RT, before making the switch to LT. I think Sherrod could play LT in 2011 if you needed him to do it.

Smith plays with a wide base and is a strong player who will get bigger and stronger. He is in the mold of D' Brickashaw Ferguson.

I think Smith and Sherrod can both defeat Doug Free convincingly enough when you draft vertically and both would crush Marc Colombo, the weakest player on a fading offensive line. Both players are younger than Free, and Free isn't guaranteed to be back. Free is scheduled to be one of the top OT free agents, in a weak free agent OT class. What do the Cowboys think about Smith and Sherrod when they compare them to both Free and Colombo. I like that match-up comparison in favor of Smith and Sherrod.

On the other hand, I don't think Dallas would draft Quinn based on vertical drafting vs Anthony Spencer, possible medical concerns, and character concerns. Replacing Spencer, one of your strong players on defense, in favor of replacing Colombo in 2011 and likely Free at LT in 2012 (if he is resigned) makes no sense. Have you made your team better? No.

I don't think Dallas will draft Miller, Quinn, Julio Jones, Amukamara, or Harris at 9 based on vertical roster analysis or vertical drafting.

I still think you are looking at an OT or a DE, and I would take Smith or Sherrod at 9. By the time April comes, that isn't going to sound crazy, imo.

OTs rise, and these two players fit the bill, even though Smith still has work to do. Just by looking at Smith's wide base and size, I bet he's going to add that weight. He played RT at USC and has great LT athletic ability and big time upside. Smith is lurking and will force the Cowboys to pay attention, imo.

 

[28 Joker]

Drafting Smith or Sherrod is making a big deposit in the bank accounts of Romo, Witten, Austin, Bryant, and my guy Felix Jones. The offensive skill players are the absolute strength of the team, and I would give them every opportunity to play their very best. Drafting Smith or Sherrod is putting the those offensive skill players in a better position to succeed. Not only are you investing in an offensive linemen, you are investing in the strength of your team.

The NFC is an offensive league, and Dallas' offensive line is holding the offense back. The divisional round glass ceiling will not be shattered until this offensive line gets younger, stronger, and much more athletic and stronger on the edges and inside. Drafting Smith or Sherrod puts a big deposit in that bank account.

How much longer will Dallas ignore this aging, fading offensive line? The average age of the current offensive line will be 33 next season, and that isn't going to cut it. Why was Marc Colombo even on the team in 2010? I wanted him replaced for sure after that Vikings debacle. The 2009 draft was a disaster on the offensive line front.

How many more drafts are going to pass?

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

If Quinn is there Dallas BETTER not pass him up... He's a special talent.

 

[BAT]

I think it's unessacery, Spencer can get the job done and has potential to be good, last year at this time people were debating our lbs vs steelers.

Anthony Spencer is to Robert Quinn, as Roy Williams is to Dez Bryant.

 

[jterrell]

if the draft fell like that dallas would trade down so fast your heads would spin.

 

[TheCount]

Anthony Spencer is to Robert Quinn, as Roy Williams is to Dez Bryant.

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

 

[BAT]

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

Still loving Cox?

 

[cobra]

If we got Quinn, what do you guys think about Spencer's ability to get up to 280 and play a 5 tech DE?

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Anthony Spencer is to Robert Quinn, as Roy Williams is to Dez Bryant.

and I didn't want to pick Dez last year, I don't want to pick Quinn this year. Hey im not a dez hater, I just hated the pick as I said. Would kill to have Bryan Bulaga instead right now, or who knows what we could've accomplished this year if we traded up and grabbed Earl Thomas or Mike Iupati, or traded down and got Nate Allen and another starter.



Victor Butler has potential as Kevin Ogletree has potential.


Only thing missing from making these picks more alike is we don't have a Crayton like player at OLB.

 

[TheCount]

Still loving Cox?

Who's that?

 

[BAT]

and I didn't want to pick Dez last year, I don't want to pick Quinn this year. Hey im not a dez hater, I just hated the pick as I said. Would kill to have Bryan Bulaga instead right now, or who knows what we could've accomplished this year if we traded up and grabbed Earl Thomas or Mike Iupati, or traded down and got Nate Allen and another starter.



Victor Butler has potential as Kevin Ogletree has potential.


Only thing missing from making these picks more alike is we don't have a Crayton like player at OLB.

Wow. You are satisfied with "Crayton-like" players? I got nothing left to say to you.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Hate the pick for the same reasons I hated the Dez pick.

All the more reason more and more people are going to like the pick then.

 

[jjktkk]

if the draft fell like that dallas would trade down so fast your heads would spin.

I hope the Boys do trade out of the #9 pick. Let someone fall in love with C. Newton and give Dallas another 2nd rounder, while picking later in the 1st round.