Why in the heck would we spend a 4th on a player that won't even make the team?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

i'm not really sure what we're doing at this point but i'm sure it's pretty stupid just the same.

Alrighty then. You been doing okay brah?

 

[iceberg]

Alrighty then. You been doing okay brah?

oh, the usual. : )

 

[VA Cowboy]

you miss the rest of my post where i clearly explained my saying we need to draft OL and getting mad about that IS NOT the same thing as saying Player X won't make it and was a wasted pick prematurely?

I saw it...but I didn't read it. I will though if you want to write up a Cliff Notes version.

 

[Hostile]

Forgive me, I can't get this out of my head.

I know you think you understand what you heard me say, but I'm not at all sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

 

[Rampage]

this is a long thread for a guy who hasn't even practiced yet

 

[dargonking999]

Forgive me, I can't get this out of my head.

I know you think you understand what you heard me say, but I'm not at all sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

that is so ringing true in this thread

well played, well played in deed

 

[iceberg]

I saw it...but I didn't read it. I will though if you want to write up a Cliff Notes version.

something tells me i could never dumb it down enough.

 

[BouncingCheese]

I think he is going to make the team BECAUSE he was a 4th round pick and not much else. He was injured when they drafted him and now he is injured again because he is going full speed just after healing from an injury ala Donte Stallworth.

If Stanback was undrafted I would say he would be the oddman out IMHO. All of the recievers have been improving and at least have been playing the position in college instead of Stanback having to make a transition. Stanback is a physical beast but to be honest we already have an undrafted version of him already on the roster named Miles Austin.

That being said, lets wait for the COACHES to say who is going to make the team instead of homer fans like ourselves.

 

[Kangaroo]

It is a long thread for what a young player at the bottom of the roster at this point. His chances of contributing at wr his 1st year is slim. Can it happen sure we saw Colston explode on to the scene (7th round pick) and we seen 1st round bust and everything in between.

If he sits at the bottom of the roster this year who cares a lot of guys may just have less talent will be on the outside looking in.

I think to many people have blow this whole subject way out of proportion. A lot of 4th round picks do not even make the rosters and never cut the mustard some turn into pro bowlers some become good solid players most play special teams or ride the bench the 1st year developing like young players are suppose to do.

What is it with people expecting instant gratification out of every pick 20 minutes after he is drafted.

So scream yell what ever at each other and does not change that way to many people are over reacting on one player and one that is a 4th round pick in favor of some guy if they cut may never even sniff an NFL roster again because he is just not talented enough

 

[VA Cowboy]

something tells me i could never dumb it down enough.

You mean you're capable of going further?

 

[iceberg]

You mean you're capable of going further?

i rest my case.

 

[superpunk]

My alternatives made no sense. What are you ********???

You comment that Allison slide to the 5th as evidence and teams passed on some of the other players I mentioned as evidence. Teams do that stuff every year. TO was a 3rd round pick, Brady a 2nd day pick, Montana a 2nd rounder, Emmitt Smith was the second back taken in his draft. These may be extreme examples, but it does show that your argument is about as worthless as tits on a nun...

Actually, it's authoritarian evidence against your argument.

Other teams selected other WRs and Gs ahead of Beekman and Allison, after we picked.

But you're smarter than all of them, as well as the Dallas coaching staff - because you've already had the foresight to deem the Stanback pick a disaster.

You also fail to see that the outliers that you mentioned (Owens, Brady) are the exception to the rule, and are every bit as much evidence why Stanback will be enormously successful as they are otherwise - in short - irrelevent. If TO succeeded, so can Stanback. After all, both were passed over several times.

Try familiarizing yourself with some logical concepts sometime.

Your alternatives were idiotic, and based on the generic scouting reports that you no doubt scarf up while creaming over Allison's measurables. Reading about players from people who may not have ever seen them play is not "scouting". Leave your misinformed opinions and alternatives at the door, little buddy.

 

[iceberg]

Actually, it's authoritarian evidence against your argument.

Other teams selected other WRs and Gs ahead of Beekman and Allison, after we picked.

But you're smarter than all of them, as well as the Dallas coaching staff - because you've already had the foresight to deem the Stanback pick a disaster.

You also fail to see that the outliers that you mentioned (Owens, Brady) are the exception to the rule, and are every bit as much evidence why Stanback will be enormously successful as they are otherwise - in short - irrelevent. If TO succeeded, so can Stanback. After all, both were passed over several times.

Try familiarizing yourself with some logical concepts sometime.

Your alternatives were idiotic, and based on the generic scouting reports that you no doubt scarf up while creaming over Allison's measurables. Reading about players from people who may not have ever seen them play is not "scouting". Leave your misinformed opinions and alternatives at the door, little buddy.

that's gonna leave a mark.

 

[dargonking999]

that's gonna leave a mark.

a really big one

 

[HopeCowboyFan]

Wow - what a thread.

I'll sum it up. We really reached drafting this player in the 4th. Verdict still out though.

 

[big dog cowboy]

We really reached drafting this player in the 4th.

:horse:

 

[DallasEast]

When he does play and plays well will you avoid this the same way you do Dallas East?

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Are wee really complaining about a 4th draft pick that hasnt been cut yet who in all likely hood will either be our last receiver or on the IR even before weve had a chance to see how this unfolds?

That he'd inject some reasonableness at this juncture

Slushy is adamant -- and a prolific writer, ahem -- that anyone would question any pick
Stanback caught most draft watchers by surprise, but he's versatile and will stick.

Having said that, the other side cast a legitimate question about a fourth-rounder and I would not feel compelled to explain ad nasuseum to slushy that ... what is the downside of disccusing a fourth-round draft pick and its worthiness?

Huh, slushy??
It's ok, really. Go home and be more tolerant, dude

 

[silverbear]

We will RUE THE DAY when we cut Stanback

We need no further rue-age around here, be it serious rue-age, or frivolous rue-age...

The rue factor is hereby declared verboten and off limits from this point forward, only mindless optimism will be permitted...

 

[silverbear]

I am going to laugh at all the stripped gears when people reverse directions the first time this kid does something that makes their jaws drop. You guys think Tyson Thompson and Miles Austin are fast? They'll look slow next to this guy, and he is bigger.

I will eagerly await the next, hostile laugh...

Heck, I wasn't sure you COULD laugh, I was afraid you'd had your sense of humor surgically removed...

It could have been worse, though, you might have been afflicted with a BrainPaint sense of humor, or a Yeagermeister sense, or (God Forbid) a Trickblue sense of humor...

Pondering that list, it becomes clear that the only reason I wasn't banned months or even years ago was you guys needed SOMEBODY with a semblance of a sense of humor in here, and we all know that I'm a funny, funny guy (in a Joe Pesci kinda way)...