Convenient timing on todays announcement and this statement. Jerry prompting Gil to say this to sell the unwashed. This of course assumes you draft the lesser player for need instead of the strength of the draft (defense) in the first which is now a hallmark of the Jones lead Cowboys...
Jerry waits til Gil is on his last legs to put him into the ROH because to have done so earlier would have taken "the shine" off Jerry as a "football guy" all these decades later. Another shameful move decades late and dollars short.
New ring of honor inductee tomorrow. Rumor it might be Gil Brandt. If thats the case much like a broken clock being right twice a day, Jerry will have done something right, except way too late.
I agree with all this. DBs dont tackle anymore. Mel was part of the greatest Cowboy draft ever, 1964, him, Hayes and Staubach all HOFers. I long for those days.