Cowboys’ Jones boys deflate their own football people with draft ‘philosophy’

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Doug Farrar | Shutdown Corner


There are football decisions, and there are football decisions. And in the realm of football decisions, the Dallas Cowboys' decision to trade down from their original 18th overall draft pick and move down the 31st pick formerly owned by the San Francisco 49ers is being questioned by just about everybody. Not so much because they traded down, but because of the player they took when they did so -- Wisconsin center Travis Frederick, a player many analysts had with a second- to third-round grade. Some would argue that Frederick wasn't even the best center on the board; Cal's Brian Schwenke and Alabama's Barrett Jones would also get votes. But the primary issue was that the Cowboys, a team that has drafted pretty horribly over the last few seasons, seem to have done it again in the wrong direction.

Brandon Jones of the Dallas Morning News recalled an exchange between Assistant Director of Player Personnel Tom Ciskowski and Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, and Director of Player Personnel Stephen Jones during the team's live feed of the "war room" during the first round.

[Head coach Jason] Garrett, at one point, had a blank look across his face as he started rubbing his forehead with his hand. Ciskowski and Stephen Jones also had an animated exchange. It was a rare show of emotion by Ciskowski.​

There's good reason for the Cowboys' actual football people to be incensed by the pick. Jones, whose only real football qualification appear to be his status as owner Jerry Jones' son, later told the media that the team had LSU safety Eric Reid, at the top of its board, but thought there was more value in trading down and grabbing an extra third-round pick. The 49ers, a team that seems to know a thing or two about player personnel, immediately took Reid with the pick Dallas vacated.

And Frederick, for his part, told a Dallas radio station that even he didn't believe he'd be taken when he was.
 

Jon88

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I would have rather gotten an offensive lineman than a safety.

Our line is fucking terrible.
 

Bob Sacamano

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As if Stephen Jones knows anything about the word value.

Has he looked at the contracts he's paid out?
 

Bob Sacamano

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You didn't post the best part of the article:

Perhaps that's because they struggle with the concept of football value in the first place. When it was pointed out to Stephen Jones that the Cowboys should have received a second-round pick per the trade value chart for their move down, Jones bristled.

“Not accurate,” he said. “We actually did better than the chart.”

Jerry Jones then said that “it’s a mistake to think that transactions go by any trade chart ... We invented trade charts; invented them in the NFL.”


lol
 

Bob Sacamano

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Jerry is such a maverick and he changes all the rules.

He invents trades that net less value in return!
 

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Jerry #1: We got full value according to our chart. Your chart is wrong.
Jerry #2: Okay, we accepted less for the trade down because this was a crummy draft.
 
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I would have rather gotten an offensive lineman than a safety.

Our line is fucking terrible.

I feel the same way.

I don't want to judge last night in a vacuum. I want to see what happens tonight first.
 
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