Hill: Per Cowboys, most "successful draft in a few years"

[mdawg65]

A year later we hear that their grade on Johnson was wrong.

There is a problem when your grading system has a disconnect from the actual on field performance. There has got to be a better way for the Cowboys to make the players stick and be NFL worthy.

That's why I dislike the draft so much. It seems like the cattle market, but half the animals were not worth the auction price. You think you got a prized steer only to look under and see an old heifer.

 

[Omegasupreme]

Home school honor roll phenomenon. Most successful relative to????

This year was a little different from other years because it seems like all of the players could have been reasonably chosen in the 3rd or 4th round. It's just a solid proletariat of talent. I'm sure they are all game day players and some solid starters but the true elite playmakers in the first two rounds were not pursued.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Oh no doubt that teams get good players late sometimes.

Just convenient that every year Dallas seems to get multiple players they had graded really fucking high, this year damn near the entire draft was graded at 3rd round or better.

They had Wilbur and Johnson #1 and #2 on the board going into the 4th round. They were hoping to get one of them and turned down a trade in order to ensure they had a shot for one of them. They got them both.

A year later we hear that their grade on Johnson was wrong.

I think they hit on that strategy with Sean Lee and Bruce Carter and are just applying it everywhere else now.

 

[Angrymesscan]

Home school honor roll phenomenon. Most successful relative to????

This year was a little different from other years because it seems like all of the players could have been reasonably chosen in the 3rd or 4th round. It's just a solid proletariat of talent. I'm sure they are all game day players and some solid starters but the true elite playmakers in the first two rounds were not pursued.

But isn't that what this draft was? Not any real blue chippers buts lot of solid depth?
I would have drafted differently but that is just because everyone has their own pet cats.
Almost all picks by all the teams could be considered solid by some value chart, many had Fredrickson as the top center, Wilcox as the third safety, etc.
I personally considered Pugh a bigger reach, but would have been ok with Schwenke in the third instead of using the first on the galoot, this was just a draft full of mediocre IMO, which was good for our front office since it left less room for error.

 

[jnday]

I like the players in this draft class much better than last years picks. I don't like the positions that was drafted though with the exception of OC. I hated last years draft. The trade-up ruined it. Last year there was good talent in the trenches in the second and third rounds. If anything Dallas should have traded back instead of trading up.

 

[mdawg65]

Anyone else getting tired of all the bullshit over the last few drafts?

"We got a guy in (nth) round when we actually had an (nth-2) round grade on him".

It would be interesting to get a hold of the old draft boards and actually compare players and their NFL careers to their ratings on the Cowboys board when they were drafted.

Did first rounders perform like first rounders and so on and so forth.

 

[Angrymesscan]

The right trade would have been 18 for their high 2nd and 2 3rd's, THAT would have been good value.