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Kevin Sherrington The Dallas Morning News
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Published: 23 October 2014 02:58 PM
Generally speaking, an email from your minister is a daunting proposition, especially when they start out like this:
“Kevin, are you ready to repent,” Mark Craig wrote, “on your observations of the 2013 draft?”
You’d think the former pastor of Highland Park United Methodist Church could forgive and forget.
Maybe you remember the last time Craig challenged my convictions, in the receiving line of his retirement proceedings, no less. Told me the recently*-concluded Cowboys draft was “great.”
“The center is good,” he added. “The receiver, too. And I like that running back.
“Have I changed your mind?”
Only God and Gavin Escobar could work that miracle, and the latter is making me a believer.
Given Escobar’s pair of touchdown catches against the Giants and the play of the group overall, our Rainer Sabin writes that critics should be ashamed for eggs thrown at the 2013 draft. Specifically, a couple of former NFL coaches called it “the worst of anybody in the NFL on paper.”
Of course, NFL teams don’t play on paper. The center in question, Travis Frederick, was a hit from Day One.
Terrance Williams filled Miles Austin’s spot at receiver. They’ve only improved in their second year, as has Escobar, safety J.J. Wilcox and back*up running back Joseph Randle, the underwear salesman.
Three starters and a couple of serviceable back*ups is a pretty good haul.
My complaints with the draft were not the players, but where the Cowboys got them. For instance, they could have taken LSU safety Eric Reid in the first round and still might have had Frederick, graded as a second or third rounder, in the second. This Cowboys defense could have used a safety who made the Pro Bowl as a rookie.
Trading down in the first, though, allowed them to pick up a third, which they used on Williams.
Bottom line: The Cowboys made a nice haul in 2013, and it’s paying off. Here’s hoping this penance will do, Mark. Hate for anything to come between me and my eulogist.
Kevin Sherrington The Dallas Morning News
ksherrington@dallasnews.com
Published: 23 October 2014 02:58 PM
Generally speaking, an email from your minister is a daunting proposition, especially when they start out like this:
“Kevin, are you ready to repent,” Mark Craig wrote, “on your observations of the 2013 draft?”
You’d think the former pastor of Highland Park United Methodist Church could forgive and forget.
Maybe you remember the last time Craig challenged my convictions, in the receiving line of his retirement proceedings, no less. Told me the recently*-concluded Cowboys draft was “great.”
“The center is good,” he added. “The receiver, too. And I like that running back.
“Have I changed your mind?”
Only God and Gavin Escobar could work that miracle, and the latter is making me a believer.
Given Escobar’s pair of touchdown catches against the Giants and the play of the group overall, our Rainer Sabin writes that critics should be ashamed for eggs thrown at the 2013 draft. Specifically, a couple of former NFL coaches called it “the worst of anybody in the NFL on paper.”
Of course, NFL teams don’t play on paper. The center in question, Travis Frederick, was a hit from Day One.
Terrance Williams filled Miles Austin’s spot at receiver. They’ve only improved in their second year, as has Escobar, safety J.J. Wilcox and back*up running back Joseph Randle, the underwear salesman.
Three starters and a couple of serviceable back*ups is a pretty good haul.
My complaints with the draft were not the players, but where the Cowboys got them. For instance, they could have taken LSU safety Eric Reid in the first round and still might have had Frederick, graded as a second or third rounder, in the second. This Cowboys defense could have used a safety who made the Pro Bowl as a rookie.
Trading down in the first, though, allowed them to pick up a third, which they used on Williams.
Bottom line: The Cowboys made a nice haul in 2013, and it’s paying off. Here’s hoping this penance will do, Mark. Hate for anything to come between me and my eulogist.
