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Woods is bigger than Jackson, too. Woods can be a combo safety, he can both play center field when Byron lines up on DEs AND he can play SS in the box on early and short yardage downs... Many comparing him to Darren Woodson already. 2nd-3rd round talent we got in the 6th, no drug or character issues, maybe the steal of the draft.Quote:
Originally Posted by chunticakes
The only thing I didn't like was trading down late in the 6th when we could have had DT Qualls instead of DT Ivie who is inferior. We didn't need that big slow WR in the 7th and we still could have had Marquez White, or better, Myrick the one the Jags got after us.
Can we just get rid of that fucker already? And give DeMarcus Lawrence #94. Maybe that's the missing thing of our pass rush. #94 as the leading pass rusher is a Cowboy tradition and it's the only way we can have a dominant pass rush.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurraider21
I give our draft an "A-".Quote:
Originally Posted by Trill Clinton
Not sold on Taco yet as a pass rusher, he isn't a speed or finesse rusher at all or doesn't seem to be. But he's the 2nd best DE we've got after a healthy Lawrence and he's outstanding against the run. Essentially a lot of bull rushers and very little speed or finesse on the team other than Mayowa. I guess Marinelli's plan is to shut down the run first and foremost, and use a slew of young elite DBs to cover the extra second to give the power rushers enough time to bully through offensive lines and get the quarterback.
I like Awuzie as the CB2 of the future, lining up against the #2 outside receiver while Brown lines up against the #1 outside receiver. He easily could have been picked late 1st/early 2nd and would have in any other draft.
Lewis is a hell of a slot corner and should have been a first rounder and would have been so if not for the misdemeanor dv charge which won't be a big deal going forward as long as he stays away from shitty women and doesn't do it again.
Switzer is a backup slot receiver for now but a great insurance policy if Cole Beasley goes down. Before today, if Cole Beasley went down, the offense would suffer greatly as he's a key cog that Dak relies upon each and every passing down. Now, we have a viable insurance who will learn from and eventually replace Beasley. Maybe an overdraft, but we needed to address this at some point. Also hopefully puts Lucky Whitehead out of a job at PR while one of the fast DBs can take the KR job.
As aforementioned, Woods is someone I've wanted since round 2 and would not have been an overdraft if we took him instead of Awuzie or Lewis. Instead, we got both of them AND Woods, who is a heck of a safety and has a chance to form a top tier safety tandem of the future with Byron Jones. Not the tallest SS like Chancellor or Church, but a fast and intelligent cover DB who can hit nonetheless and still be a force in the run game. He also is a finisher and playmaker who actually gets the interceptions which has been the one glaring issue for Byron Jones his first two years in the league. It's not obvious who is the FS and SS anymore between Jones and Woods, but bottom line is both should be a force to be reckoned with and help make the secondary tough to beat and the cover 2 impossible to throw deep on. Add in the DBs we got in rounds 2-3... just wow. Given a little time to gel, Legion of Boom 2.0 is their floor, not their ceiling.
Marquez White seems okay, a little slow but maybe a good option to guard TEs and possession receivers, especially in red zone and similar situations. Someone to stop the tight end from converting on 3rd & 4, so to speak. Good potential but will be buried under the more accomplished corners for now.
The 7th round picks I wasn't impressed with at all, but they're 7th round picks so they'll more than likely be on the practice squad year 1. Ivie won't make the team. Noah Brown is another Andy Jones for now. Carrell is a nice practice squad body.
The main disappointment is that, even though we drafted 2 WRs, neither of them are fast enough to fill our main hole at receiver, which is running the 9-route. You need that smaller 4.4 or better guy to blow the top off the defense with deep vertical routes, and the Cowboys still don't have one of those despite them being available late on the board. I understand we're a possession offense, but there are situations (end of half, losing, losing late etc) where, no matter how you plan not for them to come up, they come up anyway as it's the nature of the game. You need guys to run deep vertical routes and beat DBs with speed, and we don't have any. A bit of a bummer.
But an overall outstanding draft, it won't be as talked about as last year's epic draft for us but it will be close behind, and better than that if you consider where we had to pick from this year every round versus last year's draft position.
Only pussies & assholes use the ignore feature on an internet message board.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurraider21
:lol @ Gregory. What a fucking dumbass pick. The Cowboys have cleaned up every bad habit they've built a reputation for during the "non-glory days", except their insistence on troubled players. It DOESN'T WORK. Pacman, Randle, Hardy, Mclain, Gregory.. I'm sure I've missed some.
I swear I think the Cowboys have an agreement with Jerry Jones. They just let him fuck around with that 2nd round pick as long as he lets McClay and Stephen take care of the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
Yeah man its fucking retarded already. Tired of Jerry sugar coating these retards not named Dez Bryant. He can beat his mother, he produces and doesn't seem to start problems within the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by chunticakes
Was Randle ever a troubled player in college? I can't remember but I thought he was relatively ok until he started going full retard the summer Demarco Murray left and he got the starting job. The rest of those guys...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
Jerry is stupid enough to think that they have a Patriots "My way or the Highway", well respected franchise when in fact, they are probably the worst spot for these guys to end up. Extra media attention plus a pushover head coach who thinks he's some grandmaster zen Buddhist wannabe when in reality, he's a faggot.
Randles problems started in Dallas, but they (the team) stuck with him. When a guy with money gets busted stuffing underwear down his pants at a Dillards, that should have been the red flag of what was to come. 5 arrests later and here we are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Celibate
The sad part was that Randle was more talented than Murray and could have been as good as Zeke if he wasn't such a screw-up. Which meant we could have had Bosa or Ramsey today and still had a top notch running game. Damn it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
C.J. Spillman & Josh Brent in 2014.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
Rolando McClain arrested on drug, firearm charges in Alabama
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...a?sf78504194=1
I don't know why Jerry doesn't just officially cut him and Gregory both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
McClain is not with the Cowboys anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
He's still technically on the Cowboys, unfortunately, unless we've cut him since this incident. It's because we re-signed him to a 1 year contract last offseason and he wasn't active for even one week/game.Quote:
Originally Posted by spurtech09
Either way he is done. Gregory needs to be cut next. We have way enough DEs now
:lol Nolan Carroll arrested for suspicion of DWI - Welcome to Dallas :tu
Meh. 5th corner on the team, might have been cut in August anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
Brown/Awuzie/Scandrick/Lewis are all better than him, in that order (for now). If the Cowboys really must carry 5 corners on the 53, they can always roll with 6th round rookie Marquez White or last year's holdover Leon McFadden (not a fan of him, but it's the 5th corner so who cares?)
Carroll was always a lot like Brandon Browner. A zone corner that did okay against bigger slower receivers but was always torched by speed and committed a lot of defensive fouls. Won't be missed.
We need a new thread. This one was started by some jeebotard Texans fan who left Spurstalk high and dry after bitching about Cowboys fans cluttering up the NFL forum.
Is this a major regression year for the Sophmores in Dak & Zeke? How big of a loss is Free?
No and not big at all. Free, Church, and Carr were all older liabilities that the Cowboys had kept around due to monetary and sentimental reasons. Glad they're all gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by DPG21920
:lmao David Irving out 4 games for suspension
not newsQuote:
Originally Posted by DJR210
14K
gratz on 14k posts
Now lets see a 14 win season. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Celibate
Damien Wilson is a dumbass. Hope Jaylon is ready to go.
ANAL FUCK
That's what I get for assuming his Eagles counterpart, Nigel Bradham, was the one who was going to get locked up for felony assault. It always against us. Fortunately LB is the strength of our defense, hope Hitchens is ready to be the starting base 4-3 SLB. But Wilson was becoming an upper tier all around LB. Fuck it
bout damn time, it's been way too quiet of an offseason so far
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...ssault-charges
Finally someone gets arrested.
It's going to be weird not seeing Romo on the sidelines tbh :cry
awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darth_Pelican
More minor Zeke news
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...riving-100-mph
Zeke is my nigga tbh.
#FinishThisFight17
That car can go much faster, obviously. Props for Zeke for putting safety first and not pushing it. NFL can use more level headed players like him.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Yeah... and who the fuck DOESN'T go at least 100 mph on the DNT/121 tollways? You're weird if you don't go at least 90, honestly. I've rode around with guys who went easily 115+, sober, when there was very little traffic (especially at night).Quote:
Originally Posted by lefty20
One time with a realtor who was renting a BMW for his friend's bachelor party... he got up to about 127 on the DNT around the Willow Bend area with me riding shotgun. It was glorious.
lol only in America do we hold our Pro Athletes at a higher standard than our politicians.
Yep, effing stupid...Quote:
Originally Posted by BanditHiro
But only in America are the pro athletes waaaaaaaaaaaaay overpaid.
Rank, Name, Earnings (Sport, Country)Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, $93 million (Soccer, Portugal)
2. LeBron James, $86.2 million (Basketball, U.S.)
3. Lionel Messi, $80 million (Soccer, Argentina)
4. Roger Federer, $64 million (Tennis, Switzerland)
5. Kevin Durant, $60.6 million (Basketball, U.S.)
6. Andrew Luck, $50 million (Football, U.S.)
6. Rory McIlroy, $50 million (Golf, U.K.)
8. Stephen Curry, $47.3 million (Basketball, U.S.)
9. James Harden, $46.6 million (Basketball, U.S.)
10. Lewis Hamilton, $46 million (Racing, U.K.)
That includes third party endorsements, we're talking about employer salary/money made actually PLAYING the sport, here. Please don't move the goal post.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
So Lebron is at around $30 million. If I were him, since he makes around $56 million from endorsements anyway, why doesn't he agree to only get paid say $1m/year by the Cavs so other, less-endorsed superstars can join the team and he can win again being the underpaid alpha hero?
Ronaldo's salary is 32 million Euros. Messi's, 40 million. Those pro soccer players make a ton of money. If you take the top paid 30 soccer players and compare them to the top paid 30 US athletes, I think it would disprove your comment about only the US having highly paid athletes.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Cowboys' offseason miscues never get old to me...this Lucky Whitehead story is hilarious, even though it probably is a case of mistaken identity
Jason Garrett trying to go Budget Belichick by giving the exact same answer over and over :lol
Jourdan Lewis found not guilty.
Starting RT La'el Collins gets 2 year / 14 million extension, is now signed with the team through the end of the 2019 season.
Fingers CROSSED with this dude!
Good signing:
More on Jaylon:
From BTB:
Good signing but makes me wonder if they are believing that Zeke is out for some substantial amount of games.Quote:
Originally Posted by LkrFan
Could be, but I read he will be competing with Morris. If Morris gets cut it saves Jerry about $1.6M. My guess is that Hillman will "win" this battle. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Boiled down: Morris might be out like 3 strikes
Boiled down: Morris might be out like 3 strikes. Especially after signing 25 year old Hillman to compete with him to be the 3rd back behind McFadden. Hillman can play special teams. Morris does not.
I'm surprised he didn't more chances. When they got him, I thought he might be better than McFadden. Although I guess Jerry loves his UA boys.Quote:
Originally Posted by LkrFan
He wasn't productive. Whenever we put him in the game to rest Zeke a bit early in the season, the offense tended to bog down.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
I know. But he didn't get a lot of chances. Either way, I thought he should have been better.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Jahad Thomas is injured and they have no real third down back atmQuote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Thomas is a practice squad candidate anyways. Alfred Morris isn't good enough, doesn't play special teams, and is probably gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by leemajors
I think Zeke gets suspended next week. Heard a theory that the NFL is delaying any announcement until after the HOF induction this weekend. If that's the case, it's clearly a suspension of some sort.
Big question is how many games. I'm guessing 2.
I don't think it will be final though, it will be appealed to zero or maybe just the week of practice before game 1Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
The "incident" in question happened BEFORE he even got drafted and was part of the NFL. They can't hold him to standards that happened when he was in college and not employed by the NFL (or any other employer, for that matter). That's illegal. Plus, the court of law acquitted him, so that would be obstruction of justice on the part of Goodell and his cronies. Trump needs to crack down on this madness. A 5-10 year federal prison sentence (the pen with the thugs, not the white collar phony office "prison") per offense for Goodell would be a good thing and set a good example.
Good points. Maybe Jerry has threaten the NFL with succession and the possibility of starting a new league. With the Draconian rules the NFL has in place, I think that most of the top tier players would quit and join a Jerry backed league.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
What do y'all think about this revelation?
That should piss everyone with a brain and love for fairness off... Mara Salvatrucha is evil and must be forced out of the league like Sterling from the Clippers. It's timeQuote:
Originally Posted by manufan10
It's time.
Peep Romo's "Arthur fist" in that pic though :lol
lol. wtf. Is there an inside joke?Quote:
Originally Posted by BatManu20
Like he secretly wants to punch Dak for taking his starting spot..Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Ball don't lie!!!!!!
We won baby!! Happy August
Yep. He's a volume RB. Solid trade asset though I don't know his contract specifics.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
I don't get it. So they gave him a black hand? Or is it really an Arthur reference? Which I certainly don't get. I've only seen a few episodes. Did he have some kind of anger issues?Quote:
Originally Posted by BatManu20
I'm totally lost.
Maybe a Dumbledore reference? Dumbledore had a black hand in the last year he was alive due to the poisoned ring from Voldemort.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
wtf does that even mean. What's a Dumbledore?Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Nevermind. I found it. But it still doesn't make any sense to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
BTW...I just wrote a new song.
Dumble...dumble dora (and jelly)
Dumble...dumble dora (and jelly)
It's all I have so far.
SFS/CTOA never read or watched Harry Potter?
I'm sure that rock is warm enough, but sorry about the lack of A/C
I saw the first one and part of the one with Gary Oldman. But I don't remember the word Dumbledore. Things I remember about all of the Harry Potter that I watched:Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Some scene at a train station where they are boarding to go to the school.
Some game involving flying around.
Some poster where the face was alive or moving around.
Platform 9 3/4Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Quidditch
Dumbledore
Rock you live under must be warm & toasty, 'cause your head is full o' hot air
I don't know. At some point, I was going to watch them because I heard they were good. But then all of a sudden, there were too many to mess with.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Movie wise, 1, 2, and 8 are the best, by far. 4 and 7 were done well and accurately enough, they're the second tier. 5 and 6 are mediocre. 3 was awful and a complete disgrace to the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Book wise, 3 is one of the best ones however.
So...do I lose anything by skipping some of them?Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
3... not really. Nothing really much happens in 3. Voldemort isn't even in 3. 3 is the one JK Rowling used to explain a bunch of stuff but the actual conflict is minimal compared to all the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
5... Bellatrix kills Sirius Black.
6... Snape kills Dumbledore.
That's it.
According to Chris Carter, Zeke suspension imminent. And for more than a couple of games.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...tt-suspension/
Quote:
Via Ryan Glasspiegel of TheBigLead.com, Carter said on FS1’s Undisputed that “in the next 48 hours I would be shocked if Zeke was not suspended.” Carter added that, “based on the information that’s going to come out, it’s going to be fairly easy to determine that something happened to this woman in her four days of being with Zeke.” (The specific allegation is that Elliott committed five acts of domestic violence in a six-day window.)
Carter described the situation as a case of “assault or domestic violence,” and Carter hinted that “when the information comes out there’s going to be some similarities” to Tom Brady’s suspension, including “information that he had been advised possibly to give up, that was destroyed.”
Poor Zeke is going to get suspended.
At least he'll get to enjoy a little mini vacation on Endor.
Cris Carter isn't a reliable source.
The fact that Goodell came out and didn't deny shit isn't exactly encouraging.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
there's no evidence. And Zeke was acquitted. Due process -- 5th amendmentQuote:
Originally Posted by chunticakes
Maybe he'll change his decision based on wanting Carter to be wrong. No suspension.Quote:
Originally Posted by chunticakes
If there is a suspension, it will be appealed, and he'll play the first few games at least, backfiring on the Giants fan "lead investigator".Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
It depends on how long. If it's two games, he just needs to accept that shit. If it's four, I don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
It'll be four reduced to two after the appeal.
Appeal it and get suspended for games against weaker defensive teams than NYG and @ DEN.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
I think they lose those games with or without Zeke. Anyway, their schedule is tough enough anyway. Not sure if they are able to time an appeal so they know what games he would miss.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Have to win the NYG home game this year. It's in the division and we can't lose 3 in a row to them (actually 4).Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
It's ok to lose @ DEN
You make no sense. If it doesn't matter if they lose to the Broncos, then why not go ahead and risk the one game loss to the Giants in the beginning. Not knowing when a decision on an appeal would come through.Quote:
Originally Posted by UNT Eagles 2016
Would suck for it to happen in back to back NFC games including a division game.
You can't start 0-2, that's generally a permanent hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
You don't want to concede the home game out of the two you play against your most fierce division rival, that's stupid.