Honestly Parcells did a much better job of enabling an organization to draft well than actually drafting well.
He and Belichick were really hit-or-miss as GMs. But the changes— in structure and how coaches and scouts engage— Parcells brought to Dallas made us much better at drafting overall to where we’ve had multiple successful drafts post Bill.
Pre-Bill, post-Herschel we were mostly God-awful.
During Bill’s time we’d have missed out on Ware without Jerry (hard to admit), and Bill forced the reach for Barbie Carpenter. But we got huge building blocks like Canty, Hatcher, and Ratliff that Jerry couldn’t have drafted in a million years— and that was directly because Bill’s system gave a stronger voice to the scouts
We regressed during Jerry’s “special teams draft”, but have mostly since enabled scouts to find late round contributors. It’s in the higher rounds where coaches still overpower the room and fuck us up with Charlton, Bossman, Wright, and Mazi.