Hairopoulos: Drafting Romo's successor may not be a priority for Jerry Jones now

ravidubey

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I'm so glad that we learned so much from life after Aikman.
What we learned was Jones mortgaged the future with Galloway at the very cusp of Aikman's last time in the league.

We had no 1st round picks in 2001 to seriously draft his replacement with.

Then Jones because of that missing pick, arrogantly deluded himself into thinking Quincy Carter was "special" and traded two 3rd round picks to move up and draft him in the 2nd round.

At that point we were semi-committed to Carter, though we hedged with shortcuts like Hutchinson and Henson.

At the heart of the Hell was those missing 1st round picks from that trade. We ended up with Quincy Carter when we should have had Drew Brees.
 

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What we learned was Jones mortgaged the future with Galloway at the very cusp of Aikman's last time in the league.

We had no 1st round picks in 2001 to seriously draft his replacement with.

Then Jones because of that missing pick, arrogantly deluded himself into thinking Quincy Carter was "special" and traded two 3rd round picks to move up and draft him in the 2nd round.

At that point we were semi-committed to Carter, though we hedged with shortcuts like Hutchinson and Henson.

At the heart of the Hell was those missing 1st round picks from that trade. We ended up with Quincy Carter when we should have had Drew Brees.
IIRC, we were also in salary cap hell at the time, still paying off Deion's, Emmitt's, Aikman's and Irvin's paychecks. Jones would rather pay a proven Galloway instead of a high-priced rookie, developing said rookie and saying bye-bye in 3 years. Sound familiar?
 

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IIRC, we were also in salary cap hell at the time, still paying off Deion's, Emmitt's, Aikman's and Irvin's paychecks. Jones would rather pay a proven Galloway instead of a high-priced rookie, developing said rookie and saying bye-bye in 3 years. Sound familiar?
That wasn't really it though with Galloway as Jones kind of broke the bank to pay him. Jones was impatient more than anything else. He had convinced himself that the Cowboys were on the cusp of another Superbowl as long as they could get "#8" into the playoffs.

He felt desperate to replace Irvin while Aikman and Emmitt were still around and felt he didn't have time to start over with rookies. Basically he was deluded.
 
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