Fisher: Claiborne - How long 'til he 'makes history'?

[Cotton]

Hitting on 4 players since 1994 sucks in my opinion.

5 if you want to count Free...

I guess the word lately is lost on you.

It's 6 letters. Try typing it into google and see what you come up with.

 

[Jon88]

Had these scouts done their jobs we wouldn't have had to spend 3 first rounders on offensive lineman lately.

There you go. I used it in a sentence.

 

[boozeman]

Slap fight.

Stand back everyone.

Let things play out.

 

[Cotton]

Had these scouts done their jobs we wouldn't have had to spend 3 first rounders on offensive lineman lately.

There you go. I used it in a sentence.

Nor would we be paper-thin at LB like we are. That's a much better comparison. The OL comparison is dumb.

 

[Jon88]

Because we're finally good at OL now? It still doesn't excuse the past of being atrocious at drafting lineman.

 

[Cotton]

Because we're finally good at OL now? It still doesn't excuse the past of being atrocious at drafting lineman.

The comparison would have been good 4 years ago. Now, not so much.

 

[Jon88]

No because Romo has been getting body slammed into the turf until mid last year.

Look at our line 2 seasons ago. They may as well have worn roller blades.

 

[Cotton]

No because Romo has been getting body slammed into the turf until mid last year.

Look at our line 2 seasons ago. They may as well have worn roller blades.

You can't compare our current OL scouting with our current CB scouting.

I'm really trying to be nice here, but it's a stupid comparison. There are many better comparisons, like LB, safety, etc. OL isn't even on the radar now.

 

[ravidubey]

Since 2003

1st round OL == A (Smith, Frederick, Martin can pull this down)
2-3rd round OL == F- (Al Johnson, Jacob Rogers, Peterman, J. Martin, Brewster)
4-5th round OL== C (Free, Arkin)
6-7th round OL == D (pittdawg's kid, Nagy)

1st round CB == B- (Newman, Jenkins, Claiborne can pull this up)
2-3rd round CB == N/A
4-5th round CB== B+ (Scandrick, AOA)
6-7th round CB == C (Ball, Reeves, Brown, etc.)

Overall a mixed bag. Claiborne's inability to stay healthy really drags the CB rankings down. AOA was more of a safety, so I graded his selection very lightly.

Free agency-wise Kosier, Rivera, and Davis come in a notch below Carr, Anthony Henry, and Aaron Glenn. Colombo was the rare Jerry reclamation project that worked, and there is no CB equivalent to compare with.

It comes down to the 2nd-3rd round FAIL at OL which has just been unacceptable. It doesn't get any worse than how the Cowboys have performed there, even the subtle things like getting cute and trading down in 2006 to miss out on Marcus McNeil or failing to trade up in 2009 and missing Max Unger.

 

[Clay_Allison]

That F- in the 2nd and 3rd on OL really hurt us, though. That really doomed the Parcells years to not getting the turnaround that our other draft successes in that period could have brought us.