Prospects Dallas Has Shown Interest In - 2023

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How many of those are edge guys vs true off the ball LBs? Because I think our rush is fine. We need more behind the line LBs IMO.

We will talk to almost everyone. I wouldn't read anything into this. I agree about the rush too. If we take someone in the first two rounds it better be because the guy is just too good to pass up. Otherwise I think we are spinning our wheels. Williams was the must have guy past year. If you keep doing that than you're pulling one must have DE out of the game to play another must have DE and you're really not improving your team.
 
We will talk to almost everyone. I wouldn't read anything into this. I agree about the rush too. If we take someone in the first two rounds it better be because the guy is just too good to pass up. Otherwise I think we are spinning our wheels. Williams was the must have guy past year. If you keep doing that than you're pulling one must have DE out of the game to play another must have DE and you're really not improving your team.

An important thing to keep in mind is that further strengthening the edge rush allows us to preserve Parsons a bit and not force him to line up statically on the edge 90% of the time or whatever.

At this point Lawrence is better as an interior rusher than on the edge, Armstrong has always been more of an interior rusher, and that leaves us with Parsons/Williams and maybe Fowler if we re-sign him.

That's definitely a good group either way but I'd get the thought process of spending a high pick on a pure DE because it frees up Parsons and also solidifies our pass rush when Lawrence inevitably declines/retires over the next 2 years or so.

It's certainly not a top need by any means but I think there's enough there to warrant spending a high pick given the general importance of the pass rush.
 
That's definitely a good group either way but I'd get the thought process of spending a high pick on a pure DE because it frees up Parsons and also solidifies our pass rush when Lawrence inevitably declines/retires over the next 2 years or so.

Assuming the coaches actually trust Williams, I think he is a full time DE. Certainly between Lawrence, Armstrong, and Williams you can give Parsons some breathers from playing DE. They don't all have to be stellar pass rushers. Sometimes you're going to be in down and distances where you want more of a run stopping look. Any obvious passing situations I don't care who you add at DE, you're going to want Parsons out there rushing the passer.

Ultimately, I think you're talking about marginal improvements by adding another DE in the first few rounds. What you need to focus more on in my opinion is positions that could have a greater impact. DT, OG, WR or even TE. Positions where if you hit you get more than a marginal impact. You get someone that can change things dramatically on their side of the ball. Hell I'd even say LBer and CB would have the potential for a bigger impact. Although with Bland, Lewis and Diggs I kind of wonder if whatever corner we draft won't end up in a similar situation to DE, where we are just trying to use them for spot duty or to rest guys.

Or you're looking at a DE who you think is or can be special and is just too good to pass up. Maybe that's a Nolan Smith, I don't know. I'm leary of any guy who has such limited snaps and numbers as him but that's sort of the problem with most Georgia guys. Certainly that didn't translate well immediately for Walker or Jordan Davis so we will have to see. Or even Nakobe Dean who was supposed to be this stellar prospect. Maybe Georgia guys are just overhyped or the heavy rotation makes them look better than they actually are because it's easy to put your best foot forward playing only every few plays.
 
Assuming the coaches actually trust Williams, I think he is a full time DE. Certainly between Lawrence, Armstrong, and Williams you can give Parsons some breathers from playing DE. They don't all have to be stellar pass rushers. Sometimes you're going to be in down and distances where you want more of a run stopping look. Any obvious passing situations I don't care who you add at DE, you're going to want Parsons out there rushing the passer.

Ultimately, I think you're talking about marginal improvements by adding another DE in the first few rounds. What you need to focus more on in my opinion is positions that could have a greater impact. DT, OG, WR or even TE. Positions where if you hit you get more than a marginal impact. You get someone that can change things dramatically on their side of the ball. Hell I'd even say LBer and CB would have the potential for a bigger impact. Although with Bland, Lewis and Diggs I kind of wonder if whatever corner we draft won't end up in a similar situation to DE, where we are just trying to use them for spot duty or to rest guys.

Or you're looking at a DE who you think is or can be special and is just too good to pass up. Maybe that's a Nolan Smith, I don't know. I'm leary of any guy who has such limited snaps and numbers as him but that's sort of the problem with most Georgia guys. Certainly that didn't translate well immediately for Walker or Jordan Davis so we will have to see. Or even Nakobe Dean who was supposed to be this stellar prospect. Maybe Georgia guys are just overhyped or the heavy rotation makes them look better than they actually are because it's easy to put your best foot forward playing only every few plays.

I agree that we could get more impact from other positions, I'm just saying that if the BPA is a DE I think it's perfectly warranted, especially in the 2nd.

I disagree completely about CB, our top 3 guys are locked in there unless Lewis somehow can't get over a broken foot after like 10 months. OG is tricky because is the team really going to draft someone who ideally wouldn't play a snap in 2023? DT is a non-starter because I don't think the talent is there to take one in the 1st, although it's obviously our top need.

And Nolan Smith isn't even my top choice in terms of edge rushers in the first, he's kind of a Plan D if the board is really bare. Felix Anudike-Uzomah is the guy I really like who I'd strongly consider in the first.
 
OG is tricky because is the team really going to draft someone who ideally wouldn't play a snap in 2023?

Well I guess that depends what you're doing with Tyron. My thought is Tyler Smith should be your starting LT. If you can find me a bulldozer at LG to pair him with out of the draft than I think you could have something special. I've sort of written Tyron off in my head but clearly Jerry and Stephen haven't.
 
Well I guess that depends what you're doing with Tyron. My thought is Tyler Smith should be your starting LT. If you can find me a bulldozer at LG to pair him with out of the draft than I think you could have something special. I've sort of written Tyron off in my head but clearly Jerry and Stephen haven't.

Yea if Tyron and McGovern were gone Torrence would be near or at the top of my list.
 
. OG is tricky because is the team really going to draft someone who ideally wouldn't play a snap in 2023?

My memory is not the greatest but I believe the Jones have spoke up about the first round picks playing?
 
And Nolan Smith isn't even my top choice in terms of edge rushers in the first, he's kind of a Plan D if the board is really bare. Felix Anudike-Uzomah is the guy I really like who I'd strongly consider in the first.

I like the player but I wouldn't in the first. To me he is a solid second round DE. Which absolutely nothing wrong with that. But I think I'd need to be blown away to take a DE at 26.

I'm curious to see how Van Ness does at the combine. There is talk that he could blow it away. I say this because Iowa's defense while great, doesn't do it's DE's favors in my opinion. They do a ton of 2 gap stuff with their DE's. So you don't always get to see their explosion off the snap. I'm curious to see how athletic he really is. Sort of off topic though because Van Ness if he runs in the 4.5's isn't making it to the Cowboys anyway.
 
Well he does have late 1st potential judging where the teams hitting him up are drafting.

Yeah I think he deserves first round consideration. Just not high first. That top 10-15, he isn't that good of a guard. Very few are.
 
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