2026 Draft Week Chatter Thread...

Cowboysrock55 said:
Yeah I really have no complaints on Delane. I think his biggest knock might be short arms. But I think he could play the slot, he could play outside and he was the closest thing to a shutdown corner in college football last year. I also think he tackles and plays the run well. You can out him in man or zone coverage and I think he does both really well. Just not much to pick on with him.

My NFL player comp for him would actually be Devon Witherspoon. Who was a crucial piece to that Seahawks defense and former top 10 pick.
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Denzel Ward for me, Witherspoon had insane physicality as a tackler coming out that I don't think Delane has.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
So I'd just fucking sign Pickens.

But Stephen did mention something yesterday to the effect of not signing him because you have have two top of the market receivers. It makes me think or wonder, is Dallas just convinced they can't pay Pickens and Lamb. Which brings me back to the trade the guy if you have suitors now. I'm afraid the Cowboys view Pickens as a 1 year rental, and they are going to draft his replacement so they can have highly paid Lamb and cheap rookie contract WR at the same time.

My view is you have resources. Draft picks are resources and money is a resource. And using the 12th pick is really just trading one resource for another. So why not take the bird in hand and use the draft pick somewhere else.
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Because you nailed it, they are fucking cheap, they don't want to pay two top of the market WR contracts.

They are stuck in 1995 thinking where you have one Michael Irvin and then one Kevin Williams.

They don't know how to navigate the current salary structure of the league where teams have to be able to stack talent advantages at certain positions.
 
I think there's something to Jerry's comments just the last year or two about some contracts he did early that he regrets. I don't remember him talking like that before. So I wonder if some of the recent contracts like Diggs have made him gun shy.
 
Smitty said:
They don't know how to navigate the current salary structure of the league
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I think it's more that they don't want to. It would require them to spend more money each year because when you push money into the future you're literally outspending the cap.

If they signed Pickens long term he'd be way cheaper under the cap but they'd have to spend more actual dollars.

And of course they don't want to do that so they hide behind pie.
 
Chocolate Lab said:
I think there's something to Jerry's comments just the last year or two about some contracts he did early that he regrets. I don't remember him talking like that before. So I wonder if some of the recent contracts like Diggs have made him gun shy.
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That's not really what I interpreted from Stephen. I mean he did sort of throw in "we have only known him for a year" thing. But that was after he said what he really was thinking which is, you can't pay two WR's top of the market. The way they have said, we aren't even going to talk contracts tells me Dallas just isn't planning to actually give him one. I'm not sure I've ever seen the Cowboys come right out and say this early in the offseason, we aren't going to offer him a contract, he is going to play under the franchise tag. That's the weird part to me.

If you thought Pickens was going to be here for years, you wouldn't say that. You'd say, well we just haven't been able to come to an agreement. Or we are working on things. Or we are waiting to see how other things look. But to say, he is going to play under the franchise tag, tells me, they aren't going to sign him to a real contract. They may franchise him again next year but that's about best case scenario.
 
Listening to the Archer interview on 105.3 this morning, a few things:

Preferred order for players to fall to 12: Downs, Styles, Delane (sensible enough).

Mocked Tyson at 12 as we know, but said he actually thinks they'd do their best to bail out if that happened. (But later says they actually do like Tyson quite a bit.)

Thinks they wouldn't take McCoy until the second round, Bain only around 18. Archer himself would take Bain at 12.

Doesn't think Mesidor would be their guy at 20. Lawrence, Parker, maybe a little rich for them at 20. No ILBs worth 20.

From what he's heard, he doesn't think the Giants are as big on Downs as most believe.
 
Chocolate Lab said:
I think there's something to Jerry's comments just the last year or two about some contracts he did early that he regrets. I don't remember him talking like that before. So I wonder if some of the recent contracts like Diggs have made him gun shy.
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Cowboysrock55 said:
That's not really what I interpreted from Stephen. I mean he did sort of throw in "we have only known him for a year" thing. But that was after he said what he really was thinking which is, you can't pay two WR's top of the market. The way they have said, we aren't even going to talk contracts tells me Dallas just isn't planning to actually give him one. I'm not sure I've ever seen the Cowboys come right out and say this early in the offseason, we aren't going to offer him a contract, he is going to play under the franchise tag. That's the weird part to me.

If you thought Pickens was going to be here for years, you wouldn't say that. You'd say, well we just haven't been able to come to an agreement. Or we are working on things. Or we are waiting to see how other things look. But to say, he is going to play under the franchise tag, tells me, they aren't going to sign him to a real contract. They may franchise him again next year but that's about best case scenario.
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I wasn't going off what Air Quotes said, but Jerry. And I think Jerry is still what matters on the megadeals like Pickens would get.

And devil's advocate, they did have Dak play on the tag to get one more look and then gave him the biggest contract in history.

I mean, you might be right and they just won't pay two WRs that much. Maybe they actually never expected Pickens to be as good as he was last year and thought he'd only require a good deal, not a top-of-market one. I think that's very possible.
 
Chocolate Lab said:
I mean, you might be right and they just won't pay two WRs that much. Maybe they actually never expected Pickens to be as good as he was last year and thought he'd only require a good deal, not a top-of-market one.
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And it could be Pickens has a 900 yard type season and suddenly he becomes affordable for the Cowboys. I kind of doubt it but it's possible.

But I don't think the Cowboys would have ever said about Dak "well you can't have a QB making that much money"
 
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