Cowboys are asking owner and general manager Jerry Jones to make intentional moves during the 2021 draft, targeting specific positions on their list.
FRISCO – Since he took control of Dallas Cowboys in 1989, the owner and executive director of Jerry Jones he agreed to 161 transactions, and 68 of them came on the day of the project.
Hence the nickname Jerry the “merchant”.
Jones made brave moves that no one expected, such as lifting the national team to take the defender Morris Claiborne in 2012 with the sixth general team, in a transaction with Leprechauns Louis. One year later, Jones designed a movement for Cowboys decreased 13 places in a transaction with San Francisco 49ers to select the center Travis Frederick in exchange for no. 31.
In a few years, there have been a number of jobs that are dizzying Cowboys, as in 2008, when Dallas agreed to eight transactions per day. Then there were three years when Cowboys They did not move once during the project: 2000, 2011 and 2015.
The Cowboys have 10 picks in the 2021 NFL Draft. Only Philadelphia Eagles. with 11, they own more.
Cowboys they need me to reappear Jerry the Merchant.
They don’t need the crazy uncle Jerry negotiating transactions only to move, which seemed to be the case in 2009, a project that focused on special teams and became one of the worst in the history of Cowboys.
Cowboys need an intentional Jerry to make the moves.
In the free agency of NFL, Cowboys focused on quantity over quality, adding 10 players, but none with an impact on the salary cap of more than $ 2.5 million. They did not intend to spend too much on the open market and have considered for years that the way to earn a living as an organization is through the project.
With so many players at high prices already on the list – like the defender That Prescott, runner Ezekiel Elliott, defensive wing DeMarcus Lawrence, linebacker Jaylon Smith and line officers Tyron Smith Yes Zack Martin– Cowboys they need to reach their project choices this year to enrich the depth and aim for a balance against the salary cap.
For many, it could mean that using all 10 selection projects is the best way to help ensure cost security, but there is no way to keep 10 project recruits, plus a few untrained free agents, in one. final team of 53 men. Before people remember the success stories of recruiting sixth and seventh rounds, there are far more failures and players than ever before.
Despite the registration Cowboys 6-10 in 2020, they still believe – rightly or wrongly – they have a talented roster, and winning a place in the final 53 will be difficult for a rookie. Dallas you have to strategically target players in specific positions.
During last year’s project, Cowboys made this type of move specifically, giving up the fifth round elections for 2020 and 2021 eagle to select the center from Wisconsin, Tyler Biadasz. They described cry as “flashing light”, which means that they had it much higher on their evaluation table than the general exchange 146. This season, Cowboys considerably cry its titular center.
Staying fixed in exchange for 10 this year makes more sense because Cowboys could choose the best defender available if the first nine picks are offensive players. So far, the needs of Cowboys They are obvious: defensive, defensive and more defensive. He can also choose an offensive lineman there.
The selection from the second round of Cowboys reaches row No. 44. What happens if he gives up that selection along with No. 75 or No. 99 to get up in order at the beginning of the second round, or even the last part of the first round, to recruit someone like, say, the defensive attack Christian Barmore from Alabama? No team wants to be as reduced to the defensive attack as the team looks. Cowboys, Y Barmore could contribute in this area.
Cowboys they have two selections in each of the third, fourth and sixth rounds due to previous transactions or clearing turns. They may also have shifts from 2022, if necessary, to specify movements.
Several times in recent projects, Jones He regretted some of the moves that, in retrospect, worked better the way they did. He believed that Cowboys they seemed too conservative in their selection Martini rather than quarterback Johnny Manziel in The 2014 Project. Martin might one day join Larry Allen as the best linebacker in franchise history.
In 2016, Jones He couldn’t get over the fact that he couldn’t keep the defender Paxton Lynch by redemption in the first round. Cowboys they arrived with Prescott in the fourth round, and he was just rewarded with a four-year, $ 160 million contract as the defender of his franchise.
With the advice of the Executive Vice President Stephen Jones and the Vice President of Personnel Will McClay, Jerry the Merchant can make his mark in the 2021 Project.
It’s time for Jerry the Merchant be fearless.