farg Dallas! Thread

PhillyPhreak54 · April 26, 2009, 02:55:00 AM

QuoteCowboys' Jones moves down for better value on Day 2

Posted: Draft | NFL.com Staff | Tags: 2009 NFL Draft, Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, Michelle Beisner

IRVING, Texas — For those of you watching on television, it may have looked the Cowboys passed on the 51st pick, before eventually trading it away to the Buffalo Bills, but that was not the case. I am told the official war room terminology for what happened is that the Cowboys got caught without a player.

Sources inside the Cowboys organization tell me the reason Jerry Jones opted not to pick at 51 is because all of the players at the Cowboys' positions of need were taken. The Cowboys entered the draft looking for safeties and wide receivers, but Louis Delmas went at the top of the second round to the lions, Patrick Chung went next at No. 34 to the Patriots and Brian Robiskie went to the Browns two picks later. With those guys off the board, Jones set his sights on offensive lineman Max Unger. But when the Seahawks took Unger just two picks before their own, Jones decided the Cowboys would be able to get a bigger bang for their buck with tomorrow's price tag and moved back into the third and fourth round.

A typical Jerry Jones draft usually includes at least one move up the board to select the player he covets. When I spoke to Jones earlier in the day he indicated that wanted to move up, but it looked like he was going to have to stay at No. 51.

Of course, we now know that didn't happen. The Cowboys traded the 51st pick to Buffalo in exchange for the 75th and 110th pick. This is extremely uncharacteristic of trader Jerry to not have any movement in the first two rounds, but unless something drastic happens, it doesn't look as if the Cowboys will be selecting their first player until Day 2, when the team will have 12 picks.

– Michelle Beisner

DH · April 26, 2009, 03:04:58 AM

The only thing worse than the Raidas' taking that Mitchell guy is Jones not taking anyone at all...and then, trying to get by w that lameass excuse.

PhillyPhreak54 · April 26, 2009, 03:14:57 AM

How the hell does a professional GM in a war room loaded with months of research get stuck without a player?

PoopyfaceMcGee · April 26, 2009, 10:29:46 AM

Dallas got a workout warrior with their first pick in the draft.

PhillyPhreak54 · April 26, 2009, 01:14:02 PM

They also drafted a QB from Texas A&M with the first pick of the 4th...Stephen McGee.

PoopyfaceMcGee · April 26, 2009, 01:15:33 PM

Tony Romo just pissed himself.

Well, he does that a lot.

Feva · April 27, 2009, 06:41:18 AM

Then they draft a kicker in the 5th round. I guess Nick Folk's legs fell off.

PhillyPhreak54 · April 27, 2009, 11:49:50 AM

This is why I love watching Jerry Jones as the GM...because he's come out and said that they focused on improving their special teams with the draft.

Hello Jerrah...you don't draft for STs (unless its a returner or specialist). You draft good players and plug them in on STs and fill out your roster with a guy here or there, like a Larry Izzo type, who is a special teams demon.

paco · April 28, 2009, 10:21:48 AM

Phreak, you may want to put your boy on suicide watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPhaiUydT38

PoopyfaceMcGee · April 28, 2009, 10:51:38 AM

Quote from: paco on April 28, 2009, 10:21:48 AM
Phreak, you may want to put your boy on suicide watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPhaiUydT38

It was posted already (I think in the Maclin thread), but I enjoyed watching it again regardless.

Seabiscuit36 · April 28, 2009, 10:57:34 AM

this was in the grade thing on the eagles side, but LOL http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/story?id=4104114
1.67 consensus grade..ha 2nd lowest

QB Eagles · April 28, 2009, 07:03:22 PM

Quote from: FastFreddie on April 28, 2009, 10:51:38 AM
Quote from: paco on April 28, 2009, 10:21:48 AM
Phreak, you may want to put your boy on suicide watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPhaiUydT38

It was posted already (I think in the Maclin thread), but I enjoyed watching it again regardless.

Shango is the best. This one is funny too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjS1amcg2lw

A Cowboy fan I know said Wade Phillips looked like lawn furniture in the war room. He was blown away by it just like Shango.

Seabiscuit36 · April 28, 2009, 07:18:42 PM

farging hilarious, you almost feel bad for Wade

PhillyPhreak54 · April 28, 2009, 10:18:41 PM

Quote from: paco on April 28, 2009, 10:21:48 AM
Phreak, you may want to put your boy on suicide watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPhaiUydT38

Nice TomTom as the centerpiece. Whats up with that?

TomTom sucks anyways.

QB Eagles · May 02, 2009, 06:02:59 PM

QuoteIRVING — Four Dallas Cowboys staff members were injured Saturday when the roof of the team's indoor practice facility collapsed.

Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said all players and coaches were accounted for, and he didn't know the extent of the injuries to the four staff members, who were hospitalized.

"They were right in the middle of practice and they were in the middle of the field, which was not good," said WFAA-TV photojournalist Arnold Payne who was on the sidelines of the indoor practice field. "The wind just started shaking the sides of this big huge plastic practice tent."

"The lights started swinging from the cieling, and just like that — the thing just started collapsing," Payne said. "They could hear people under there screaming; I could see two or three people injured," Payne said.

Rescue personnel were still going through the debris to make sure everyone was accounted for, Dalrymple said.

Irving fire-rescue officials ordered all reporters and team personnel away from the immediate area.

The roof is a large air-supported canopy with aluminum frames covering a regulation 100-yard football field.

Power was out at the Valley Ranch facility.