Morning After Day 2 - Trusting the Process
What is the best way to profit in long run? Adding the best players available, of course.
Our time is short this morning because radio awaits again for a full day of Day 3 of the NFL Draft. That’s ok, because it is dangerous to summarize your feelings in the middle of a process, but I wanted to give you a little something here on Saturday Morning and then offer you the film work from this spring on both the picks from Friday Night – 2nd rounder Donovan Ezeiruaku and 3rd rounder Shavon Revel.
I have been working Cowboys drafts since they took Greg Ellis in 1998 over Randy Moss. That particular pick is important to this conversation because in 1998, they took a very nice player that they needed over a better player that they didn’t need. In other words, they ignored the blinking light of football blessing because they had tunnel vision about the immediate moment they were living in.
We have no idea how much Randy Moss in Dallas might have extended the career of Troy Aikman and changed the course of history. Perhaps he would have or perhaps it would have flamed out just as quickly as the Triplets did, but it still makes a lot of people wonder why they wouldn’t just show up on draft day and grab the guys who are the best at what they do.
It is admittedly a move that makes you a bit shorthanded and nervous about that in certain spots. It isn’t a paint-by-numbers formula where you have your ducks in a row in July and feel like you have the answers for everything. But, doggone, I think if this Cowboys draft was in 1998, they would have left with Randy Moss. And I cannot be mad about that.
On Thursday, the team took Tyler Booker and as you know from what I wrote yesterday morning, I am thrilled about adding that guy to this team. Yes, your needs are unaddressed, but I believe his talent and potential fit exceeds the immediate needs on the board at this moment in time.
And, here is the thing, of course they are going to address those needs on Friday, right?
Not really. On Friday, they went and helped their defense with one of the best pass rushers in this draft and then one of the very best corners. If I would have told you before the draft that you could leave with three fringe 1st rounders without a single trade, I would hope you would be thrilled. Well, guess what? I believe they did.