WEBVTT - Draft Show: Recapping the 2021 NFL Draft 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.479 This is the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Draft Show, your 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.240 war room for insider news and draft analysis from deep 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.120 within the confines of Cowboys headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:24.400 Dallas Cowboys like C. D. Lamb and now your hosts 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.400 Brian brought us, David Hellman, Bucky Brooks, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.480 It is the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Draft Show. As 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.760 we are live from inside the Star in Frisco. A 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.599 little bit of technical difficulties to get us started today 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.919 as we are not necessarily live and in person like 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.320 we have been over the last couple of weeks, unfortunately, 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.960 But well, we've got the same casting characters that we 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.720 have seen all year long here on the Draft Show. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.280 Kyle Yeoman's alongside Brian brought us. We've got David Hellman 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.000 coming in just a couple of moments in. Bucky Brooks 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.960 as well, should be here shortly. But Brian will start 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.160 with you since well you're the only one here live 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.759 and ready to go. But first off, what are your 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.480 just general thoughts After having a couple of nights to 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.080 look back on what was the twenty twenty one draft? No, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.640 it was, it was a very interesting draft. From overall, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.319 and I think what you do in your evaluating drafts 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:28.000 is to see how teams address what they needed to accomplish. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.880 And I think when the team that we cover the 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.680 most is the Dallas Cowboys, and so when you when 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.280 you look at what they were able to do, how 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.280 were they able to fix their defense? And that's what 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.000 I think they went out and did, not only addressing 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.240 in the offseason, going to get a new defensive coordinator, 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:54.760 but adding some key pieces, you know, Micah Parsons, Kelvin Joseph. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.120 Those are good starts to what I thought was a 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.640 good draft for the Cowboys. As you go through the 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.080 entire draft, there were players that I was targeting. Did 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.360 I really like that they were able to get So 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:13.040 that was and good for them. So, Dave, I believe 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.760 you are back on with us now. So Hellman, I asked, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.680 brought us this question a couple of moments ago. But 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.520 what what was your general thought whenever he came to 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:26.880 the twenty twenty one draft and specifically the Cowboys class. Yeah, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.919 I think I said it before we were done on 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.280 Saturday afternoons. I think this is the most boomer bust 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:39.200 potential draft that I can remember covering, and what I 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.480 mean by that is, you know, Micah Parsons is a 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.800 super talented guy, but I think he's a raw prospect, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.440 a guy. You know, he opted out of twenty twenty. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.920 He's a young player. I don't want to say he's 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.000 a guy without a position, but he's a guy that 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:55.839 you've got to have a plan for how to use. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.160 You know, are you going to use him to rush 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.600 the passer? How good is he in coverage? If all 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.720 he does is stop the run, which I get it, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.240 that's important, But if that's all he does, are you 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.359 getting the most out of a number twelve overall pick 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:08.880 or can you find ways to get him to the 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.880 quarterback and affect the passing game? Kelvin Joseph fantastic player, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.840 but we covered it during the draft. You know, not 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.280 a bad guy, not a bad person, but somebody that 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.280 that you know, left his first program and had problems 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.400 at the other I think a guy that probably you 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.440 would say maybe has maturity issues. So your first two 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.640 picks right there, like the guys that you're counting on 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:34.359 the most fantastically talented players, but you know, I think 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.280 you better, you better have a plan for how to 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:37.800 use them, and you better have a plan for how 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.480 to help them succeed. And then, obviously, as we all remember, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.280 Friday can't say they were bad picks yet, but surprising picks. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.880 I just think picks that you know, there were guys 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.000 that we liked more on the board. The consensus is 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.160 that maybe the Cowboys liked those guys a lot more 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.000 than other people did. Again, doesn't mean they'll be bad players, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.600 but it does create some intrigue one, two, three years 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.520 down the line when you see what those guys become. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.200 So if the Cowboys hit on all this stuff, then 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.120 they are gonna look really really smart, and if they don't, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.280 it's gonna look really really bad considering some of the 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.200 other options that I think they had over the course 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.080 of the draft. Brian, when I think Dave made a 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.360 fantastic point. They're talking about kind of the early picks 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.400 that are supposed to be the cornerstones of your draft class, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.599 those first, those second round picks, even sometimes into the third. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.240 But I think with three third round picks you have 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.160 a little bit of leeway there. However, I mean with 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.560 Michael Parsons and with Kelvin Joseph, there are some question 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.640 marks there are some concerns leading into who they are 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.520 on the field, because on the field they might be 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.159 top twenty talents. In the film might be top twenty worthy. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.240 But why is that such a big question mark over 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.320 both of these picks and how do you balance that 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.240 from a scout standpoint and entering the draft and then 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:03.120 post draft? Yeah, you know, when you especially when you're 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.480 picking you know, high in the first round like they 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.280 were with Parsons, Uh, you know, you just want the 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.840 cleanest prospect. You don't want the guy that has any 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.719 off the field concerns, you don't want medical concerns. You 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.600 just want the cleanest player and the best player. And 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.960 you know that that's the thing that that's the thing 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.800 that might be a little troubling uh to folks out there, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.600 is that when you start to hear, you know, about 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.279 zoom meetings and lack of medical information and face to 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.800 face meetings and things like that, you kind of wonder 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.680 where where all the where all the t's crossed, and 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.440 where all the eyes dotted? Because you know, when you 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.960 don't have thirty visits, when you don't have the opportunity 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.680 to go have private workouts or sit to have dinner 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.720 with these guys. You know, you can't really get to 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.960 know these kids. And you know, Parsons and Joseph and 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.360 those guys that you know, they had to your questions, Okay, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.120 why this, why that? Why did this happen? Why were 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.120 you in this situation? And that's what this pandemic has brought. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.960 It's brought a lot of holes to the drafting process, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.440 you know, and that's hard for scouts because what happens 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.680 is we're a face to face group. We're a face 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.560 to face sit across from a kid and ask him 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.480 those tough questions and see how his reaction is. And 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.400 you know, I don't know if you could always get 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.680 that through the zoom meetings and things like that. So yeah, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.920 it's a little bit more of a deviation from what 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:38.000 we've seen because during the Jason Garrett administration, you know, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.480 we saw like, oh, the right kind of guide. I'm 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.960 not saying that Parsons or Joseph could not be the 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.200 right kind of guy, because Garrett and m they took 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.919 some questionable guys too, but just not to the extent 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.680 of what the Cowboys did in this past draft. Davis, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.839 this a direct reflection on a couple of things one, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.080 the change of the coaching staff like Brian just alluded to. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.880 Two COVID nineteen and maybe the lack of information on 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.360 these players or is it three? Just basically desperation to 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.080 try and fix that defense with the kind of players 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.280 with that edge, with that attitude coming in and being 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.760 sold on those type of guys whenever the draft process 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.800 finally came around. I think that's one of those things 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.520 where it's like the beauty is in the eye of 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.120 the beholder, Like if you're not a fan of what 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.920 they did, then you would probably call it desperation. If 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.560 you are a fan of what they did, and for that, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.760 you know, for I think most of us, I don't 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.280 want to speak for everybody, but I think a lot 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.000 of us might have taken Rashaun s Later at twelve overall. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.880 But for everybody that isn't in love with the pick, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.160 there are a lot of people that absolutely love this pick. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.600 And if you do, if you love what they did, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.680 then I think you would say determination, determination to fix 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.680 the defense, right, I like, that's what we need to do. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.000 And I absolutely I believe them when they say that 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.680 Parsons was their highest graded defender. I still think they 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.560 would have taken a cornerback above him, and I think 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.400 that would have been smart, which and it's it's funny 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.560 to think how how it all shakes out, So like 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.240 you don't get your cornerback at ten, you take Parsons 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.440 at twelve, and then you get Kelvin Joseph at forty four. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.400 I'm sure they had a really high grade on him. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.080 Was he their highest grade remaining or was he the 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.320 best guy at the position that they needed the most? 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.600 Only they are the ones that know the answer to that, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.640 and that's I guess that's my point is are you 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.080 desperate or are you just determined, like we've absolutely got 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.920 to get better. And on some level I admire what 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.640 they did because I think I was one of the 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.000 ones saying the whole time leading into the draft, like, oh, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.160 you know, nobody just drafts all defense, like it always 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.760 balances out at some point or another. And I know 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.560 they drafted three offensive players, but the first six were 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.800 all defense. So probably not all those guys are going 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.400 to work out, but even if half of them do, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.480 you've taken steps toward rebuilding that thing. So in light 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.839 of that, I see their strategy and I can appreciate 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.160 it like they're not gonna let this or they're gonna 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.120 try not to let this defense handicap them again the 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:14.160 way it did last year. Brian, Is it determination, is 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.800 it desperation? What do you believe on that side of 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:22.600 the ball. I think they graded the players and picked 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.040 the players how they saw Excuse me, I think they 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.840 picked the players. How they graded the players, you know, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.880 and digging into what they did grade wise of the draft, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.439 they're the majority of their draft, especially on the defensive 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.000 side of the ball, had a grade of a fourth 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.280 round grade or better on their board. So as you 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.880 start to get back in go further back in the draft, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.520 those are the things that you hope for when you 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:53.280 set up your board that you're taking players. Say you're 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.040 taking players in the third round, that you might have 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.440 a second round grade on, you're taking a player in 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.720 the fourth round you have a third round grade on. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.199 So I my my, my gut feeling is that they 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.920 were probably surprised that several of their players were on 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.240 their board at that time. The one that's interesting to 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.640 me is the right pick, and you know, that was 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.600 one of those where I'm I'm hearing that they had 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.040 a third round grade on him going into the draft. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.600 If that's the case, well then they got the player 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.120 where they put him on the board. So you know 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.760 that that's all you can ask. You know, time will 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.080 tell whether they're right or whether guys like myself, the 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.800 Days of the World, David Hellman's Katie, you know, Jeff Kavanaugh, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.000 guys would study this. You know, we could be really 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.319 wrong about that too. So I feel like, though, is 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.679 it's just kind of digging in a little bit. They 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.840 they were taking players around or so higher than what 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.560 was on their board, and you know that that'll be 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.439 the that'll be the tail of the tape for him 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.840 here in the next three four years, which I really appreciated. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.439 Oh sorry, just to go off of that, I appreciated 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.560 Jerry Jones's honesty on Saturday Night, he kind of he 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.760 acknowledged that of saying like, yeah, you know, I saw 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.480 you know, people saying we reached on right, but then 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.800 Jabril Cox fell to us in the fourth round, and 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.559 I guess his ideas that it all kind of averages 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.400 out and to some degree as long as as long 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.600 as you're not completely lying about your grades, which they 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.920 were not, Like, you know, I think they had a 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.360 cluster of similar grades, and you sit there and you think, like, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.720 you know, all of us draft geeks want you to 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.280 be as true to the board as possible. But if 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.880 you draft Micah Parsons twelfth overall, you really, you know, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.920 take a big swing at the linebacker position, and then 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.400 you're sitting there with a cluster of picks on Day two. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.839 As long as you like the grades on those guys 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.439 I get. Waiting on Jabril Cox, you know, you're like, Okay, well, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.679 we've got a starting caliber linebacker in the bag already. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.320 Let's beef up this line. Let's take this cornerback that 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.280 we really feel strongly about, and then Cox falls to them, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.320 and it all works out to where they get. I 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.640 think Jerry Jones said they got four of the six 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.679 guys that they've really, you know, had their eyes on 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.559 during that run of picks, which I can't argue with that. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.360 And like I said, as long as they're not fudging 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.520 their grades, which I don't think they were, it just 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.960 so happens. And it's not I don't think they were. 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.360 I know they weren't. Um it just so happens that 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.439 they feel a lot more strongly about some of these 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.719 guys than a lot of other people do. And that's 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.680 what's gonna make it fun is getting to find out 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.800 who was right, well, what they what What you don't 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.120 need to find out is where they jump in tags, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.200 you know. And yeah, old old crusties like me, you know, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.280 I believe. And you set your board, you stack your 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.480 board to how you would take those players, and you know, 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.520 maybe there's some things that you have to manipulate along 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.760 the way of your board. But if if in fact 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.320 that Cox was one of their higher eighty guys and 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.559 then they took right over him, you know, I mean, okay, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.080 that's jumping tags and so you know, but they got 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.400 fortunate that they got Cox, you know when they did. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.520 So maybe that tells me that they had Cox rated wrong, 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.280 you know so, but don't you know that's sorry, don't 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.000 you don't you think what you do previously in a 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.480 draft has some sort of impact on that, like having 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.080 if you draft Rashaan Slater, maybe you make Cox the 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.440 first pick among those Day two picks, or the second pick. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.520 Maybe you draft Cox is seventy five, if you draft 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.959 Rashawns later, but having Micah Parsons already as part of 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.440 your draft class probably influences your opinion about when you 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.280 need to take Jabril Cox, don't you think? Yeah, I 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.240 think to me, with the thing with Jabril Cox, though, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.040 I mean, you had to go in if if if 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.760 Parsons is your sixth best player on your board, and 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.200 you get down to it and say, you have a 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.120 second round grade on Cox, you know, and you're in 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.840 there and you end up getting him in the you know, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.040 the fourth round. Yeah, I think that's one of those 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.679 times where the tags just blinking at you, like, we've 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.120 got to take this. You know, we got a second 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.560 round grade on him, so let's let's go. And so 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.360 I don't to me, I just I just don't the 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.040 problems I have. And I think the Cowboys did right. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.160 I mean there's several the Gholston pick, I understand that. Oh, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.920 Dickie Zawah, I get that, you know. Heck, the Bohannan 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.920 pick I think is gonna great. The wide receiver from Stanford. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.560 I love their picks. The process sometimes drives me a 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.720 little nuts about how they set things up, and you know, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.240 sometimes they fall into some things that you're like going, wow, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.560 they got the draft. Gods were smiling on them today 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.920 because of where they had particular players. So I'm not 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.920 gonna call it chaos, but I'm gonna call it you know, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.080 how do you set things up and then have it 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.880 fall the way it does, and you know, maybe take 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.160 themselves out of some players that they probably could have got. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.200 But overall, it's the it's the results that matter and 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.360 not the process. Maybe I'm making too much of a 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.680 big deal of the process with this team. Hey, you 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.000 got the price. I agree with you. Though I like 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.640 I think this team, I think this for the for 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.440 the majority of the time I've covered them. I think 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.120 the Cowboys kind of tweak things as they go to 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.160 make it, to make it work the way they wanted to. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.240 Like Oh, Diggi, Zooa and Gholston are a great example 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.560 again of like maybe there were high or graded players available, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.480 but they were like all right, but like I would 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.880 love to have some beef on the defensive line, and 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.480 so you tweak it and say, let's just take these 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.400 guys and worry about it later. And that's what made 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.680 I'm actually I'll be publishing a story about this later today. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.120 I encourage you to read it. But that's what made 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.600 last year so different. Is it really didn't feel like 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.640 they did that at all, Like it really felt like 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.840 they were really just drafting the best possible player. And 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.440 who knows, maybe that's wrong, Like we don't know all 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.920 of their grades for last year either, but that's certainly 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.880 what it felt like. And I think that's just that's 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.360 an outlier. And I think the vast majority of the 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.440 time when the Cowboys are in their war room, I 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.680 think they kind of tweak things based on what they 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.600 feel like needs to happen. It sounded like, and you 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.000 had said this previously on one of the shows that 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.920 we had been on, but it's kind of like false 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.040 hope at least from twenty to twenty twenty one. But 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.360 like you said, if they're not fudging grades, then it's 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.840 the same kind of thing. It's it's exactly going down 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.560 the board drafting these guys where they were. The biggest 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.760 surprise was ninety nine and Nashan right and the Oregon 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.320 State corner that just kind of came out of nowhere. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.040 And like Brian said, it's rumored that the Cowboys had 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.840 a third round grade on him. When we come back 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.160 here on the Draft show, we're gonna hit some Twitter 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.080 on the twenty questions, including one that has to do 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.080 with Nishan right and what he brings in. What Brian 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.680 thinks about him now that he's probably gotten a chance 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.080 to watch him. 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Turner, and Dame Bugler to wrap things up 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.680 officially for the twenty twenty one edition of the Draft Show. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.240 Once again, special thanks for all those who have stuck 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.679 with us from all the way into Simber, all the 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.520 way up until last week's draft and then the week after. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.360 So it's time now to answer some of those fan 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.159 questions with some Twitter on the twenty Twitter on the 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.040 Twitter Chris Beam absolutely killing it in the back, and 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.280 he did it all weekend long throughout the draft coverage 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.280 here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Okay, first one has 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.239 to do with Nashan Wright, and I'm gonna send this 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.480 one directly at broadest now that we've gotten a chance 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.960 to kind of see who he is. Cowboys Cowboys Coffee 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.280 Talk says, is there a possibility that he was drafted 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.520 simply as a situational defender to match up against bigger 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.600 targets one on one in the red zone and then 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.720 also to play a little bit of special team So 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.320 ultimately a third round pick ninety nine overall for a 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.400 situational defender, is that exactly what the case was with Nishan? Right? 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:46.760 And what do you think about him now that you've 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:51.199 gotten to see him? Yeah, I you know, I like 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.120 the idea. That's some really deep thinking. But I think 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.679 they drafted him to play legitimate corner. And what I'm 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.560 learning more about Dan Quinn and how they're looking at 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.080 these players is the taller the player for Dan, the 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.800 better the player for Dan, and what he wants to 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.960 do is and I've learned this this is an I 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.800 think a very interesting take that taller guys create smaller 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.639 windows for quarterbacks to throw the ball. If you're a 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.960 quarterback and you go out there and a guy's playing 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:24.400 off the hip of a receiver and running with quarterbacks 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.600 don't see that throwing area. They don't see that window 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.360 to fit that ball because what they see is defender. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.639 And so if you get a guy that has the 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.480 ability to stay in position, whether that's you know, I'm 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.040 not it's about full separation, but you stay in trail 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:43.920 position and then are able to create that barrier between 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.760