Frisco, Texas – Maybe you've heard of The Flying Wallendas.
If not, the best explanation is: Flying Wallendas is a circus and a group of daredevilsHe's a stunt performer lolI will do itm elevated act lolthatMake sure you have a safety net.
Well, let's meet of Flying Jones is a top-notch player in the NFL Draft who performs without a safety net, especially in the first round of the draft.
They took a calculated risk with an impressive performance in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft here Thursday, along with draft spotters, head coach Mike McCarthy and vice president of player personnel Will McCray. I gasped a little. While striving to achieve predetermined goals. And this is despite having only 24 pieces.th A first-round pick is a punishment in the socialized NFL, where a meek player will inherit a 12-5 record this season.
It seemed to me that I had three goals. First, get an offensive lineman, preferably a left tackle or center. Second, if they didn't have to play the hole card, why could they keep Pro Bowl left guard Tyler Smith in place and future Hall of Famer Tyron Smith? They won't have to bring him back to tackle to make up for the loss in free agency. . And the third, and probably top priority, is to try to acquire additional second-day draft picks if possible.
That means moving from 24th place to the bottom.th In order to acquire the player you wanted, you could consider drafting him in the low 20s, or even in the 30-32 range, but when he was traded to San Francisco last year, he had already appointed this year's No. 4 player as QB. , they'll likely also take a third or fourth-rounder. Get Trey Lance.
Even before the draft started, if the Cowboys were down to 24 players and had about five players they didn't mind ending up with, they would trade down to get a much-needed extra pick. I was wondering what would happen.
In fact, when I interviewed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on a tape segment that was scheduled to be broadcast at the Dallas Cowboys' draft party, around 4:30 p.m., he asked, “You're in 1989. I've made 71 draft-day trades since I became an owner in 2017, so what are the chances of me making a trade tonight and getting the third or fourth?
Undeterred, Jerry said there was an “80 percent” chance the deal would go down. Now. please.
And somewhat surprisingly, conscription began to favor them, and then began to take them away. For the first time in NFL history, six quarterbacks were selected within the first 12 picks. Great, pushing a player they were interested in to No. 24. Then, three wide receivers and tight ends who weren't meant to be drafted ended up within the first 13 picks. Then, six defensive players will play within the next eight selections.
The bad news is that the Cowboys were already without six of their top-ranked offensive tackles by the time the game started.
Please, Jerry and Stephen. Get out onto the high wire.
The Cowboys have begun to respond to calls for trades down. You can choose from several trading offers. And when COO Stephen Jones was seen on the war room camera picking up the phone with two minutes left in the 10-minute pick window, it was clear that a trade was in the works. It seemed like a good possibility. And within the last minute, the call went to the NFL and it was a trade.
The Cowboys were trading $24.th He was selected in the first round, and the following year he was selected at No. 7 by the Detroit Lions for 29 years.th Selection and 3rd round, 73rd Overall pick – 3rd round, 9th – Combined with own No. 3, 87th whole. At least it's decent draft trade ammunition.
But now that wire is starting to wobble. In the Cowboys' mind, he had four players they were ultimately happy with. They were now five picks away. They were happy with the odds, but it made their stomachs hurt, especially the spotter's.
“I was nervous while I was waiting,” Stephen Jones said. “There's no question that we were taking some risks there.”
The four players they had in mind were versatile offensive lineman and likely center Graham Burton (Duke), offensive left tackle Jordan Morgan (Arizona State), and defensive lineman Darius Robinson (Missouri State) and offensive, primarily right tackle Tyler Guyton (Oklahoma).
And after the Lions acquired Alabama cornerback Terrion Arnold with the Cowboys' pick, a move they expected to happen, now something breathtaking has happened. It's like in blackjack he's afraid of a 10 and he hits a 12. The wire started to wobble.
Morgan, now 25, will go to Green Bay.
Bam, 26-year-old Burton is going to Tampa Bay.
Robinson, now 27, will go to Arizona.
Kansas City is currently the No. 32 team and was looking to trade up to the Cowboys for the No. 24 pick. Instead, the Chiefs made a deal with Buffalo, moving them to No. 28. They were confident in what the Chiefs were going to do and made the pick. Texas wideout Xavier Worthy.
The sigh of relief was like a tornado. Their man Guyton was still there.
Even Guyton admitted that when the Cowboys traded him down, his “heart dropped because I really love the Cowboys” because he knew they were interested in him.
That's how the Cowboys weathered the storm. We got the left tackle, but with an asterisk. A tight end and defensive lineman in high school, Guyton played minimal games at tackle after transferring from TCU to Oklahoma, starting only 14 games over two years and playing primarily at right tackle.
reach? The Cowboys insist that converting to left won't be a big problem in protecting Dak Prescott's blindside. After all, he guarded left-handed quarterback Dillon Gabriel's blindside at the University of Oklahoma.
McCarthy once said that when he had to move Josh Sid from right guard to left guard, “and he best explained to me the difficulty of moving from right guard to left guard. “It's like wiping your butt with your other hand,'' he said.
But now, for me, the whole key to this trade down and the selection of Guyton is:
What will the Cowboys do with the ninth pick in the third round? You must hit to qualify this move. And maybe if you have a target player in the second round on Friday, you can parlay a third and move up the rankings significantly. Alternatively, you can combine one-fifth and one-third into action.
Remember in 2013 when the Cowboys made a nearly similar move in the first round? They traded down from 18?th In the draft, they selected future Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick with the 31st pick and used the third-round pick acquired in the contract to select future starting wideout Terrence Williams. Also, let's not forget that they were criticized for taking Frederick, with many considering him a second-round pick. But he was three picks away from No. 2, so why not split his hair?
Words, critical words, were eaten.
Okay, okay. We'll see if Guyton, the eighth offensive tackle off the board, is good enough to start day one at left tackle.Well, today we'll see what the Cowboys do with that 73.rd Drafted along with 1987th.
Now see if they were able to successfully maneuver to the other end of the high wire.
