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I hear about how Jerry blew it on the 2009 because they traded for Roy and still owed Detroit a 1st and then the 2nd round came and dallas moved out then picked Jason Williams and Robert Brewster. But has anybody really looked at the 2009 draft? If Dallas wouldnt have had to give the Lions that pick at 20, They clearly wouldnt have picked Alex Mack C who went to Cleveland. Maybe the pick up Michael Oher. Clay Mathews if there but they had just drafted Spencer so they werent going to target him either.

Round 2.
They wanted Max Unger plain and simple. But Seattle trades up and snatches him. They didnt see no value to them so they trade out. And if you look at the draft results they were right, There is nobody taken in the 2nd after they traded that has done anything except LeSean McCoy. But dallas had just drafted Felix Jones too.

Round 3.
Jason Williams pick i said the same thing WTF. Then Robert Brewster and was sick to my stomach. Mike Wallace and Lardarius Webb were taken later in the round but 8 other teams from the time the cowboys picked Brewster missed on him aswell.

Round 4
In round 4 Dallas took Stephen McGee and Victor Butler. McGee i have no words still to this day. I sometimes forget he is even on the team. But ill say this in the entire draft class only 8 players have more sacks than Victor Butler. And 6 of them are starters.

From there its a crap shoot on if you hit or miss on players you picked. My point being is 2009 was a bad draft all the way around. For the entire nfl. Very few players have made any mark for themselves from this class.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2009/draft.htm
 
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Yep I've looked at it. There is a post on here somewhere about it

Could have had Oher, Nicks, Matthews or Britt

Round 2 could have been McCoy (who they had a first round grade on) Kruger, Beatty or Vollmer

Round 3: Wallace or Webb
 

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Yep I've looked at it. There is a post on here somewhere about it

Could have had Oher, Nicks, Matthews or Britt

Round 2 could have been McCoy (who they had a first round grade on) Kruger, Beatty or Vollmer

Round 3: Wallace or Webb

Mathews wouldve never been drafted they had just drafted Spencer, same with McCoy they had just drafted Felix. Butler has better stats than Kruger. IMO the only real miss would be Oher. That 2009 was a nightmare for alot of teams
 

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True, it was a pretty lousy draft for talent overall. But the real disaster was trading two first day (old system) picks for Roy Williams.
 
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Hindsight bro... you weren't thinking that when he caught that touchdown against the Buccaneers that one time.
 

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It did suck but those are the breaks. I was with most hating that damn draft after the fact. But ive seen how most of the nfl had the same bad luck it doesnt make me so mad anymore. Especially with the success The Cowboys have had in the draft since.
 

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So basically what we're saying is, the 2009 was going to suck balls no matter what?
 

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What is lost on a lot of the cabal is the importance of the team placing a strong emphasis on drafting the right kind of guys in that 2009 draft.

We selected a lot of team captains. That wasn't a coincidence.

The player I'm most excited about is Mike Mickens. I see a lot of Orlando Scandrick in him. In fact, I'm not terribly familiar with several of the players we took in that 2009 draft, but I'm excited about all of them.
 

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What is lost on a lot of the cabal is the importance of the team placing a strong emphasis on drafting the right kind of guys in that 2009 draft.

We selected a lot of team captains. That wasn't a coincidence.

The player I'm most excited about is Mike Mickens. I see a lot of Orlando Scandrick in him. In fact, I'm not terribly familiar with several of the players we took in that 2009 draft, but I'm excited about all of them.

lol

Mike Mickens.
 

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Awful strategy from the get go.

To me, the 2009 draft much like his first draft, the Shante Carver debacle, are exhibits a and b that Jerry is killing us pretending to be a General Manager. The 2009 draft...first, there's overpaying for Roy Williams. Whether you liked the trade at the time, the end result was we greatly overpaid. Then there's the "special team draft" or "back-up draft " mentality we had. Never a great strategy and a bad job of assessing your roster. Jerry was not prepared at all in the 2nd round when Seattle jumped ahead and took Max Unger. We literally had no back-up plan. We let the time expire and got fleeced in the trade with Buffalo. Stephen was yelling at Jerry that we were running out of time and Jerry was "thinking'. Then we reached for a small school, small linebacker who didn't fit our scheme and followed up with a mega-reach on a slow-footed, overweight tackle who had a pretty average career at Ball State. We continued to trade down the whole draft. The draft at the time was considered (and has since been proven) to be a very weak draft. A better strategy would be target a few players you feel have real value and go after them, not trade down and draft more crap. Another strategy would have been to acquire picks in the next year's draft, we didn't. We just took scrub after scrub.
 
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Did anybody figure out what the hell happened with RW11 or does no one even care anymore?

He went from being worth a 1 and a 3(or as espn knew it "all those picks!") and the highest paid WR in the league to being probably out of the league real soon.

Did he just put up some garbage-time comeback stats in Detroit? Is he one of these "types" who never worksout and yet still explodes with muscle and age caught up with him?
 

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Did anybody figure out what the hell happened with RW11 or does no one even care anymore?

He went from being worth a 1 and a 3(or as espn knew it "all those picks!") and the highest paid WR in the league to being probably out of the league real soon.

Did he just put up some garbage-time comeback stats in Detroit? Is h one of these "types" who never worksout and yet still explodes with muscle and age caught up with him?

He only had 1,000 yard season in Detroit. Just wasn't that good. I would have gladly taken the Baltimore, Giants, Green Bay, Pittsburgh drafts
 
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