Goddammit dbair. If they'd used a second on him and announced they saw something special in Dak no one else did, you'd have a point. But they wanted Lynch, Brissett and even that loser Connor Cook more than him.
Hell, there were reports a week or two into camp some of the coaches thought Showers was doing better than Dak.
It was pure ass luck, plain and simple.
Brissett? Where'd you hear that? I hadn't heard that anywhere. Everyone knew they loved Wentz and Lynch and that they tried like crazy to move up for Lynch, and then tried early 4th to get Cook. But I never heard anything about them preferring Brissett.
When we drafted Prescott at the end of the 4th, there were still people crying about what a wasted pick he was.
Unless you have the first pick of the draft, a lot of it IS luck because who you end up with is totally dependent on what other teams do. There's a ton of teams kicking themselves over Prescott right now, so yes we got lucky. But like I said to Dooms, you cant act like they didn't know who he was or just picked him because they threw a dart at a board and his picture was there. They put a lot of time into him, and this was reported all over the place the entire draft process.
As for the Showers stuff, how'd that end up?