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SportsDayDFW.com writer Rick Gosselin chatted with fans on Thursday and answered questions about the Dallas Cowboys. Here are some highlights:
During the draft, in the later rounds, will the Cowboys be looking for a quarterback to groom?
That's the Ron Wolf school of thought -- and I'm a strong subscriber. He believed you draft a quarterback in the second-day every year. Develop them at a slower pace, over a 3-4 year period with no pressure to put them on the field, then either they can become your quarterback -- or you can trade them. Even though Wolf had Brett Favre at the Packers, he drafted Ty Detmer, Mark Brunell, Matt Hasselbeck, and Aaron Brooks with second-day picks.
He wound up trading them all for higher picks and all went on to start in the NFL. If I were an NFL GM, I'd take a quarterback in the second day of every draft. If I were the Cowboys GM -- with a 31-year-old Tony Romo taking my snaps next season and a 39-year-old backing him up -- I'd definitely take a quarterback in the later rounds of the 2011 draft.
Next year, the owners want an 18-game season. Is that a done deal, or is it up for negotiation by the player's union?
Done deal. The two things the owners will definitely come away with in these negotiations are an 18-game schedule and a rookie salary cap. The NFL cannot continue to foist August exhibitions games on the public at full price. If the NFL could find a way to play a 20-game regular season with no pre-season games, it would. Eighteen games will be taxing enough.
The new stadium is massive. Has it affected the Cowboys' play at all?
I think the Cowboys have lost the home field edge that a small stadium affords a team. RFK was a bandbox with its 54,000 seats but it came alive on game days for the Redskins. You could feel the vibe from the crowd standing at midfield. The smaller the building, generally the more intimidating. In a big building, the noise dissipates. The Redskins lost their home field advantage when they moved into 90,000-seat FedEx Field.
At Cowboys Stadium, I bet on any given play the majority of eyes aren't even watching the field -- they are watching the replay board because it gives you the game bigger than life. The fact the Cowboys are 6-8 at Cowboys Stadium gives you a pretty good indication the aura is now in the stadium, not in the team. There are days, I'm sure, the Cowboys miss the intimate atmosphere provided by the 64,000-seat Texas Stadium.
SportsDayDFW.com writer Rick Gosselin chatted with fans on Thursday and answered questions about the Dallas Cowboys. Here are some highlights:
During the draft, in the later rounds, will the Cowboys be looking for a quarterback to groom?
That's the Ron Wolf school of thought -- and I'm a strong subscriber. He believed you draft a quarterback in the second-day every year. Develop them at a slower pace, over a 3-4 year period with no pressure to put them on the field, then either they can become your quarterback -- or you can trade them. Even though Wolf had Brett Favre at the Packers, he drafted Ty Detmer, Mark Brunell, Matt Hasselbeck, and Aaron Brooks with second-day picks.
He wound up trading them all for higher picks and all went on to start in the NFL. If I were an NFL GM, I'd take a quarterback in the second day of every draft. If I were the Cowboys GM -- with a 31-year-old Tony Romo taking my snaps next season and a 39-year-old backing him up -- I'd definitely take a quarterback in the later rounds of the 2011 draft.
Next year, the owners want an 18-game season. Is that a done deal, or is it up for negotiation by the player's union?
Done deal. The two things the owners will definitely come away with in these negotiations are an 18-game schedule and a rookie salary cap. The NFL cannot continue to foist August exhibitions games on the public at full price. If the NFL could find a way to play a 20-game regular season with no pre-season games, it would. Eighteen games will be taxing enough.
The new stadium is massive. Has it affected the Cowboys' play at all?
I think the Cowboys have lost the home field edge that a small stadium affords a team. RFK was a bandbox with its 54,000 seats but it came alive on game days for the Redskins. You could feel the vibe from the crowd standing at midfield. The smaller the building, generally the more intimidating. In a big building, the noise dissipates. The Redskins lost their home field advantage when they moved into 90,000-seat FedEx Field.
At Cowboys Stadium, I bet on any given play the majority of eyes aren't even watching the field -- they are watching the replay board because it gives you the game bigger than life. The fact the Cowboys are 6-8 at Cowboys Stadium gives you a pretty good indication the aura is now in the stadium, not in the team. There are days, I'm sure, the Cowboys miss the intimate atmosphere provided by the 64,000-seat Texas Stadium.
