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March 15 2012 08:32 PM
Here are a few highlights from Thursday's episode featuring Rick Gosselin and Gerry Fraley:
On the Cowboys' move to sign Brandon Carr:
Gosselin: If he’s worth $50 million, I wonder what the Chiefs’ best cornerback was worth, Brandon Flowers. [Carr] was a guy who was the second corner in Kansas City and is supposed to be the answer here. He was a right corner in Kansas City, but he’s got to go to left corner. Left corner is where you see the better receivers, and it’s going to be different for him. But he’s got to be an upgrade from Newman. His age showed up the last two seasons, his loss of speed has shown up. This is a big-time upgrade, but more importantly, it takes them off the hook in the first round of the draft. They didn’t want to have to take a corner with the 14th pick. They didn’t like what they were looking at with the position there, but now they can go in another direction.
Fraley: I think they overpaid, didn’t they?
Gosselin: Without question.
Fraley: And they sort of put themselves into a corner when they got rid of Newman. They had to get a corner, which again speaks to their poor development through the years. They haven’t developed a corner, so they had to go out and overpay on the free agent market.
Gosselin: And they waited too long. If they had gotten the deal done before Finnegan got done, they could’ve gotten him at a much better bargain. But waiting for Finnegan, Carlos Rogers, Stanford Routt, all those guys to get done, you’re stuck. If he’s the only guy left and you’ve got to sign him, you’ve got to pay whatever he’s asking
March 15 2012 08:32 PM
Here are a few highlights from Thursday's episode featuring Rick Gosselin and Gerry Fraley:
On the Cowboys' move to sign Brandon Carr:
Gosselin: If he’s worth $50 million, I wonder what the Chiefs’ best cornerback was worth, Brandon Flowers. [Carr] was a guy who was the second corner in Kansas City and is supposed to be the answer here. He was a right corner in Kansas City, but he’s got to go to left corner. Left corner is where you see the better receivers, and it’s going to be different for him. But he’s got to be an upgrade from Newman. His age showed up the last two seasons, his loss of speed has shown up. This is a big-time upgrade, but more importantly, it takes them off the hook in the first round of the draft. They didn’t want to have to take a corner with the 14th pick. They didn’t like what they were looking at with the position there, but now they can go in another direction.
Fraley: I think they overpaid, didn’t they?
Gosselin: Without question.
Fraley: And they sort of put themselves into a corner when they got rid of Newman. They had to get a corner, which again speaks to their poor development through the years. They haven’t developed a corner, so they had to go out and overpay on the free agent market.
Gosselin: And they waited too long. If they had gotten the deal done before Finnegan got done, they could’ve gotten him at a much better bargain. But waiting for Finnegan, Carlos Rogers, Stanford Routt, all those guys to get done, you’re stuck. If he’s the only guy left and you’ve got to sign him, you’ve got to pay whatever he’s asking
