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Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor answered your questions in his weekly e-mail newsletter - Inside the Dallas Cowboys. Here are some highlights.
Q: Tyron Smith is Rayfield Wright.
Ira Haron
TAYLOR: I don’t know that I would compare him to a Hall of Fame player yet. It’s way too early for that. But Smith said he wants to be a Pro Bowler and a Hall of Fame player, so I can’t argue with his ambition.
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Q: Have the Cowboys gotten rid of three overpaid and terrible players — Marion Barber, Leonard Davis and Marc Colombo?
Chris Bryant, Reading, Pa.
TAYLOR: The first rule of the NFL is you don’t make a decision on any player until you have to because of the injury nature of the NFL. Once the league year is established, which won’t happen until a CBA is reached, then the decision-making process will start. That said, it’s unlikely Barber and Colombo will return. Rule No. 2: You don’t cut players until you have their replacement lined up.
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Q: I have always been told that your money goes in the following areas: quarterback, left tackle, receiver, pass rusher and cornerback. Why, then would the Cowboys pick a right tackle at No. 9 when there are at least three others who could be picked up later in the draft who are arguably as good as Smith for less?
Joe Stout, Boca Raton, Fla.
TAYLOR: First, the Cowboys believed there was a significant difference between Tyron Smith and the other tackles on the board.
Second, it’s important to have a quality right tackle in today’s NFL because if a defensive coordinator believes the offense’s left tackle is too tough, then he just flips the pass rusher to the other side to take advantage of the matchup. With Smith and Doug Free, the Cowboys should be set at tackle for the next decade.
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Q: From the recent comments from Jerry Jones on the Cowboys “not having the league’s highest payroll” does that possibly point to veterans like Roy Williams, Marion Barber, Marc Colombo and Leonard Davis being released?
Jonathan Green, Rowlett
TAYLOR: As I mentioned earlier, you can’t just cut players until you have their replacements lined up. Those players who survive this season, probably Williams and Davis, won’t be here in 2012.
Q: Tyron Smith is Rayfield Wright.
Ira Haron
TAYLOR: I don’t know that I would compare him to a Hall of Fame player yet. It’s way too early for that. But Smith said he wants to be a Pro Bowler and a Hall of Fame player, so I can’t argue with his ambition.
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Q: Have the Cowboys gotten rid of three overpaid and terrible players — Marion Barber, Leonard Davis and Marc Colombo?
Chris Bryant, Reading, Pa.
TAYLOR: The first rule of the NFL is you don’t make a decision on any player until you have to because of the injury nature of the NFL. Once the league year is established, which won’t happen until a CBA is reached, then the decision-making process will start. That said, it’s unlikely Barber and Colombo will return. Rule No. 2: You don’t cut players until you have their replacement lined up.
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Q: I have always been told that your money goes in the following areas: quarterback, left tackle, receiver, pass rusher and cornerback. Why, then would the Cowboys pick a right tackle at No. 9 when there are at least three others who could be picked up later in the draft who are arguably as good as Smith for less?
Joe Stout, Boca Raton, Fla.
TAYLOR: First, the Cowboys believed there was a significant difference between Tyron Smith and the other tackles on the board.
Second, it’s important to have a quality right tackle in today’s NFL because if a defensive coordinator believes the offense’s left tackle is too tough, then he just flips the pass rusher to the other side to take advantage of the matchup. With Smith and Doug Free, the Cowboys should be set at tackle for the next decade.
* * *
Q: From the recent comments from Jerry Jones on the Cowboys “not having the league’s highest payroll” does that possibly point to veterans like Roy Williams, Marion Barber, Marc Colombo and Leonard Davis being released?
Jonathan Green, Rowlett
TAYLOR: As I mentioned earlier, you can’t just cut players until you have their replacements lined up. Those players who survive this season, probably Williams and Davis, won’t be here in 2012.