Quinn goes to Cleveland, but Dallas gets a 2nd and a 1st next year

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by la73hof

I wanted this guy BADLY the last month leading up to the draft

Ellis is coming off an achilles injury, last years 1st rounder, Bobby Carpenter is a better ILB than OLB so Spencer made a lot of sense.

Not only can Spencer get after the passer, but he had 93 tackles drom a DE spot and 26.5 of thoise were tackles for a loss.

Combine this with a proven commidity defensive coach in Phillips, Im licking my chops.

The best line I saw was a reaction from an Eagles fan

"We just made a trade with hated rival Dallas and allowed them to draft a guy who is going to kill Kevin Kolb."

Awesome!

The only thing that pissed me off about the picke were the Dallas fans at the draft who were pissy that we didnt draft a corner.

WTF?

For over a decade, since Haley retird (the 1st time) all we had was a secondary that to cover all friggin day because we couldnt create a pass rush because of bozos like Dave Campo and Mike Zimmer and idiotic draft choices from Jerrah

Retards

Has a team ever tried to play two college DEs at the OLB position in the 3-4, much less two first round DEs? Isn't this unprecidented?

Not saying it won't work, because if said players are talented enough it will work fine, but it just seems unbalanced to me.

If this team ever gets a coach who wants to move back to the 4-3, it would be a disaster.

[la73hof]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Has a team ever tried to play two college DEs at the OLB position in the 3-4, much less two first round DEs? Isn't this unprecidented?

Not saying it won't work, because if said players are talented enough it will work fine, but it just seems unbalanced to me.

If this team ever gets a coach who wants to move back to the 4-3, it would be a disaster.

The 4-3 is gone in Dallas for the forseeable future

Spencer, like Ware, definitely has the athleticism to make the conversion. Hes not quite the athlete Ware is but he plays with more power and had the ability to flatten out that better than Ware (has demonstrated to this point)

And unlike Parcells/Zimmer scheme, our LB's will NOT be playing in reverse nearly as much as they have.

The Chargers had 61 backs last year with Phillips running the Bolts D.

OLB's Shaun Phillips and Shawne Merriman had 28.5 of those by themselves

Thats only 5.5 less sacks than we had 34 as a team last year

I like the OL picks--Flozell Adams will be gonne after this year and Columbo is only signed through '08.

Free will likely be our LT next year and Maten our RT in '09

The real wildcard is fromer QB soon to be WR Isiah Stanbeck in the 4th.

Cowboys Director of Scouting Jeff Ireland nearly creamed himself when talking about this guy. Says Stanbeck compares to Anquan Boldin but with 4.35 to 4.4 better speed. Not bad for a guy 6'2" and 216

He'll be used as a 4th or 5th WR, tried @ KO and punt returns, a potential holder (insert Romo joke), used on specialty plays from the shotgun. Tremendous versatility

We got a PK who at worst will be a kickoff specialist for us this year--were were 19th in the league in average opponent starting position. Folk had a very good leg and had the best combine workout.

One of the 2 corners we drafted in the 7th will beat out our 5th CB and the other will at worst wind up on the PS if he clears wavers

And I havent even mentioned Clevelands number 1 next year who many of us hope turns into Darren McFadden