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May 2009
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The Dallas Cowboys didn't make a pick on the first day of this year's NFL draft, but they still had a part in the biggest deal of the draft. The New York Jets traded with the Cleveland Browns (and the coach the Jets fired a few months ago, Eric Mangini) so they could draft USC quarterback Mark Sanchez. For the fifth pick the Jets sent the Browns their first- and second-round picks (17 and 52 overall) plus quarterback Brett Ratliff and two former Cowboys -- defensive end Kenyon Coleman and safety Abram Elam. There is a lot more to the complexity of trading Elam, which Peter King wonderfully explains on SI.com. Elam is a guy the Cowboys wanted to keep, but he got lost amid -- believe it or not now -- a glut of safeties on the roster. Lets go back to 2007, the Cowboys had just signed Ken Hamlin to play safety along side Roy Williams. Keith Davis and Pat Watkins were also on the roster. So that meant Elam, a rookie free agent from Kent State in 2006 who played 15 games on special teams for the Cowboys in 2006, was the odd man out. Looking back, Watkins, a fifth-round pick in 2006, should have been the one cut. Instead, the Jets signed Elam and he went on to start 17 games in the next two seasons for the Jets. He should have never been a part of the Jets-Browns deal. Why was Elam waived? The Cowboys decided to sign linebacker Justin Rogers and cornerback Evan Oglesby. Oglesby played in eight games for the Cowboys in 2007 and nine for the Ravens last season with no starts. Rogers is mostly a special teams player with the Cowboys and has played in 31 games that last two season, also with no starts. Coleman is a similar story. He recorded four sacks for the Cowboys in 2006 as a backup. Since going to the Jets in free agency before the 2007 season he's started 29 of 32 games. His 83 tackles in 2007 led the NFL among ends. So by not keeping their own in 2007, the Cowboys helped the Jets get Sanchez, two years later. 3 CommentsLeave a comment |
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This is stretching it a bit, don't you think? I'm sure we could link this trade all the way back to Tom Landry if we really wanted.
well yes sir ,oh jerry bob square pants. he needs to pull out the money ,and get a quarter back pardon the pun. the q boy he has now EVERY TIME HE GETS TO THE 4 YARD LINE he wants to pass every time he gets to the 4 yard line and never runs it into the end zone .when he could walk it into the end zone .hes never showed me a thing, hes a bust and not a winner .the team talent is poor at best . new stadium means nothing .got to have a winner team first ,well sir. we will be here eating our bisquits and mustard yes sir ,they really need a coach who knows how to win the big ONE. his daddy never did .he comes from a long long line of losers . jerry got him on the cheap its all well known.a YES MAN . yes sir I'll be right here eating my bisquits and mustard .yes sir uhhun!! thats why yes sir .
This a real stretch. It's kinda like the butterfly flapping it's wings in China making it rain in Texas. The Cowboys had no influece on the pick of Sanchez.