The back half of the first round is where I started building my offensive starting lineup. Martin, Haley, White and Lilly all in their primes? Yeah, good luck blocking that front. Watt has averaged 10.6 per season during his nine-year career. The four-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl MVP finished his career with 114 10.3 per season for his entire career. Sacks weren’t an official stat recorded by the NFL when Martin played in Dallas from 1973 to 1983, but the Cowboys kept track. Harris is part of the latest class of Pro Football Hall of Famers.Ģ0th overall: Harvey Martin, DE. Now that I have both, I’m certain I’ll have the better defense. Safety was a position that I thought there was a decent gap between Darren Woodson, Cliff Harris and the rest of the players available. The Cowboys were already a good team before Haley was traded to Dallas in 1992, but as Jerry Jones has said several times, “We couldn’t spell Super Bowl until Charles Haley came to the Cowboys.”ġ8th overall: Cliff Harris, S. Haley is a five-time Super Bowl champion, a five-time Pro Bowler and a Pro Football Hall of Famer. With DeMarcus Ware going the pick before, I went back to loading up my defensive line. I’m still not completely certain what my offensive identity is going to be at this point, but I know Dorsett will fit nicely with whatever ends up being the plan.ġ6th overall: Charles Haley, DE. I felt pretty fortunate to get a Hall of Fame running back, and my first offensive skill position player, this late. But I was hoping to build a little bit of a foundation up front first.ġ4th overall: Tony Dorsett, RB. Tony Dorsett was still available and may have been the smarter pick, especially considering Bob already had Emmitt Smith. Larry Allen was the first overall pick, but I picked up the second-best offensive lineman in Cowboys history. Here’s how my next five picks came off the board.ġ2th overall: Rayfield Wright, OT. After grabbing Bob Lilly, Randy White, Lee Roy Jordan, Chuck Howley and Darren Woodson with my first five selections, I finally decided to address my offense. Here is Part Two: Jon’s team.Īs you could probably tell from Monday’s introductory piece revealing each of our first five picks, Bob was heading for an advantage on offense while I was doing the same on defense. Could we both put together 53-man NFL rosters while paying attention to each position, drawing from the greatest players and coaches in team history, in hopes of designing one roster superior to the other? It sounded like fun, so we both jumped on the change of pace and the general idea. The franchise’s rich history certainly presents some amazing choices, and that is the point. The premise is for Bob Sturm and Jon Machota to draft against each other, attempting to create the best all-time Cowboys team possible. Managing editor Or Moyal pitched an idea to us for this holiday week, something to occupy Cowboys fans’ attention before we shift our focus to the 2020 team.
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