The New Look for Doomsday

Hey, do you think that Dallas might trade ellis or glover for another pick?

No way we trade ellis or glover. they’re among our few top notch defensive pro bowl type players and they’re critical in the 4-3 and the 3-4. Plus, we need a rotation. The current scenario is excellent for the Cowboys. No chance — ZERO — of a trade.

by the way, here’s the numbes on ware. He has been timed faster then 4.61 in the 40 — but let’s not get too excited — straight-ahead speed isn’t everything.

on http://www.nfl.com/draft/profiles/2005/ware_demarcus

4.51 in the 40-yard dash (wind-aided) … 4.56 in the 40-yard dash (normal conditions) … 430-pound bench press … Bench pressed 225 pounds 23 times … 570-pound squat … 360-pound power clean … 4.27 20-yard shuttle … 7.08 three-cone drill … 38½-inch vertical jump … 10-foot-7 broad jump … 34-inch arm length … 10-inch hands … Right-handed.

same source on Shawne Merriman (below)

note that Ware is taller, faster, stronger, but he’s also lighter. I think ware will be a better cover linebacker. hopefully he’ll be able to rush the line (despite being a little light weighted)

4.61 in the 40-yard dash (wind-aided) … 4.66 in the 40-yard dash … 385-pound bench press … 590-pound squat … 335-pound power clean … 38½-inch vertical jump (holds the school record for defensive linemen with a 41½-inch jump in 2003) … 10-foot-7 broad jump … 32 7/8-inch arm length … 9 5/8-inch hands.

no keep him they will switch from the 3-4 to 4-3 in the middle of games to mix it up alot i bet especially at the begginning

You are pretty close on the look for next year, but if you remember there were rumblings early in the offseason about Bill the Great approaching Greg about the possibility of standong up as a 3/4 OLB. SO, Glover becomes the DE opposite Spears and Ellis teams up with Ware and is spelled by Thornton in the strong rotation Bill likes to have. We already knew that Alshermond would be out of place in the 3/4 switch so it seems pretty clear that if anybody is getting traded it would be AL.

oh yeah, lets keep on falling Mr. Pool, right on down to the tenth pick in the second round….

 Either way there will be a quality selection to be made at #42.

What happened to SIngleton? Is he not on the roster anymore? I thought he played OLB.

J im with you.

someone great will be there at 42 for FS or CB converted to FS

6-2 236lbs.

Al is just out of place for what it looks like we are going to do.

i hear Bill likes Al’s Work ethic and production, but he is just too light in the pants. i don’t know where the market would be, but his place ain’t with us anymore.

one more and second round can FINALLY begin.

I don’t see what the advantage in the 3-4 is. If they use the 3-4 then they’ll have to start Kalen Thorton, and not Ellis or Glover. I doubt they’ll trade Glover or Ellis, but that’s the only way I can see this working out. If they stay at the 4-3, they can start Ellis, Fergueson, Glover, and Spears, and they won’t have to start Kalen Thorton.

it is the scheme not the players…….

but I agree with you Zach the Cowboys are still more suited to be a 4-3 team at this point……..

I hope we add a speedy CB at 42 to play FS or Nickel……

so much for pool

I’m excited aboutour picks thus far. Keep what we got and work trades on guys that are on the buble. I can’t wait and see what happens in the second round. So far our defense is beginning to look very much like a defense. Ware and Spears, who could have figured. Does football season starts tomorrow?

true thats ok there still bullocks and the kid from iowa consignine (whatever his name is) that are good safeties.

espn also has it on there rumors that hunter might get traded yet today so watch for that as well

what good does it to trade Hunter?

i mean, sure he is not happy (or at least that is what we hear), but he ain’t going anywhere and if he has any hopes of making it out of Dallaw (WHy?) then he will preform in the role we give him or be on the street.

anybody heard from Donald Mitchel, or any of the hoards of DB’s who thought they were better than the team? No

i’m sorry, i like pete’s potential, but his only choice is to play out his contract and impress someone enough to give us something more than this sixth and seventh round nonsense i keep hearing.

it might just be one more year, but Pete needs to stay and Al needs a new home.

I think the Cowboys will pass on a safety at 42 because of Hunter, Davis, Scott, Dantzler & Clint Finely and because of the sizeable pool left in the draft. What will get? Of course, I’m still hoping for Blackstock! A fella can dream right?

Finley, Dantzler… Practice squad fill-ins

not starters, i think Pete would be great, but if the reports are true he doesn’t want to so, we either draft Butler

or we crap ourselves that Khalif Barnes OT is still on the board and we snap him up

what a first rd! I thouht going 3/4 this year was too far to stretch, but they pulled it off. When they went ware at 11, i lost it! I thought for sure spears was gone. Im still suprised he dropped that far. What the hell was that r2(Burnett) though.

eric check out the thread on the closing the book on the bills trade and you’ll get an idea how everybody feels about Burnett.

i, personally, am very pissed that we didn’t go with James Butler, but i am not the head coach, yet.

True about Finely and Dantzler and we shouldn’t omit Cargile.

I think Woody can find a larger role than the practice squad, if he can make himself valuable in roles other than return specialist. I have no idea how he is doing making the coversion to safety in Euro NFL. I’d guess not well.

I hope Hunter finds that he actually likes or excels at free safety in the NFL. As I understand, he was only doing VA Union a favor by playing the position in college. Maybe his agent is just telling him it’s monetarily a negative move and he’d be right. I can understand his attitude. If not for the knee, Henry’s big payday could have, should have been Pete’s.

I’m done dreamin’ about Blackstock (at least I had the position right for 42). There’s so little chance to get DB now but you never know, I didn’t expect to fall to into the lower second or third rounds. I’d be completely surprised to find him there at 109 and even more so if the Cowboys took him. They are probably done in the front seven.

Maybe I’ll get some satisfaction with either UVA’s Chris Canty, Alvin Pearman or Marquis Weeks with one of the last three picks, but it won’t be the same.

sorry eric i meant the second round timeline. fatigue sets in.

i don’t think it is too much to expect to find someone with 109, starstruck, i have my eyes on Weeks also, maybe even Kerry Rhodes or Terry Holly. solid second day picks.

if we are really lucky someone like Considine, Atogwe, Vincent Fuller, Sensabaugh, or the best of the lot James Butler makes it all the way to number eight tomorrow.

I reserve hope for DB at 109 but it’s grounded in reality too. The way he’s falling now, he could be there.

I’m okay with Burnett I guess, Gil Brandt had him as the third rated LB and Blackstock fourth, although the pick analysis on NFL.com was tepid (IMO).

I like Sensabaugh. He and Weeks could be sneaky picks. Gerald once blocked three punts in a game, an NCAA record. And didn’t Parcells select Zuriel Smith for retuening three kicks in a game? Weeks didn’t play safety until his senior year but did well with 60 tackles, 5 for loss and 2 sacks—he’s listed as a strong/free safety/return guy. He has a 30.1 KO return average, a school record and we know how Parcells likes contributions to special teams.

And you’re right about Butler too. Smart, talented, we could do worse.