Trade Crayton?

talk about Crayton. I hate him as a punt returner because all he normally does is waive his hand in the air (and him trying to make a play that he shouldn’t is probably the reason for his fumbles this year on PRs). But the guy has been incredibly reliable and makes the play that needs to be made 99% of the time. Maybe I am watching a different game than everyone else, but this whole movement that Crayton is a bum and should be cut/traded/benched seems ludicrous to me.

Patrick Crayton is as reliable as receivers come, and it seems to me that he has worked very hard in the off season to become faster and it has showed. 84 is a good WR and should remain a staple of this offense. I don’t mind him losing time to Austin if the coaching staff thinks that is best, but he has to be in the line-up on critical passing downs and all third downs.

What do you think you could get for Crayton? I think Crayton has some value to this team, not point in trading him. I think he just needs to play a different position.

Romo became the starting qb in 2006 (actually midway through that season)

But for the sake of simplicity and to save myself hours of research, let me just list the receptions and yards of our 5 current WRs since the beginning of 2006. My idea is to estimate how many passes these guys may have received from Romo. (Again, I’m not doing the research on which games Romo was injured and didn’t play – I am just looking for a ball park figure, not the exact number.)

In the regular season games since 2006:

Arrived in 2009 – Ogletree – 0
Arrived in 2008 – Williams – 30 rec, 412 yards, 2 TDs
Arrived in 2006 – Hurd – 29 rec, 468 yards, 1 TD
Arrived in 2006 – Austin 33 rec, 685 yards, 6 TDs
Counting from 2006 – Crayton – 140 rec, 2006 yards, 16 TDs

*although Crayton arrived in 2004 I’m excluding stats for 2004 and 2005 because Romo wasn’t the one throwing to him.

My point is that Romo and Crayton have successfully connected on pass receptions 4 times more than any other WR on this current roster. To trade Crayton would limit Romo to throwing to WRs who have thus far only caught an estimated total of 92 passes from him. Patrick has caught more passes from Romo than all of the other 4 WRs put together. We don’t need to lose that kind of chemistry right now.

(Again, remember that these are estimated totals but I think that the point still remains that Romo and Crayton have a connection that might not be there yet with some of the other receivers.)

I think he’s more valuable to Dallas than he would be to another team for the reasons BishopWest stated above. I don’t think Dallas would recoup the loss of a reliable WR/backup PR. Unless some GM has a higher opinion of him, Dallas would come out of the trade weaker.

Guy’s a good slot receiver. He’s not fast, but he’s slick.

But I was disappointed in him in the last game. Guy fumbled twice, technically. The first was a lucky break on our part. Both are pretty much inexcusable when he’s supposed to be our most consistent receiver who catches everything. He doesn’t have much big play ability to make up for his shortcomings.

He should absolutely lose his starting position. Miles offers way more. But unless we could get good value out of a trade, I’d keep him around, at least until Ogletree develops into a guy we can depend on(that fumble on the KO return told me he isn’t quite ready to play on offense just yet).

Jerry paid Crayton like a #2 WR 2-years ago, so nobody is going to trade anything for him. His experience with Romo makes his far too valuable for us to just trade him mid-seaon for a 6th round draft pick or special teams 3rd team LB.

I like Crayton. Not as a kick-returner (ok – maybe a “fair-catcher”), or an outside WR, but in the slot. He is a good route runner and has above average hands.

I think Roy and Austin should start on the outside and Crayton should be our “slot machine”.

Crayton brings very little to this offense and nothing now on special teams with the Rossum signing. A better poll should be trading Newman who has some value left…..

thats all….he wont be traded, but I would like to see him demoted to the 3rd and maybe the 4th at some point during the season. I think Ogletree or Hurd can bring more to the table than Crayton as this point….they will probably try to trade Crayton in the off season or cut him next year….I just dont see them keeping him when there are better players waiting behind him.

Crayton is mediocre at best and I agree that the young guys are looking stronger these days, but we wouldn’t get jack for Crayton. I see a previous comment speculates a 6th or 7th rounder and that sounds about right. But despite Crayton’s lackluster skills, he is probably more valuable than a late round draft pick (at least if you consider our last few late round draft picks). We seem to have more luck with undrafted free agents anyway.

Maybe Parcells would want him down in Miami.

will make him realize how close to the edge he is and he’ll play like it.

Sorry, but he hasn’t been good since he was taken out of the slot. He runs his mouth too much and produces far too little.

Maybe we can trade him and a pick for Josh Cribbs? Wishful thinking…

I think we can take the hit at WR and rely on Hurd for the #3…its a downgrade but not a large downgrade. The key would be what we get for Crayton if he were to be traded. If it created an upgrade greater than the downgrade at WR it would be worth considering. If there were a good NT that could backup Ratliff it might be worth it. If its a CB, it would be tougher to justify because the player we get is unlikely to be better than Scandrick so we’d take a hit on a player who plays 10+ plays a game (3rd WR) for an upgrade at the 4th CB who plays very seldomly. The positions that might make sense to upgrade would be NT, Safety, OLB and OL.
Keep in mind that its often not 1 for 1 in trades when they occur. If a trade were to occur the Cowboys might be adding a player from the bottom of the roster or picking up a 2nd player that creates the need to cut a player from the bottom.

but with out a doubt he is the most reliable receiver we have. when was the last time you saw him injured? He’s not the fastest, strongest, or biggest wide receiver we have, but he is always there, which what we need.

How about a 2nd round draft pick and Troy Smith for Crayton, This seems fair enough to me.

I’ll just get this out of the way; once upon a time and in a key game (the Cowboys needed to beat the Cards to gain home-field throughout) Kevin Williams had 9 grabs for 203 yards. After that…hell, he probably didn’t have 203 receiving yards the rest of his career.

Point is: Miles Austin had one huge game where he twice shook off the same corner (for long TD’s) who most likely sucks himself. Austin has been a virtual no-show besides that. Should Austin at some point easily supplant Crayton as the other starting wide-out? Sure; if only Potential The Kid could ever prove he was a consistent performer. The fact is though that in 4 other games this season, Austin has a paltry 5 catches for 81 yards.

Sure, this team should have better than Crayton but at least he’s reliable. As for Ogletree: A.) who knows how good he really is and B.) we all saw last weekend that dumb smart guy Garrett thought a banged-up Barber deserved double the touches a fully able and even more capable Tashard Choice deserved. In other words, fat chance of this freckle-faced fraud taking a chance on giving a rook receiver significant playing time.

Pro

His exit gets Ogletree on the field sooner

The speed on the edge increases

More balls for Bennett and Felix

Con

Romo doesn’t have good chemistry with Roy or Telly B, which then increases the likelihood of INT’s coming from people running the wrong routes

Experience is critical in late season road games…are you sure you want a rook or Bennett on the field in those matchups?

He brings little value in trade

Any injuries then make the WR corps scary thin

Dez Bryant anyone?….he will get reienstated……keep an eye on this guy for a NT…Terrance Cody DT from Alabama….he is a monster at 6’5 370 lbs….