After the NFL draft, several web sites posted images of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones standing in front of a marker board that listed the names of dozens of players, in what looked like a case of Jones giving so much access to the team’s war room that he revealed the Cowboys’ draft board.
Now Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald is reporting that the Cowboys have confirmed this is their actual board. According to Salguero, someone who works for the team mistakenly posted a video of Jones in front of the board online.
By the time anyone noticed the draft was over, so this didn’t give any opposing teams any competitive advantages. And although you can see the rankings of about 100 players, you can’t make out the full draft board.
Still, it’s interesting to see, for instance, that the Cowboys had wide receiver Dez Bryant (whom drafted 24th overall) ranked as the 11th best player in the draft. And that the Cowboys got what they must consider an absolute steal in the second round, because they also had linebacker Sean Lee (whom they drafted 55th overall) ranked as the 14th best player in the draft.
As for players drafted by other teams, most people think Tyson Alualu was a reach for the Jaguars with the 10th overall pick, but the Cowboys had a first-round grade on Alualu, too: Dallas had him ranked 22nd. And the Cowboys think 49ers first-round pick Anthony Davis was a major reach: San Francisco took Davis 11th overall, but the Cowboys gave Davis a third-round grade.
Finally, Jerry Jones famously said that there was no reason to draft Tim Tebow because he wouldn’t get on the field. Jones apparently wasn’t bluffing; Tebow’s name can’t be seen on the Cowboys’ draft board.
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That video was from draft day, not before draft day. If you look closely, you can see that they wrote “2-55″ next to Sean Lee’s name as that is where he was drafted. The members over on BloggingtheBoys.com broke down and analyzed the entire board minus a couple of players. This is also pretty old news.
There not going to make the playoff’s next year. So it doesn’t really matter
Old news. Where have you been?
First time any of you toads with zero knowledge ever saw a draftboard—u r a buncha wanna be jock sniffers!
So what you’re saying is that the Cowboys didn’t reveal something as much as the rest of the world missed something.
Dallas Cowboys be de team!!!!
That is a publicity shot. I mean come on. Jerry standing there in front of that board is as funny as seeing GWbush standing in front of a Stratego board game. It don’t make no sense!
Wow, only the Cowboys.
Dez Bryant’s name is nowhere to be seen on the board. Maybe they thought they were drafting another guy with a similar name.
that was a mock.
Tyson Alualu was rated 1-10 meaning first round grade, 10th ranked. They had New England taking him 22nd in that particular mock.
They ranked the OLB’s
Misi
Hughes
Graham
Kindle ( a third round grade)
Tyson Alualu is from Cal. Of course he’s worthy of a first round draft grade.
If the Cowboys are correct, the Ravens made major reaches for all of their first 4 picks. Let’s see… Ozzie Newsome… Jerry Jones… Hmmmm… I’d be very worried if I’m a Cowboys fan, because your draft board is probably for shit! Good that you agreed with Oakland, though…that’s a front office I’d want to emulate, LOL!
The bigger story is the fact that Jerry Jones is that botox Jerry still controls the “war room” instead of the football experts. It is comforting to the other 31 teams to know that jerry still insists on running the show, Dez Bryant meet Charles Rodgers…..
Not much different than Jerry holding a play chart in his luxury box during their first prime time game last year.
/ snicker
The same news was reported about their draft two years by a couple of Iggles fans. That time it was Wade Phillips. Cowboys had a good draft, if Bryant & Lee stay healthy. Roy Williams was a crapy deal.
Hey counselor, you cannot see Dez Bryant’s name on that board any more than you can see Tim Tebow’s. Please refrain from idle speculation.
As a Dolphins’ fan, I must thank San Diego for trading us a 2nd rd pick for a second round talent in Dallas’ eyes.
I noticed the gave Navarro Bowman a 1st round grade…and he was taken in the 3rd by the Niners…
This faux pas will surely make the rookie contract negotiations with Sean Lee more interesting for the Cowboys.
hey we were slated to pick 27th overall. so if we got are 11th best player than thats great for us, and dez was the best wr in the draft so we did dam good. yes we need o-line, but the ones we liked were gone. so what were we supposed to do but take who we liked so jerry did good, and dez will live up to his 1rst round pick
LMAO
Interesting. They seemed to have figured that Buffalo would take Spiller at 9, even though the rest of the football world seemed shocked (and oddly appalled) at the pick.
I would have like to have seen the draft board that had a second round grade on Quincy Carter.
Where are the columns listing felonies, drugs of choice and preferred sexual assaults? Those columns would reveal Jerry’s real evaluation process. “Give me your thuggish, your criminal, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe freely the nectar of the rock, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the classless, tempest-tossed rapists to me, I lift my torch beside their golden, rock-filled pipes.” – inscription on the Statue of Jerry. Hail!
For all those that say Florio does not put up good stuff. This is good stuff.
Tyson Alualu was shooting up the only peoples boards that matter, the NFL GM’s. No one takes Kiper seriously anymore, Mayock is the only draft expert that has any credibility.
Of course this is Jerry Jones – who paid a MINT in a trade for a terrible wide receiver. Sean Lee ranked 14th overall – that’s laughable even for diehard Penn State Fans who love the guy. All this picture did was show how little Jones knows about football and reiterates the fact he should leave football operations up to REAL football people.
See, now this is the type of post I LOVE. I’ve grown weary of this site but this is why I come here. It’s not like the utter garbage that Florio posts.
If you look closely enough, you can figure out about just every pick. Two are covered by Jerry’s arm.. the 11th prospect in the 1st round and the 12th prospect in the 1st round. But basing on who’s missing, you can strongly assume those are Dez Bryant and Earl Thomas. If so, their board looks like this:
FIRST ROUND
1. Sam Bradford
2. Gerald McCoy
3. Ndamukong Suh
4. Russell Okung
5. Trent Williams
6. Eric Berry
7. Rolando McClain
8. Joe Haden
9. CJ Spiller
10. Mike Iupati
11. Dez Bryant (Jerry Jones’ arm)
12. Earl Thomas (Jerry Jones’ arm)
13. Bryan Bulaga
14. Sean Lee
15. Jared Odrick
16. Jason Pierre-Paul
17. Derrick Morgan
18. Kyle Wilson
19. Maurkice Pouncey
20. Navarro Bowman
21. Jahvid Best
22. Tyson Alualu
23. Jermaine Gresham
SECOND ROUND
Devin McCourty
Demaryius Thomas
Koa Misi
Jerry Hughes
Brandon Graham
Nate Allen
Morgan Burnett
Taylor Mays
Dan Williams
Kareem Jackson
Ryan Mathews
Brian Price
Rob Gronkowski
Brandon Ghee
Jimmy Clausen
THIRD ROUND
Sergio Kindle
Anthony Davis
Corey Wootton
Patrick Robinson
Dexter McCluster
Joe McKnight
Chad Jones
Colt McCoy
Taylor Price
Lamarr Houston
D’Anthony Smith
Damian Williams
Eric Decker
Thaddeus Gibson
Corey Peters
Rodger Saffold
Toby Gerhart
Golden Tate
Brandon LaFell
Amari Spievey
Mike Neal
FOURTH ROUND
Akwasi Owusu-Ansah
Javier Arenas
Vladimir Ducasse
Ed Dickson
Clay Harbor
Perry Riley
Torrell Troup
Carlton Mitchell
Mike Johnson
John Jerry
Linval Joseph
Major Wright
Dominique Franks
Larry Asante
Tony Moeaki
Mitch Petrus
Ben Tate
Kam Chancellor
Andre Roberts
Myron Lewis
FIFTH ROUND
Shawn Lauvao
Jacoby Ford
Danny Batten
Sam Young
Daniel Te’o-Nesheim
Kevin Thomas
Clifton Geathers
Dennis Pitta
Darrell Stuckey
Alterraun Verner
Alric Arnett
Garrett Graham
Reshad Jones
Jamar Wall
SIXTH ROUND
Edwin Veldheer
Mike Hoomanawanui
Willie Young
Roddrick Muckelroy
SEVENTH ROUND
Walter Thurmond
Marcus Easley
Michael Kafka
Adrian Tracy
Dan LeFevour
Would you look at that? Guess PFTW and the Kipers and McShays can blow it out their ass about Alualu being a huge reach. Said the same about Derek Cox too last year and Knighton.
This may shock you guys but I’d trust Gene Smiths personnel evaluations over a two bit hack who is not accountable for his prognostications.
This smells like the Cowboys playing games. I’d give no weight to this little leak.
“Mayock is the only draft expert that has any credibility.”
AGREE!
Notice the absence of a certain Florida QB…
I guess this give Sean Lee’s agent a little ammo in negotiations. Picked 55 but they thought he was worth #14.
Just goes to show that lazy and uninformed fans (and journalists) shouldn’t take Mel Kiper’s word as gospel (this goes for you too, fantasy geek Evan Silva). This vindicates the Tyson Alualu pick by the Jags.
Dallass is still going to be garbage. It only take 3 to 4 years after a disciplinarian leave for the team in texas to sh*t the bed.
Watch and see.
Can’t WAIT!!!!
HOW BOUT THEM REDSKINS!!!!!!
On a related noted… I saw this video last month on clevelandbrowns.com:
http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/media-center/videos/Holmgren-Welcome—Apr-13-2010/06071f07-6606-433f-884f-ad7611c22905
It appears to be a calendar but smartly its been blurred out.
Any thoughts what it would be?
Just because Dallas had Alualu as a 1st round grade doesn’t mean he was deserved there. He may well have been but you have the Jags and Dallas saying he was a first rounder. Not a majority of the teams. That’s simply speculation on your part, dafish.
Second, I think it’s funny some Dallas fans poo-poo some picks they deem as “reaches” just because Dallas had a player ranked in certain places.
A lot of teams deemed Sean Lee a reach as a 1st rounder; yet, they had him ranked there.
The real story is why in this day and age of computers, graphics and the like any NFL team would actually use a white board for this type of work. What poor bastiche had to do all that writing?
” That’s simply speculation on your part, dafish.”
“A lot of teams deemed Sean Lee a reach as a 1st rounder; yet, they had him ranked there. ”
A lot of teams? Who were these teams and when did they say this?
Or is that purely speculation on your part?
The last time Jerry Jones was filmed in front of a draft board he was wearing a skirt and trying to talk his way out military service.
Jerry Jones sucks
LMFAO
Tony Romo SUCKS
LMFAO
Felix Jones SUCKS
LMFAO
Nothing against Tebow, but I’d be shocked if you found more than three teams who had him ranked higher than third round. McDaniels is taking a big gamble. Tebow has every possible intangible, but at the end of the day, in the NFL there’s no substitute for the arm.
.Vox Veritas. says:
So what you’re saying is that the Cowboys didn’t reveal something as much as the rest of the world missed something.
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ROFL–That’s exactly what he’s saying.
who cares about jerry’s draft board…..isn’t he the same guy that sold the farm for one roy williams…..he struck out on r. williams and the jury is still out on d. bryant, so why all the fanfare…this smells more like the media whore jerry letting the pic of him in front of the draft board (like General Patton) directing the soldiers, LMAO
I spent a lot of time going over this last week.
Incredibly interesting to get a chance to see the thought processes in Dallas.
Pretty surprised to see McCoy ahead of Suh, but assume that’s the result of them believing McCoy is a better 5tech. (Even though I’d disagree.)
Ha-HA!
What is really funny is Jerrah Jonz standing in front of the draft board acting like he knows what he is doing. He is a joke as a GM. He is still playing fantasy football. He jumped over the Ravens to get Dez Bryant who the Ravens were not drafting either way. He hasn’t won shit since Jimmy left unless you count Barry Switzer winning with Jimmy’s players. Jerrah Jonz may be a good bidniz man, but he is not now, never was and never will be an evaluator of football talent. As long as he owns the Cowgirls and insists that he is the GM they are doomed to mediocrity with the occasional blip of a good year. But count out the Lombardi’s cause he ain’t getting them when the decision making is his and his alone.
jjared1101, the fact that 30 some teams passed on Lee? If he was so highly rated by everyone else, someone would have pulled the trigger earlier than the Cowboys because these teams always have an idea where everyone else rates players.
Which can lend credibility to the Jags taking Tyson that early. But it doesn’t necessarily prove it.
jjared1101, the fact that 30 some teams passed on Lee? If he was so highly rated by everyone else, someone would have pulled the trigger earlier than the Cowboys because these teams always have an idea where everyone else rates players.
Which can lend credibility to the Jags taking Tyson that early. But it doesn’t necessarily prove it.
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Maybe.
But maybe they just had their second round picks rated higher. Maybe their second round pick was their 29th overall player and had Lee as their 30th. We don’t know. You don’t know.
Speculation.
Hey diehardskinsfan21….if Dallas is garbage after winning the division, just think how far down the crapper that puts the Foreskins. As far as Felix Jones is concerned, how much longer are the skins going to keep trotting out that washed out, tired, Portis. The only way anyone ever hears anything about him is when he shoots off his mouth about teammates. What’s the over/under up there when McNabb pukes in a big game.
P.S. How’s that Haynesworth deal looking now?
LMFAO at the Foreskins as usual
Vox is a bigger idiot today than he was yesterday, and he’ll be dumber still tomorrow.
diehardskinsfan21…while you think Jerry Jones sucks, I find it interesting that while Jerry is one of the most well-respected owners in the league and has built professional sports most dynamic showplace facility, little Dani Snyder just got kicked out of Six Flags HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Again, LMFAO at the Foreskins
While attribution has been given to Armando Salguero, how about acknowledging the commenters of his blog post, which were clearly lifted to use this article?
Jerry Jones is a drunk and is just as respected as Dan Snyder besides the lack of community and charitable donations of Dan Snyder. Sounds like a reach- andy reid’s belt. LMFAO
What difference does any of it make anyways? Every player in the draft is a gamble one way or another, and it wasn’t like this was broadcast in between Picks 1 and 2 on Draft Day.
While attribution has been given to Armando Salguero, how about acknowledging the commenters of his blog post, which were clearly lifted to use this article?
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Yea… what’s funny is that this is old news for those of us who visit dallascowboystimes.com. I think they were the ones to break the story weeks ago.
Any thing to get a new “leather” face for Jerry
Now may we see the draft board of a team that actually drafts well, like the Colts or Ravens?
MagicMan407 says:
May 10, 2010 9:19 PM
Jerry Jones is a drunk and is just as respected as Dan Snyder besides the lack of community and charitable donations of Dan Snyder. Sounds like a reach- andy reid’s belt. LMFAO
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You mean like the Haynesworth Sit On A&& Society? I’m sure Jerry contributes just as much as little Dani. Do you ever catch the Thanksgiving Day game half-time festivities for the Salvation Army? Jerry and Gene Jones contributed thousands of dollars to help restore the Thomas Jefferson book collection at the Library of Congress and his work with NFL Charities, not to mention the hundreds of other charities that are involved with the Gene and Jerry Jones Foundation.
Outsyder says:
May 10, 2010 7:54 PM
Just because Dallas had Alualu as a 1st round grade doesn’t mean he was deserved there. He may well have been but you have the Jags and Dallas saying he was a first rounder. Not a majority of the teams. That’s simply speculation on your part, dafish.
All it takes is one team moving up. In fact the whole damn draft is speculation. The word is that the Eagles and Pats had Alualu high on their board as well as some other teams. Truth is the draft is liar’s poker. The whole damn system is based on upside, always has been. All we can do is check back in 3 years. My guess is that as many 3rd rounders will make an impact as first rounders.
# shaslers says: May 10, 2010 10:08 PM
Now may we see the draft board of a team that actually drafts well, like the Colts or Ravens?
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Being a Ravens fan, I would LOVE to see their draft board… and the Colts always make head scratching picks at the time and turn out to be brilliant.
This ‘mess up’ could only happen in Dallas.
Yeah we all know the Cowboys team is full of thugs, rapists and criminals.
Why just last year, some Cowboy got arrested……
no wait, not last year.
Dang, hold on a minute.
Let me check.
(flip, flip)
Well darn it when WAS the last time a Cowboy player got arrested? Anybody know? How many Cowboys got arrested in like, say, the past 5 years?
Anyone?
Ware ever been busted?
How about Romo?
Mike Jenkins?
ANY of them?
Hello0oooo?
Somebody speak up.
@manofaki
Your an Idiot
Pacman Jones and Tank Johnson were just 2-3 years ago?
And Michael Irvin did enough coke to infect your teams rep for the next 20 years.
Deon Anderson in February
I think somebody forgot to tell Mr. Smith that the draft was last month, so this info is irrelevant….
The only thing that is relevant about this whole shibacle is that all 32 teams have different boards. If a team scouts a player, watches tape, ranks him, then picks him, then he is not a reach. Reaches are when you draft players you have no idea about because you were too lazy to send scouts, but then draft him because he has blazing speed or can throw a ball a mile from his knees. Just because a team spends countless man hours scouting a particular player and finds out he’s a stud, he is not a reach just because Kiper had him going 2 rounds later. Whether or not the player turns out to be a bust is a completely different subject matter.
One player arrested in 5 years as a Cowboy?
A player who was cut at the end of that year?
And Tank Johnson NEVER got arrested while he was with Dallas.
This current crop of Cowboys HAS no thugs or criminals on the roster.
We don’t have the arrests to prove it, unlike other teams that could be mentioned.
So I agree, one of us is an idiot.
Anthony Spencer and Deon Thompson…Cowpie
Who is Deon Thompson?