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The K&C Masterpiece decided to share their early draft class grades for the Dallas Cowboys. They broke down Dallas' aggressive move to pick 11 for Caleb Downs, Malachi Lawrence’s explosiveness compared to past picks, the depth added by the undrafted free agents, and more.
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00:00but right now it's something we do every year and i know it's ridiculous but i also think it's
00:05ridiculously fun grade the dallas cowboys draft 877-881-1053 now i know realistically
00:14you probably need to wait at least three years until you have any semblance of an idea of how
00:20successful this draft really was but the hell with that let's go ahead and do it right now
00:26um and yes you're right seeing these dudes play will tell us the story later on but seeing what
00:34they did i think that's what i'm trying to grade and i think mel kuyper did kevin you know what
00:39i
00:39don't often give him much credit oh but in all of his like uh in his grades that i saw
00:44immediately
00:45it was what sunday morning i was like what does this guy have any other time that he does and
00:50then
00:50it went back to you saying i don't have time and that was all i could think of but he
00:55already had
00:56his draft grades up for everything and i was like okay let's look at this and everything that got
01:02really high grades and high marks said they needed this and they executed that so that's what i'll
01:08grade them on is what did they need what was their plan what did they what was the responsibility of
01:13the team here and i think the first responsibility was to come out of the first round with at least
01:21one grade a pedigree player and they did that all right so caleb downs is that player if i'd have
01:28said malachi lawrence would you been like what is happening right here yeah i would have been a
01:31little thrown off um but but then they came away with a a b papon a best player available that
01:38they
01:38liked at position of need that was for them that was a player they coveted uh they coveted downs but
01:45they also didn't think he would be there either right so so i give them for that part i think
01:50they
01:51executed filling two spots that they needed to fill for multiple reasons one they needed the bodies
01:57but then on top of that kevin malachi lawrence's actual presence is good downs presence beyond the field
02:06is what i think is going to be a game changer for them at pick 12 so what do you
02:11mean by that
02:12i think pick 11 yeah pick 11 well they were at 12 yes that's right um uh they i think
02:17when i'm what i
02:18mean by that is i think that you get guys that show up and you can see everything that they
02:24do on the
02:25field and you're like okay well that's how i i judge that player i think this dude is going to
02:30have
02:30the impact in the locker room now did you hear uh az earlier when we were talking to her and
02:36everything was i don't have a lot to compare it to yeah so maybe it does take a minute for
02:41him to
02:41get his feet underneath him but i don't think so i don't think that even christian parker thinks that
02:46i think christian parker thinks this is a dude that's walking in like they were talking about page
02:51in that like this and jerry said it too dac and him are pie pipers they're guys that the guys
02:57follow
02:57they just have this natural thing about them that people want to be around and the more you're
03:03around a guy like that kevin the better off you're going to be because he studies and he works hard
03:09and that's what this team has needed a guy that has that kind of commitment that isn't forced and told
03:14to do it and just he lives that kind of lifestyle so that's what i feel with downs man there
03:19is so much
03:20trolling happening right now and the fan text it's b pap on kevin from the 214 and then from the
03:27817
03:27you should have asked az fudd if she heard the breaking news about the angel reese trade
03:31never decided oh we'll get to the trade today kevin to cover it uh we'll cover it today for sure
03:39worried about the michigan pick wish we would have gotten another guy just because of his school i know
03:46central florida came up with that that might be a great separate question are there schools that are
03:51like not the cowboys but like as fan base are there schools on your list now that you're like
03:55not defensive line from here not an edge from here i was kind of curious about that because
04:01didn't we keep hearing the power five the the big four uh that was that's what the cowboys focus was
04:07going to be yes ucf's in that in that grouping i i when i think of it i just think
04:13of bama michigan
04:14yeah i think of those i just don't think of ucf first because of that and people talk about the
04:19smaller schools getting squeezed out and to a certain extent that's true but i think people also
04:23ignore like the landscape of the conferences having shifted and so many of the schools that
04:27you think about as a smaller school are now a power conference yeah yeah you're you're dead on and
04:32that's what i just i don't think of that immediately um but and and alec i'm sorry i'm just kind
04:38of going
04:38through my through the first group here when we talk about a dude in michigan yes people panic and
04:45freak out about that but i just don't foresee his role being a what taco or mozzie's role is right
04:52and
04:52right and then when i watch the player play and i watch how explosive he was that's something that
04:58those two never had they never had the explosiveness that i see in braham and that's or uh barham that's
05:05that's what i see in him is is i see an explosive first step and a dude that is just
05:10kind of a heat
05:11seeking missile in a lot of different areas he has places to grow but right now kevin i was going
05:16into
05:16this draft with shamar james as one of my guys there yeah at least i have competition at that
05:23point and i don't have to just turn to that and say please help us out yeah and i saw
05:27a couple
05:27of people commenting and i absolutely agree with this you have to factor in or you should factor in
05:33the trade for d winters and then the undrafted free agents as well and if you don't want to count
05:37the undrafted free agents then i absolutely think you should still count the trade for d winters because
05:41you used a draft pick to make that happen alec i'm going to go to you in just one second
05:46nfl.com
05:47so you are you adding pickings to this too then because you used one of your draft picks to get
05:51him
05:52only the year it happened so no they do not get credit for that otherwise i feel like clearly i
05:59was
05:59giving an a plus i think it was a dollar bill jones uh had posted all these things from this
06:04draft
06:04and i was like holy crap look at this draft it's amazing yeah yeah you know i probably yeah because
06:11then are you throwing in quinnon and or kenny clark and yeah i'm i'm probably not counting all
06:18of those but in the first three i'll give them an a for that man i thought i thought they
06:22they
06:23executed getting a a high pedigree player with their first overall pick that i thought should
06:28have been a top 10 dude anyway uh if not top five right and then they added another position of
06:33need
06:34that they think can do very well off that edge so nfl.com gave him a b plus they gave
06:40him a
06:40b plus on day one a b on day two and a b plus on day three cbs sports also
06:46gave them a b plus
06:47mel kuiper and espn gave them an a and i know the morning show was talking about a brugler had
06:55it as
06:56his fourth favorite draft i i uh do believe alec what are you thinking here grade wise for the
07:03dallas cowboys draft you know i often say who the hell is mel kuiper but i agree with him in
07:08this case
07:08it makes me laugh every time alec it really does it's one of the best quotes in nfl history if
07:14you
07:14ask me but uh i would agree a flat a just right at an a because i i i started
07:21to think about it
07:22because you you look at some of the needs and linebacker was a big topic of conversation but
07:28uh i saw a quote from howie roseman and i was like i've heard this before and it's because he
07:32says this
07:33after every single draft and i really like it is he's like if you go into the draft and you
07:38leave
07:39feeling like you addressed every single hole on your team you probably had a bad draft because you
07:45weren't taking best player available you weren't following your board you were forcing needs um and
07:51he says that literally every year and i look at this draft and i'm like huh you did a lot
07:56of good work
07:57and you addressed some weak areas but you threw in a wide receiver you threw in a tackle uh you
08:03tripled up on edge instead of going with an inside linebacker by trade you know you're taking jay
08:10sean barum who you're gonna move and say you're gonna be a primary inside linebacker rather than
08:15moving around a little bit so i like what they did because it feels like they truly followed their
08:21board in this draft that's why they moved up just one pick to get caleb downs that's why they took
08:26malachi lawrence they trusted their evaluations but overall you did still because of how many
08:34holes you had on this team you addressed a lot of needs so i do think your pass rush got
08:39better
08:39in this draft i do think that your run fitting got better and i do think that the back end
08:45of your
08:45pass coverage is going to be better because of caleb downs and all the things that you're going to ask
08:49him to do i'm kind of curious uh alec and kevin the the way they navigated and moved around and
08:56as you said with the d winners trade utilized them not just as well we have to sit here and
09:01take the pick that lands in our lap yeah did you like the way that they that they moved around
09:06and
09:07acquired what they acquired rather than just sitting because i give them a lot of credit for that part
09:12too there were some things that they they saw the second round was going to be a run on linebackers
09:18and everybody out there i've seen a lot of texts that were like they should have gone up to the
09:22second
09:22round to get one kevin you told us the price yeah the price was a lot and i feel like
09:27steven jones
09:28backed us up on that he was like yeah that's just not yeah in reality it was it was a
09:33lot would you
09:33have paid that price for for unproven player to get that or keep the depth yeah i feel like the
09:39depth
09:39thing was a smarter decision i agree with that and you know what because i've started to kind of
09:44construct what the defense could look like and we're going to do a segment on this tomorrow i think
09:49you might be surprised at what the depth could look like defensively although i'm also prepared
09:54for people to pick apart and be like well i already hate this player and this player and like you're
09:58just going to have to uh deal with that and and i saw somebody say this and and i i
10:03i hear you for
10:04sure but i want you to consider this as somebody said hey i really hate that wide receiver pick
10:09should have gotten more defensive or offensive line help and so there is where i'll point this out to
10:16you here's just some of the names langston patterson linebacker from vanderbilt tommy dunn jr
10:21defensive tackle from kansas dj withers once again a defensive tackle from can uh i think it's also from
10:30kansas sydney fugar the tackle offensive tackle from baylor pete the offensive tackle from kentucky
10:38gilliam another defensive lineman from virginia tech those are all undrafted free agents that you
10:46picked up and i don't think i mean i this is not a hard argument to make i don't think
10:51there's
10:52really too too much difference between somebody you draft in the seventh round and potentially
10:56some of those undrafted free agents so i hear what they're saying but what if i told you that
11:01you also picked up like four defensive linemen that had an equivalent or better grade than your
11:07seventh round pick doesn't that make you like feel a little bit better about taking that flyer on the
11:12seventh round wide receiver and i don't know what information they had that maybe they were like
11:15hey we kind of like this kid sure and somebody's gonna snag him right here at the end of the
11:20draft
11:21uh let's go ahead and take him maybe that's the case but i watched him and i was like hey
11:26he's kind
11:27of fun again he's not polished completely and i don't know how polished he is on a lot of different
11:32things i want to see some toughness some more some different toughness a lot of the catches kevin
11:37that i saw from him were wide open stuff because he just burned past people yeah and i think he
11:41has
11:42some really good route running ability so i'm looking forward to that and then special teams
11:46let's see how that goes kevin because uh you're a big fan of turpin but i think we all agree
11:51we want
11:51a little more out of uh out of what we're getting off of our special teams right now and there's
11:55a puppy
11:55in the gym right now and it's adorable and oh my gosh my wife would be going crazy i want
12:00to pet the puppy
12:01that is delightful uh but the but the i think that they're when it comes to those under they're all
12:07down there for a reason yeah they're not first round picks for a reason and they're going to have
12:12to work hard to make the team but even still somebody texted in and was like malachi lawrence
12:17isn't even going to start you draft you used a first round pick on the non-starter and i think
12:21that you won't i don't think you're going to see i don't think you're going to see nine sacks
12:26in the first season right i told you you think bobby would bet his hair again for that i would
12:30advise him not to and you know that i would do that because i've done a study uh and i
12:35rely on
12:35my studies sometimes kevin so i would just say let's see how this season goes and see what he
12:40can develop into because i think before everything's said and done with you're going to like the player
12:45so this is from the 682 as far as attacking definitely have to give them an a uh from the
12:52806
12:53i would give them an a minus also from the 405 i would give this draft an a minus based
12:58on listening
12:59to you guys along with christian parker seeming to have some real input and then somebody said
13:05you know y'all really should go back and grade the draft from three years ago that would be a
13:09lot of
13:09fun too and i think we should already did because that draft was a disaster yeah uh it's a d
13:15and what
13:16i want to see if people can remember how they felt after that draft and how reality looks you know
13:22what i'm saying because that's tough to reconcile you might have been like oh i love that draft then it
13:27turned out to be crap here's another thing too um each the last three years at least have we known
13:34what we need to draft a new defensive coordinator you know three years in a row and you're like
13:42what what are we looking for to to make this team better uh zimmer you you were like he was
13:50just like
13:50just give me the players and i'll put them in the spots and then last year it was like i
13:55don't even
13:55know where the spots they need to be are and neither do they like that's what i'm i'm looking
14:00so i i need to see with christian parker and i'm hoping we get long enough to do it the
14:04two-year
14:04three-year plan and how it works because kevin next year we should have a better idea of what they
14:10need and want defensively based on what he truly wants and how he truly we're going off what we think
14:15his idea is and his idea comes from the fangio world and it comes from some of the other things
14:21that we've seen a lot of afc teams using this kind of defense so we're coming with something we think
14:25is the idea but it's not going to be until we actually get a little further in with him
14:30that we have a bet a good idea of what he wants and how he's trying to accomplish it
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