Yes Lord, I'm ready…how about you, Cowboy fan?

First, what did we expect when the very top of this draft was already directly tied into the fruits of last year, and a good addition of Roy Williams to match with TO before wheels fell off the bus?

The price was correct last season, as similar level players going to other teams are receiving an equal return now, and sometimes steeper. That is a general level for a team star not happy with where their home is at present.

Discuss the merits of talent after that has played out, but the price was correct for the time and the time table for opportunity. That this whole team may have missed their own destiny, is not the fault of Jerry Jones; who did what the franchise needed at times of need.

Dynamics are earned as you go, and that falls on those doing business around the field. When the egos close to the field did not earn on the levels they were being paid, and roll up their sleeves and forge their own direction, Jerry pulled the plug on that opportunity.

The team still had to pay for the changed direction. Sometimes men prove their mettle, and sometimes those players just don’t commit to the team.

He properly evaluated their contributions, and released TO, Tank Johnson, and Adam Jones. That phase is now history, but affected today, and a need as to depth.

Add in ‘killer’ Davis, Burnett, Roy Williams SS and there was a wide area that needed change. This is a broad and not just a small window needing a change for this team, not another’s.

The team didn’t have a first rounder, and when Unger came off the board this draft, the whole picture of change and it’s dynamics dropped drastically. This draft just didn’t have the top levels of projected talents.

This dictated what the team should then do, and try to get developing talents that they had already evaluated on their team specific boards. I doubt that the quality of leg work and keenness of evaluation suddenly deteriorated over a year or two being removed from Bill Parcells.

Get real in the throwing around of slanders and terms of disgust concerning the evaluative ability reflected back to Jerry Jones when things just deteriorate from previously sound actions. If a player breaks a leg, hey, you lose that player. That doesn’t mean that a solid relationship didn’t exist prior to that broken leg.

The same applies to a draft process already at a disadvantage for a ‘wow’ factor. That still doesn’t mean that a high draft grade won’t develop if within a year or two four of these players work up to starting or key roles on the team.

That goes with any team. Four and you had a great draft.

I think that this group at least deserves, as any group of new players does, a wait and see attitude towards the talent actually contained in those players. The first Dallas selection looks to be an active ingredient and to make a splash within a year’s time.

There are three safeties and a cornerback that will start to grow immediately towards a relevant role. I think the evaluative ability to judge secondary talent has been pretty solid over the past four years.

Many of the players in the Dallas system have gone back into the league and done well and even started in quite a few situations there. This very group will work it’s way up and contribute.

Me as a fan, can count on that aspect. This is in place now, and already starting to grow and reduce operation price as well.

Jerry already did what everyone here was clamoring for, and appreciating little, paying his own players too much money and retaining them. Well, most of those just wanted more and when organization's well being was the point in question, they moved on.

Look at how top teams in opposition act, take Philadelphia, who has a very large coffin to deal out of, well, they told a top level safety and two, two offensive tackles to hit the road. This just reinforcing what they have done over the past eight years.

This slowly handcuffed what Dallas could do down the road, as it always does. Hey, he gave the fans what they clamored for, opportunity for the big show.

This was done despite what it would prove if things crimped at a road block. That it did last season, where potential was not met due to friction points created by injury and a generalized lack of team jell.

Well, fans, that is just the price of doing things around the ‘big show’ sometimes things come up that block success. This doesn’t denigrate the effort to succeed though.

That was a herculean effort done by Jerry Jones as well as his entire support staff. They tried to be smart at each and every move along the road.

That wasn’t enough, but on the same accord, fans, it doesn’t denigrate the person or the process in the transition. It failed, move on, but be realistic on how you see the approaching change involved.

This was the point of Mickey Spagnola, who is not a homer for looking for the functional reasons and not an escape goat to tar and feather at each mental disappointment that approaches.

Levels of talent were greatly depleted after the first round and a half. That was a completed fact that changed all dynamics in the draft for Dallas, from that point forward.

Get over disappointment in areas that were just not changeable from that point forward. The top three picks were the opportunities that Dallas had at the time.

This is never an all win opportunity at this level, but Dallas got off three very solid shots at the game available. It got a very good linebacker that projects inside on the weak side next to Bradie James, and he has wheels that just don’t stop.

Next, the Cowboys got an offensive talent in the offensive line, that plays with attitude. Nice concept in my book.

Then, remember the futility of not having a viable alternative at quarterback, well the Cowboys did just what we as fans had wanted-planted a seed with some real talent at quarterback. That one works for me also.

Then, after that, with all those picks, we as fans demanded three Jim Browns, two Joe Montanas, three Michael Irvins, and a partridge in a pear tree. It was just not going to happen in a sequenced draft.

Maybe, since we are Cowboy fans, we should have just demanded our ‘right’ and picked all of our players first in each round? No, that is the price of the game, and we played just as everyone else did.

As for me, I’ll just wait and see how some Texas players and Cincinnati college players perform on a Cowboy team. I won’t jump off the ship because I see a player for Michigan or Notre Dame get more press clippings than the players scouted and taken by Dallas.

I will stick with my chosen team on this one. I will go to camp to watch theses players develop.

You know something, if they don’t immediately shine and bring out the DeMarcus Ware in their play, I will put those expectations on a burner and just watch them grow, you know, real time speed.

Myself, I am quite happy with the shopping cart’s return. Hey, we fans got a boat load of positional support.

Want help in the secondary? Well, the Cowboys got a cornerback, and three safeties.

Did someone say there was a void at safety? Talk about a quickly approaching deadline for the outside pressure and it’s depth, well, Dallas just got two developers with proven sack ability in this draft. One was the fourth leading sacker in the entire country this past season, talent?

If someone hadn’t noticed, this whole season will realistically hinge upon the conduct and play of one Tony Romo, and the support given by one Roy Williams. The ability to win was already established prior to this draft.

This team was already chunked full of talent and did not need a whole shelf of former Hall of Famers to be fully competitive with any team in the NFL. They proved this the past two seasons.

Now it comes time for this base team with these new additions to go out onto the practice field and do just that, practice. They need to grow as a team.

That was an active and missing ingredient this past season. You know something, sometimes, where there is large doses of desire, just that happens.

Now, Jerry brought in a huge dose of just that, desire, onto this team. Let us as fans just watch and see what results.

The seed of success were already on the same shelf as the players for this team. Give the cook a chance to set a table and  let us taste the end product before we attempt to crucify the person doing some of the shopping for the preparation, OK?

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