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02-01-2012, 09:30 PM
A look at how the Cowboys have addressed their quarterback situation via the draft
By Rainer Sabin / Reporter
rsabin@dallasnews.com
This is the first part of a series examining how the Cowboys have addressed each position group via the draft in recent years.
After Jerry Jones surveyed the field of prospects at a Senior Bowl practice last week, the Cowboys owner and general manager quashed the notion that the team was considering expending one of their seven draft picks on a quarterback even though the team needs to fill the void left by retired backup Jon Kitna.
"What you should probably be looking at more is would you bring in a veteran in free agency or some type of trade or something like that," Jones said.
For those who have watched this organization operate since the beginning of the new millennium, Jones' comments didn't come as a surprise. The Cowboys, after all, have demonstrated a peculiar reluctance to acquire their quarterbacks via the draft.
Since Troy Aikman took his final snap in the 2000 season, the Cowboys have selected 90 prospects. Two of them - Quincy Carter and Stephen McGee - were picked to play the most important position in football. Carter, a 2001 second-round pick, is now remembered for having bombed when the Cowboys were lost in the NFL wilderness during former coach Dave Campo's forgettable reign. Before Carter's fourth pro season, when Bill Parcells was leading the Cowboys back from the fringes of the NFL landscape, Carter was released because of substance-abuse issues and his pro career would dissolve soon thereafter.
Read more:http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/02/a-look-at-how-the-cowboys-have.html?
By Rainer Sabin / Reporter
rsabin@dallasnews.com
This is the first part of a series examining how the Cowboys have addressed each position group via the draft in recent years.
After Jerry Jones surveyed the field of prospects at a Senior Bowl practice last week, the Cowboys owner and general manager quashed the notion that the team was considering expending one of their seven draft picks on a quarterback even though the team needs to fill the void left by retired backup Jon Kitna.
"What you should probably be looking at more is would you bring in a veteran in free agency or some type of trade or something like that," Jones said.
For those who have watched this organization operate since the beginning of the new millennium, Jones' comments didn't come as a surprise. The Cowboys, after all, have demonstrated a peculiar reluctance to acquire their quarterbacks via the draft.
Since Troy Aikman took his final snap in the 2000 season, the Cowboys have selected 90 prospects. Two of them - Quincy Carter and Stephen McGee - were picked to play the most important position in football. Carter, a 2001 second-round pick, is now remembered for having bombed when the Cowboys were lost in the NFL wilderness during former coach Dave Campo's forgettable reign. Before Carter's fourth pro season, when Bill Parcells was leading the Cowboys back from the fringes of the NFL landscape, Carter was released because of substance-abuse issues and his pro career would dissolve soon thereafter.
Read more:http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/02/a-look-at-how-the-cowboys-have.html?