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Lil’ Yachty: NFL allows team war rooms for 2021 draft, what will Jerry do?

The NFL informed teams that their regular facilities can be used for the 2021 draft, with certain safety precautions to be enforced.

Last year’s NFL draft was arguably the first big event-with-a-capital-E that demonstrated just how unusual life in a pandemic was going to be. Football fans got an unprecedented look inside the real at-home lives of their teams’ coaches and general managers as cameras broadcast them making their picks live- and self-quarantined, when that was still a new term- from their basements, rec rooms, home offices, living room sofas, kitchen tables… and, in the case of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, aboard his 357-foot superyacht.

One year later, the 2021 draft will help showcase how things in the world are gradually returning to normal.

NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero is reporting that the league has informed clubs that they will be allowed to draft from their regular war rooms in their team facilities and with in-person support staff.

Pelissero points out that coaches and GMs will have the alternative option of once again drafting from home or even a neutral-site location. Each team’s plan must be submitted to the league by March 26, however, for approval from Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer.

TV cameras will be installed wherever each team’s brain trust will be, but it is assumed that most will choose to utilize their regular facilities.

Last April, Jones famously conducted the Cowboys’ 2020 draft from the luxurious Bravo Eugenia. After a universally-lauded haul that netted the club CeeDee Lamb and several other highly-rated prospects who somehow fell to Dallas, Jones joked then that he may make the floating war room a new Cowboys tradition.

It’s hard to imagine Jones and his draft team not actually assembling at The Star in Frisco to make this year’s picks, no matter how swimmingly last year’s draft at sea went.

Those gathered in the Cowboys draft room next month will have to abide by several rules and precautions that are carrying over from the pandemic, even with growing numbers of individuals having been vaccinated against COVID-19. No eating or drinking will be allowed in the draft rooms, for example. Proper distancing and mask-wearing will be mandatory.

The draft will be held April 29 through May 1. The live in-person event, hosted this year by the city of Cleveland, will move ahead as planned, with appropriate safety protocols in place there as well.

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6 Nuggets: CBs to safety, floating war room, so DiNucci and McCarthy walk into an elevator…

Also, the connection between QB Ben DiNucci and coach Mike McCarthy, a possible cornerback-to-safety plan in the team’s secondary, and more.

Another NFL Draft has come and gone and while most teams walk away from the weekend feeling good about the picks and moves made, fans’ mileage may vary. In the case of Cowboys Nation, the optimism is off the charts for 2020, with seven players selected across three days at what was seen almost universally as tremendous value.

But with all the tracking of picks, crunching highlight reels, filling needs, digesting players’ backstories, and sorting out new jersey numbers, there were several Dallas-centric tidbits that fans may have missed. So here you go, Cowboys fans: a conveniently-sized six-count of the very best draft nuggets.

Jerry’s floating war room

Among the tidbits of minutiae that many Cowboys fans were wringing their hands over leading into the first round? The social distancing policies seemingly suggesting that owner Jerry Jones would be completely on his own to conduct the weekend’s draft unchecked. Many thought back to 2014’s draft, when Jones was reportedly salivating over bringing Johnny Manziel to Dallas and, according to one version of the story, had the selection card swiped from his hand by son Stephen when the rest of the war room wanted to take Zack Martin.

The mental image of Jerry sitting home alone and going rogue with the 2020 picks was a genuine concern… until the first live pictures of Jones popped up on TV screens. Suddenly the story turned from, “Who is Jerry picking?” to, “Where is Jerry picking from?”

Sure enough, as confirmed by some quick internet-sleuthing, Jones was aboard his 357-foot superyacht, which he purchased in late 2018/early 2019 and named Bravo Eugenia after his wife Gene.

Along with the five-star resort pad belonging to Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury and the shockingly humble homebase where New England’s Bill Belichick (and his dog) were set up, Jones’s floating headquarters became the talk of the first round.

Was the superyacht a superflex by the billionaire owner? Maybe inadvertently. If you’re going to self-quarantine and you have the means, why not do it in style, right? (Lots more nautical-nerd detail on the vessel itself here.)

It would have been easy to accuse Jones of phoning in the 2020 Draft- both literally and figuratively- if the picks made from the party barge had been colossal washouts. But after a ridiculous haul that consistently netted players rated above (and sometimes way above) where Dallas actually landed them, most Cowboys fans were ready to have Jerry set sail each and every April from now on.

Sounds like Jerry himself may actually consider it.

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