Eagles NFL draft class could be just average based on Dallas Draft Pick Value Chart
The Philadelphia Eagles 2019 NFL Draft was underwhelming and if you base the upcoming 2020 class on metrics from a former division rival, fans could be in an uproar once again.
Back when he was the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and building a dynasty, Jimmy Johnson developed a value chart that assigns every pick in the draft with a specific point value, making it easier for him and front-office types to compare the relative value of draft picks in different rounds.
Named the “Dallas Draft Picks Value Chart”, executives from around the league swear by Johnson’s grading system for picks and refer to it before making a final decision on trade proposals or offers.
According to Tankathon, with the help of Johnson’s value system, the Eagles are just outside the bottom-10 in value for their upcoming draft class.
The Eagles’ upcoming draft currently has a point value of 1,480.8 as they’re currently scheduled to pick 21, 53, 85, 117, 149, 151, and 171 overall. The Eagles are also expected to land three compensatory picks as well, bringing their complete haul to ten.
The value of those picks could rise if the Eagles are able to secure a top-notched wideout.
The Houston Texans are projected to have the worst draft class of the 2020 NFL Draft, based on the Jimmy Johnson draft value chart.
The Houston Texans are on target to have the worst class of the 2020 NFL Draft, and the combine is still less than a month away.
According to Tankathon, the AFC South champions for the past two seasons have the lowest point value for their draft class of any team in the NFL. The point value is based off the Jimmy Johnson point system for determining a pick’s value for trades.
Currently, the Texans’ draft has a point value of 512.0. They have picks at 57th, 101st, 121st, 154th, and 218th overall.
Houston dealt with a similar draft in 2018 when their first pick was in the third round. The Texans also had triplet third-rounders to perhaps offset the loss of not having a second-rounder. Nailing the safety Justin Reid pick right off the bat also helped with giving value to the draft as the rest of the eight-man class have been contributors at best.
The Texans will be dealing with just five picks compared to the eight in 2018. However, Houston upgraded their offensive line by finding a Pro Bowl left tackle in Laremy Tunsil, a dependable jack-of-all-trades wideout in Kenny Stills who can adeptly fill in when injuries strike, and a young cornerback with plenty of potential in Gareon Conley. If the Texans can still win with those pieces in place and not let the 2020 draft class hurt them, then Houston should still be competitive for the next five years.
Troy Polamalu, Edgerrin James and Steve Atwater are among the modern-era Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2020.
The 2020 Class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame was completed Saturday. The Centennial enshrinees were named last month. The modern-era players learned of their honor the day before Super Bowl LIV.
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Steve Atwater is a two-time Super Bowl champ and eight-time Pro Bowler. He was the Broncos’ first-round pick in 1989, selected 20th overall out of Arkansas. The honor comes 20 years after his retirement. He finished his career as a New York Jet for one season.
Dallas Cowboys news and notes for Friday, January 31st, 2020.
Dak Prescott’s contract is still looming over the Cowboys offseason. What franchise tag options does Dallas have and how might those each impact a long-term deal between the sides? Just one of the many coaching changes, Doug Nessmeier has been moved to Prescott’s quarterback coach. On the defensive side of the ball; how might Mike Nolan and Jim Tomsula help the Cowboys young defensive linemen take the next step?
Also, Jimmy Johnson still hasn’t been invited to the Cowboys Ring of Honor by Jerry Jones, and that’s a problem. The Cowboys owner additionally made news recently after discussing his past desire to draft Aaron Donald, something surely every owner wishes that they could have made possible. All this, and more. Here are the News and Notes.
Jimmy Johnson is slated to receive his gold jacket and bronze bust in August when he’s presented as the Hall of Fame coach that Dallas Cowboys fans always knew he was. He will also hold the distinction of being the only member of the Cowboys to make it to Canton without being in the Ring of Honor. It’s clear that owner Jerry Jones still holds a grudge against his first (and best) head coach. That they couldn’t get along is no secret, but the refusal to bury the hatchet fifteen years later is incredibly petty, and is something that needs to be rectified posthaste.
This is only tangentially related to America’s Team in that they have no award winners (though it is a small sample size). San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo edged out center Travis Frederick for comeback player of the year. Garoppolo will be playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday which drives the narrative that his season has been better than Frederick’s, though the All-Pro voters disagree. Garoppolo received no votes there while Frederick had two.
The Cowboys don’t have many regrets about drafting Zack Martin in the 2014 NFL draft. Martin’s been a first-team All-Pro on four occasions, the other two seasons he had to settle for second-team. He’s as good as they come at the guard position, but still, there’s at least one player selected ahead of him that owner Jerry Jones would have preferred: Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald.
In the NFL’s centennial season, they’re all about celebration. Unfortunately there’s some ugly skeletons hiding in the league’s closet. The most egregious of all is the freezing out of Black players from 1934-1946. A summary of the article doesn’t do it justice, so click through to read more about how some of the names that helped shaped the NFL and are celebrated so thoroughly likely did more harm than good, and how the sentiment from then has shaped the front office and head coaching hurdles still present in today’s game.
With players like Robert Quinn, Maelik Collins, Kerry Hyder and Michael Bennett due for new contracts on the defensive line Dallas has to be prepared incase either player were to hit the open market. Learn more about how when some spots open up in Mike Nolan’s multiple 4-3 front, the Cowboys’ young defensive ends Armstrong and Jelks would have all the chance in the world to step into those roles.
The Richard experiment didn’t go quite how the Cowboys thought it would. Once at the top of the game, the former Legion of Boom defensive coordinator was welcomed by Dallas fans with open arms. Two quick seasons later and both parties are going their separate ways.
Richard, a California native, is on the 49ers radar to potentially join their staff as the defensive passing game coordinator. The Cowboys have already filled his role of defensive backs coach by hiring Maurice Linguist and Al Harris.
A reoccurring theme in Dallas this offseason will be the discussion of Dak Prescott’s contract talks. Prescott, still just 26, is fresh off the best year of his career in most aspects and is facing his first potential free agency. Contract negotiations are proving to be increasingly tricky across the NFL, with holdouts becoming more popular than ever; look at Ezekiel Elliott just last season. A short term option many teams use is the franchise tag. Our own Ben Grimaldi dives into the possible outcomes of these scenarios.
The last decade the Cowboys have drafted about as well as any team in the league. There are a few blemishes here and there, but the Cowboys drafted nine pro bowl players with their first round picks since 2010. While Trysten Hill was a secound rounder, not having a first round pick that year puts a higher value and higher expectations on Hill.
His rooike campaign was largely uneventful. That’s not uncommon though at a position (defensive line) that usually sees players take a few years to get acclimated to the size and strength of the NFL. Dallas new defensive line coach Jim Tomsula has made a habit of getting the most out of his players in his long NFL career. How will the addition of Tomsula help Trysten Hill reach his potential?
Doug Nussmeier is one of three holdovers from Jason Garrett’s coaching staff. Nussmeier, the Cowboys tight ends coach each of the last two seasons, was a quarterbacks coach and/or offensive coordinator for the previous 17 seasons. With Jon Kitna out after one year as the Dallas quarterback coach, Nussmeier is excited to be back to his most familiar position.
Former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson breaks down what has gone wrong in Dallas.
Jason Garrett’s time in Dallas is done and he is on to New York as the Giants’ new offensive coordinator, but this week two-time Super Bowl Champion coach Jimmy Johnson gave his perspective on Garrett and his 2019 team’s struggles.
While Johnson said that yes, he was surprised the team didn’t have more success under Garrett, he also identified the reason why he believes the team did not perform better.
“I watched them play a lot of times, and they looked as good as anyone in the league,” Johnson told the Dallas Morning News. “But then I’d see some adversity happen and they just went blasé. I think sometimes you’ve got to be able to grit your teeth and say ‘I’m going to be able to make it happen someway, somehow. I’m going to make it happen.’
“You’ve got to have that inner drive to do it. At times, they didn’t have that inner drive.’’
Whether Johnson’s assessed missing piece was a reflection of Garrett’s coaching, or not, we may never truly know. After an 8-8 2019 campaign, Garrett’s contract was not renewed and he has since been hired into his new role with the Giants. Now, it’s up to former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy to reinvigorate the Cowboys and help the team find that ‘inner drive.’
Jason Garrett’s time in Dallas is done and he is on to New York as the Giants’ new offensive coordinator, but this week two-time Super Bowl Champion coach Jimmy Johnson gave his perspective on Garrett and his 2019 team’s struggles.
Jason Garrett’s time in Dallas is done and he is on to New York as the Giants’ new offensive coordinator, but this week two-time Super Bowl Champion coach Jimmy Johnson gave his perspective on Garrett and his 2019 team’s struggles.
Jason Garrett’s time in Dallas is done and he is on to New York as the Giants’ new offensive coordinator, but this week two-time Super Bowl Champion coach Jimmy Johnson gave his perspective on Garrett and his 2019 team’s struggles.
Jason Garrett’s time in Dallas is done and he is on to New York as the Giants’ new offensive coordinator, but this week two-time Super Bowl Champion coach Jimmy Johnson gave his perspective on Garrett and his 2019 team’s struggles.
The Joneses were about to go a whole different direction before… Jay Glazer? Jason Witten talks Kobe… how to catch the 49ers.
It’s Super Bowl week which means plenty of people in the media will be chatting about all 32 NFL teams including the two playing in Sundays’ big game. Radio row has been buzzing just three days into one of the most popular sports media weeks of the year. NFL.com gives one piece of advice to each NFC team as to how to take down the San Francisco 49ers.
ESPN took a look at every team and named one player per squad who leveled up. Jason Witten shared a story on the late, great Kobe Bryant. Jimmy Johnson gives his reasoning as to why the Cowboys didn’t reach their goals in 2019. Fox‘s Jay Glazer dishes that he helped the Cowboys move away from a defensive search for a coach and shares great insight on Mike McCarthy. Here’s the news and notes.
For the 30 clubs not prepping to play on Sunday, the rebuilding has already begun, with an eye on being their conference representative in Tampa on February 7, 2021. NFL writer Gregg Rosenthal takes a look at what each squad needs most critically to increase their odds; he says the Cowboys need to focus on their defensive line.
With Robert Quinn, Michael Bennett, Maliek Collins, Kerry Hyder, and Christian Covington all set to become free agents (and Tyrone Crawford no lock to return), there’s major work to do to improve this unit that “got pushed around in the running game too often last year.”
The Cowboys as a group didn’t improve from 2018 to 2019, finishing with a worse record and missing the playoffs. But there were individual strides made by several players in upping their game.
In Dallas, nobody made more of a leap than Michael Gallup. The second-year wideout broke 1,100 yards on the season and combined with Amari Cooper to provide the team with their first 1,000-yard tandem since 2006. The truly exciting part for Cowboys fans? There are areas where Gallup can get even better in 2020.
Personal stories continue to spread from athletes, celebrities, and regular Joes about Lakers legend Kobe Bryant in the wake of his untimely passing. One you may have missed is from future Hall of Famer Jason Witten.
The Dallas tight end touchingly recalls how he met Bryant shortly after his 2018 retirement from football, and how all the basketball icon wanted to do was break down the nuts and bolts of Witten’s signature play, Y-Option.
A lot of people will have voiced their opinions on what they thought about the 2019 Dallas Cowboys season over the coming weeks. Some critique will be taken seriously and hold credibility and some not so much. However, when it comes to credibility, who better to ask about this year’s (8-8) season than former two-time Super Bowl winning head coach of the Cowboys, and new NFL Hall of Fame inductee, Jimmy Johnson.
Clarence Hill was able to ask Johnson his thoughts on the 2019 campaign. “I don’t know why it didn’t go better. I’ve watched them play a lot of times and they looked as good as anyone in the league, and they are very talented” Johnson started to explain.
Jimmy Johnson said 2019 Dallas Cowboys didn't have the inner drive to succeed https://t.co/2wpvpdfdYQ
Jon Machota breaks down the brand new, revamped offensive coaching staff. Machota had the chance to speak with second-year offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, offensive line coach Joe Philbin and new wide receivers coach Adam Henry.
The 2019 offense lead the entire NFL by averaging 431.5 yards per game along with being sixth in scoring at 27 points per. New head coach Mike McCarthy was fairly confident in riding that momentum heading into 2020.
Kellen Moore: “It’s a get-the-best-players-the-ball offense. (In Green Bay), they were able to throw the rock a bunch. … We got a running back who is really good and another one behind him who is really good, and we want to get them the ball.” https://t.co/o69szFjIPP
Each of these coaches have a relatively young group of players to work with and it will be determined who else will join this offense from a personnel standpoint via free agency and the 2020 NFL Draft.
RJ Ochoa sat down with Fox’s Jay Glazer on Wednesday in Miami as part of “Radio Row” for Super Bowl week.
Glazer was the one who broke both the Cowboys were moving on from Jason Garrett and replacing him with Mike McCarthy.
“Originally the Cowboys owners wanted a defensive coach because they wanted to keep the offensive staff. I’m like, don’t do that guys. And I talk to the Joneses about it. I said don’t do that. You get yourself in trouble that way. Get a leader of men. Get a guy who’s going to formulate the attitude of your team. This is who you want,” Glazer told Ochoa.
Glazer also retells a phenomenal story about who McCarthy is as a person.
Jay Glazer was fascinating on Radio Row. He told us about the type of person Mike McCarthy is (a great story involved), behind the scenes of the HOF announcement for Jimmy Johnson, and what Jason Witten needs to do.
Their success that brought them to the AFC Championship Game didn’t go unnoticed.
The Tennessee Titans may have not accomplished the ultimate goal of making it to Super Bowl LIV this year, but their success that brought them to the AFC Championship Game didn’t go unnoticed.
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman and coach Jimmy Johnson were just two prominent figures to praise the Titans ahead of the Super Bowl.
“When Mike Vrabel was a defensive coordinator… I’m asked from time to time when these head-coaching jobs come open as to who I recommend, and that year, the only guy I was recommending was Mike Vrabel,” Aikman said. “I never played with Mike, never was on a team where he was on the staff, but I would watch him. We’d do Houston Texans games, and I’d go over and watch him coach linebackers and I just loved his approach. I loved his intensity. I felt that he was smart, I felt he had a great pedigree having been raised, essentially, with the New England Patriots.”
Like Aikman, Johnson was also high on Vrabel, commending his decision on making the quarterback switch from Marcus Mariota to Ryan Tannehill.
Mariota was benched in favor of Tannehill in the third quarter of Week 6’s shutout loss to the Denver Broncos.
The Titans never looked back, officially naming Tannehill the starter in Week 7.
“Vrabel, he did as good a job of coaching as anybody in this league. The decision he made at quarterback, putting Tannehill in, that’s not easy to do for a head coach,” Johnson said. “But I watch (the Titans) play, they don’t make a lot of mistakes, they play great defense, they run the ball. It’s old-school football. But they’re a physical, physical football team. I love the way Vrabel has coached.”
