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Dallas Cowboys: Why the NFL Scouting Combine doesn’t matter

By Robert H. Carroll

Jan 15, 2017; Arlington, TX, USA; Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on the field before the game against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional playoff game at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 15, 2017; Arlington, TX, USA; Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on the field before the game against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional playoff game at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones loves finding diamonds in the rough. The Cowboys roster will likely feature players that didn’t get a combine invite.

This year, the NFL Scouting Combine was held from February 28th to March 6th. I’m surprised that the recent conversation from the National Football League isn’t about the decrease in television ratings for the event. When the season is over for the Dallas Cowboys, a few weeks will pass before I suffer from football withdrawal.

The combine should be the perfect cure for a football addict. But did you watch it? As a Cowboys fan, the combine has become pointless. I would like thank owner and general manager Jerry Jones for that.

The typical stories involve a quarterback whose ring finger is 1/8th of an inch shorter than previously reported. There will be an offensive lineman that played tackle his entire college career learning that his arms are two inches shorter than NFL experts expected.

We get to watch an aging reporter run a 40-yard dash. Have I missed anything? Oh yeah, the player with the average college career that shocks the sports world with a broad jump and become worth of a first round pick.

That’s why the combine shouldn’t matter to Cowboy Nation. Dallas will have their eye on someone from a non-football school with the longest pinky toe as the first round pick. Their second round pick will be someone that’s already injured and can’t play their first year in the NFL.

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The Cowboys third or fourth round pick will have a Driving Under the Influence incident or get suspended for a season. Either way, we’ll wonder if this is what head coach Jason Garrett meant as – The Right Kind Of Guy.

Most of the players that the Cowboys draft will eventually get replaced by undrafted free agents. Jones loves diamonds in the rough. Players such as safeties Jeff Heath and Barry Church, running back Lance Dunbar, guards Ronald Leary and La’el Collins, wide receivers Cole Beasley and Lucky Whitehead have all become starters or received significant playing time.

Then again, undrafted free agents used to have a chance to make the roster. That was back when competition at every position was allowed. Back when an undrafted quarterback could become a 13 year veteran and the most prolific passer in Cowboys history with 34,183 passing yards and 248 touchdowns.

Other intelligent coaches and general managers around the league would have started the best player at each position because championships meant more than winning streaks. Unfortunately, the Cowboys zig when the league zags.

For a moment, I thought it would be safe to get excited about the combine. Jones, seemed to be listening more to his advisors. Rational decisions were credited to his son, Stephen Jones, the CEO and Will McClay the player personnel director. The future could have been in good hands, but there was a shift in the matrix.

Jerry Jones will soon be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. Obviously, he’s receiving a gold jacket because of his superb skills as a general manager. Those skills helped the Dallas Cowboys become the team with the most Super Bowl championships and overall victories in the last 20 years. #AlternativeFact.

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With the recognition of his awesomeness, why would Jerry Jones attempt to fix what clearly isn’t broken?

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