Quinn goes to Cleveland, but Dallas gets a 2nd and a 1st next year

[hooskins]

Yeah they did, kinda what i have been saying since the quinn trade.

http://www.thewarpath.net/redskins-n...ut-dallas.html

they got there people and a high 1st rounder bc the browns arent doing anything next year.

[CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR]

unfortually everyone in the NFL had a good draft compared to us

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR

unfortually everyone in the NFL had a good draft compared to us

I posted at the end of the official game thread:

Dallas had a pick in the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/-2 in the 6th/-2- in the 7th. Maybe our line will look like that next year.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR

unfortually everyone in the NFL had a good draft compared to us

Really?

We came away with the top defensive player, what's there to hate about that?

[Redskins_P]

Originally Posted by CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR

unfortually everyone in the NFL had a good draft compared to us

What do you expect when you only have 5 picks? I think we did fine with the little that we had.

I don't why everyone has their panties in a bunch? You guys act like we found out today that we only had 5 picks.

[wilsowilso]

If the Dallas first round pick from Purdue who is very light doesn't pan out and obviously he is no sure thing then they had a terrible draft. Yes the first next year was a good move, but it's not like the Cowboys are all that and can afford to give away this years draft.

[EXoffender]

DAL had an OK draft this year. I'm not scared now that they have Spencer (projects as OLB) but, they could have found an eventual starter on the OL in Free and Marten. PHI was foolish to trade with a divisional rival after DAL already benefitted from the CLE trade. Notheless, PHI still made out with some pretty good picks (Kolb has questionable value being PHIs first). ATL seems to have had the best draft without owning the first pick in the top of each round. Quite a few familiar mock-draft names.

[la73hof]

Im quite pleased

I liked our draft

And the Cleveland trade somewhat helps erase the memory of the Joey Galloway trade of 7 years ago

[backrow]

Originally Posted by la73hof

I liked our draft

The cow-not-quite-men got another "character-issue" man in the first. Kind of blends in with the not-quite-men part!

[la73hof]

Originally Posted by backrow

The cow-not-quite-men got another "character-issue" man in the first. Kind of blends in with the not-quite-men part!

Character issue?...No

This guy has been a model citizen

[djnemo65]

The worst part was that Dallas picked up an additional number one next year while drafting the guy they were going to take anyway.

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

The worst part was that Dallas picked up an additional number one next year while drafting the guy they were going to take anyway.

Exactly.

[la73hof]

Better the "Saints" than us

WALTER THOMAS TREADS TOWARD TURD TERRITORY

Much has been written over the past week or so about Walter Thomas, a 370-pound defensive tackle who can run the 40 in 4.9 seconds and do a backflip. (But not while running the 40 in 4.9 seasons.)

But much has also been ignored (or, more accurately, glossed over), especially in the post-Pacman era.

Thomas has a pending charge of conspiracy to commit robbery. In Mississippi, that's a felony. Per the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the indictment is still on file but no court date has been set.

The incident, which a league source tells us involved ski masks in the parking lot of a Sonic restaurant, got him kicked off of a junior college team for which he was playing because he had flunked out of Oklahoma State.

By the way, flunking out of Oklahoma State is pretty hard to do, given that Dexter Manley maintained academic eligibility there -- and couldn't read.

Then there's the apparent Walter Thomas MySpace page, which is troubling to the point of amusing. As a couple of readers have pointed out to us, one of the messages posted on the page reads as follows: "I heard you entered the draft. Is that right? Well its a good thing I got you to sign a whole bunch of sh-t so I can say 'yea, I used to get high with him and eat 5 cheeseburgers every wednesday!'"

So what the hell are the Saints thinking?

"It's a look-see," Saints coach Sean Payton told the T-P. "Normally, a player who's only played in two junior college football games would never come close to having an opportunity. To say he's got an uphill battle would be correct. Because of some of those characteristics, though, you take a look at him in a rookie camp and see where he's at."

As to the pending criminal charges, G.M. Mickey Loomis said: "We're aware of the incident and talked to a lot of people about it. What we understand is that it's going to get resolved. We're just going to give him a look and see for ourselves."

The message, then, is that character only counts when a team doesn't want a guy, and when the team is looking for a reason not to take him. If the team is intrigued, the team is more inclined to look the other way.

And that's the attitude that most teams seem to be applying. If the organization decides that they like the guy as a player, the team will talk its way around the character issues. If the organization decides that it doesn't like the guy as a player, then it's easy to point to the character issues as one of the reasons for taking a pass.

We predict that NFL franchises will continue to approach character issues in this manner until the Commish smacks one of them hard for harboring a guy whom they should have known had the potential to cause embarrassment to the team and the league by getting busted. Only then will teams attempt to make real assessments about whether a guy is going to be a problem, and not come up with lame-ass excuses like Sean Salisbury's explanation of safety Brandon Meriweather's history of head stomping and gun shooting. On Saturday, Salisbury called the Meriweather events "both one-time incidents."

Finally, the fact that the Saints signed Thomas while a felony charge was pending against him earns the franchise six points in the Turd Watch game.

[Dirtbag59]

Apparently the Cowboys are hoping to package those picks next year in an attempt to move up and take Arkansas RB Darren McFadden, whos been described by some as an LT type back.