Well Jason Garrett, Here Is Step Two

Step one for the now official Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett was to get the job. He did enough at the end of last year to get Jerry Jones to believe in him and take away the interim tag. Now he has to move on to step and build the team that he needs to win in his system. The question is, where should they go with this selection?

The Dallas Cowboys are continuing the trend at this point in the draft of underachieving teams, countless people had the Cowboys playing at home in last year's Super Bowl going into the season, and they have a lot of that same talent both coming back, and only getting better. On offense they are set at running back, wide receiver, tight end, center, guards, and of course quarterback. So they could look into their tackle positions here and see if they can draft for that.

On defense they have one of the scarier defensive players in the league in DeMarcus Ware, two former Pro Bowl cornerbacks, young safeties that are growing into their position, an experienced and good defensive tackle, and solid though aging middle linebackers. They could look into their end and other outside linebacker position at this point in the draft too. The thing about this pick is the Cowboys last year were one of the more talented teams, and they just underachieved. They still have all that great and emerging talent, so this pick really can fit right into a need to make this team almost complete, or at least more so in the future.

With that in mind there are a couple positions they should be looking at, on that offensive side they should be looking at the tackle position, while they could look to take a top talent defensive back to sure up both the present, and almost as importantly the future, or a defensive end to come in and maybe play right away. With the depth of this class though, and the picks that they have in the future, it would seem the best course of action here to go with the offensive side of the ball. If they were lucky to have something happen that would land a guy like Da'Quan Bowers into their lap that would be ideal, but that seems unlikely. So to go with Tyron Smith, the number one tackle and offensive lineman on the board, would make complete sense and would really be a great building block in this draft, and for the Garrett regime.

Predictions as of today for this pick:

Me: Tyron Smith, OT, USC
Mel Kiper: Prince Amukamara, CB, Nebraska
Todd McShay: Tyron Smith, OT, USC
NewNFLDraft: Tyron Smith, OT, USC