Monday Morning Mock Draft: Hindsight is 20/20

Happy Monday afternoon folks.  It’s time once again for our newest and, if not loved, at least acknowledged feature of drafting things you’d change from last week’s games.  Keep in mind that these extend from last Monday through Sunday night, so if there’s something you’ve been stewing about for a week a) now’s your chance to get it out and b) get a life.  Football’s a game, and not a particularly straight one, either.

Now, as you all know I root for the Cowboys, but I like to think of myself as a fairly reasonable version of the breed.  I am fully aware the Jerry Jones is an awful person who’s continued insistence on being heavily involved in football decisions put a very low ceiling on their chances of success, that Mike McCarthy is pretty much incompetent when it comes to coaching, (which is, you know, his job), that the Cowboys are a woefully undisciplined lot with a penchant for backbreaking penal…wait, where was I going with this?

Oh, right!  I generally accept that the Cowboys aren’t all that good, that and that their losses are generally attributable to the issues listed above, (and many, many other self-inflicted ones), rather than some grand conspiracy.  That said, the picture above was what happened on 3rd and 4 on Dallas’s first, (and predictably last), drive in OT.  You will note that the ball has yet to reach Cee Dee Lamb, but that Jaire Alexander is there with bells on, one hand wrapped around Lamb’s left arm, one hand lovingly grasping Lamb’s right shoulder.  This is textbook pass interference.  Was it called?  You already know that it was not.  Now, it’s perfectly possible, perhaps even likely, that even with that call Dallas would have done something dumb in the next few plays.  Maybe even likely.  I am not at all saying that the Cowboys would have won, but they would, and should have, kept the drive going, to live and die by their own dumb little hands.  And calls like this always seem to happen when a team, (any team, and you, not just Dallas), when playing against a Rodgers or a Brady.  It’s annoying as fuck, and it needs to stop.

So if I could change one thing about last week’s slate of games it would be that Alexander be (rightly) flagged for PI on this case, the Cowboys get the 1st down, and then we see what happens.

Have at it.