The potential number-one overall pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, Martin High School and Texas A&M’s Myles Garrett, may have ruffled a few feathers in a video that was filmed back in December at the College Football Awards. In the video, Garrett is talking into the camera as he pleads to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to trade up to pick him first.
Here’s the thing, the Cowboys should take the video’s message and place a call into the Browns front office and do whatever it takes to get the former two-time first-team All-American.
He says, “I’m speaking to you, Jerry, Mr. (coach Jason) Garrett, make it happen. Dak Prescott leads our team right now. I need you to take Tony Romo, take a couple picks, and give them to Cleveland so you can pick me up. Please, I’d love to play in Dallas, just make it happen.” (NFL.com)
With a statement like that, it’s not like the Internet to take a tongue-in-cheek video to his message to a team he grew up loving and run with it.
Oh wait, never mind, it completely blew up and forced the talented defensive lineman to explain himself in an interview with ESPN.
Garrett: ”I had been interviewing with a young woman that was there at the red carpet [for the college football awards show]. She sat down and she was like ‘OK, I have an idea for one more thing.’ I was like ‘All right.’ She said ‘It’s 100 percent fun and say whatever you want to say, have a message toward any coach or any owner who you’d like to speak to for your favorite team. Just say whatever you want and have fun. It doesn’t have to be serious, just play around with it.’ I was like ‘All right.’ So I said what has been going around [from Friday’s release of the video] and it was supposed to be pretty much a joke and not taken too seriously. It kind of got blown up.” (ESPN)
However, for as much of a benign video as it was, he does make a good point. The Cowboys do have a key player that Cleveland could use: Tony Romo. Plus, they have their first and second-round picks this year, and 2018’s first-round pick to offer. And, Cleveland has the 12th pick already in their back pocket.
If the Browns want to get more out of this deal, the Cowboys have the expiring contracts of Right Tackle Doug Free, and Running Back Alfred Morris who could be starters from the minute the walk onto the field for The Browns.
The Cowboys have a Super Bowl caliber offense. The team would have beaten the Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Round had they been able to get pressure on Aaron Rodgers. Instead, Rodgers was sacked three times, all done by the secondary, none by any linebackers.
For the year, the Cowboys ranked in the middle of the pack in the league for number of sacks, and near the bottom in yards lost due to sacks. Doing whatever it takes to get the first pick and selecting Garrett would fix this desperate need. During his three-year career with Texas A&M he had 32.5 sacks over 36 games and was the SEC leader in sacks, and tackles for loss in 2015.
With the return of last season’s second round pick, outside linebacker Jaylon Smith, it would make the Cowboys a deadly one-two punch that would terrorize quarterbacks in 2017. The team has a young core that must take that next step. Calling up Cleveland and asking what it will take to get that first pick is their beginning step into hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season.
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