Just one season ago, the Cowboys decided to part ways with almost the entire secondary outside of Byron Jones and Orlando Scandrick. Brandon Carr, Barry Church, Morris Claiborne, and J.J. Wilcox had all been starters playing significant snaps but the front office decided their time had come to an end. The Cowboys received plenty of flak for this move but they collectively saw the ceiling with their current group wasn’t high enough. Instead, the Cowboys saw an opportunity in the 2017 NFL Draft to get better by getting younger and cheaper:
I’m not saying the Cowboys get everything right, by any stretch.