SportsDayDFW "Ballzy" podcast hosts Kevin Sherrington, Barry Horn and Evan Grant recently discussed all things Dallas Cowboys in their latest podcast. Here are some of the highlights.

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Is this draft class the best of all time?

Barry Horn: After the broadcast Howie Long said if you come up with one impact player in a draft you've hit a home run. He said the Cowboys have hit two grand slams.

Kevin Sherrington: Meaning Zeke Elliott and Dak Prescott. Let's look at that. First of all, just to remind everybody, obviously Zeke was taken with the fourth pick in the draft [in the] first round. That looks pretty good. Barring injury, barring something happening, barring him getting banned by the NFL that's an unbelievable pick. No one can argue with that pick now.

Barry Horn: But you would have to say with the fourth overall pick of the draft you should hit a home run. Unless you're the Los Angeles Rams.

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Kevin Sherrington: Second round they take Jaylon Smith. Jury's still out. Don't know. But if he is as good as they say he is he's a top five talent from this last draft.

Barry Horn: If he turns out to be Jaylon Smith, the way they thought it would be, this could be the greatest draft of all time. ... It could be the greatest draft of all time of any team.

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Kevin Sherrington: In the same fourth round [as Charles Tapper], you got Dak Prescott. Best draft pick of maybe the last 10 years.

Barry Horn: Best value for a fourth-round pick? Absolutely.

Kevin Sherrington: Of anybody. I'm not talking just the Cowboys. Look at all the drafts. Who could get a quarterback playing at this level rookie season?

Didn't have a fifth-round pick. Sixth-round pick:Anthony Brown, cornerback from Purdue. [Sunday], they don't have Mo Claiborne and they are also missing Barry Church. They're missing half the starting secondary. Orlando Scandrick goes down as well, gets knocked around a little bit. On Antonio Brown, who you could make the argument [that] he's the best receiver in the NFL if it's not Julio Jones...is a tremendous receiver. Out there on him one-on-one is Anthony Brown.

Evan Grant: And held him to what?

Kevin Sherrington: [laughing] He didn't really 'held him.'

Barry Horn: It was like 150 yards and 14 catches.

Kevin Sherrington: But look. Here's the thing. What did everybody say about that game too, though? [Ben] Roethlisberger comes back from two very mediocre games and he looked terrific against the Cowboys. And when I say terrific that doesn't mean that, 'Oh my gosh he carved up the Cowboys.' It was, 'Look at these throws. These are tremendous throws. Anthony Brown is right on Antonio Brown and he's making catches.' This kid, a sixth-round draft pick, is playing unbelievably well for the Cowboys this year. It's phenomenal.

I think you can make the case that: which round did they get the best value from? The first pick, as y'all said, he's the fourth pick. He oughta be a good player, right? In the fourth round you're getting a starting quarterback. You can't beat that. But to get a sixth-round rookie cornerback to step in and play as well as this kid's playing right now is really phenomenal.

Evan Grant: I think it just adds to the value.

Barry Horn: It adds to the genius of Jerry [Jones] as a GM.

Kevin Sherrington: [laughing] Listen I'm giving all props to Jerry. I don't think it is Jerry. Obviously we don't think that, but if I'm going to rip him for bad drafts I'm giving him credit for this one.

Evan Grant: This draft to this point looks phenomenal. It looks like a great draft. It looks like a historic draft for the Cowboys. But I will say this: the one thing that you have to check is -- whether it's a baseball draft and you're talking about guys that you won't see in the big leagues for three or four years or the NFL where guys may make an impact the first year -- it's hard to give a long-term grade to a draft until we see long-term.

How does it compare with other drafts?

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) congratulates Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott (21) on a 60 yard rushing touchdown during the second half of play at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Sunday, October 9, 2016. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 28-14. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News) (Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)

Kevin Sherrington: We're drifting from my point here about the drafts.

Barry Horn: I thought you made your point.

Kevin Sherrington: I made the point before that this draft compares favorably with the early 90s drafts which the Cowboys built Super Bowl teams off of, right? Right now, that's the way it looks. I'm going to expand that to say that you can look back historically -- if this draft continues to develop the way that it is just with the guys they've got playing now -- and if you add Jaylon Smith and Charles Tapper to that ... I think it compares favorably with any draft the Cowboys have ever had.

Evan Grant: So what do you use as the benchmark Cowboys draft?

Kevin Sherrington: Here we go. In 1970 they get Duane Thomas in the first round, they get Charlie Waters in the third, Steve Kiner in the third, [John] Fitzgerald in the fourth, Pat Toomay in the sixth and Mark Washington, pretty good cornerback, in the 13th. That was a good draft. The reason that's important is because; what happens in the 70s? That's when they started going to Super Bowls.

And then in '75 in the first round they get Randy White. Also a first-rounder [was] Thomas Henderson. Second round Burton Lawless, third round Bob Breunig, fourth Pat Donovan, 13th Herbert Scott, 14th Scott Laidlaw.

Evan Grant: That might be the best draft just for the number of guys that contributed long-term.

Kevin Sherrington: Yes. That was very comprable to the Cowboys' draft of 1991 when they got Russell Maryland. This was a draft where they didn't just get All-Star players, but they got a lot of good players. They got Russell Maryland, Alvin Harper, Dixon Edwards, Godfrey Myles, Erik Williams, Leon Lett [and] Larry Brown. That's a lot of good players. That was the '91 draft. That fed into the Cowboys' Super Bowl teams of the 90s.

Evan Grant: So what's your point?

Kevin Sherrington: My point is: in the last few drafts the Cowboys have added some good players, right? They've been drafting some good offensive linemen. But they would draft an offensive lineman and then there wouldn't be anything after that. That first-round pick was good, but they weren't getting anything after that. Now, in this draft, they went all the way into the sixth round with [impact players].

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