Thirty-one other rooms let John Mateer slide, and the Cowboys were the ones holding the card at the 113th pick. Highway robbery. It nets out to a B+, which feels about right.

The dealing alone would carry a lesser class. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped running back, which is a strange place to end up.

They are betting Leigh proves the room right and everyone else wrong.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.