News: Canfora: Cowboys top 5 worst off season plan

[UpNorth]

Dallas

The Cowboys defense was awful before the offseason began, and they seem intent on making it even worse in 2020! How about that? Two of their biggest contributors from a year ago -- pass rusher Robert Quinn and corner Byron Jones -- are gone. Sean Lee is back, despite his age and years of injury woes. They'd better hope Gerald McCoy makes a far more significant impact than he did in Carolina last year, or this thing might really crumble. Keeping Amari Cooper is nice, but wait until Dak Prescott is making $38M a year. It's going to limit the ability to do a few other things, and Jerry Jones has been paltry spending on payroll the last four years, anyway. They'd better have one helluva of a draft, and it had better lean decidedly to the defensive side of the ball. Their ability to stop anyone remains very much in question, and even all of the yards they rolled up a year ago were not enough to make them anything close to a contending team.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...season-plans-through-free-agencys-first-wave/

 

[Teague31]

Wrong. Getting rid of the clapper immediately makes this a top 5 offseason.

 

[snapper]

Dallas

The Cowboys defense was awful before the offseason began, and they seem intent on making it even worse in 2020! How about that? Two of their biggest contributors from a year ago -- pass rusher Robert Quinn and corner Byron Jones -- are gone. Sean Lee is back, despite his age and years of injury woes. They'd better hope Gerald McCoy makes a far more significant impact than he did in Carolina last year, or this thing might really crumble. Keeping Amari Cooper is nice, but wait until Dak Prescott is making $38M a year. It's going to limit the ability to do a few other things, and Jerry Jones has been paltry spending on payroll the last four years, anyway. They'd better have one helluva of a draft, and it had better lean decidedly to the defensive side of the ball. Their ability to stop anyone remains very much in question, and even all of the yards they rolled up a year ago were not enough to make them anything close to a contending team.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...season-plans-through-free-agencys-first-wave/

More doom and gloom. He must be a member of the CowboysZone.

 

[Carson]

I'm not as down on them as most here are. Big losses : Byron Jones (Solid CB, No ball skills), Robert Quinn (Great pass rusher, terrible run defender), Travis Frederick (Legend. But not the same player he once was). The rest are just very meh fringe players. Heath? Collins? Witten? Come on.

Big signings : HaHa Clinton-Dix, Gerald McCoy, Poe. Both will start at FS and 3 Tech. Both are upgrades over last years players. If Poe comes in and plays the 1, that is massive for the line.

So essentially your biggest glaring holes are RDE, #1 Corner, Slot receiver, Center. Ok cool. Rumor has it Gregory will likely be back. Awesome. So Gregory / Crawford can man RDE.

That leaves you with #1 Corner, Slot, Center. Spend your first two picks on (CJ Henderson and Tyler Biadasz or Matt Hennessy). Corner and Center are covered. Slot receiver can be found cheap in FA (Taylor Gabriel) or easily in this loaded draft.

Step back. Breathe. It's only March. This team will be fine after the draft with all needs filled.

 

[baltcowboy]

Didn’t he predict we were not going to sign Dak, Zeke, and Amari last offseason. Then he said during the season we have no cap space and we cannot afford to keep Amari. Whatever his name is, he is not a big fan of the Cowboys.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Cancel the season. LaConfora has spoken

 

[Avery]

Our defense sucked last year even with these ‘stars’.

A new scheme without the old man and ‘don’t look back’ dude will help.

 

[Carson]

Didn’t he predict we were not going to sign Dak, Zeke, and Amari last offseason. Then he said during the season we have no cap space and we cannot afford to keep Amari. Whatever his name is, he is not a big fan of the Cowboys.

Worked as the Skins beat reporter for 6 years. Still host a sports radio show in Baltimore. Nuff' said

 

[cowboyblue22]

they were 8 and 8 with all those players missed the playoffs it can be worse but I don t think it will be he is a cowboy hater

 

[nightrain]

Jason Lacanfora is not exactly what I consider a great source for analysis.

 

[dragon_mikal]

I'm not as down on them as most here are. Big losses : Byron Jones (Solid CB, No ball skills), Robert Quinn (Great pass rusher, terrible run defender), Travis Frederick (Legend. But not the same player he once was). The rest are just very meh fringe players. Heath? Collins? Witten? Come on.

Big signings : HaHa Clinton-Dix, Gerald McCoy, Poe. Both will start at FS and 3 Tech. Both are upgrades over last years players. If Poe comes in and plays the 1, that is massive for the line.

So essentially your biggest glaring holes are RDE, #1 Corner, Slot receiver, Center. Ok cool. Rumor has it Gregory will likely be back. Awesome. So Gregory / Crawford can man RDE.

That leaves you with #1 Corner, Slot, Center. Spend your first two picks on (CJ Henderson and Tyler Biadasz or Matt Hennessy). Corner and Center are covered. Slot receiver can be found cheap in FA (Taylor Gabriel) or easily in this loaded draft.

Step back. Breathe. It's only March. This team will be fine after the draft with all needs filled.

Same crap different offseason.

I’ll believe it when is see it.

 

[Silver N Blue]

Outside of the coaching change hard to argue with the cap room they had available.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

Getting rid of Marinelli, Richard, and Garrett is an instant improvement.

Marinelli handicaps a defense. DLaw, our LB's, and DB's might as well have played each game in a wheel chair.

 

[UpNorth]

Big signings : HaHa Clinton-Dix, Gerald McCoy, Poe. .

These aren't big signings

I havent seen anything official on Poe yet either

 

[gjkoeppen]

I'm not as down on them as most here are. Big losses : Byron Jones (Solid CB, No ball skills), Robert Quinn (Great pass rusher, terrible run defender), Travis Frederick (Legend. But not the same player he once was). The rest are just very meh fringe players. Heath? Collins? Witten? Come on.

Big signings : HaHa Clinton-Dix, Gerald McCoy, Poe. Both will start at FS and 3 Tech. Both are upgrades over last years players. If Poe comes in and plays the 1, that is massive for the line.

So essentially your biggest glaring holes are RDE, #1 Corner, Slot receiver, Center. Ok cool. Rumor has it Gregory will likely be back. Awesome. So Gregory / Crawford can man RDE.

That leaves you with #1 Corner, Slot, Center. Spend your first two picks on (CJ Henderson and Tyler Biadasz or Matt Hennessy). Corner and Center are covered. Slot receiver can be found cheap in FA (Taylor Gabriel) or easily in this loaded draft.

Step back. Breathe. It's only March. This team will be fine after the draft with all needs filled.

You made some valid points but Clinton-Dix hasn't been a good player since 2016. That's piling a lot of praise on a player who has been left to sign his last two contracts as 1 year prove it type contracts because of his play since 2016.
.

 

[Cowboys22]

So they sucked but not bringing everyone back is bad? No one can make any determination, good or bad, until we see the new staff in action, see who makes up the final roster, and see the results of that combination.

 

[DasTex]

Dang is the offseason already over? Must have missed that

 

[Bigdog]

Opinion is in the eye of the beholder. I read in an article that said the Cowboys were quietly having a good off season. They are getting quality players at reasonable price was a snippet from the article.

 

[Pabst]

If JLC hates it, we probably did something right.

 

[baltcowboy]

Worked as the Skins beat reporter for 6 years. Still host a sports radio show in Baltimore. Nuff' said

Yes. I listened to his show the other day. For an insider he really has no clue. Just saw Matt Mosley on Cowherd today. For a Cowboys insider he is clueless as well.