You'd have to be a true skeptic to argue with this off season.
they replaced cobb with lamb and quinn with griffen.
Maliek collins was replaced by McCoy and gallimore. McCoy is gone for the year.
Ross/woods were replaced by poe.
Cooper rush was replaced by Andy Dalton.
Travis frederick is replaced by Joe Looney/Tyler biadasz
Hyder/bennett replaced by aldon smith and anae
Jason Witten replaced by Blake Bell essentially with Jarwin as the starter.
sua filo and cam fleming have been replaced by cam erving and connor mcgovern.
Kai Forbath has been replaced by Greg zuerlein
Jeff heath has been replaced by Dix
Byron Jones has been replaced by diggs.
Honestly I see a lot of question marks there compared to last years roster. For starters center and left guard are going to be a work in progress I bet early in the year. Smith has a hamstring issue and Collins showed up out of shape. They seem to have depth inside and none outside and the inside guys have glaring question marks...mcgovern has never played a snap in the nfl, looney is a good depth guy but he is starting and williams is coming off a major injury. Throw in Columbo is gone and Joe Philbin is now coaching the line.
then the secondary has potential to be below average. They just seem ok across the board. No one in the secondary does any one thing really well.
The defensive line is a giant question mark to me. Lawrence is always struggling with an injury of some kind, aldon smith has not played in years and it is a very long season. Griffen is a clear improvement and so is hopefully having crawford for a full season..The rest of the guys seem like average rotational guys.
I just dont see this enormous improvement. They have changed their strength and conditioning coach, their defensive scheme and coaches and are running something similar I guess to what Moore did last year only using the west coast terminology I guess on offense. I just think this is going to be more of the same. Offensively they will move the ball up and down the field and should score a lot of points and defensively it will most likely be a wait and see but I am hard pressed to see a big improvement. Hopefully the punt return and coverage will improve, with lamb and chris jones being healthy it should but again that is wait and see.
It just sure seems to me that the Hard sell is on from the same people.