Twitter: Jerry: I'm surprised and disappointed. I thought this was one of our best teams

[Diehardblues]

Most of us thought he was right during the offseason.

But not all of us.

 

[PAPPYDOG]

26 years of failure and Jerry still selling that Kool-Aid....

 

[Tommy]

Yes.

Well, the Jets have been doing it right for the past 50 years now and scoring great positions in the draft every season.

That should be translating to success any time now.

 

[Aven8]

Stephen thought this team was amazing too. But what they are seeing is the offense. No way they think this defense is talented and deep. Dlaw, Gallimore, Gregory, and Wilson are probably our best players.

 

[Diehardblues]

26 years of failure and Jerry still selling that Kool-Aid....

Regardless whether he actually sees it or not , he sells it. And for the most part Cowboy fans buy into it.

 

[Brax]

And here is the problem, and it's name is Jerry Jones

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

As I said Jerry’s knowledge of football wouldn’t fill the skull of a fruit fly

 

[nightrain]

To even hear those words spoken is just mind blowing.......until you realize it's the Cowboys GM.

 

[Carson]

Stephen thought this team was amazing too. But what they are seeing is the offense. No way they think this defense is talented and deep. Dlaw, Gallimore, Gregory, and Wilson are probably our best players.

That’s my thinking. Offense is loaded and they will all return. Should be the same 12-15 guys.

Keep Gallimore, Lawrence, Gregory, Smith, Wilson, Diggs.

Load up at DT, LB, CB, S. Should be solid again next season if we land some dogs. The guys I’ve listed have that dog in them. The finesse soft guys like Jaylon can go

 

[Diehardblues]

And here is the problem, and it's name is Jerry Jones

You’d think after a couple decades fans would have caught on.

I blame the fans after all of these years for continuing to provide #1 in revenue and popularity despite the results. We are sending Jethro the wrong message.

 

[John813]

I mean offensively on paper the team looked legit. Defensively we were hoping and praying guys make an improvement or instant impact.

 

[Jarv]

Most of us thought he was right during the offseason.

You're correct, but most of us, like JJ, are not qualified to be legitimate NFL GMs.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

It did look like we had made some good moves to shore up the Dline - I don't think anyone on this board felt like Poe, McCoy and Griffith would have turned out as poorly as they have. It looked like the D was set to succeed. What part the new staff and lack of time to prepare had on the whole scenario is anyone's guess

Then you have the turnover issue.

The injuries on the Oline

The injury to Dak

This year is such an aberration, trying to tell what shape the team is in, or can be, is an exercise in futility, generally.
Though on McCoy I never did like that pick up, too old, recovering from an injury and another 3 tech when we already had ample 3 techs, including a highly rated rookie...

 

[The Natural]

He isnt too far off. Personnel wise we were lead to believe this would be our most dominate offense since the championship days. Dak got hurt, Moore as OC has been a bust, OL made of glass, bargain bin defensive acquisitions turned out to be busts, Linebackers suck, mediocre safety play, and here we are.

 

[ShortRound]

But he hired the coaching too. I suspect he’ll put it all on injuries. That should wash his slate clean for this season.

Damn covid too.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Before the season started, we didn't realize how much not having a off season would negatively impact the Cowboys and we didn't realize the injury plagued season we were about to enter. The so called NFL experts didn't realize this also and were predicting the Cowboys to do well. Remember when the Cowboys were as high as #5-6 in the preseason power polls? So it's understandable why anyone would be surprised and disappointed.

 

[Jake]

Most of us thought he was right during the offseason.

Maybe you did, but count me as one who thought the defense wasn't anywhere close to championship caliber. Folks got excited about a couple of overpaid has-beens and we lost our best cover corner.

Had enough offense to win some games, maybe win the East, but the defense would've been their downfall in the postseason (again).

 

[Stash]

Well we knew the D would probably suck, but I’m with him. This season was a bowl of you know what.

Once Dak went down the season was over regardless.

I didn't have it quite as badly as Jerry clearly did, but I did think that this team could have contended this year. I certainly didn't see the huge number of injuries coming (nobody did), and I didn't expect the defense to be as pathetic as it is. I falsely believed that some free agent signings like Poe and Griffen would have been part of the solution rather than a big part of the problem.

 

[Jake]

Imagine sucking at something for 24 years and then being surprised you still suck at it the 25th year.

Jerry being shocked that his team has underperformed for the 25th straight season under his leadership is the perfect end to 2020.

Some people call me pessimistic for saying Jethro & Son are never going to put together a champion. I guess some folks need another decade or two of failure to see it.

 

[75boyz]

If Tankers had their way every team not going to playoffs would be intentionally throwing games for higher draft picks. Lol

Remove the word "tank" from all the discussions.
Replace it with just losing 2 to 4 years and subsequently picking high.

Think of Vermeil's Rams and how several years of losing and drafting high netted them HOFs Pace and Holt to go along with free agents Warner and Faulk.
Think of the same Rams on a lesser successsful scale getting Donald Gurley and Goff and their subsequent SB appearance soon afterward.

Similar to San Francisco's run of losing seasons netted them several high d line picks and a SB appearance. Washington kinda copied that without the post season success so far.

So if the whole hang up is on the word "tank" as an intentional motivation of the team to lose then these are several examples of benefiting from losing a few years in a row and capitalizing on those corresponding high picks without necessarily tanking.

Suck for Luck was an obvious tank job.

The Patriots minus this year and about 5 other well coached and well Gm'd teams have managed consistent playoffs over the past decade.

Dallas is not coached or Gm'd well. They need all the help they can get.

Whether you want to call it intentional or "tank" is irrelevant.

The point is that picking higher available ranked players 3 or 4 years in a row after losing can build a possible short to long term contender in "most" cases.