What I took from the game? Will McClay is still smarter than us

[jterrell]

Player of the game for DAL? Take your pick between two much criticized early draft picks: Taco Charlton or Jaylon Smith.

Best cover player? Chido with the best CB big play we've seen in a while. Kid is a freak physically.

And it works in reverse too. Positions where we haven't drafted just aren't very good. The UDFA QBs look clearly well behind Dak. I mean WELLLLL behind. 3 QBs on roster? Sure, if you sign a vet back up. Otherwise, gross.

TE? Oh man we need a round 1 or 2 TE bad. I am very hopeful we only played so many TE heavy sets to get tape of those guys and decide who can go because it was not pretty. Forget comparing them to present day Witten, those dudes couldn't outperform present day Novacek. I am not a Rico fan but I'm but I'm about to board that bus if only because at least he offers upside and hope.

Back to the good:
DE's? All those draft picks playing together look scary good. Yearly investment on DL has shown up.

WR: Not having Beas or Austin took the sting out of the group but Gallup and TWill were your best WRs. Hopefully it is a deep group but it's not a star leaden group anymore. Maybe that it is a good thing but passes to these TEs are yuck so hopefully that's just for tape/evaluation purposes.

OL: Look those highly drafted OL again show the investment and the value. Those 4 bellcows are prizes to a man. Hopefully CWill can earn his way into that group but it;s clear he is going to have to earn it.

In many ways Will McClay is a super old school football guy and this is a super old school team. Soooo good in the trenches and the early game time of possession shows how they want to play football. Dominate the clock and score at the end of long time-comsuming drives. Force 3 and outs on defense. Rinse and repeat til the other team quits or time runs out.

If they do hoist a Lombardi in the next couple seasons make no mistake the guy who deserves the most credit is Will McClay.

 

[Jipper]

Couldn't agree more...he is the gm of the cowboys in action not title

 

[big dog cowboy]

If they do hoist a Lombardi in the next couple seasons make no mistake the guy who deserves the most credit is Will McClay.

 

[ksadler1]

Here's what l took from the last 2 games. We have ABSOLUTELY NO DEPTH...

 

[jazzcat22]

I don't think the TE situation is as bad as many are thinking.
Stop thinking of Witten and what he would do. Seemed the TE's caught passes, helped move the ball.

Still they may draft one high next year. But that is a long way off.

 

[Pants]

Will can only get the players, which he has - if only he could get a legit HC to use said players....

 

[Section446]

Here's what l took from the last 2 games. We have ABSOLUTELY NO DEPTH...

Truth, we're basically screwed if any starter goes down.

 

[Trouty]

Here's what l took from the last 2 games. We have ABSOLUTELY NO DEPTH...

Looney filled in brilliantly at C. We have, seemingly, a tonne of depth at edge and decent depth at HB with Smith and DJackson... but at safety, DT, swing tackle and possibly backup QB we are shallow.

"Absolutely no depth" is a reach, however it is glaring at several key positions, Sadler. JMO, brother

 

[Manwiththeplan]

Here's what l took from the last 2 games. We have ABSOLUTELY NO DEPTH...

I wouldn't go that far. For a team that is designed for smash mouth football, we aren't deep along the o-line. Once the first unit leaves the game, there isn't much beyond Cameron Fleming. And since we were short a few WRs, even a young guy like Gallup left the game early. Would have liked to have seen more from the TEs, but with the running game struggling, I'm not surprised.

 

[jterrell]

Looney filled in brilliantly at C. We have, seemingly, a tonne of depth at edge and decent depth at HB with Smith and DJackson... but at safety, DT, swing tackle and possibly backup QB we are shallow.

"Absolutely no depth" is a reach, however it is glaring at several key positions, Sadler. JMO, brother

This.
Keep in mind we rested 5 or 6 guys and had a few more on low snap counts.
And then saw what 4 injuries?

RB has good to very good depth.
WR has depth.
DL has depth galore and is underrated.
I'll still argue CB has depth tho AB and Lewis have been rough through 2 games. --this may be a playstyle technique issue under Richard so is a real concern.

QB is Dak and nothing
OL is borderline. Looney was solid. Martin is injured, Fleming was merely adequate, Chaz makes the entire second group look bad.
TE has bodies but Schultz and Rico literally ran into each other on a pass route. They picked each other... it was hilarious and sad. --Bright side is at least they run the route exactly the same even if one of them didn't understand the call and ran it in reverse.
Safety is paper thin and needs addressing. DAL must add someone there. It is rough.

Al in all DAL needs to be scouring waiver wires and looking for trades for their extra DEs and WRs IMHO.

 

[renny]

Here's what l took from the last 2 games. We have ABSOLUTELY NO DEPTH...

I also thought we had better depth. Up 10-0 at half and completely fall apart after halftime with the backsups.

 

[Sydla]

On one hand, I agree............... on the other hand, depth is still a really big concern and if we are going to give McClay credit for the starters he's found, he bears responsibility for depth problems at S, OL not to mention TE looks weak, etc.

Their UDFA hit rate has been fairly weak and that's wear some teams really hit to build depth.

 

[Praxit]

Player of the game for DAL? Take your pick between two much criticized early draft picks: Taco Charlton or Jaylon Smith.

Best cover player? Chido with the best CB big play we've seen in a while. Kid is a freak physically.

And it works in reverse too. Positions where we haven't drafted just aren't very good. The UDFA QBs look clearly well behind Dak. I mean WELLLLL behind. 3 QBs on roster? Sure, if you sign a vet back up. Otherwise, gross.

TE? Oh man we need a round 1 or 2 TE bad. I am very hopeful we only played so many TE heavy sets to get tape of those guys and decide who can go because it was not pretty. Forget comparing them to present day Witten, those dudes couldn't outperform present day Novacek. I am not a Rico fan but I'm but I'm about to board that bus if only because at least he offers upside and hope.

Back to the good:
DE's? All those draft picks playing together look scary good. Yearly investment on DL has shown up.

WR: Not having Beas or Austin took the sting out of the group but Gallup and TWill were your best WRs. Hopefully it is a deep group but it's not a star leaden group anymore. Maybe that it is a good thing but passes to these TEs are yuck so hopefully that's just for tape/evaluation purposes.

OL: Look those highly drafted OL again show the investment and the value. Those 4 bellcows are prizes to a man. Hopefully CWill can earn his way into that group but it;s clear he is going to have to earn it.

In many ways Will McClay is a super old school football guy and this is a super old school team. Soooo good in the trenches and the early game time of possession shows how they want to play football. Dominate the clock and score at the end of long time-comsuming drives. Force 3 and outs on defense. Rinse and repeat til the other team quits or time runs out.

If they do hoist a Lombardi in the next couple seasons make no mistake the guy who deserves the most credit is Will McClay.

..Me like. Good information put in here. Should something happen, that means even getting to NFC championship its on McClay.

 

[SlammedZero]

I feel like McClay has done a good job overall. It can't be easy working along side the Jones family, whom, come across as micro-mangers.

 

[cern]

mcclay works well with Stephen who has an appreciation for mcclay. jerry seems content to let the other two make the personnel decisions now. tony and dez being gone is proof enough of that.

 

[aria]

Will can only get the players, which he has - if only he could get a legit HC to use said players....

You mean like Romo, Dez and Witten when they were in their prime?

 

[CATCH17]

Player of the game for DAL? Take your pick between two much criticized early draft picks: Taco Charlton or Jaylon Smith.

Best cover player? Chido with the best CB big play we've seen in a while. Kid is a freak physically.

And it works in reverse too. Positions where we haven't drafted just aren't very good. The UDFA QBs look clearly well behind Dak. I mean WELLLLL behind. 3 QBs on roster? Sure, if you sign a vet back up. Otherwise, gross.

TE? Oh man we need a round 1 or 2 TE bad. I am very hopeful we only played so many TE heavy sets to get tape of those guys and decide who can go because it was not pretty. Forget comparing them to present day Witten, those dudes couldn't outperform present day Novacek. I am not a Rico fan but I'm but I'm about to board that bus if only because at least he offers upside and hope.

Back to the good:
DE's? All those draft picks playing together look scary good. Yearly investment on DL has shown up.

WR: Not having Beas or Austin took the sting out of the group but Gallup and TWill were your best WRs. Hopefully it is a deep group but it's not a star leaden group anymore. Maybe that it is a good thing but passes to these TEs are yuck so hopefully that's just for tape/evaluation purposes.

OL: Look those highly drafted OL again show the investment and the value. Those 4 bellcows are prizes to a man. Hopefully CWill can earn his way into that group but it;s clear he is going to have to earn it.

In many ways Will McClay is a super old school football guy and this is a super old school team. Soooo good in the trenches and the early game time of possession shows how they want to play football. Dominate the clock and score at the end of long time-comsuming drives. Force 3 and outs on defense. Rinse and repeat til the other team quits or time runs out.

If they do hoist a Lombardi in the next couple seasons make no mistake the guy who deserves the most credit is Will McClay.

Jaylon was a dumb pick regardless if he pans out.

We took him top 5 in the 2nd round.. Wayyy too high for someone with a potentially career ending injury.

My problem with this team isn’t roster building. It’s coaching.

 

[AmishCowboy]

We could use another back up O-lineman and Safety, but other then that we're pretty solid, I thought the TE's looked OK in both games

 

[BigCatMonaco]

On one hand, I agree............... on the other hand, depth is still a really big concern and if we are going to give McClay credit for the starters he's found, he bears responsibility for depth problems at S, OL not to mention TE looks weak, etc.

Their UDFA hit rate has been fairly weak and that's wear some teams really hit to build depth.

Fairly weak compared to who?
They rolled out 5 starters that were undrafted last year out of 24 positions.

18 players on roster were UDFA.

 

[jterrell]

Jaylon was a dumb pick regardless if he pans out.

We took him top 5 in the 2nd round.. Wayyy too high for someone with a potentially career ending injury.

My problem with this team isn’t roster building. It’s coaching.

No offense but this is stupid.
It's not just stupid it's the certainty level that is so concrete that makes it hilariously bad.

And it is a popular opinion... which is the worst kind of stupid.

Jaylon had to redshirt but he was a top 10 pick had he never been injured.
That elite level of pick is rarely if ever available on draft day and the cost is insane.
Sean Lee was also drafted round 2 and basically had a redshirt year? Was his bad too??

Last year Jaylon played in 16 games and started 6.
Right now he looks like a Pro Bowl level guy and a very certain team leader.

The Jaylon takes have been so off and so bad you'd think the people uttering them would be embarassed into silence... but nope!!!
They literally can't wait to say more stupid things.
I feel sorry for those people because life is hard on stupid.