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Coaching AND team management matter.

I don't understand how Jerry Jones can watch Robert Kraft return to the Super Bowl year after year and concede that his ownership and management style (Jerry's) does not work. After 23 years of the same sad results any sane person would've thrown in the towel by now and vowed to go a different route.

Just look at the teams that are going to the Super Bowl every year. Every single one of them with the exception of Al Davis' Oakland Raiders have had an owner that stayed out of the way and didn't try to play personnel guru. And even in Al Davis' case he was a long time coach, owner, and commissioner. He at least earned the right with his football acumen to interject on personnel decisions.

The blueprint to success is literally staring him in the face and he refuses to follow that well worn path to success.
 

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Coaching AND team management matter.

I don't understand how Jerry Jones can watch Robert Kraft return to the Super Bowl year after year and concede that his ownership and management style (Jerry's) does not work. After 23 years of the same sad results any sane person would've thrown in the towel by now and vowed to go a different route.

Just look at the teams that are going to the Super Bowl every year. Every single one of them with the exception of Al Davis' Oakland Raiders have had an owner that stayed out of the way and didn't try to play personnel guru. And even in Al Davis' case he was a long time coach, owner, and commissioner. He at least earned the right with his football acumen to interject on personnel decisions.

The blueprint to success is literally staring him in the face and he refuses to follow that well worn path to success.

What about the other 30 owners.

If they (and Jerry) all follow the blueprint, there will be 32 teams in the Super Bowl...
 

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Same answer I always have. When it’s coaching that’s keeping us from advancing in the post season, we’ll need to upgrade the coaching. Coaching hasn’t been the issue, and as long as it’s not, I want the stability and the chance to continue to improve the entire organization that we’ve seen under Garrett.

You can’t deny that you’ve gone from complaining we’ll never get over .500 under Garrett to complaining we can’t advance past the divisional round when playing a better all-around team under Garrett. That’s progress.
Coaching wasn’t the issue vs the Rams?Of course it was! We got out coached on both sides of the ball vs the Rams!!
 

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And one of those was with a WR. The reality is 70% of the Rams plays were passing plays.
The Rams didn’t run or throw the ball worth a dam. If they would have kept running the ball the same way they would have kept punting!
 

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Are you saying that was not an amazing defensive game plan by Belicheat? He should have been the MVP. I hate NE, but you have to give Belicheat his due.
Do u even read?....I NEVER said anything about this SB....for 1 Belichick doesnt even call the plays Flores does....
 

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Coaching wasn’t the issue vs the Rams?Of course it was! We got out coached on both sides of the ball vs the Rams!!

Coaching most definitely was not the issue with the Rams. We got beat by a better team with two weeks to prepare. A team everybody on the forum was comparing positively to our roster all season long and then forgot and decided it was coaching when the defense couldn't maintain their gaps against a better offensive line.

And we still were in position to tie things up in the 4th quarter when our backup OC got blown off the line by Suh, who was probably the player most people were talking about when complaining about the Rams going for it with a better roster than we had to start with.

Right, but it was coaching because we might have run a different play on that 4th and 1. One that worked. We need a guy who can go back in time and call plays that work all the time, like Jimmy did. Only Jimmy had, by far, the best roster in the entire league and nobody wants to remember that part. Put it in 3 inch headlines: we had really good players.
 

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Coaching most definitely was not the issue with the Rams. We got beat by a better team with two weeks to prepare. A team everybody on the forum was comparing positively to our roster all season long and then forgot and decided it was coaching when the defense couldn't maintain their gaps against a better offensive line.

And we still were in position to tie things up in the 4th quarter when our backup OC got blown off the line by Suh, who was probably the player most people were talking about when complaining about the Rams going for it with a better roster than we had to start with.

Right, but it was coaching because we might have run a different play on that 4th and 1. One that worked. We need a guy who can go back in time and call plays that work all the time, like Jimmy did. Only Jimmy had, by far, the best roster in the entire league and nobody wants to remember that part. Put it in 3 inch headlines: we had really good players.
The Rams offense exploited our defenses tendencies and gained from it. The coaches studied the tape. They noticed habits along the defensive line they felt they could take advantage of. Then they installed a game plan to do it. There is no doubt the players carried it out and "executed". This is the type of coaching we seem to lack. When was the last time a Garrett led team gained such an advantage from preparation and planning? Yes they had an extra week to prepare. When has Garrett and his staff ever gone into a playoff game that prepared given an extra week?
 

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The Rams offense exploited our defenses tendencies and gained from it. The coaches studied the tape. They noticed habits along the defensive line they felt they could take advantage of. Then they installed a game plan to do it. There is no doubt the players carried it out and "executed". This is the type of coaching we seem to lack. When was the last time a Garrett led team gained such an advantage from preparation and planning? Yes they had an extra week to prepare. When has Garrett and his staff ever gone into a playoff game that prepared given an extra week?

All teams do that. Especially with the extra week hey earned to prepare.

Our team is regularly more prepared than our opponents. We’re don’t win more games than other NFC teams under Dak by not being prepared. That doesn’t make any sense.
 

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All teams do that. Especially with the extra week hey earned to prepare.

Our team is regularly more prepared than our opponents. We’re don’t win more games than other NFC teams under Dak by not being prepared. That doesn’t make any sense.
I think you missed the words playoff game that I used in the question. We are talking about the playoff game right? The specific one where the home team gets an extra week to prepare, study film, put a plan together overall coaching stuff.

If you didn't miss them then why are you mentioning regular season wins since Dak started? That wouldn't make any sense.
 

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Coaching AND team management matter.

I don't understand how Jerry Jones can watch Robert Kraft return to the Super Bowl year after year and concede that his ownership and management style (Jerry's) does not work. After 23 years of the same sad results any sane person would've thrown in the towel by now and vowed to go a different route.

Just look at the teams that are going to the Super Bowl every year. Every single one of them with the exception of Al Davis' Oakland Raiders have had an owner that stayed out of the way and didn't try to play personnel guru. And even in Al Davis' case he was a long time coach, owner, and commissioner. He at least earned the right with his football acumen to interject on personnel decisions.

The blueprint to success is literally staring him in the face and he refuses to follow that well worn path to success.

Jerry feels "comfortable" with a head coach that constantly agrees with him and enables his habits of compromising that coach's authority.

It also happens to be extremely important for him to fake his relevance as a GM, even to the extent of sacrificing some wins on game day.
 
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The Rams didn’t run or throw the ball worth a dam. If they would have kept running the ball the same way they would have kept punting!

IF...

Is 10 carries scattered over the course of a game enough to know with a player who is maybe the best RB in the NFL (at least top 2 with Elliott)? Is that enough use for the guy that is your best offensive weapon?

How would Cowboy fans feel after a 13-3 loss if Zeke only got 10 carries? Can you imagine how this board would blow up?

How many times has Elliott not done much early in a game but still had a big game? Or Emmitt? Do we not think it happens with Gurley too? And other great RBs?
 

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Where was this coaching last year? Benching your best CB and gi CB giving up 41 pts
Where was Gurley? Rams are a play action team Run first...dont run you lose

You’re nitpicking-he’s been to three straight SB’s and won a total of six. Belichick is the best ever and yes coaching matters a whole lot.
 

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  1. The Patriots executed a game plan that put them in position to make plays. Some fans do not understand coaches can make it easier for players to make plays.​
The interesting thing about Patriots are they dont make stupid mistakes at key times. Nothing ever seems to surprise them. They may start the season a little slow but they also dont wear down the whole team down trying to win games during the regular season. The players seem to work well together but rarely do they go to another team in FA and be the same player. None of their coaching staff for some reason cant replicate the head coaches success when they leave. This isnt luck either because it has happened too many times. Belichick is heads above all NFL coaches.
 

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I would be all in with that if Jerry could somehow convince him. It's a shame we couldn't have landed him back when the Browns fired him.
Belichick’s already worked for one “basket case” franchise, why come to us and work for another?
 

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Or maybe just get rid of that piece of crap you keep wanting to support and put on a pedestal?

I’m all for it, if you someone better. Well, not you, but if someone who knows what they’re talking about does.
 

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I think you missed the words playoff game that I used in the question. We are talking about the playoff game right? The specific one where the home team gets an extra week to prepare, study film, put a plan together overall coaching stuff.

If you didn't miss them then why are you mentioning regular season wins since Dak started? That wouldn't make any sense.

Are we, now? It’s hard to keep track the way you guys keep sliding the goalposts back when the prior achievements are reached.
 

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The Rams offense exploited our defenses tendencies and gained from it. The coaches studied the tape. They noticed habits along the defensive line they felt they could take advantage of. Then they installed a game plan to do it. There is no doubt the players carried it out and "executed". This is the type of coaching we seem to lack. When was the last time a Garrett led team gained such an advantage from preparation and planning? Yes they had an extra week to prepare. When has Garrett and his staff ever gone into a playoff game that prepared given an extra week?

Good luck talking to the wall.

Some people just refuse to see the obvious coaching shortcomings.

Other teams can scout both themselves and other teams, like the Rams did to the Cowboys. And that was clearly the difference in the game to anyone with a functional pair of eyes not impaired by fan blinders.

And do you want to know who's supposed to be handling that area of scouting? Another unqualified Garrett brother, Judd. And that's why we not only can't spot other teams' tendencies, we can't spot and correct our own, so we end up getting destroyed because of them.

But yeah, blame it on the players forever...
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