The Cap: how it has changed the league (and should change Garrett)

[Bobhaze]

Today’s NFL is completely different than it was when we last won a Super Bowl in the 1995 season. Back then, the salary cap had just been instituted and it would have a profound effect on the league in several key ways:

• How teams acquired, developed and maintained its talent changed dramatically.
• It also leveled the playing field in talent matchups between teams. It became much harder to stockpile talent with depth like the Cowboys did back in the early 90s.
• Because the talent gaps are smaller in today’s game, the role of creativity and scheme became much more important than just winning by brute physical advantages.
• And finally, this led to critical importance of having a head coach and staff that can BE CREATIVE AND ADAPT TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES QUICKLY- both in games and in season. Quite simply, having a creative HC has become more critical than ever before.

So, the importance of having creative and adaptive schemes on both sides of the ball have become a must if your team is to win in the regular season and to qualify for the playoffs. And, once in the playoffs, your team's ability to be creative and adaptive is even more critical.

Improving this team’s ability to be more creative and adaptive may be the biggest key to finally having a deep playoff run we haven’t seen since the salary cap was installed.

Unfortunately, despite some strengths exhibited in acquiring talent and getting his teams ready to consistently play hard, Jason Garrett runs this team like a 1965 Vince Lombardi packers team. “Here is what we do, we’re going to do it over and over, because that’s what we do, and we are going to out physical you with it”. The problem is, that theory doesn’t work so often in today’s NFL.

Jason Garrett does several things well as previously stated. But his inability to be creative and adapt is an absolute killer in the playoffs. Which is where coaching matters most.

If Garrett doesn’t correct this bad habit, he will continue to be a decent regular season coach who struggles to win in the playoffs. My hope is that the addition of Kellen Moore will add some creativity to our offensive schemes and influence some of the habits and practices of our head coach.

Surely this season is Garrett’s last chance to prove he can be that kind of coach.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

Today’s NFL is completely different than it was when we last won a Super Bowl in the 1995 season. Back then, the salary cap had just been instituted and it would have a profound effect on the league in several key ways:

• How teams acquired, developed and maintained its talent changed dramatically.
• It also leveled the playing field in talent matchups between teams. It became much harder to stockpile talent with depth like the Cowboys did back in the early 90s.
• Because the talent gaps are smaller in today’s game, the role of creativity and scheme became much more important than just winning by brute physical advantages.
• And finally, this led to critical importance of having a head coach and staff that can BE CREATIVE AND ADAPT TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES QUICKLY- both in games and in season. Quite simply, having a creative HC has become more critical than ever before.

So, the importance of having creative and adaptive schemes on both sides of the ball have become a must if your team is to win in the regular season and to qualify for the playoffs. And, once in the playoffs, your team's ability to be creative and adaptive is even more critical.

Improving this team’s ability to be more creative and adaptive may be the biggest key to finally having a deep playoff run we haven’t seen since the salary cap was installed.

Unfortunately, despite some strengths exhibited in acquiring talent and getting his teams ready to consistently play hard, Jason Garrett runs this team like a 1965 Vince Lombardi packers team. “Here is what we do, we’re going to do it over and over, because that’s what we do, and we are going to out physical you with it”. The problem is, that theory doesn’t work so often in today’s NFL.

Jason Garrett does several things well as previously stated. But his inability to be creative and adapt is an absolute killer in the playoffs. Which is where coaching matters most.

If Garrett doesn’t correct this bad habit, he will continue to be a decent regular season coach who struggles to win in the playoffs. My hope is that the addition of Kellen Moore will add some creativity to our offensive schemes and influence some of the habits and practices of our head coach.

Surely this season is Garrett’s last chance to prove he can be that kind of coach.

Whatever he's doing has worked about 2/3 of the time since the beginning of 2016.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

and here it comes. Wait for it....wait for it

 

[Diehardblues]

Today’s NFL is completely different than it was when we last won a Super Bowl in the 1995 season. Back then, the salary cap had just been instituted and it would have a profound effect on the league in several key ways:

• How teams acquired, developed and maintained its talent changed dramatically.
• It also leveled the playing field in talent matchups between teams. It became much harder to stockpile talent with depth like the Cowboys did back in the early 90s.
• Because the talent gaps are smaller in today’s game, the role of creativity and scheme became much more important than just winning by brute physical advantages.
• And finally, this led to critical importance of having a head coach and staff that can BE CREATIVE AND ADAPT TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES QUICKLY- both in games and in season. Quite simply, having a creative HC has become more critical than ever before.

So, the importance of having creative and adaptive schemes on both sides of the ball have become a must if your team is to win in the regular season and to qualify for the playoffs. And, once in the playoffs, your team's ability to be creative and adaptive is even more critical.

Improving this team’s ability to be more creative and adaptive may be the biggest key to finally having a deep playoff run we haven’t seen since the salary cap was installed.

Unfortunately, despite some strengths exhibited in acquiring talent and getting his teams ready to consistently play hard, Jason Garrett runs this team like a 1965 Vince Lombardi packers team. “Here is what we do, we’re going to do it over and over, because that’s what we do, and we are going to out physical you with it”. The problem is, that theory doesn’t work so often in today’s NFL.

Jason Garrett does several things well as previously stated. But his inability to be creative and adapt is an absolute killer in the playoffs. Which is where coaching matters most.

If Garrett doesn’t correct this bad habit, he will continue to be a decent regular season coach who struggles to win in the playoffs. My hope is that the addition of Kellen Moore will add some creativity to our offensive schemes and influence some of the habits and practices of our head coach.

Surely this season is Garrett’s last chance to prove he can be that kind of coach.

Someone should have told Jerry how critical coaching is in Cap era. Lol

 

[Doc50]

Today’s NFL is completely different than it was when we last won a Super Bowl in the 1995 season. Back then, the salary cap had just been instituted and it would have a profound effect on the league in several key ways:

• How teams acquired, developed and maintained its talent changed dramatically.
• It also leveled the playing field in talent matchups between teams. It became much harder to stockpile talent with depth like the Cowboys did back in the early 90s.
• Because the talent gaps are smaller in today’s game, the role of creativity and scheme became much more important than just winning by brute physical advantages.
• And finally, this led to critical importance of having a head coach and staff that can BE CREATIVE AND ADAPT TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES QUICKLY- both in games and in season. Quite simply, having a creative HC has become more critical than ever before.

So, the importance of having creative and adaptive schemes on both sides of the ball have become a must if your team is to win in the regular season and to qualify for the playoffs. And, once in the playoffs, your team's ability to be creative and adaptive is even more critical.

Improving this team’s ability to be more creative and adaptive may be the biggest key to finally having a deep playoff run we haven’t seen since the salary cap was installed.

Unfortunately, despite some strengths exhibited in acquiring talent and getting his teams ready to consistently play hard, Jason Garrett runs this team like a 1965 Vince Lombardi packers team. “Here is what we do, we’re going to do it over and over, because that’s what we do, and we are going to out physical you with it”. The problem is, that theory doesn’t work so often in today’s NFL.

Jason Garrett does several things well as previously stated. But his inability to be creative and adapt is an absolute killer in the playoffs. Which is where coaching matters most.

If Garrett doesn’t correct this bad habit, he will continue to be a decent regular season coach who struggles to win in the playoffs. My hope is that the addition of Kellen Moore will add some creativity to our offensive schemes and influence some of the habits and practices of our head coach.

Surely this season is Garrett’s last chance to prove he can be that kind of coach.

Agreed.

I think this is the team's biggest obstacle; we'll find out soon if KM is the answer.

 

[Diehardblues]

Agreed.

I think this is the team's biggest obstacle; we'll find out soon if KM is the answer.

If all you need to upgrade an average passer and below average passing offense is a new OC it’s going to cause quite a flurry of coaching changes throughout the league.

In the past personnel changes adding more talent was usually a better solution or the combination thereof.

Let’s hope our passing and QB issues weren’t talent related and all coaching.

 

[GoCowboysGo]

Whatever he's doing has worked about 2/3 of the time since the beginning of 2016.

Unfortunately for the Cowboys, he’s been their head coach since Nov 2010.

 

[Diehardblues]

One thing the Cap era has proven with few exceptions is how critical having a more Prolific Passer is . Especially once you have to pay him since he’ll need to elevate those around him without the luxury of as much supporting cast.

The league in Cap era has basically been a story of teams with the more Elite prolific passers and the rest of the league either continuing to look for one or trying to surround them with a greater supporting cast.

With the only exceptions generally being #1 Generational defenses carrying these lesser talented QB’s and offenses.

 

[kskboys]

If all you need to upgrade an average passer and below average passing offense is a new OC it’s going to cause quite a flurry of coaching changes throughout the league.

In the past personnel changes adding more talent was usually a better solution or the combination thereof.

See: Baker Mayfield after Hue was canned.

See: Jared Goff after Fisher was canned.

See: Nick Foles w/o John DeFilippo.

See: Matt Ryan after Dirk Koetter. (Who's back again, gonna be interestin', fer shore!!!)

I really don't understand why you'd even say this, Greg, it's been a well known fact for a long long time that a QB's OC makes a monster of a difference, and many QB's have been derailed by bad ones.

 

[Diehardblues]

In another thread we discussed how critical top offenses were in winning a Super Bowl.

There’s only been 2 or 3 offenses ranked lower than 20th in the league to win a Super Bowl. And all 3 had #1 Defenses. 2002 Tampa, 2008 Steelers and 2015 Broncos.

There’s only been a handful of SB winners with offenses below the Top 10.

 

[jazzcat22]

Less than 30 days until TC.

 

[Diehardblues]

See: Baker Mayfield after Hue was canned.

See: Jared Goff after Fisher was canned.

See: Nick Foles w/o John DeFilippo.

See: Matt Ryan after Dirk Koetter. (Who's back again, gonna be interestin', fer shore!!!)

I really don't understand why you'd even say this, Greg, it's been a well known fact for a long long time that a QB's OC makes a monster of a difference, and many QB's have been derailed by bad ones.

Of course but not without the talent . And why I added a combination thereof.

 

[Tangle_Foot]

Every business wants to be more efficient. It shouldn't be any different on the gridiron. Even if you're physically superior who doesn't want an easy day at the office

 

[ItzKelz]

Today’s NFL is completely different than it was when we last won a Super Bowl in the 1995 season. Back then, the salary cap had just been instituted and it would have a profound effect on the league in several key ways:

• How teams acquired, developed and maintained its talent changed dramatically.
• It also leveled the playing field in talent matchups between teams. It became much harder to stockpile talent with depth like the Cowboys did back in the early 90s.
• Because the talent gaps are smaller in today’s game, the role of creativity and scheme became much more important than just winning by brute physical advantages.
• And finally, this led to critical importance of having a head coach and staff that can BE CREATIVE AND ADAPT TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES QUICKLY- both in games and in season. Quite simply, having a creative HC has become more critical than ever before.

So, the importance of having creative and adaptive schemes on both sides of the ball have become a must if your team is to win in the regular season and to qualify for the playoffs. And, once in the playoffs, your team's ability to be creative and adaptive is even more critical.

Improving this team’s ability to be more creative and adaptive may be the biggest key to finally having a deep playoff run we haven’t seen since the salary cap was installed.

Unfortunately, despite some strengths exhibited in acquiring talent and getting his teams ready to consistently play hard, Jason Garrett runs this team like a 1965 Vince Lombardi packers team. “Here is what we do, we’re going to do it over and over, because that’s what we do, and we are going to out physical you with it”. The problem is, that theory doesn’t work so often in today’s NFL.

Jason Garrett does several things well as previously stated. But his inability to be creative and adapt is an absolute killer in the playoffs. Which is where coaching matters most.

If Garrett doesn’t correct this bad habit, he will continue to be a decent regular season coach who struggles to win in the playoffs. My hope is that the addition of Kellen Moore will add some creativity to our offensive schemes and influence some of the habits and practices of our head coach.

Surely this season is Garrett’s last chance to prove he can be that kind of coach.

Garret's flaw is that he trust his coordinators and will not insist on changes in the playoffs. Even if Kellen brings more creativity if creativity is too much in the playoffs and Jason doesn't insist on in game changes then it will not matter.

 

[kskboys]

Of course but not without the talent . And why I added a combination thereof.

Talent is so important it's a gimme!!!

However, you suggested that changing coaches/OC didn't matter. It matters a ton, and teams are constantly chasing guys who they think will maximize the talent.

 

[Diehardblues]

See: Baker Mayfield after Hue was canned.

See: Jared Goff after Fisher was canned.

See: Nick Foles w/o John DeFilippo.

See: Matt Ryan after Dirk Koetter. (Who's back again, gonna be interestin', fer shore!!!)

I really don't understand why you'd even say this, Greg, it's been a well known fact for a long long time that a QB's OC makes a monster of a difference, and many QB's have been derailed by bad ones.

Baker, Goff and Ryan all highly talented 1st round picks.

It’s still not proven if Foles a 3rd round pick can sustain an entire season at the level he’s shown in limited action.

Possibly Prescott's game can be elevated by better play calling and scheme but I’d certainly like the prospects and potential much more with a more Elite talent.

This notion it was all on the OC is very agenda excuse driven IMO. Linehan has had a good track record with more Prolific passers.

What would it take to begin believing our issues are more centered around our QB’s skill sets than coaching ? I’ll hang up and listen.

 

[Diehardblues]

Talent is so important it's a gimme!!!

However, you suggested that changing coaches/OC didn't matter. It matters a ton, and teams are constantly chasing guys who they think will maximize the talent.

Re read my post. I didn’t say it didn’t matter. I placed more emphasis on the talent.

Here’s my words...
“ adding more talent was usually a better solution or the combination thereof.”

 

[kskboys]

Baker, Goff and Ryan all highly talented 1st round picks.

It’s still not proven if Foles a 3rd round pick can sustain an entire season at the level he’s shown in limited action.

Possibly Prescott's game can be elevated by better play calling and scheme but I’d certainly like the prospects and potential much more with a more Elite talent.

This notion it was all on the OC is very agenda excuse driven IMO. Linehan has had a good track record with more Prolific passers.

What would it take to begin believing our issues are more centered around our QB’s skill sets than coaching ? I’ll hang up and listen.

Whooooaaaaaa!!!!!

Man, did you twist that sucker around!!!!!

You are falling for the polarization of the argument. I, for one, did not say it was all on the OC. A large part of it is, however, and I only took objection to the fact when you claimed that coaching didn't matter. They both matter, and they both matter a ton.

I think you're becoming too accustomed to arguing w/ the people who can only see things one way. It's like your answer didn't even fit my post!!!!!

We've seen both good and bad from Dak. We've seen him thread the needle, and we've seen him miss badly. We've seen him stand up and throw, and we've seen him do that back foot thingie. To win in the playoffs, you don't need a prolific passer, you need a guy who can throw the ball at a decent level, a good running game, and a D.

Moore makes things interesting. I have a ton of hope in Moore simply because he's not Linehan. Linehan's numbers are more a product of a pass pass pass O, the same crapp he ran in DET. If you pass enough, you'll put up volume numbers. However, you could also see the same problems in DET. WR's not getting open. Lack of scoring. Lack of red zone proficiency.

We are hopefully fixin' to find out if Dak can get better. For some odd reason, you've bought into the stance that Dak sucks and that's the end of the argument. For some odd reason you've given him no chance under a new OC. I guess that's fine if you're OK w/ it, but there is a wild card that just sprang up, and maybe it'll make a difference and maybe it won't. Dak was raw when he came in, so I don't really understand that view that he is done as a player, but I guess we'll see, hey!!!!!

 

[kskboys]

Re read my post. I didn’t say it didn’t matter. I placed more emphasis on the talent.

Here’s my words...
“ adding more talent was usually a better solution or the combination thereof.”

Now reread the first line. You stated that if all you needed to improve an O was a better OC, there'd be a flurry of signings.

Greg, there is a constant flurry of signings trying to upgrade O's. Why do you think JAX just grabbed DeFilippo as OC? There's your flurry!!!!!!!!!

ATL couldn't wait to get Koetter back, NE waited for McDaniels w/ open arms, happens all the time.

 

[Diehardblues]

Now reread the first line. You stated that if all you needed to improve an O was a better OC, there'd be a flurry of signings.

Greg, there is a constant flurry of signings trying to upgrade O's. Why do you think JAX just grabbed DeFilippo as OC? There's your flurry!!!!!!!!!

ATL couldn't wait to get Koetter back, NE waited for McDaniels w/ open arms, happens all the time.

Yes but Jags added Foles as well which would fall into my “ combination therof”.

I stand by my opinion that talent is a better solution or combination Therof. Coaching of course helps if the talent is there.