Dallas has had and has now a large number of the most talented NFL players in the league during Garrets tenure. I’m not a Garret hater. I always hoped he would learn and evolve but he has not.
Many of our most talented players moved on to teams where they won super bowls and their talent suddenly got better out from under Jerry and Garret.
There is no way you can take the talent on this team and lose to 2019 Jets unless there are fundamental serious errors and lack of coaching talent on this team.
From observing Dallas games and Patriots games you see where Belichek does not just prepare his team against the other team and their play book. He literally plans and coaches his team how to defeat the other teams 11 players on the field. It really is like Garret is coaching a checkers game while Belichek is coaching chess.
Garret just does not see the big picture and that is why he loses to the worst teams in the league. I imagine in Patriot prepping the players actually study the guys they will be matched up against week to week and Belichek and his staff likely already have player vs player templates and scheme to defeat each opposing player, not just the opposing plays and scheme which is also important.
If you ever watch Alabama play, you see the same depth of coaching and preparation. That is why they win.
That is why so many talented Cowboy players have wasted their careers under Garret. He had his shot and time to adjust and he failed.
We lost the games against the Saints because we couldn't hold onto the football -- I think I can blame the players for that.
Jones continues to live in the past and builds teams with the idea that superior talent wins. We did win 3 super bowls that way, which the benefit a one in a lifetime trade and hitting on some key draft picks. But in the salary cap era its not sustainable to just have better players than 90% of the teams. So we continue to pay for top talent and then try to get high risk reward players on the cheap to fill in the rest of the gaps -- hence our defensive draft picks and FA pickups for the last 25 years. Inevitably many of these high risk reward players are unavailable or simply bust.
Worse is that when I our high priced talent is injured we have subpar backups because we don't have cap space to pay better ones -- look at who was out for the Jets game and this is how we lose to them despite our "talent". This philosophy extends to the coaching staff who continue to believe that you can just line up and out execute people to win without the benefit of scheme.
So I partially agree with you in that Belichick is the better coach because he tries to extract every advantage possible, and they build a team for the salary cap era rarely paying top dollar for someone and instead opting for a deep team. Conversely Jones has built the highest value franchise because people like pretty things and the Cowboys with all of their stars are pretty.
It goes so far beyond coaching though. You can blame the fans too because when things go wrong who is blamed -- Dak, Romo, Lawrence, and Ware as if anytime we lose it is because our best players don't will the rest of the 22 guys to victory by making the play at the right time.