News: Canfora: Cowboys top 5 worst off season plan

Mods thanks for the edit and fix on my disaster of a title

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr maybe this team hasn't improved much and objective people are just pointing that out?

This defense, as of now, is not very talented. The secondary is bottom 3 in the league, we have question marks at RDE and 1Tech, and who knows what LVE's status is. Still time to improve, and 7 draft picks isn't going to greatly alter this, but like I said, as we stand now, this defense is in trouble.


I know, I know. People who said Garrett was a great coach have now suddenly joined the Thank God he's gone crowd.

McCarthy will improve this team but he can't save this defense.

KingintheNorth said:

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr maybe this team hasn't improved much and objective people are just pointing that out?

This defense, as of now, is not very talented. The secondary is bottom 3 in the league, we have question marks at RDE and 1Tech, and who knows what LVE's status is. Still time to improve, and 7 draft picks isn't going to greatly alter this, but like I said, as we stand now, this defense is in trouble.


I know, I know. People who said Garrett was a great coach have now suddenly joined the Thank God he's gone crowd.

McCarthy will improve this team but he can't save this defense.

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This team definitely is not better from a personnel standpoint than it was last year. But it isn't significantly worse either. This team won 8 games last year. They're right around there as things stand right now. This is going to boil down to coaching. Average coaching and this isn't a playoff team.

La Confra is really wrong.
We have 3 options for center right now Looney McGovern and one more, I think we drat another 3er day pick.
We Focus early in cb wr and db

JBS said:

This team definitely is not better from a personnel standpoint than it was last year. But it isn't significantly worse either. This team won 8 games last year. They're right around there as things stand right now. This is going to boil down to coaching. Average coaching and this isn't a playoff team.

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Minus adequate replacements for Quinn and Jones, this defense is currently worse.

I hope we hit nonstop home runs in the draft, but that is hardly a plan.

KingintheNorth said:

Minus adequate replacements for Quinn and Jones, this defense is currently worse.

I hope we hit nonstop home runs in the draft, but that is hardly a plan.

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Well, yeah..the defense is definitely worse if you don't give the team a chance to find those replacements. Chances are regardless of what happens, the difference in talent from last year to this year will be negligible

Letting Byron and Quinn leave for the type of money they got was the right move. Neither player will live up to their contracts. Other than that, I agree with everything.

UpNorth said:

Dallas

The Cowboys defense was awful before the offseason began, and they seem intent on making it even worse in 2020! How about that? Two of their biggest contributors from a year ago -- pass rusher Robert Quinn and corner Byron Jones -- are gone. Sean Lee is back, despite his age and years of injury woes. They'd better hope Gerald McCoy makes a far more significant impact than he did in Carolina last year, or this thing might really crumble. Keeping Amari Cooper is nice, but wait until Dak Prescott is making $38M a year. It's going to limit the ability to do a few other things, and Jerry Jones has been paltry spending on payroll the last four years, anyway. They'd better have one helluva of a draft, and it had better lean decidedly to the defensive side of the ball. Their ability to stop anyone remains very much in question, and even all of the yards they rolled up a year ago were not enough to make them anything close to a contending team.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...season-plans-through-free-agencys-first-wave/

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The negative Nancy's are going to love this.

He's not wrong about the defense. They weren't good. Lost Byron and Quinn. Added McCoy. That's a severe downgrade in talent.

At the same time, Byron and Quinn probably aren't worth they money they got. Things will get in terms of talent once/if Dak signs. I don't really see how this team can be a contender anytime soon.

We're definitely a worse team on paper now.

Rockport said:

The negative Nancy's are going to love this.

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No, smart and objective people see that he's not far from the truth.

The team is worse on paper right now. Only a fool says otherwise.

We lost Quinn and have signed no one to replace him. We lost Jones and replaced him with Cannady? We lost Cobb and have no one really ready to step into that slot role.

Clapper and Marinelli were horrible vestiges of complacency. I am quite glad they are gone.

UpNorth said:

Dallas

The Cowboys defense was awful before the offseason began, and they seem intent on making it even worse in 2020! How about that? Two of their biggest contributors from a year ago -- pass rusher Robert Quinn and corner Byron Jones -- are gone. Sean Lee is back, despite his age and years of injury woes. They'd better hope Gerald McCoy makes a far more significant impact than he did in Carolina last year, or this thing might really crumble. Keeping Amari Cooper is nice, but wait until Dak Prescott is making $38M a year. It's going to limit the ability to do a few other things, and Jerry Jones has been paltry spending on payroll the last four years, anyway. They'd better have one helluva of a draft, and it had better lean decidedly to the defensive side of the ball. Their ability to stop anyone remains very much in question, and even all of the yards they rolled up a year ago were not enough to make them anything close to a contending team.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...season-plans-through-free-agencys-first-wave/

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Blah blah blah. This guy is top 5 in being wrong in his predictions to.

Isnt this dude a "reporter" and a horrible one at that? When did his opinion on football moves matter?

Overall talent is worse than last year but we upgraded some at positional coaches. The upgrades at special teams coaches and players should be +2 wins at least. But we will still be fighting yo win a 7th game and probably end up 3rd in our own division.

Dak needs to play better consistantly against good defenses. And part of that is demanding the other players step up as well.

SeanLee50 said:

I'm much higher on HaHa. The kid can play. The safety market has been soft and quiet the past few years. Look how many years it took Tre Boston to get anything more than a one year deal.

In 2019, Collins, ET, Honey Badger, Joyner, Jackson and Amos all got paid decently.

In 2020, Jenkins is the only one who really signed for more than 6 million per year. Other highest paid guys are Eric Murray, (3 for 18), Adrian Phillips (2 for 6), Jeff Heath (2 for 6)

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He may have PLAYED at one time but not that good since 2016. Lets do a little review. He was a 1st round pick and after his 4th season McCarthy was fired and a new set of coaches where hired and the packers didn't even try to get a long term deal done but just exercised his 5th year option. After 7 games of the 2018 season LaFleur decided Clinton-Dix wasn't playing like a 1st round pick and traded him to the skins for a 4th round pick. He did absolutely nothing in Washington and the skins didn't even make an offer to try to keep him after that season when his contract was up. So he signs a 1 year prove it contract with the bears for 2019 and now the bears didn't make any offer to try to keep him. So now the Cowboys sign him to ANOTHER 1 year prove it contract. There's a reason teams haven't signed him to longer contracts because he hasn't played that good since 2016 and they were/are hoping that regains that play. Thus far he hasn't. I have a friend here in Green Bay that was so excited when the packers drafted him but by the time he was traded he started saying he played like a 4th or 5th round pick. Granted that's just a fans opinion just like yours but it would seem that actual coaches and GM's don't share your opinion.
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UpNorth said:

I mean we went 8 and 8 and have lost much more talent than we've brought in....

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This is true. But they could’ve won 8 games last year without half the talent.

Sydla said:

No, smart and objective people see that he's not far from the truth.

The team is worse on paper right now. Only a fool says otherwise.

We lost Quinn and have signed no one to replace him. We lost Jones and replaced him with Cannady? We lost Cobb and have no one really ready to step into that slot role.

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See I told you.

I think the coaching changes make us better on D immediately. He's judging FA in the second week? Typical from this guy!

ChuckA1 said:

I think the coaching changes make us better on D immediately.

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I agree on both sides of this. I'm with you that I anticipate improvement based on better coaching.

But I also concede the obvious as well, that the team's overall player talent has taken a hint.

Both things can be accurate.

He's judging FA in the second week? Typical from this guy!

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That is when he wrote this article, yes.