Rewarding failure and overpaying average talent

snadler · Jan 17, 2022

One thing this franchise has done the last 26 years is to reward failure especially on the coaching front now with Fat Mike returning to waste another season, and then overpaying average talent with superstar money, Dak, zeke, Cooper, jaylon Smith etc..

links18 · Jan 17, 2022

It's what the Jones Boyz do.....

MaineBoy · Jan 17, 2022

It’s the Cowboy Way because the first people out the door if there were accountability is Jerry and his spawn.

TheMarathonContinues · Jan 17, 2022

snadler said:
One thing this franchise has done the last 26 years is to reward failure especially on the coaching front now with Fat Mike returning to waste another season, and then overpaying average talent with superstar money, Dak, zeke, Cooper, jaylon Smith etc..

So what do you recommend? Be like the Jaguars and don't pay your guys and just suck every year? At the end of the day all of those guys outplayed their contracts. Dak got paid 500k a year and played well enough to get a new deal. Same goes for Jaylon. The deals flopped. Oh well. Its the least of this teams issues....

snadler · Jan 17, 2022

rocyaice said:
So what do you recommend? Be like the Jaguars and don't pay your guys and just suck every year? At the end of the day all of those guys outplayed their contracts. Dak got paid 500k a year and played well enough to get a new deal. Same goes for Jaylon. The deals flopped. Oh well. Its the least of this teams issues....

guess what? The jags made it to a conference championship more recently than this loser franchise, boys just do it in front of the world..

ChronicCowboy · Jan 17, 2022

This offense looks almost identical to how we looked under Garrett with Dak. Nothing has changed. Kellen Moore keeps calling the same plays and Dak keeps executing them inconsistently. I’m not sure MM has changed anything since he’s been here. I think we’d have seen the same results with Garrett.

TheMarathonContinues · Jan 17, 2022

snadler said:
guess what? The jags made it to a conference championship more recently than this loser franchise, boys just do it in front of the world..

What does that have to do with anything? They lost just like everyone else…..

atlantacowboy · Jan 17, 2022

snadler said:
One thing this franchise has done the last 26 years is to reward failure especially on the coaching front now with Fat Mike returning to waste another season, and then overpaying average talent with superstar money, Dak, zeke, Cooper, jaylon Smith etc..

I think the Jones family live in a bubble surrounded by people who fear giving them bad news or criticism.

mooseq · Jan 17, 2022

Won’t be long before fans start booing Dak and his 40 million

Silver N Blue · Jan 17, 2022

atlantacowboy said:
I think the Jones family live in a bubble surrounded by people who fear giving them bad news or criticism.

They should hire me. I’d be honored to tell them the truth…even if it was only 15 minutes.

JonesBoys · Jan 17, 2022

ChronicCowboy said:
This offense looks almost identical to how we looked under Garrett with Dak. Nothing has changed. Kellen Moore keeps calling the same plays and Dak keeps executing them inconsistently. I’m not sure MM has changed anything since he’s been here. I think we’d have seen the same results with Garrett.

Kellen Moore is Jason Garrett 2.0. It’s an easy offense to stop and confuse. Once Denver did it every good team followed suite and the Dak and Moore never figured it out.

fivetwos · Jan 17, 2022

Yep but they think they are ahead of the game because they don't overpay for other teams players.

atlantacowboy · Jan 17, 2022

Silver N Blue said:
They should hire me. I’d be honored to tell them the truth…even if it was only 15 minutes.

HA! That would be a great job.

They ought to just hire someone to read the zone and learn about the team weaknesses. They seem oblivious to things most of us consider obvious.

Silver N Blue · Jan 17, 2022

atlantacowboy said:
HA! That would be a great job.

They ought to just hire someone to read the zone and learn about the team weaknesses. They seem oblivious to things most of us consider obvious.

That would be great.

snadler · Jan 17, 2022

rocyaice said:
What does that have to do with anything? They lost just like everyone else…..

the point is despite how bad the jags have been the past 26 years they have made it to a conference championship game unlike this franchise so not really sure comparing this team the jags is accurate

atlantacowboy · Jan 17, 2022

snadler said:
the point is despite how bad the jags have been the past 26 years they have made it to a conference championship game unlike this franchise so not really sure comparing this team the jags is accurate

Even the Bengals have finally found success. I guess being better than the Jets and Lions is comforting to many.

TheMarathonContinues · Jan 17, 2022

snadler said:
the point is despite how bad the jags have been the past 26 years they have made it to a conference championship game unlike this franchise so not really sure comparing this team the jags is accurate

Where the hell did I compare them to the Jags lol?

Cmac · Jan 17, 2022

rocyaice said:
So what do you recommend? Be like the Jaguars and don't pay your guys and just suck every year? At the end of the day all of those guys outplayed their contracts. Dak got paid 500k a year and played well enough to get a new deal. Same goes for Jaylon. The deals flopped. Oh well. Its the least of this teams issues....

Rocyaice......this is fallout Monday......some on this Board want guys playing for minimum wage despite outplaying their contracts, and being able to change a lineup from week to week. They want the league to have Fantasy Football rules. As bad as it sounds irrational.....I wished it applied to some on the Coaching Staff.

TheMarathonContinues · Jan 17, 2022

Cmac said:
Rocyaice......this is fallout Monday......some on this Board want guys playing for minimum wage despite outplaying their contracts, and being able to change a lineup from week to week. They want the league to have Fantasy Football rules. As bad as it sounds irrational.....I wished it applied to some on the Coaching Staff.

You're right....ask them to take pay cuts and work for minimum wage they will turn their nose up at it lol.

Kingofholland · Jan 17, 2022

There was no reason to pay Jaylon at the time. We paid Zeke too earlier, but he cashed in just at the right time. He was the focal point of the offense and not having him out there would inhibit the team. Jerry probably had flashbacks of starting 0-2 as he played hardball with Emmitt.

For Amari he had larger offers on the table and the Cowboys pretty much paid him what the market dictated. I guess they could have traded him or used the franchise tag if they didn't use it on another player. However, hard to fault them after just trading for him.

In regards to Dak these QB contracts are brutal and they did overpay. But what were the realistic alternatives at the time? I do feel they could have played a little harder ball, but think about the Commanders situation with Cousins. He was one of the better QBs they've had in recent years and they're still looking for a replacement.

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