My solutions for a better 2022

CTcowboy203 · Jan 18, 2022

Don’t mind firing philbin but disagree that the o line is that talented. It isn’t. Wouldn’t mind Moore leaving either.

glimmerman · Jan 18, 2022

blueblood70 said:
best one so far aligns with a lot of my evaluations and hopeful improvements but you and i been on the same wavelength all year, so not a surprise.

maybe cant do all of that but most especially the OL, OC, and OLC ,. biggest issues.

A great offseason and especially draft will go a long way. Get some O-Line guys that can start. I know we can’t draft 3 linemen that are starters. But if we hit on some hidden gems that McClay finds then it will help. Drop some players just taking up a spot. I was pulling for Williams but he isn’t getting any better.

The loss of Fredbeard really hurt more than some realize. And also letting Looney go to another team hurts. He may have been a better center than what we have now.

We may need a LB. Cox will be back that will help. But Gregory maybe gone and Parsons maybe taking his place.

KJJ · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
I'm with you on the penalties.. but I do wonder how much of that is just guys not functioning well within the scheme.. especially the o-line penalties.

The holding calls are a result of our guys getting beat up front and having to grab. The OL needs to be revamped and it’s going to take at least two offseasons to fix it. The OL is a real problem. It regressed as the season went on.

shabazz · Jan 18, 2022

A solution for the fan is expect nothing, defend no one, and just enjoy each game for what it is knowing that the season ends the last week of the regular season, or 1 game into the playoffs.

Haimerej · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
Once the 49ers proved that they could stop the run and get pressure with 4 and drop 7 there were not going to be a lot of guys open and his legs were going to be very important.

That's just wrong. If it were true, they'd never complete passes in 7 on 7. The problem isn't that the guys aren't open, it's that the windows of being open are smaller.

Sarge · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
I'm not going to judge him based on 12 games played on one leg.. I think it's more fair to judge him based on what he was BEFORE he got hurt.. which was 5.5 ypc and > 90 yards/game. I think most people would take that over the course of a season. The coaches and trainers blew it by not letting him get scoped right when he hurt it. Yes he might have missed 8-10 games but who cares? He would have been back breathing fire for the playoffs. The bigger question IMHO is why did they keep him in the lineup over Pollard and Clement et al if they knew he had a torn ligament in his damn knee. That was stupid by all parties involved.

You’re in denial when it comes to Zeke. Burst is gone and it’s not coming back.

RonnieT24 · Jan 18, 2022

KJJ said:
The Cowboys are going to attempt to sign their own players so some will be re-signed. We’re going to lose more players than some teams will because of the high contracts we’re paying to Dak, Zeke, Cooper and DLaw. The free agents on the market aren’t going to be better than the ones we’re losing. The free agents that are better are going to cost big money and the Cowboys aren’t going to spend big money on free agents. The free agents we lose are going to be offered more money on the market than the Cowboys can spend. We’re not going to have as talented a roster as we had this past season. We’re going to have to depend on the draft to replenish some of the talent we’re going to lose.

Kearse and Kazee (and Hooker) replaced Xavier Woods and Darian Thompson.. do you not see that as an upgrade? Ty Nsekhe ended up being better than Cam Irving.. .. I'm sure there are other examples.. Every playoff team has high contracts.. That's typically why they're playoff teams.. They have multiple really good players..

I am not in a panic over free agency because I believe in this team's ability to scout and draft good players and I believe if nothing else the Joneses to manage the cap.. They have not been in complete cap hell in over 20 years. I think they learned their lessons way back when..

IceStar-D7 · Jan 18, 2022

Stephen A. Smith trolled the whole Dallas fanbase this morning and made us all the Joke of America. Yet he is right. We Dallas fans every year write OP like this. No pun intended. And every year we're right back in here retooling the same season. Dak isn't the problem in Dallas. We all know who is the problem. And we all know in our hearts nothing is gonna change for Dallas in the foreseeable future because of this problem.

RonnieT24 · Jan 18, 2022

Haimerej said:
That's just wrong. If it were true, they'd never complete passes in 7 on 7. The problem isn't that the guys aren't open, it's that the windows of being open are smaller.

I'm sorry are you equating flag football with the NFL game? There's the not so small matter of 300 pound men crashing all around the QB's feet and getting in his face to deal with too.. Please never mention 7 on 7 again when discussing how football is played.

RonnieT24 · Jan 18, 2022

Sarge said:
You’re in denial when it comes to Zeke. Burst is gone and it’s not coming back.

Maybe I am.. but true or false? Was he 2nd in the NFL and averaging over 5 ypc before the injury?

glimmerman · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
Like I said in another thread.. Dak is the best on the move thrower I've ever seen.. After that calf injury though he was all over the place with it. How many times did he leave his feet to make that throw after the injury as opposed to the plant and fire we've seen in the past. That's both mental and physical.. Mental because he doesn't trust the leg and physical because he probably felt it twinging every time he rolled out and there was always the fear that if he planted on it he would hurt it again.. He's got to get past that to get back to being Dak.. just like he's got to get back to running like you said.. to fire him AND his teammates up..

They need to get back to basics and tote the rock. 2016 season had opposing defenses guessing. They ran hard and threw shorter passes and they never knew when Dak was going to take it off Tyrons side. He has developed his longer game but that’s all that’s getting called now. No mixing it up. Predictable and no discipline. Way to many penalties. I don’t think I am alone here by saying I kept waiting for the playbook to open closer to the playoffs. But we saw it all by game 7. If that’s all Moore has then he may not be the answer. We saw our ST improve other than the EP misses by Greg. Our Defense once healthy got much better only to get out played Sunday. We should have been bringing whatever needed to get that qb uncomfortable. Instead he looked like brady. Likely one of his best games of the year.

KJJ · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
Kearse and Kazee (and Hooker) replaced Xavier Woods and Darian Thompson.. do you not see that as an upgrade? Ty Nsekhe ended up being better than Cam Irving.. .. I'm sure there are other examples.. Every playoff team has high contracts.. That's typically why they're playoff teams.. They have multiple really good players..

I am not in a panic over free agency because I believe in this team's ability to scout and draft good players and I believe if nothing else the Joneses to manage the cap.. They have not been in complete cap hell in over 20 years. I think they learned their lessons way back when..

Kearse, Kazee and Hooker are upgrades but the DL needs upgrades. Neville Gallimore didn’t show up on Sunday. We didn’t register one sack on Jimmy G. Our pass rush isn’t very good and we have issues stopping the run. We lack physicality upfront. Randy Gregory didn’t play well. Both our OL & DL need overhauls.

JohnnyHopkins · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
After the pain of this latest nut kick has calmed down enough.. we must endeavor to figure out to avoid a repeat next season. Here's mine..

#1 ) Fire Philbin - The o-line struggles are on him.. These guys are too good to be getting whipped with this much regularity. he gotta go...

#2) and maybe 1a) replace Williams.. too many holding calls and too many times pushed back into the QB or the running back.. He gotta go.

#3) Pray somebody hires Kellen Moore away.. When teams are all saying the same thing about how to stop your offense (and it keeps working) then it's time for a new offense. The Cowboys have never been good when they could not run the ball consistently.. and Moore does not want to run the ball at all. He gotta go.

#4) Draft another Micah Parsons.. no not necessarily another super freak linebacker.. just another hungry play maker on defense. Failing that, get us a dawg for the offensive line to replace either Williams or Biadasz.. better if we could replace both.. maybe one draft pick, maybe one FA vet.

#5) Get healthy.. Captain Obvious right.. The big three of Dak, Zeke and Tyron being dinged up frankly derailed this season as much as anything.. Neither of these guys was the same player after their injury and the cumulative effect on the offense when THEY dropped off was monumental.

#6) Put all the DTs on whatever program Neville Gallimore was on.. Dude clearly put on 25-30 pounds of muscle this offseason and came back a completely different body type. He now has 1-tech size and 3-tech agility.

#7) Pay whatever it takes to keep Dan Quinn.. that turnaround on defense was amazing. Even in this playoff game after getting run over early the adjustments to slow the 49ers down were impressive.

I'm sure there are other areas folks would like to give attention.. but these were the first ones that leapt to mind for me. By all means.. please share yours..

If Philbin is such a problem then how did Terence Steele magically go from a lost undrafted rookie to surprisingly competent in 2022? Seems to go against conventional wisdom with a bad O-line coach.

sacase · Jan 18, 2022

CowboyRoy said:
He was bad last year too. And this one leg things is laughable.

Zeke is done buddy. Not sure what is so difficult about some of you admitting that. The guy is past the useful years for most RB's and he has way too many carries already. Makes sense.

ANY good RB can dominate when the Oline is blowing open holes. Nothing special about Zeke anymore. Nothing at all. And his salary is terrible for the team. So now he is hurting them on the field and in the wallet.

So a RB who finished 7th for the year and played with a torn PCL and is one of the best blocking backs in the league is done? Come on man. We get it you don't like Zeke.

RonnieT24 · Jan 18, 2022

glimmerman said:
They need to get back to basics and tote the rock. 2016 season had opposing defenses guessing. They ran hard and threw shorter passes and they never knew when Dak was going to take it off Tyrons side. He has developed his longer game but that’s all that’s getting called now. No mixing it up. Predictable and no discipline. Way to many penalties. I don’t think I am alone here by saying I kept waiting for the playbook to open closer to the playoffs. But we saw it all by game 7. If that’s all Moore has then he may not be the answer. We saw our ST improve other than the EP misses by Greg. Our Defense once healthy got much better only to get out played Sunday. We should have been bringing whatever needed to get that qb uncomfortable. Instead he looked like brady. Likely one of his best games of the year.

I don't know about that.. he had 170-ish yards 0 TDs and an INT. I didn't watch all their games this year but I guarantee you he had better games than that. But he got 170-ish yards RUSHING to back him up.. What's kinda ironic to me is that they ran their running back 27 times for 96 yards .. right around 3.5 ypc.. If we had done that with Zeke our fan base would be losing its mind about all the "wasted plays." Go figure.. Funny thing is Zeke averaged like 5 ypc on his edge runs.. and < 2 ypc on the middle runs on Sunday.. yet we never tried to just load up on the wide runs and do to the 49ers what they were doing to us which was spread the defense out, pull linemen and attack the edges of the defense. We kept plunging into the 2000 pounds of humanity up the middle.. and scratching our heads about why it wasn't working..

RonnieT24 · Jan 18, 2022

JohnnyHopkins said:
If Philbin is such a problem then how did Terence Steele magically go from a lost undrafted rookie to surprisingly competent in 2022? Seems to go against conventional wisdom with a bad O-line coach.

This is a good point.. But remember, most of Steele's improvement was credited to his hard work and dedication in the offseason program. He was one of the winners in the offseason weight training.. so maybe his improvement goes more to the strength and conditioning staff than to Philbin.. Not saying Philbin had nothing to do with it.. but maybe not as much as you think..

FVSTONE · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
After the pain of this latest nut kick has calmed down enough.. we must endeavor to figure out to avoid a repeat next season. Here's mine..

#1 ) Fire Philbin - The o-line struggles are on him.. These guys are too good to be getting whipped with this much regularity. he gotta go...

#2) and maybe 1a) replace Williams.. too many holding calls and too many times pushed back into the QB or the running back.. He gotta go.

#3) Pray somebody hires Kellen Moore away.. When teams are all saying the same thing about how to stop your offense (and it keeps working) then it's time for a new offense. The Cowboys have never been good when they could not run the ball consistently.. and Moore does not want to run the ball at all. He gotta go.

#4) Draft another Micah Parsons.. no not necessarily another super freak linebacker.. just another hungry play maker on defense. Failing that, get us a dawg for the offensive line to replace either Williams or Biadasz.. better if we could replace both.. maybe one draft pick, maybe one FA vet.

#5) Get healthy.. Captain Obvious right.. The big three of Dak, Zeke and Tyron being dinged up frankly derailed this season as much as anything.. Neither of these guys was the same player after their injury and the cumulative effect on the offense when THEY dropped off was monumental.

#6) Put all the DTs on whatever program Neville Gallimore was on.. Dude clearly put on 25-30 pounds of muscle this offseason and came back a completely different body type. He now has 1-tech size and 3-tech agility.

#7) Pay whatever it takes to keep Dan Quinn.. that turnaround on defense was amazing. Even in this playoff game after getting run over early the adjustments to slow the 49ers down were impressive.

I'm sure there are other areas folks would like to give attention.. but these were the first ones that leapt to mind for me. By all means.. please share yours..

Nothing is going to help this club when you got the same mediocre QB leading this team. Romo pointed it out the entire game how Prescot was too slow in his reads when receivers were wide open, passes were overthrown or under-thrown most of the day. The long ball was non-existent. Hell, Prescot reminded me of a THREE TOE SLOTH in the pocket, the dude was fricking slow at everything which meant the O-Line had to work that much harder just to keep him upright. The way the 9ers took that opening drive down for a TD should have put some urgency in Prescot game, but it didn't. We got the same ole' Prescot we've had every time he faces a GOOD TEAM, you know the one who constantly loses to playoff teams in this league, yeah that one showed up again. The 9ers forced the game on Prescot's back and he crumbled.......................

CowboyRoy · Jan 18, 2022

sacase said:
So a RB who finished 7th for the year and played with a torn PCL and is one of the best blocking backs in the league is done? Come on man. We get it you don't like Zeke.

Yes he is done. He has been done for a couple seasons now. And Yah, I hate Zeke. He sucks.

Zeke sucked last year too. 7th in rushing? LOL

Is that some kind of great accomplishment? Hell he wasnt even the best back on his own team. Pollard clearly outshined him by over a yard per carry.

RonnieT24 · Jan 18, 2022

sacase said:
So a RB who finished 7th for the year and played with a torn PCL and is one of the best blocking backs in the league is done? Come on man. We get it you don't like Zeke.

Yeah the "I hate Zeke" crowd steadfastly wants to act as if the first 5-6 games of the season when he was killin it never happened. They want to pretend that the one legged guy we saw after the injury is the "real Zeke." That's just stupid.. Even if you flat hate the guy how the hell do you watch him take down two blitzers to allow a big play down the field to happen and still hate on him.. Good lord..

OriginalNameGuy · Jan 18, 2022

RonnieT24 said:
Huh? Dak had a bad game.. like about 35 other guys on the team not the least of which was the 5 guys who were supposed to be blocking for him.. You want to blame him for the loss go ahead.. It's not a game I'm interested in playing.. The only thing I will blame Dak for was not running more when the lanes were there.. Once the 49ers proved that they could stop the run and get pressure with 4 and drop 7 there were not going to be a lot of guys open and his legs were going to be very important. The fact that he did not use them bothers me more than anything else. Sometimes as the QB you gotta put the team on your back and drag them along.. He didn't do that.. For him that should have been running for 75-80 yards... Only he can explain why he didn't.

This is pure speculation on my part but I feel like he's been coached to run less after the injury. What's not speculation is the designed QB runs are gone from the playbook. You are right though when Dak scrambles it adds an extra element to the offense. The TD that made it 23 to 17 is a prime example.

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