True Measure Of A Team

The true measure of a team is to go up and down the roster and say to yourself would you take this player and his contract for your own team if you had a chance. There are almost no players on this team that jump out at you where you would say yes. The exceptions that come to mind are the following:

1. Dak. He is on a nice rookie deal and is worth much much more. This of course will soon change for the worse.

2. Gallup. Nice developing player on a friendly rookie deal.

3. Quinn. On a sweet 1 year 7 million dollar deal. More of this please.

4. Byron. On a nice 1 year 6 million 5th year option.

5. Cobb. On a decent 1 year 5 million dollar deal.

6. Heath. Would consider him as a decent back up safety on a 4 year 8 million dollar deal (final year).

7. LVE, Malik, Brown, Lewis, Awuzie all players contributing that are on team friendly rookie deals.

8. Loony and Sua-Filo are decent veteran back ups on reasonable deals.

As you can see from the list there is not much to be proud of. Thankfully we have been drafting well and getting contributions from the players on their rookie deals.

The measure of a team starts with their coaching.

Or, lack of.

I prefer to measure a team by postseason success.

I would bet 1 million dollars a team like the Patriots has staff that are dedicated to this type of exercise. This team not so much. Do we get value for the money we spend? Who cares I guess.

Consider a scenario where all players and their contracts are thrown into one giant pot and all 32 teams start from scratch with a massive draft and we redraft all the players to form new teams. teams get the players and their contracts and they have to stay under salary cap. IMHO this is a fascinating exercise and if your team has no one that anyone would want to draft the you have problems.

For me, the measure of a team is how they play against the playoff contenders.

Lol at you homers trying to quantify success we are not even having.

3-2, and getting outcoached every time we play a formidable opponent is not a recipe for postseason success. The measure of a team is what you do in January.

I can see that trying to have a philosophical discussion about how to run a football organization is pointless. This is exactly how I would expect that questions like this would be received by our front office.

ClappingCarrot said:

Lol at you homers trying to quantify success we are not even having.

3-2, and getting outcoached every time we play a formidable opponent is not a recipe for postseason success. The measure of a team is what you do in January.

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Totally agree. Whole posts have been discussed ad nauseum on this subject. Those who disagree claim to enjoy each game of the regular season. Others like myself would prefer to fast forward to the post season just to witness a different and winning formula from top to bottom of this team in a win or go home scenario.

All these regular season outcomes are seeming to blur together over the past decade or so. Nonetheless, Go Cowboys.

MyFairLady said:

I can see that trying to have a philosophical discussion about how to run a football organization is pointless. This is exactly how I would expect that questions like this would be received by our front office.

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You started a thread that opens with a manure post. You're then upset for folks calling the thread what it is - a blatant manure post.

RodeoJake said:

For me, the measure of a team is how they play against the playoff contenders.

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Jerrys idea of measuring up is when he said "Aikman looked good in the Shower", so theres that

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