What does a hybrid offense look like from last year to West Coast

phildadon86 said:

You’re a funny guy. I have a friend who played for a D1 school 2 years ago. And guess what. He had a knee issue that he wanted to play thru. Told the trainer. Trainer gave him a shot and he played. It’s not uncommon still to this day. The NfL is obviously different but it wouldn’t shock me if Dak said he wanted to be on the field. The guy couldn’t do anything on Monday and is playing on Sunday? Magically? How long ago was the Romo rib game? I’m not sitting here saying I play in the NFL and to suggest I am is a joke. The NFL only cares about concussions. And it’s only because of the CTE news coming out otherwise we wouldn’t even have known. So please spare me you’re subtle jabs making it seem like I’m pretending to be some kind of insider when I am not.

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But you were enough of an insider to spot “fakes”. At least fakes in your learned experience. So we are talking about sore knees or ribs and not a broader system where players determine their eligibility and trainers comply? Clearly not today’s protocol. Further the NFL cares about a lot more than CTE. At least they pretend to. My point was that the players don’t rule the trainers. Coaches know exactly who is nursing what. Depending on who the player is and what they got they may have some latitude. You made it sound like players are running over the trainers. That is not happening. Certainly not these days.

percyhoward said:

I'd focus more on the QB himself and his improvements in accuracy, especially at the target depth that he averages. There are metrics aimed at separating individual performance from team performance. PFF has him ranked 2nd in WAR, and 10th in offense grade. SIS ranks him 2nd in total points and 10th in IQR.

Maybe what this team really needs is a QB who ranks even higher than that, but that's very, very unlikely to happen if you let this one walk. This team has had way more than its share of good QB luck with the last two.

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Let us hope it continues when this QBs salary pushes all that offensive talent he's been fortunate to play with off the roster.

Parcells4Life said:

A hybrid defense is obviously easy to figure out because it’s more personnel based but what does a hybrid of Moore/Garrett vertical attack look like with West Coast?

More drag routes/slants with verticals in behind?

How’s the run game a hybrid with MM confirming there will be a zone blocking scheme?

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It'll end up looking like the Eagles, Kansas City, and Green Bay under McCarthy. It's not hard to defend if you don't have the personnel to run it properly like the Eagles did not have this year.

percyhoward said:

I could understand it if somebody would actually present a good argument for it. There's just nothing there to either understand or not. Nothing but a vacuum.

Every single metric (advanced, traditional, whatever) says he's a Top 10 QB. If he isn't, then surely there would be somebody out there with enough smarts and enough patience to show why he isn't.

Especially considering how many people hate the Cowboys.

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the only argument I can understand, is people questioning whether or not it’s smart for the entire team, to give a big contract to a QB at Dak’s level. Which is realistically 8-10 in the NFL.

that’s a fair argument of whether it makes sense salary cap wise.

but any argument that says Dak is “average” or “mediocre” well there just isn’t any evidence to back up those claims.

Dak is a good QB. I question great. More than capable of leading this team to wins though. Great or "elite" to me is who you elevate. Love or hate Romo, he got Miles Austin and Laurent Robinson severely overpaid IMO. That's elevating those around you. I have absolutely no problem with Dak being on this team. 35 mil is a bitter pill, but I'm at peace with that. Bigger #s than that? IMO a huge mistake

DakPresgoat said:

the only argument I can understand, is people questioning whether or not it’s smart for the entire team, to give a big contract to a QB at Dak’s level.

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That's why I'm very big on the importance of analyzing every play of every game for every team. The reason I mention resources like PFF and SIS is that their player rankings are more predictive of a player's future EPA than EPA itself. So they're pretty good at credit/blame distribution, which is basically what you're doing when trying to determine the value of an individual player.

If you accept PFF's analysis that ranks him 2nd in wins above replacement, that means you're more likely to be able to build around him than to be able to compensate for his absence -- even with the extra resources that you'd necessarily have. Even if you think they're 4 or 5 spots off in their assessment, it seems like you'd have to come to the same conclusion. It also seems to me that Prescott's exact ranking doesn't mean nearly as much as the fact that multiple analysts for multiple organizations would all have to be wrong at the same time for Dak not to be worthy of a big contract.

Maybe it's just me, but I think there needs to be a better reason than "It wouldn't be the first time everybody was wrong."

Whyjerry said:

But you were enough of an insider to spot “fakes”. At least fakes in your learned experience. So we are talking about sore knees or ribs and not a broader system where players determine their eligibility and trainers comply? Clearly not today’s protocol. Further the NFL cares about a lot more than CTE. At least they pretend to. My point was that the players don’t rule the trainers. Coaches know exactly who is nursing what. Depending on who the player is and what they got they may have some latitude. You made it sound like players are running over the trainers. That is not happening. Certainly not these days.

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Oh I am not saying all players by any means. I’m saying star players and say what you want about Dak he’s the face of the Dallas Cowboys. Let’s also not forget the Cowboys lied about injuries to Romo a few years back as well. The broader system has been and still is in my opinion keep stars on the field by whatever means necessary. If a guy like Zeke is saying I’m good to go to the trainer he’s more likely to give him a shot and send him out then say. Luke Gifford. That’s what I am saying.