Twodeep, as smart of a football guy as I know you are I just don't get how you can look past things like paying a lot for the RB or paying a lot for a slightly above mediocre QB and seeing how it has an effect on our chances of winning a Championship.
We like to make fun of Jerry and blame him for our lack of success but applaud moves like these and expect to win a championship.
That premises assumes all things are created equal. That all running backs have the same shelf life.
Adrian Peterson suggests that is not strictly the case.
In your comments above you make statements as if they are fact. They could be, but then again they may just be opinions. Your assessment of Dak possesses a bias. As does your comments on Zeke.
What is left out of the factors which influence their performances is the offensive line. The usual comment about the line for Dallas is it is one of the best in the business. Just like you, I have seen a Dallas line that was THE BEST in the business, and this line has not come close in three years.
That line was the 1992 and 1993 Dallas line before Erik Williams destroyed his knee in that drunk driving automobile accident.
This game is 45 moving parts run by a cadre of coaches facing off against a similar numbered team.
In the Staubach days, so many seem to have forgotten those teams were not a juggernaut, but routinely got behind and Roger was the reason they won.
The Jimmy J days, the defenses did make a stand at the most appropriate time, but they were more a bend don't break defense with smaller faster players and a front four that was almost two deep.....no pun intended.
While the argument is made that the game has changed, it is still football where my guy is tasked to knock the snot out of your guy. So much is made of bromides - defense wins championships - when winning changes from play to play, day to day, and the fact the ball is pointy on both ends and will take funny bounces.
This Super Bowl showed a Chief's team being run over by the 9ers rushing game. Granted the Chief's did make two stands which caused the ball to be punted or turned over.
Yet at the 6 minute and change mark, that very Chief's team was down 10 points. It was the offense and Mahomes which caused the game to turn.
Not taking anything away from the Chief's and their defense. But the 9ers had a better defense and the world knew it. So what happened? Why didn't the better defense win?
Because this game, while in progress, is organic and each aspect changes the outcome, only to be changed again on the next play.
Then, in the big scheme of things as far as the NFL goes, factor in the referees who clearly stole a championship run by the Saints on the most blatant pass interference I can recall. It was not a stellar Ram's defense as much as it was a ridiculously missed call which altered that game and season.
My objection is against assuming the trend of cutting RB's after a couple of years is the only way to do business. Or that Dak can never win it all because of his play behind a line which was not in the top ten in protection and run blocking at critical times.
This team would go further in reaching a Super Bowl by strengthening both lines than chasing a QB at the cost of adding years to the team's quest for a championship.
And the constant blubbering about what Zeke makes.
There is an expression which applies here.
It is what it is. Zeke is here and all the griping will not change that fact.
