3 Most Positive Changes in 2025

Hawkeye19 said:
There are some positive personnel/roster changes as well, but the largest positive deltas between performance in 2024 vs what our potential ceiling in in 2025 are these 3 staff changes:

OL Coach Riley >> Solari: Riley has been one of the most innovative and respected coaches in college football. Solari was a downgrade from Harbin and while he has a solid NFL pedigree— he is old and you have to wonder if the game has simply passed him by.

OC Adams >> McCarthy (Schotty): MM called the shots, Schotty was a placeholder. Mike’s offense was predictable and he struggled to help the offense in terms of consistency in the running game and in the RZ. Adams is a OL wiz and is bringing some youth, energy, and innovation to an offense in desperate need of a jump start. Pair him with Riley, and the scheme should be solid. The X factor is Schotty calling plays— he has been a midling OC, but he is an unknown asset in terms of HC.

Eberflus/Whitecotton >> Zimmer: While Eberflus struggled as a HC, his performance as a DC is what got him promoted. His scheme has produced, and his specialty is at one of our weakest positions: LBer. Zimmer on the other hand had to be talked out of retirement and admitted he didn’t handle the transition from Quinn well. Add in Whitecotton who has earned respect for his work in NY along the DL, and another weak position group should see some improvement under his tutelage.

Bottom line: Our coaching staff is younger, hungrier, and more relevant to today’s game. The additions of these coaches is the thing I am most positive about the 2025 Cowboys.

Long way to go to catch Philly, but these coaches are great additions IMO.
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The one thing I like about Schottenheimer: his assistants.

I want to see this new scheme against the run. Something tells me we have the personnel to do well with it.

I like how he disguises his defense, which helps with turnovers.

And the way he plays the run is interesting and not reliant or dependent on a defensive tackle, per se.
 
Flinger said:
Good optics, Hawkeye...

2023 - Eagles struggled with Offensive and Defensive Coordinators - early playoff exit
2024 - Eagles replaced them with Kellen Moore and Vic Fangio - won a Super Bowl

Eagles made big time adjustments with the x's and o's. Sort of a ra-ra guy as HC, but the main constant in their coaching staff.

Perhaps it's our turn?
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There are 32 teams in the league. If we were taking turns, we would definitely be due.
 
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I think Jerry prefers wishing upon a star.

In the OP, 3 most positive changes... Hawkeye could be right...

The Question is - "Are these positive changes the pixit dust necessary to turn this into a Championship franchise?"
 
Hawkeye19 said:
There are some positive personnel/roster changes as well, but the largest positive deltas between performance in 2024 vs what our potential ceiling in in 2025 are these 3 staff changes:

OL Coach Riley >> Solari: Riley has been one of the most innovative and respected coaches in college football. Solari was a downgrade from Harbin and while he has a solid NFL pedigree— he is old and you have to wonder if the game has simply passed him by.

OC Adams >> McCarthy (Schotty): MM called the shots, Schotty was a placeholder. Mike’s offense was predictable and he struggled to help the offense in terms of consistency in the running game and in the RZ. Adams is a OL wiz and is bringing some youth, energy, and innovation to an offense in desperate need of a jump start. Pair him with Riley, and the scheme should be solid. The X factor is Schotty calling plays— he has been a midling OC, but he is an unknown asset in terms of HC.

Eberflus/Whitecotton >> Zimmer: While Eberflus struggled as a HC, his performance as a DC is what got him promoted. His scheme has produced, and his specialty is at one of our weakest positions: LBer. Zimmer on the other hand had to be talked out of retirement and admitted he didn’t handle the transition from Quinn well. Add in Whitecotton who has earned respect for his work in NY along the DL, and another weak position group should see some improvement under his tutelage.

Bottom line: Our coaching staff is younger, hungrier, and more relevant to today’s game. The additions of these coaches is the thing I am most positive about the 2025 Cowboys.

Long way to go to catch Philly, but these coaches are great additions IMO.
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I think Shotty did a very good and unbiased job with hiring his staff.
I dont know if he hired Eberflus though, so not sure about him as DC.

Then saying he wants to be tough and run more, which is why he got booker in draft.
That all make me think this could produce a different cowboys team than in the past.

It is something we just have to wait and see, but the coaches are the main reason I have
some hope for the coming season.
 
DandyDon52 said:
I think Shotty did a very good and unbiased job with hiring his staff.
I dont know if he hired Eberflus though, so not sure about him as DC.

Then saying he wants to be tough and run more, which is why he got booker in draft.
That all make me think this could produce a different cowboys team than in the past.

It is something we just have to wait and see, but the coaches are the main reason I have
some hope for the coming season.
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A new staff takes time to make an impact. I doubt we are going to see a dramatic impact in year one.
 
I was never a fan of the McCarthy hire. His style of coaching can only take a team so far. He benefitted greatly by having a great QB in Green Bay. He would have a far different reputation otherwise.

The coaching staff seems improved. There has been some very good in depth articles about Schott the past few months, and I'm more encouraged now than when he was hired.

That said, coaching has not been the problem here. How many coaches does Dallas have to go through before everyone realizes this? The constant has of course been the amateur GM, and the deeply flawed roster he has presented his coaching staffs. No coach on the planet is taking this team to the Super-Bowl.
 
TwistedL0g1k said:
I was never a fan of the McCarthy hire. His style of coaching can only take a team so far. He benefitted greatly by having a great QB in Green Bay. He would have a far different reputation otherwise.

The coaching staff seems improved. There has been some very good in depth articles about Schott the past few months, and I'm more encouraged now than when he was hired.

That said, coaching has not been the problem here. How many coaches does Dallas have to go through before everyone realizes this? The constant has of course been the amateur GM, and the deeply flawed roster he has presented his coaching staffs. No coach on the planet is taking this team to the Super-Bowl.
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Time will tell with MM. Yes the perception is he under performed in the playoffs, with 3 12-4 season. However, maybe he actually overachieved in the regular season and we were more like an 9-7 team.
 
Hawkeye19 said:
There are some positive personnel/roster changes as well, but the largest positive deltas between performance in 2024 vs what our potential ceiling in in 2025 are these 3 staff changes:

OL Coach Riley >> Solari: Riley has been one of the most innovative and respected coaches in college football. Solari was a downgrade from Harbin and while he has a solid NFL pedigree— he is old and you have to wonder if the game has simply passed him by.

OC Adams >> McCarthy (Schotty): MM called the shots, Schotty was a placeholder. Mike’s offense was predictable and he struggled to help the offense in terms of consistency in the running game and in the RZ. Adams is a OL wiz and is bringing some youth, energy, and innovation to an offense in desperate need of a jump start. Pair him with Riley, and the scheme should be solid. The X factor is Schotty calling plays— he has been a midling OC, but he is an unknown asset in terms of HC.

Eberflus/Whitecotton >> Zimmer: While Eberflus struggled as a HC, his performance as a DC is what got him promoted. His scheme has produced, and his specialty is at one of our weakest positions: LBer. Zimmer on the other hand had to be talked out of retirement and admitted he didn’t handle the transition from Quinn well. Add in Whitecotton who has earned respect for his work in NY along the DL, and another weak position group should see some improvement under his tutelage.

Bottom line: Our coaching staff is younger, hungrier, and more relevant to today’s game. The additions of these coaches is the thing I am most positive about the 2025 Cowboys.

Long way to go to catch Philly, but these coaches are great additions IMO.
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Yeah,
I again find myself liking the coordinators over the HC. The same as I did with McFraud when he had Moore and Quinn leading those coordinator driven teams.

Additionally, I'm extremely skeptical of this HC as the playcaller.
He should just let Adams run with it.
 
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Hawkeye19 said:
There are some positive personnel/roster changes as well, but the largest positive deltas between performance in 2024 vs what our potential ceiling in in 2025 are these 3 staff changes:

OL Coach Riley >> Solari: Riley has been one of the most innovative and respected coaches in college football. Solari was a downgrade from Harbin and while he has a solid NFL pedigree— he is old and you have to wonder if the game has simply passed him by.

OC Adams >> McCarthy (Schotty): MM called the shots, Schotty was a placeholder. Mike’s offense was predictable and he struggled to help the offense in terms of consistency in the running game and in the RZ. Adams is a OL wiz and is bringing some youth, energy, and innovation to an offense in desperate need of a jump start. Pair him with Riley, and the scheme should be solid. The X factor is Schotty calling plays— he has been a midling OC, but he is an unknown asset in terms of HC.

Eberflus/Whitecotton >> Zimmer: While Eberflus struggled as a HC, his performance as a DC is what got him promoted. His scheme has produced, and his specialty is at one of our weakest positions: LBer. Zimmer on the other hand had to be talked out of retirement and admitted he didn’t handle the transition from Quinn well. Add in Whitecotton who has earned respect for his work in NY along the DL, and another weak position group should see some improvement under his tutelage.

Bottom line: Our coaching staff is younger, hungrier, and more relevant to today’s game. The additions of these coaches is the thing I am most positive about the 2025 Cowboys.

Long way to go to catch Philly, but these coaches are great additions IMO.
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Great post
 
Hawkeye19 said:
Mike was brought in for one reason: to win in the postseason.

He failed.

People will point to three 12 win seasons, but overall, there were issues he tolerated, and problems he never fixed, so IMO, his tenure here should be judged on whether or not he improved us in the key area he was brought in to address: and he didn’t
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I always find it amusing how people forget Jerry's McCarthy hiring press conference citing this exact reason for the McFraud hire.

And then the McFraud groupies quickly fall back on the 12 win regular seasons and forget, ignore or excuse the absolute playoff no shows he had as a coach.

Epic fail.
 
TwistedL0g1k said:
I was never a fan of the McCarthy hire. His style of coaching can only take a team so far. He benefitted greatly by having a great QB in Green Bay. He would have a far different reputation otherwise.

The coaching staff seems improved. There has been some very good in depth articles about Schott the past few months, and I'm more encouraged now than when he was hired.

That said, coaching has not been the problem here. How many coaches does Dallas have to go through before everyone realizes this? The constant has of course been the amateur GM, and the deeply flawed roster he has presented his coaching staffs. No coach on the planet is taking this team to the Super-Bowl.
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Your first paragraph totally describes what McCarthy was and is as a coach. Great job.
And as far as the coaching and even quarterbacking of this team, I now find myself hoping on luck.
Yep, I'm reduced to hope and luck.

"Somehow acquiring" both an elite alfa dog QB along with the same type coach to lead this team to a trophy.
Knowing full well Jerry would not hire or draft credit takers like that at those 2 positions.

Yep, like I said, all I got left is hope and luck.
 
Ranching said:
I expect to win the lottery, but if I don't I don't walk around moping with a stick up my butt. Can't win it, without buying a ticket, at least a have a chance. I don't yell and scream, burn my ticket, say...,I'm never gonna buy y another one, but I expect to win it anyway. I don't go from zero to sixty anytime someone else buys a ticket. Don't like that one? Lol!
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You don't walk around moping because kind of like Jerry you only bought one ticket .
So the fact you don't have a lot invested and maybe got a few numbers and got enough to buy another ticket.

That's where Jerry's at he invests just enough to stay relevant and get another place at the table but not enough to truly compete and get the whole prize.

Now if you invested maybe $250,000 in lottery tickets it would increase your odds of the big prize quite a bit but if you didn't win that stick up your butt might feel like it has razor blades on it.

Jerry doesn't want to take the chance and go all in and invest too much he'd rather do a little bit stay relevant maybe get into the tournament but if he doesn't

He doesn't feel bad like you with the lottery ticket cuz there's not that much invested and in his case he's still making a huge profit
 
TwistedL0g1k said:
I was never a fan of the McCarthy hire. His style of coaching can only take a team so far. He benefitted greatly by having a great QB in Green Bay. He would have a far different reputation otherwise.

The coaching staff seems improved. There has been some very good in depth articles about Schott the past few months, and I'm more encouraged now than when he was hired.

That said, coaching has not been the problem here. How many coaches does Dallas have to go through before everyone realizes this? The constant has of course been the amateur GM, and the deeply flawed roster he has presented his coaching staffs. No coach on the planet is taking this team to the Super-Bowl.
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Well said
Moore won a Super bowl with the eagles.
And Quinn made it to the NFC championship game.
Not happening here with Jerry like you say no coach on the planet can do it.
 
Chasing6 said:
Time will tell with MM. Yes the perception is he under performed in the playoffs, with 3 12-4 season. However, maybe he actually overachieved in the regular season and we were more like an 9-7 team.
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Good point. It's impossible to judge a coach without also judging the roster. An 8-8 coach is a genius if he had an 0-16 roster, but he's a failure if he had a 16-0 roster.
 
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