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1. That game wasn’t close and the final score shouldn’t distract ownership from the fact that this team took a beating.
2. This loss isn’t all Dak’s fault, but it is partly Dak’s fault. Dak’s tendency is to run up the score on bad teams and get garbage stats when the game is out of reach. What is ABUNDANTLY CLEAR is that against good teams Dak ALWAYS gets off to a SLOW start and Dak doesn’t start settling down until the game is out of reach.
Dak is what he is. You either MOVE ON from Dak or you build a better team around him. The problem I see with the latter is Dak seems hell bent on being paid as a top 5 QB. Top 5 QBs don’t lay an egg every big game like Dak does.
3. The offensive line needs to be rebuilt. Martin is being paid TOP money. But the line isn’t performing like a top end line. Dallas MUST STOP paying premium money to players who are not drastically impacting the game favorably.
A. Move Martin for picks. Take your cap hit and move on. The young guards played as good or better the last game than this OL played tonight.
B. Biadasz. We need to improve significantly there. We can’t overpay to keep low end starter here.
C. Tyron has to go. He’s a has been and has been for several years.
D. Steele. Man he fell off a cliff after the injury.
E. The only guy who I think is safe on this entire OL is Tyler Smith.
4. The defense. Where do I start? There is plenty of talent to win on defense.
Quinn is a talented DC. But he’s also misused a lot of talent. How do you have THE BEST player in the league in Parsons and fail to shut anyone down.
5. Dallas must fortify BOTH trenches. That’s where the difference is made. You don’t build a team of skill position players and let them get pummeled. You build it from the inside out.
6. MM may not be the answer but he’s not the problem. I don’t care who the OC is—the trenches need to be better and Dak is a bit of a liability.
7. At receiver we seem to have CeeDee and a tight end (Ferguson). That Schoonmaker pick which I hated at the time looks even worse now. I don’t know why we forced that pick.
8. The running game MUST improve. The OL isn’t opening holes. We must replace the OL and rebuild it into a bully OL if we are going to keep Dak around. (Jerry will). We must also have a legit running game. We need to be scouting the RB ranks hard in this draft.
9. I understand why Jerry will keep Dak. But the Cowboys MUST throw competition at Dak. Serious competition. Dak must feel the breath of his competitors on his neck.
10. Honestly, I am torn on DQ. I think he does a decent job of assembling talent but not so good job of game planning. Dallas spent way too much time trying to get to the QB (and not getting there) and stayed in zone coverage far too long in this game.
I think DQ has the ability to game plan, but was distracted by the possibility that he would get a head coaching gig. I’m ready for DQ to move on.
11. Does the Hoodie come to Dallas? IDK if I am for that or not. I think I would try to pry Bienemy away from Washington as OC move on from DQ and elevate the DB coach as OC. (I forget his name-played at Green Bay).
12. Hot take? Jerry makes up with Jimmy Johnson and lets JJ have a season to see if he can recapture the magic and go to one more SB.
2. This loss isn’t all Dak’s fault, but it is partly Dak’s fault. Dak’s tendency is to run up the score on bad teams and get garbage stats when the game is out of reach. What is ABUNDANTLY CLEAR is that against good teams Dak ALWAYS gets off to a SLOW start and Dak doesn’t start settling down until the game is out of reach.
Dak is what he is. You either MOVE ON from Dak or you build a better team around him. The problem I see with the latter is Dak seems hell bent on being paid as a top 5 QB. Top 5 QBs don’t lay an egg every big game like Dak does.
3. The offensive line needs to be rebuilt. Martin is being paid TOP money. But the line isn’t performing like a top end line. Dallas MUST STOP paying premium money to players who are not drastically impacting the game favorably.
A. Move Martin for picks. Take your cap hit and move on. The young guards played as good or better the last game than this OL played tonight.
B. Biadasz. We need to improve significantly there. We can’t overpay to keep low end starter here.
C. Tyron has to go. He’s a has been and has been for several years.
D. Steele. Man he fell off a cliff after the injury.
E. The only guy who I think is safe on this entire OL is Tyler Smith.
4. The defense. Where do I start? There is plenty of talent to win on defense.
Quinn is a talented DC. But he’s also misused a lot of talent. How do you have THE BEST player in the league in Parsons and fail to shut anyone down.
5. Dallas must fortify BOTH trenches. That’s where the difference is made. You don’t build a team of skill position players and let them get pummeled. You build it from the inside out.
6. MM may not be the answer but he’s not the problem. I don’t care who the OC is—the trenches need to be better and Dak is a bit of a liability.
7. At receiver we seem to have CeeDee and a tight end (Ferguson). That Schoonmaker pick which I hated at the time looks even worse now. I don’t know why we forced that pick.
8. The running game MUST improve. The OL isn’t opening holes. We must replace the OL and rebuild it into a bully OL if we are going to keep Dak around. (Jerry will). We must also have a legit running game. We need to be scouting the RB ranks hard in this draft.
9. I understand why Jerry will keep Dak. But the Cowboys MUST throw competition at Dak. Serious competition. Dak must feel the breath of his competitors on his neck.
10. Honestly, I am torn on DQ. I think he does a decent job of assembling talent but not so good job of game planning. Dallas spent way too much time trying to get to the QB (and not getting there) and stayed in zone coverage far too long in this game.
I think DQ has the ability to game plan, but was distracted by the possibility that he would get a head coaching gig. I’m ready for DQ to move on.
11. Does the Hoodie come to Dallas? IDK if I am for that or not. I think I would try to pry Bienemy away from Washington as OC move on from DQ and elevate the DB coach as OC. (I forget his name-played at Green Bay).
12. Hot take? Jerry makes up with Jimmy Johnson and lets JJ have a season to see if he can recapture the magic and go to one more SB.
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