According to you, what is our most glaring need?

[Gaede]

My draft day pet cat.... Golden Tate.. He could even wear Golden Richards 83..

I wish....Tate would be amazing in this offense.

 

[big dog cowboy]

The game is won or lost on the O-Line. I would draft OL every year in the somewhere first 3 rounds, EVERY year!

Now we're talking!

 

[juck]

OL and Jordan Shipley.

 

[Canadian BoyzFan]

1a) OT
1b) FS

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

OL, by far.

Disagree.

We need OL depth, not starters. Those are already in place. It was the depth that killed us last year, by notv having enough of it to spell the starters. As a result, the OL broke down - AGAIN - by the postseason.

That leaves WR as our most glaring need. We have a HUGE hole at #1/#2 WR (the position opposite of where they end up playing Austin). We need a STARTER there ASAP. Roy Willimas is not cutting the mustard, Crayton is a #3 at best, and everything else Dallas has at WR is either an interesting project (ala Ogletree, and maybe Holley) or a project-gone-nowhere (ala Sam Hurd).

S depth is also a need, for both SS and FS, but more so for SS since Allan Ball filled in adequately for Hanlin.

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

Fixed it for ya...

The game is won or lost on the O-Line. I would draft OL every year in the somewhere first 3 rounds, EVERY year!

WR, not OL, in round 1 for this upcoming draft!!!!

It's a passing league; sorry but WR trumps OL. You can get fantastic OL prospects in rounds 2 and 3of every draft; that's less true for #1/#2 WRs that can be real difference makers.

So WR is the position that Dallas should be targeting with the first round pick. Then they should use rounds 2 through 4 for OL and S/CB depth.

 

[big dog cowboy]

We need OL depth, not starters.

WR, not OL.

We need OL starters way before we need WR's. All our starters are over 30. The way we got manhandled in Minnesota should be a wake up call to everyone. We can't put the same 5 guys out there again. Period! Backups? Yes we need them also. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if we went OL the first rounds. Rebuild the line younger and stronger for the future.

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

We need OL starters way before we need WR's. All our starters are over 30. The way we got manhandled in Minnesota should be a wake up call to everyone. We can't put the same 5 guys out there again. Period! Backups? Yes we need them also. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if we went OL the first rounds. Rebuild the line younger and stronger for the future.

We lost Columbo and Adams due to injury, not becvause they are over-the-hill. If they heal, and they will, you CAN most certainly put the same 5 starters out there agaon. All 5 are in their low 30s, hardly too old for the OL.

What let the offense down against Minessotta was the lack of OL depth. Coumbo couldn't be spared because his backup, Free, had to fill in at LT for Adams. Even then Free needed help from the TE to hold the rush. That left Columbo out there still because, as injured and ineffective as he was, he was determined to be better than any healthy and YOUNGER backups that Dallas had left.

Dallas also had Roy Willimas as a STARTING WR who is not too old. He just blows. So unlike OL, Dallas CEARLY has a HOLE at a starting WR sopt. But let's ignore that because Roy Williams is under 30. Well la-dee-friggin-da!

 

[Arch Stanton]

We need OL starters way before we need WR's. All our starters are over 30. The way we got manhandled in Minnesota should be a wake up call to everyone. We can't put the same 5 guys out there again. Period! Backups? Yes we need them also. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if we went OL the first rounds. Rebuild the line younger and stronger for the future.

But...but...but...we need a WR! Everyone knows it's better for the QB to be laying on his back when he's passing.

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

But...but...but...we need a WR! Everyone knows it's better for the QB to be laying on his back when he's passing.

But...but...but...it's a pasing league so let's start a #1 WR along with a #3 WR and then a 10-milliam dollar backup. Who cares if our QB won't have anyone to throw to, at least he'll be standing.

 

[Eskimo]

Disagree.

We need OL depth, not starters. Those are already in place. It was the depth that killed us last year, by notv having enough of it to spell the starters. As a result, the OL broke down - AGAIN - by the postseason.

That leaves WR as our most glaring need. We have a HUGE hole at #1/#2 WR (the position opposite of where they end up playing Austin). We need a STARTER there ASAP. Roy Willimas is not cutting the mustard, Crayton is a #3 at best, and everything else Dallas has at WR is either an interesting project (ala Ogletree, and maybe Holley) or a project-gone-nowhere (ala Sam Hurd).

S depth is also a need, for both SS and FS, but more so for SS since Allan Ball filled in adequately for Hanlin.

The starters are getting worse every year and are probably wearing down by the end of the year which is what has caused our offensive problems late in the year moreso than Romo. Romo's poor prior Decembers is an effect of the weak OL which has worn down. This year we were lucky to play teams without particularly strong DLs and could counter Philly's need to blitz to apply pressure with the screen game. The one team we lost too down the stretch that we should have beat had a strong DL which whipped us and prevented us from exploiting their weak LBs and secondary (NYG).

I would hope that Free puts Colombo on the bench and that by the end of the year we have someone who puts Kosier on the bench - maybe a FA, maybe a 1st or 2nd round OG. That would give us an OL of:

Flo
Rookie/FA/Brewster
Gurode
Bigg
Free

I think this OL would be much stronger than the one we were using down the stretch.

I do agree #2 WR is a need but it all starts upfront and without better pass protection we will continue to get beat by any team with an upper echelon DL. We will also risk injuring Romo in the process. We have to remember that he isn't Ben Roth at 240 or 250 pounds back there who can absorb a ton of punishment. We have to do everything we can to protect him because it can be maddeningly hard to find a QB as good as him and this must be our #1 priority.

A team with a good defense, a good QB, pro bowl WR + TE, potential pro bowl RB and solid OL should put up lots of points even if the #2 WR is only mediocre. Just take a look at SD who did it even without a solid running game.

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

The starters are getting worse every year and are probably wearing down by the end of the year which is what has caused our offensive problems late in the year moreso than Romo. Romo's poor prior Decembers is an effect of the weak OL which has worn down. This year we were lucky to play teams without particularly strong DLs and could counter Philly's need to blitz to apply pressure with the screen game. The one team we lost too down the stretch that we should have beat had a strong DL which whipped us and prevented us from exploiting their weak LBs and secondary (NYG).

I would hope that Free puts Colombo on the bench and that by the end of the year we have someone who puts Kosier on the bench - maybe a FA, maybe a 1st or 2nd round OG. That would give us an OL of:

Flo
Rookie/FA/Brewster
Gurode
Bigg
Free

I think this OL would be much stronger than the one we were using down the stretch.

I do agree #2 WR is a need but it all starts upfront and without better pass protection we will continue to get beat by any team with an upper echelon DL. We will also risk injuring Romo in the process. We have to remember that he isn't Ben Roth at 240 or 250 pounds back there who can absorb a ton of punishment. We have to do everything we can to protect him because it can be maddeningly hard to find a QB as good as him and this must be our #1 priority.

A team with a good defense, a good QB, pro bowl WR + TE, potential pro bowl RB and solid OL should put up lots of points even if the #2 WR is only mediocre. Just take a look at SD who did it even without a solid running game.

I'm also saying we have needs at OL, but moreso at backup spots so that starters cna get more relief through the year.

While you say that "it all starts up front" I find it funny how so many are using that as the convenient excuse for why Roy Willimas did not perform, ignoring the fact that that supposed lack of protection didn't seem to hold back the Romo-to-Austin connection.

It also didn't seem to hold the offense back from moving the ball. But somehow it became a supposed problem in the red zone when Dallas struggled to score. I suppose it's just a coincidence that receivers like Roy Willimas, and Martellus Bennett, who were counted on as red-zone threats, disappeared most in those situations. Clearly that fault must lie at the feet of Columbo and Adams.

Really?

Sorry, but I don't buy arguments going nowhere.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

LT, LG, S and PR/KR.

 

[Eskimo]

I'm also saying we have needs at OL, but moreso at backup spots so that starters cna get more relief through the year.

While you say that "it all starts up front" I find it funny how so many are using that as the convenient excuse for why Roy Willimas did not perform, ignoring the fact that that supposed lack of protection didn't seem to hold back the Romo-to-Austin connection.

It also didn't seem to hold the offense back from moving the ball. But somehow it became a supposed problem in the red zone when Dallas struggled to score. I suppose it's just a coincidence that receivers like Roy Willimas, and Martellus Bennett, who were counted on as red-zone threats, disappeared most in those situations. Clearly that fault must lie at the feet of Columbo and Adams.

Really?

Sorry, but I don't buy arguments going nowhere.

I am no Roy Williams defender but he is not the main problem with the offense right now - he also isn't the solution. I'd be happy to sit Roy down as I don't think he gets the job done when the protection is there.

I also don't think the OL fails most of the time. I just think they get overmatched against fast and physical DLs like the NYG, GB, Den and Minn games showed. When the OL gives Romo protection, he will deliver the ball to one of his targets. When they block, Felix will exploit the holes.

I do think improving the #2 WR spot will get us more points against weaker teams, I am far from convinced that it will help us against upper echelon DLs which we will run into in the playoffs.

I don't think the starters as presently constructed are good enough to take us far into the playoffs. We will run into a team with a good DL which will stymie us and send us into another offseason. We need new starters - hopefully 2/5 changed this year. We also need depth but that will not solve our issues if the backups are worse than the starters.

 

[MONT17]

Draft Jimmy Clausen or any Qb that will stand in there and deliver the football and demand more from teammates like Roy Williams... This team has enough talent and free agent resources, to draft and groom a leader at the QB position, without taking a step back in 2010. Romo was projected as a good backup maybe a solid starter he has reached that... noone will ever confuse him with Troy Aikman!


You cant have a weak figure head at Head Coach and Romo as your QB and expect to beat teams with better leadership!

 

[Arch Stanton]

But...but...but...it's a pasing league so let's start a #1 WR along with a #3 WR and then a 10-milliam dollar backup. Who cares if our QB won't have anyone to throw to, at least he'll be standing.

So we have no WR's? My bad.

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

So we have no WR's? My bad.

Now you're making **** up. I never said that. What I said was that we have no true #2 WR opposite Miles Austin. This thread is about what our most pressing need is. Forgive me if I go with the position that is clearly being underserved and has been all season long (RW11's WR spot).

Sorry, but you can't say that about the OL. Yes, its lack of depth was exposed against Minnesotta, but only because Adams was out early with injury, and Columbo, who outherwise should not have played because of his injuries, had to because there was no other depth to take over (because his backup was marginally filling in for Adams).

That's unlike the #2 WR spot where the starter, REW11, was the one out there going 0-0-0 (0 targets, 0 catches, 0 yards) against Minessota, and once again underperforming like he had done all season long.

But no, that's not the most glaring need. Not at all.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Now you're making **** up. I never said that. What I said was that we have no true #2 WR opposite Miles Austin. This thread is about what our most pressing need is. Forgive me if I go with the position that is clearly being underserved and has been all season long (RW11's WR spot).

Sorry, but you can't say that about the OL. Yes, its lack of depth was exposed against Minnesotta, but only because Adams was out early with injury, and Columbo, who outherwise should not have played because of his injuries, had to because there was no other depth to take over (because his backup was marginally filling in for Adams).

That's unlike the #2 WR spot where the starter, REW11, was the one out there going 0-0-0 (0 targets, 0 catches, 0 yards) against Minessota, and once again underperforming like he had done all season long.

But no, that's not the most glaring need. Not at all.

Compelling argument.

 

[CCBoy]

Ask yourself this.

What position would have gotten Dallas past Minnesota in the play-off game.

Offensive line. Offensive tackle.

And the role that injury played in that game? Flozell Adams lasted, what, a quarter? Then there was Colombo coming back from a broken foot with a bad high ankle sprain on top of the foot?

 

[CCBoy]

Now you're making **** up. I never said that. What I said was that we have no true #2 WR opposite Miles Austin. This thread is about what our most pressing need is. Forgive me if I go with the position that is clearly being underserved and has been all season long (RW11's WR spot).

Sorry, but you can't say that about the OL. Yes, its lack of depth was exposed against Minnesotta, but only because Adams was out early with injury, and Columbo, who outherwise should not have played because of his injuries, had to because there was no other depth to take over (because his backup was marginally filling in for Adams).

That's unlike the #2 WR spot where the starter, REW11, was the one out there going 0-0-0 (0 targets, 0 catches, 0 yards) against Minessota, and once again underperforming like he had done all season long.

But no, that's not the most glaring need. Not at all.

You put up some pretty good discussion material generally. I have no argument with your statement. This draft, I am wondering how that speed addition/balance to measure against Miles Austin would be gained beyond a complete sellout for a single pick, and getting Bryant up top. Otherwise, receiver, by present evaluations, would arrive on the table for considerations starting in round two on down.

The needs could be evaluated in free agency as well. Even if there won't be a large market of available considerations, there could be exchanges and players acquired. It might take some original types of thinking to even breach the subject in today's climate although. Would Jerry see humor in this right now? Could Jerry see value with the exchange of Roy Williams and his price tags already in the system, with the pickup of a Diva such as Marshall? I doubt it, but there are solutions available even yet. They have asking prices as well, so a creative approach that allowed adaptations similar to when TO arrived as to contract, might allow for transitions without morgaging the lockerroom itself.

Myself, secondary turnovers are bad. That must be addressed in the safety element in it. There are veterans who appear to be hitting the market shortly as well. There is a good deal of 'opportunity' still possible.

Safety is a need consideration in my book still.

Offensive line depth is my smart move in the draft. One offensive tackle as well as a very talented interior lineman would be the start to my direction.

The other area that I feel needs a strong hit, is at defensive end. Wade Phillips previously has always had a sack producer at that position. On the current roster, that is missing....