Article on the Eagles roster building that is applicable to the Cowboys

[CowboysLakerBamaFan]

So, will the Eagles beat us this year or will the Cowboys beat them again?

We beat each other last year. We play each other twice

 

[Coogiguy03]

We definitely did not draft best player available last season.

once again we had a bad bad need for DT and I rest my case we DON"T draft for need!! Lol, you're right but, he surely was taken too high with the excitement that came around him, and him telling us he doesn't like football he just likes to HIT people, sadly he got hit a lot!!! More like DRIVEN! lol

 

[phildadon86]

So, will the Eagles beat us this year or will the Cowboys beat them again?

The Eagles beat the Cowboys last year too. Or did you forget that in your lollipop world?

 

[kazzd58]

Want to know why the roster is often imbalanced and we seemingly have clear holes each season? It's the fact we continue to sit out FA for impact players and instead believe (despite the constant failures) that the draft will solve all our problems.

The Cowboys typically give themselves little room or flexibility come draft time. They head into the offseason with clear needs and instead of trying to address some with good FAs and give themselves some flexibility come draft time, they often, instead, have to focus on certain positions for sure and it can lead to taking a need over a quality player.

It's maddening and frustrating. Here is a blurb about Roseman and the Eagles. Now sure, they didn't fill all their needs in the offseason with top notch FAs. White is nothing but a stop gap type at LB, for example. But nevertheless by adding the players they did at positions that were clear needs, they now can be more liberal in the draft and often take quality over need. We, however, have done nothing in FA to address OL issues, or the RB spot, or the DT spot, for example. So it will not be surprising to see us draft an OL at 1 and then force a pick on a TB in the 2nd. Because we've tied our own hands.

They don’t draft that well… They have to get FA because most their picks not hitting like that… When really go player by player vs who was drafted by them‍♂️

 

[CWR]

Want to know why the roster is often imbalanced and we seemingly have clear holes each season? It's the fact we continue to sit out FA for impact players and instead believe (despite the constant failures) that the draft will solve all our problems.

The Cowboys typically give themselves little room or flexibility come draft time. They head into the offseason with clear needs and instead of trying to address some with good FAs and give themselves some flexibility come draft time, they often, instead, have to focus on certain positions for sure and it can lead to taking a need over a quality player.

It's maddening and frustrating. Here is a blurb about Roseman and the Eagles. Now sure, they didn't fill all their needs in the offseason with top notch FAs. White is nothing but a stop gap type at LB, for example. But nevertheless by adding the players they did at positions that were clear needs, they now can be more liberal in the draft and often take quality over need. We, however, have done nothing in FA to address OL issues, or the RB spot, or the DT spot, for example. So it will not be surprising to see us draft an OL at 1 and then force a pick on a TB in the 2nd. Because we've tied our own hands.

It has always been their attempt to fix holes prior to the draft.

This off season has been fundamentally different from other years.

Everyone claiming business as usual is wrong. We've never let so many guys walk without making even meager attempts at replacing them in FA.

The wheels have come off.

 

[Sydla]

Truth is none of us fans really know what a teams plan is. any team.
we can only speculate on them as to our own opinions of how ot should be done.

And most fans will not agree on what a team does is good or bad. On here everything is bad, even when it isn’t. And to some every thing is good when it isn’t.

But it is why we all are here.

Nah, it's pretty much a fact that if you sit out FA and don't do anything to fill holes, you then must shift a draft strategy towards picking players to fill holes. And when that happens, you tend to make need picks over grabbing quality. One can argue this happened in the 2023 draft and right now, that draft class looks like a big dud barring Smith and Schoonmaker making serious progress in Year 2.

 

[Sydla]

So, will the Eagles beat us this year or will the Cowboys beat them again?

Who knows. We don't who will get injured, etc.

But the fact remains that the Eagles (as have other teams), by not ignoring FA, have set themselves up for the draft to not have to force picks to fill clear needs.

 

[Sydla]

It doesn’t take hyping up the trash Eagles in order to prove the Cowboys are incompetent.

The "trash" franchise that has played in 2 SBs in 8 years while we can't sniff a conference title game in nearly 30.

LOL. The reality is they (as are other teams that don't ignore FA), are now not forced to grab positions in the draft unlike us. I am not surprised the homer brigade has missed the point here.

 

[Sydla]

People are misled by job titles it seems.

Change McClay's title to GM and you have the same essential setup as the Giants and Eagles where Lurie and Mara have been as "meddlesome" as Jerry relative to their GMs.

Lurie is not as meddlesome as you claim. He leaves much of the franchises decisions to Roseman. In other words, it's not Lurie who pulls off a trade for AJ Brown, but here in Dallas, it's Jerry/Stephen working any trades. Lurie doesn't negotiate contracts (money, details, etc). It's largely the Jones' here.

There is no set up in the NFL like what we have in Dallas. None.

 

[Chasing6]

once again we had a bad bad need for DT and I rest my case we DON"T draft for need!! Lol, you're right but, he surely was taken too high with the excitement that came around him, and him telling us he doesn't like football he just likes to HIT people, sadly he got hit a lot!!! More like DRIVEN! lol

Well pick number 2 was not a need and that did not work out either.

 

[Coogiguy03]

Well pick number 2 was not a need and that did not work out either.

to them it was dire that we get a BLOCKING TE, should have waited until later in the draft, much later

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

They don’t draft that well…

relative to what?

 

[Chasing6]

There is some truth in this but we need to be honest and recognize that the philosophy of NEVER signing a blue chip player via free agency is a very unbalanced philosophy.

Nobody here is expecting to sign 3 or more FA studs but consider that Gilmore is still available.....he was supposed to be a splash according to our GM...but he's just a support player past his prime

We can not participate in FA, because it will affect our future comp picks. This has become a GM Jethro Cardinal sin.

GM Jethro believes 5th round comp picks are they key to playoff success.

We can only pick up cut players, or low level FA's that will not affect the formula. Once the draft has concluded, we can then participate with the FA leftovers.

 

[baltcowboy]

Truth is none of us fans really know what a teams plan is. any team.
we can only speculate on them as to our own opinions of how ot should be done.

And most fans will not agree on what a team does is good or bad. On here everything is bad, even when it isn’t. And to some every thing is good when it isn’t.

But it is why we all are here.

Yeah the Eagles made some questionable decisions. Paying Barkley Zeke money, paying the Jet free agent pass rusher, and bringing back Garderner-Johnson with a big contract. They still haven’t replaced their two legacy linemen and the secondary is a mess. I think they way overpaid Hurts as well.

 

[rambo2]

Who knows. We don't who will get injured, etc.

But the fact remains that the Eagles (as have other teams), by not ignoring FA, have set themselves up for the draft to not have to force picks to fill clear needs.

The Cowboys aren't forced either because of the depth of the board and how it will fall.

 

[rambo2]

The Eagles beat the Cowboys last year too. Or did you forget that in your lollipop world?

The Cowboys won the division finishing ahead of the Eagles.

 

[rambo2]

We beat each other last year. We play each other twice

The division winner beat the other one in my book.

 

[Sydla]

The Cowboys aren't forced either because of the depth of the board and how it will fall.

LOL.

Yes they are. They literally have to draft a RB in the first 2-3 picks. The odds are they likely are going to have to force a pick on a RB, for example, even if there is a better player on the board.

Honest question, do you ever get tired constantly defending and constantly spinning something positive for a franchise that has failed you every season since the mid 90s?

 

[shabazz]

We can not participate in FA, because it will affect our future comp picks. This has become a GM Jethro Cardinal sin.

GM Jethro believes 5th round comp picks are they key to playoff success.

We can only pick up cut players, or low level FA's that will not affect the formula. Once the draft has concluded, we can then participate with the FA leftovers.

What a path to "success".....

 

[shabazz]

Honest question, do you ever get tired constantly defending and constantly spinning something positive for a franchise that has failed you every season since the mid 90s?

It's good to have fans here at both ends of the spectrum and some folks are just naturally argumentative.

If I knew him I'd buy him a St Jude pin to represent the patron saint of lost causes