Best Offseason Move , Worst Offseason Move

[Risen Star]

Best move: Replacing our make a wish C with a legitimate pro talent.

Worst move: This will always be the non move of retaining our GM and VP of Personnel.

An honorable mention goes to the defensive scheme switch. 1) It's rearranging deck chairs. It doesn't address anything that ails this team. 2) I've always believed the 3-4 is the superior scheme. 3) Defense with Bernie. This is like having Barry Switzer's father on the staff.

I'm not in love with the offseason at all. We sat out FA for the most part because of the money wasted last year and then decided a TE, WR, S and CB were better value than a lineman in the draft. So we bring back the same two awful Gs, the same cripple fight at RT and the same aging DL.

I still don't think this team has it's priorities in order and until it does I expect more failure.

 

[TwoDeep3]

Best: Hiring of Kiffin and Marinelli.. Ryan was not as good as advertised...

Worst: Handling of The Spencer Contract. Seeing what the market was for DE's (Avril, Dummervil). I would of prefered signing him to a fair deal or trading him for a pick before the draft.. His 10 mil is way too much..


Let me hear your best and worst moves..

The Kiffin Marinelli answer to me is suggesting coaching is more important than talent. Especially when you factor in the results of this off season and the offensive line.

I am not suggesting that tandem is not better than Ryan. What I am saying is the talent on the field will always play up or down to its skill level, and coaching - for the most part - isn't a fix.

Can you get a better coach?

Sure you can.

But I refer back to Campo. This argument raged back when he was in place.

And what was the largest deficit on the Campo team?

Quarterback. Aikman was done and his erosion of skills scuttled Campo.

I'm not saying Campo would have been great.

But, could he have won three more games a year and had three 8-8 seasons with a better quarterback?

I think so.

Which then shines a light on Garrett who has a much better quarterback than Aikman was at that time and that is the results Garrett seems to field.

 

[Idgit]

Best move: Replacing our make a wish C with a legitimate pro talent.

Worst move: This will always be the non move of retaining our GM and VP of Personnel.

An honorable mention goes to the defensive scheme switch. 1) It's rearranging deck chairs. It doesn't address anything that ails this team. 2) I've always believed the 3-4 is the superior scheme. 3) Defense with Bernie. This is like having Barry Switzer's father on the staff.

I'm not in love with the offseason at all. We sat out FA for the most part because of the money wasted last year and then decided a TE, WR, S and CB were better value than a lineman in the draft. So we bring back the same two awful Gs, the same cripple fight at RT and the same aging DL.

I still don't think this team has it's priorities in order and until it does I expect more failure.

I'm not sure about the scheme change myself, but the one thing it was meant to address was takeaways, and that's a huge thing that ails this team.

I just can't shake the idea that we're moving to a scheme that the league has seen since forever. To think we can plug in Marinelli and Kiffin and suddenly have the Bears defense--even though I do think we've got some good defensive talent--is pretty optimistic. It's more likely we end up with a simplistic scheme that doesn't fool anybody but that lets some of our playmakers make more plays. I'm not sure that's the smartest upgrade, and it stinks that we misjudged things back when we hired Ryan in the first place and put ourselves two years behind the implementation of whatever it is we want to do long-term.

I do think it's going to be a good fit for our LBs, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing how much we press with our CBs, given the quality of players we have at those positions.

 

[Vanilla2]

Best move: I'll go with locking up Tony Romo, since it was the most important thing we got done.

Worst move: Hard to say since it hasn't played out yet. I'd say passing on Clabo, but we were clearly hamstrung by the Free contract and the reworking of that actually worked out well for us. Didn't like the round one trade-down deal, but I ended up loving both guys we took with the picks. I thought the Kiffin hire was straight-up weird, but in retrospect, I understand the rationale, at least. I didn't like the hiring of Derek Dooley for WR coach, but that's small potatoes. I didn't like the courtesy interview for Houston Nutt, but that's even smaller potatoes. I guess I'll go with not bringing in Brandon Moore, who I think represents a value upgrade and a good scheme fit at a position we're probably looking to improve.

Your sig must irritate the heck out of some folks.

Best move: re-signing Romo

Worst move: not re-signing Spencer

 

[Idgit]

Your sig must irritate the heck out of some folks.

You can probably imagine, it gets a lot of 'what else his he *supposed* to say' sorts of reactions. But I'm a big fan of Garrett's. Especially in the offseason and during the lead up to games. He's got a bit of growing to do on game-days, still, but he's adequate there, as well.

 

[Vanilla2]

You can probably imagine, it gets a lot of 'what else his he *supposed* to say' sorts of reactions. But I'm a big fan of Garrett's. Especially in the offseason and during the lead up to games. He's got a bit of growing to do on game-days, still, but he's adequate there, as well.

I think the proof is in the effort pudding.

A lot of these guys quit on the previous HC.

 

[TwoDeep3]

I think the proof is in the effort pudding.

A lot of these guys quit on the previous HC.

This comment more than anything else infuriates me. Niot at you, Vanilla. But at the idea of pair professionals quitting on a coach.

The reason is simple.

Barry "Mr. Hotdog" Switzer was a coach that surely should have had a team quit on him.

But that team won it all in spite of Switzer. That team galvanized themselves as a te4am and took it to the house, winning it all.

So when you say, and perhaps rightfully so, that players on this current team quit on Wade Phillips - I am assuming that is the coach, although it could be Ryan and I would have the same opinion - then those losers need to find another team in my opinion.

 

[honyock]

I'm not saying it would be bad, but there really is no reason to rush now.

I'm pretty sure there is a deadline to sign him to a long-term deal, that ends in mid-July. So if no deal by then, he's locked into the tag salary this year. So they don't have the luxury of waiting to see how he plays before deciding on the long-term deal.

 

[Future]

best- kiffin.
worst- reworking frees contract. free needs to go and also agree that clabo would have been a good choice.

Agreed.

Free should be gone, I don't care if he's making 10 cents.

 

[T-RO]

With the way offenses are getting adept at scheming the pass rushers into coverage and what the pistol does to the 34 OLB's, I absolutely think moving to a 43 was a terrific decision.

Are you still unaware that Kiffin's elite recruiting class at USC was repeatedly torched by pistol-style Oregon offenses the past few seasons? When I say torched I'm talking on the order of 60 points-per-game and 600 yards per occasion.

If you like firemen who bring high-pressure hoses equipped with gasoline...the 80-year-old Kiffin just might be your next hero.

 

[T-RO]

A lot of these guys quit on the previous HC.

That's a complete joke of a post. It never happened. And if it did...I challenge you to provide one shard or proof.

You don't have one, do you?

 

[Picksix]

I ment to say If I was Spencer I wouldn't sign long term til next year. He gets 10 mil this year.. Thats like salary plus a signing bonus. Next year he can cash in again...

We're on the same page. Yeah, he gets a huge payday this year, and he's betting on himself for next year. So he likely won't sign. But there are no guarantees. And when you look at the deals given out this year, he might get a good deal next year, and he might not. Either way, I think you're right, and I don't see him signing anything this year.

As for Clabo, I wanted him, too. Not that he's top sirloin at this point, but I think he's still better than anything we have right now. But if the money they kept by not signing him allows them to sign/extend one of the others a little quicker (and hopefully at a cheaper price), I'm okay with it.

 

[Big D]

Best: Firing Ryan

dude is a blowhard just like his bro. Sure he comes from a football famlily but it's the wrong one!

Worst: Letting Felix go to the eagles.

I have a good feeling about Tanner but if I, and the team are wrong we could be hurting at the rb position if Murray goes down again.

 

[DMAC]

Best - replacing Ryan with Kiffin

Worse - Signing Romo to an extension