Between now and camp what's needed to feel better

[Whyjerry]

So the draft was pretty good. I hated the pick at 87 but you have to appreciate the trade down which still nabbed them Guyton and Beebe. Guyton is a bit of a project but you can’t teach his size and athleticism. Beebe looks like a day one starter with little risk. Kneeland will at least add strength and depth to the DE position. Carson might be a steal. At a minimum he is a rotational guy at a spot where you need 4/5 guys that can play.

For me I am stuck that they didn’t address RB in the draft. DT was late but if you look the current roster if they have an injury to Mazi or OZiggy they are screwed. Paper thin depth at DT.

Hence I am really hoping a veteran RB and DT can be signed before camp or maybe a quick camp casualty pick. Both players would need to be good contributors. I hate the Zeke signing. I thought he was cooked 2 years ago and would be shocked if he offers anything. Hence I hope they can grab a guy to be in a rotation with Dowdle but carry a decent part of the load. DT I am hoping for more of a depth player that can rotate in and spot start if someone gets hurt.

So that’s it for me. RB and DT. The draft solved the OL issues. LB looks good right now. Assuming Diggs is good CB looks solid. WR is something they will need to focus on next offseason.

Thoughts?

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Yeah...I think RB being added is what most would like.
They got some guys that can be the short gain rotational guys.

What they need is a RB who can be a main starter that can break the big on on occasion. AKA a Bell Cow back

 

[diamonddelts]

Worst GM in the N.F.L. yet the same guys come here every year looking for "hope." The definition of insanity.

 

[starfan1]

We’re a worse team today than we were a year ago.

We’re playing a 1st place schedule and I believe, like 95% of the experts, that everyone in the NFC East had a better draft than us

We’re going 7-10 or 8-9 next season.

love to see those predictions.Youre wrong continually so that bodes well for the cowboys. But hey even a broken clock is right 2 times a day

 

[Whyjerry]

I did not mean this to turn into a hate / prediction thread. I am genuinely interested in what people think still needs work on the roster. I am not saying this is a SB contender.

 

[starfan1]

So the draft was pretty good. I hated the pick at 87 but you have to appreciate the trade down which still nabbed them Guyton and Beebe. Guyton is a bit of a project but you can’t teach his size and athleticism. Beebe looks like a day one starter with little risk. Kneeland will at least add strength and depth to the DE position. Carson might be a steal. At a minimum he is a rotational guy at a spot where you need 4/5 guys that can play.

For me I am stuck that they didn’t address RB in the draft. DT was late but if you look the current roster if they have an injury to Mazi or OZiggy they are screwed. Paper thin depth at DT.

Hence I am really hoping a veteran RB and DT can be signed before camp or maybe a quick camp casualty pick. Both players would need to be good contributors. I hate the Zeke signing. I thought he was cooked 2 years ago and would be shocked if he offers anything. Hence I hope they can grab a guy to be in a rotation with Dowdle but carry a decent part of the load. DT I am hoping for more of a depth player that can rotate in and spot start if someone gets hurt.

So that’s it for me. RB and DT. The draft solved the OL issues. LB looks good right now. Assuming Diggs is good CB looks solid. WR is something they will need to focus on next offseason.

Thoughts?

Ya those 2 things will help but Im not necessarily down on the zeke signing. Its the defense that concerning to me. nothing humilates a defense and takes away all energy like getting the ball crammed down your throat and getting your fanny beat in the trenches

 

[blueblood70]

Yeah...I think RB being added is what most would like.
They got some guys that can be the short gain rotational guys.

What they need is a RB who can be a main starter that can break the big on on occasion. AKA a Bell Cow back

yeah the bell cow running back you know all the ones that are winning Super Bowls ohh wait a minute they're not can you give it a break a little bit let's let them find a rotation out of the guys we have now use them properly get that offensive line going and get a run scheme that actually works it was a mess last year they used everybody wrong but there's some talented enough group that you can go running back by committee you don't need a bell cow to win a Super Bowl Kansas city's doing it with a seventh round pick all the best running backs in the regular season are not winning rings I mean as much as everybody wanted Derrick Henry and by the way just Speaking of that I think you're really was a bell cow DeMarco Murray was a bell cow we did not have a ring in 27 years right that's the narrative we've had some great running backs here it didn't help it's nice for the regular season to have a top star getting all the publicity but they are not the ones on teams winning big it's been already proven in this league that if you have the right scheme and utilize your running back by committee you can do it with two or three guys you just have to block better and you have to put the right guy on the field for the play call they did not do that last year...

They will not bring in a big name unless this starts failing the first five games of the season it will be an amari Cooper deal if the running back by committee fails and it is a very obvious weak spot they will trade for a guy that they think will help but right now this is a nice little group there are six guys on this team two of them probably already made the team in Ezekiel Elliott Enrico dowdell but the rest of them they have enough skill sets that are differing some with speed some you can use in motion as a **** back that they can find as a Group A nice run game...

But again why don't you list all the top five running backs in the league from the last 10 years and show me how many actually elevated their teams and have an actual Lombardi trophy you know they got the ring not the runner up but the actual ring I mean Christian McCaffrey is the only one I know where they made a trade and he ended up playing in a Super Bowl but you know what the team's already been in the Super bowl a lot he did not elevate that team in my opinion he just brought production by one player that they were getting from three in years prior they were using running back by committee some of the names we never heard of and yeah they're pretty good now but they were let go..

I just wanna remind fans this is not the Terrell Davis Emmitt Smith era and most of the best running backs in the league including the Dallas Cowboys group have not been winning Super Bowls they have not been the reason that their teams have won the Super bowl and again they can't see the chiefs have a seventh round pick that came out of nowhere he's a steady solid running back but he in no way could be considered a bell cow he is not a three down back that stays in the block and that could do everything and he's not getting 600 carries a year..

Yes we all have a different opinion but I think people are just overreacting to the running back position because yes it was a train wreck last year it was worse than Kellen Moores and some of that because we were missing physicality the offensive line and they were misused I I can't say that enough that Mike McCarthy screwed this up last year or whoever allowed these run schemes and who was calling the groupings they did it wrong it was completely backwards IMHO

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Ya those 2 things will help but Im not necessarily down on the zeke signing. Its the defense that concerning to me. nothing humilates a defense and takes away all energy like getting the ball crammed down your throat and getting your fanny beat in the trenches

Defense, unfortunately, is meaning less and less in the modern NFL.

As Tom Brady said in an interview a few weeks ago regarding this… he said that NFL rules have reduced the game so much that the only way to win now is great offensive play. That most great defensive plays are penalties now and 15 yards for the offense.

I agree with Tom Brady.

 

[Whyjerry]

Ya those 2 things will help but Im not necessarily down on the zeke signing. Its the defense that concerning to me. nothing humilates a defense and takes away all energy like getting the ball crammed down your throat and getting your fanny beat in the trenches

Given the way GB gashed them you would have thought getting stouter in the middle was key. Looks ignored to me. Maybe Mazi is ready to go boom. They seem to act that he is going to be a monster in year 2.

 

[ICP]

I did not mean this to turn into a hate / prediction thread. I am genuinely interested in what people think still needs work on the roster. I am not saying this is a SB contender.

A Running Back

 

[JW82]

Ok Barring the sale of the team or the institutionalization of the owner/GM, Get me a quality RB, a Wr3, more DT help and I wouldn't be mad if they resigned Gilmore.

 

[Whyjerry]

Ok Barring the sale of the team or the institutionalization of the owner/GM, Get me a quality RB, a Wr3, more DT help and I wouldn't be mad if they resigned Gilmore.

Unfortunately if Jerry goes away Stevie takes over. He will be worse.

 

[JW82]

Unfortunately if Jerry goes away Stevie takes over. He will be worse.

I don't think your wrong. At least Jerry was trying to win.

 

[TexasBacon]

A cocktail of Xanax, alcohol, and strychnine?

 

[maryquality]

Given the way GB gashed them you would have thought getting stouter in the middle was key. Looks ignored to me. Maybe Mazi is ready to go boom. They seem to act that he is going to be a monster in year 2.

I agree. I don't feel too comfortable with our DT situation at the moment. Guess, we'll see.

 

[MoistMayonnaise]

New ownership would be nice. Worried about LBs the most, we need to be able to stop the run.

 

[MikeT22]

I don't think your wrong. At least Jerry was trying to win.

Not really. Unless by trying you mean hiring Gailey, Campo, Wade and Garrett as HC while he remained GM.

 

[Roadtrip635]

A announcement that Jerry is selling the team would make me feel better.

 

[Rayman70]

what needs to happen between now and camp is we need to see who gets cut June 1. We always see good players on the market June 1 and my hope is we round out the roster and find a couple more proven players then. I don't think we are done.

 

[JW82]

Not really. Unless by trying you mean hiring Gailey, Campo, Wade and Garrett as HC while he remained GM.

Oh no, he sucked it, but he used to at least try to add good players in free agency. Stephen's not even pretending to give a sh- -