Blogging the Boys: Coaching

[casmith07]

He didn't play well as a slot corner his first year? I agree he wasn't that good but most corners don't play well for a year or two no matter where they went to school or how high they are drafted.

I don't think he played enough to be able to say one way or the other.

 

[burmafrd]

One year perfect storm? Hardly. Now that could have been said had Sean Lee been healthy, had we been able to retain Ware, or Jason Hatcher. One or the other. We had just come off a historically bad performance on defense the year before. We had no clue Zach Martin would be as good as he turned out, or that Frederick could improve even more so than the previous campaign. Same goes for Free. I have to say it, this was a process, and it's working for the Cowboys. I'm a believer.

I believe our players, now more than ever, understand what it takes to win and weather the storm of an NFL season.

Yes, we could take a step back next season, but if we do, it will only be due to uncontrollable injuries. If we can remain healthy, especially at all key positions, I feel we'll contend for the entire enchilada.

But last year was definitely not the perfect storm, where the stars aligned in our favor. This was a team in the making. A process that is coming to fruition before our very eyes. I'm enjoying the return of the Dallas Cowboys. The other teams and their fans are not.

disagree. Ro frankly took Lee's place. We got pressure- sufficient pressure- late in the season to make the difference. And frankly I doubt that we will get the same from the same people this year. Things broke our way a lot last year - try and deny it as much as you want but that is the truth. This year will tell the real story.

 

[chagus]

Blogging the boys writers are notorious Garrett fanboys. They will spin anything and everything he does into a positive

 

[Fletch]

disagree. Ro frankly took Lee's place. We got pressure- sufficient pressure- late in the season to make the difference. And frankly I doubt that we will get the same from the same people this year. Things broke our way a lot last year - try and deny it as much as you want but that is the truth. This year will tell the real story.

Well I agree that you have to have things break your way in every season. But that wasn't the entire premise of our Cowboys going 12-4. They prepared for the success they had with hard work and execution. They had a plan and stuck with it. The rebuild that started three seasons ago regarding the O-line that allowed the Cowboys to run the wheels off DM. The disciplined, bend but don't break defense that Rod implored. That's called planning and execution. That's called buying into the system Garrett and the coordinators laid out at the beginning of the season.

We'll see that same system for this season with many of the same players only getting better at executing it.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Not unreasonable. I don't think they necessarily encourage groupthink. Their serving the content their audience wants to read, but that audience is pretty like-minded already. I just think it happens to be boring reading nothing but positive commentary. But there's a lot to be positive about with these Cowboys right now. It'd be different for me if I saw a lot of them taking something that deserves criticism and trying to paint that as a positive. That stuff drives me nuts. Just ding the organization for what it does poorly. Appreciate what they do well, and understand that a sizable chunk of what they do is going to be indeterminate for a season or two as it shakes out.

So in essence, you're not happy/interested/excited/stimulated unless there's some negativity sprinkled in every now and again.

 

[jobberone]

I don't think he played enough to be able to say one way or the other.

That's fair. He's gone which says a lot.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Blogging the Boys was really good until about 2 years ago and then it really went way too far defending the boys in general and Garrett in particular.

Lets be blunt - up until last season most cowboy fans were distinctly underwhelmed by Garrett.

This year will really tell the tale about him- was last year a one year Perfect Storm or was it really the beginning of our next dynasty.

Not really ... from my perspective. I understood what JG was trying to build with this team. It's a process...not microwavable.

 

[burmafrd]

Not really ... from my perspective. I understood what JG was trying to build with this team. It's a process...not microwavable.

very few other processes take a full three years to show results. And from someone who had been an insider for years and should have been able to quickly identify who he wanted to keep and who he wanted to let go and who he wanted to get. To take a full three years to show any results at all was what had most of us frankly giving up on him.