Cowboys off season grade in NFC East from Bleacher Report

KeepinTime

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IMO, it’s still too early to give a grade on the off-season before the draft has taken place.

BUT- having said that It would be hard for even the rosiest of Cowboys fans to call this a successful off-season. Unless of course you think “Block-chain” is going to somehow help us get better on the field results.
Can Block Chain block for Dak or Elliott? I mean “block” is right there in the name.
 

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The grade is dead on correct. The team did not address a single weakness in free agency and lost 3 key players replacing them with lesser players. The roster is undeniably less talented right now than it was in January.

But, this is a typical Jerry Jones offseason more interested in yachting around barbados than football. His tan, wrinkled prune face will show up on draft day to conduct the war room theatre. There will be lots of whooping and backslapping...............all is well.
 

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Collins and RGregory are not elite players.

Coop had 60+ catches.

The contracts they signed say otherwise. All are high ceiling players who had injury issues last year or a suspension in the case of Collins. Fact is that La El is the highest graded run blocker in the league at his position. Our pass happy offense just didn't take full advantage of his skillset.

Can they be replaced? Sure! We just didn't do it.
 

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The contracts they signed say otherwise. All are high ceiling players who had injury issues last year or a suspension in the case of Collins. Fact is that La El is the highest graded run blocker in the league at his position. Our pass happy offense just didn't take full advantage of his skillset.

Can they be replaced? Sure! We just didn't do it.

no way Dallas pays 20 million in base for a 60 catch WR.

Collins was due 10 mill in base. And he wasn’t a starter anymore.

we all called out these moves last season.
 

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One of the worst offseasons I've seen but nothing will top March of 1994. When a lunatic decided to destroy a dynasty to appease his own ego.
 

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BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Did they watch the second half of the season or the Cowboys vs teams that had a defensive clue? Moore was hopelessly outclassed. Yes, I know that a team has to execute, but when you see them failing to execute, you're supposed to make adjustments. It looked like Garrett was running the offense again.

I give them an F.

I consent to your assessment of the situation regarding the happenings with this football team and your particular view of the inadequacy effort performed by that gentleman Kellen Moore, esq. He was completely outclassed, outperformed, taken behind that wooden structure.... and had his gluteus maximus kicked so violently and viciously that his cerebrum was affected and he had no sensible alternatives to remedy the failed situation. A deserved F indeed.

Don't undervalue yourself nobody, you are somebody.
 

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Still blows my mind to a degree they thought RG was the best pass rusher on the market.
yeah lol that sort of tells the story on the jones boys and their evaluations.
Also thought elliot was best RB in nfl.
 

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“We'll look back a year from now and clearly see that 2021 was the team's best chance to win a Super Bowl in a long time.”

Many of us can see that already. 2021 was another incredible opportunity squandered.
that was the jones boys version of being "all in" and they were one and done with a disaster on the last play and they then keep mike and kellen!!:huh:
 

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I think C or C- is more fair. You’re roughly what you were last year. You lost a few players due to salary cap implications, brought in some cheaper replacements, but you’re getting Gallup for the loss of Cooper, likely drafting a pass rusher on day 2 to combine with Fowler for Gregory, and is La’El really a dramatic loss?

Standing pat off-season to try and fix the cap for next year when you have to pay Diggs, maybe Lamb, maybe Schultz.

"C" is fair, the lower grade has merit only because they missed opportunities to be better in a weak NFC.
 

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IMO, it’s still too early to give a grade on the off-season before the draft has taken place.

BUT- having said that It would be hard for even the rosiest of Cowboys fans to call this a successful off-season. Unless of course you think “Block-chain” is going to somehow help us get better on the field results.
No matter how well they draft, you can’t expect any more than the first round pick to be a difference maker this year in any preseason prognostications. Starter - yes/rotation player - yes. But likely they’re a JAG for they’re first year.

Sure players after the first round surprise every now and again, but the reason they are drafted in the second and beyond is because they need to develop some aspect of their game or body to be an NFL player.
 

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Pretty pointless to grade the off-season when it’s not even over yet.
 

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My first "grading" period will be 6 months from today = Sunday, October 16th.
Although the schedule is probably still in its planning stages, that date projects to being week 6 for 2022 ....one-third into the season.
Hot start (6-0); middling along (3-3); or struggling out the gate (2-4 or worse)?
 

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Based on where we are this second the D grade is well earned. Lets see where things are a month from now. Could be better or for goodness sakes worse. If we had to field a team with who we currently have on the roster we would pretty much suck.
 

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Anyone refuting this grade is a homer.

They literally have gotten worse since the end of the season. They lost Collins, Gregory and Cooper. Now you can argue that we needed to get them off the team, fine. But talent wise, we replaced those three with either NO ONE or lesser players. Shoot, we let our starting LG leave and have literally not even signed some awful, low cost replacement for him.

Got worse, compared to what?

Most people are making the mistake of grading the offseason by comparing the roster this year to the roster last year, instead of the roster this year to the roster that *we had rights to this year*.

A drop of talent was *inevitable*. We had a boatload of key players in their contract years on elcheapo contracts. This year, we didn't have the rights to those players at elcheapo contracts anymore. So we were going to get worse.
 
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