Cowboys sign LB Andrew Gachkar

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Moderately_Askew

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Three years is a pretty solid time frame to go on considering it most accurately involves the people making the decisions on this team currently.

This is what I do. I speak truth. I'm not a rah-rah nonsense guy. I'd love for it to be so that the Cowboys are LB U and they just churn them out effortlessly. The fact is they've drafted some pretty poor ones over the last three years. In fact, I wouldn't want a single one of those LBs on my team.

Three years was just a convenient number for you to use, nothing more nothing less.

You speak your version of the truth while pandering to the doom and gloom squad to get those likes. Of those linebackers you mentioned only one was a bust so your argument fails from conception.
 

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2 quick thoughts here.

1. glad to see his former fanbase not happy he is leaving, as opposed to Corey White who every Saint fan wanted him gone infact a couple of them wrote (best move of the year so far) ouch!!

2. Thanks Jerry!
 

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Defensively, we haven't gotten better.

We also haven't gotten worse, and as some around here like to say you can't judge a DE based on how many sacks they get their first year, and D-Law got sacks in both of our playoff games so he is looking like he might be a really good player. If he turns into that really good player that will help our defense a lot. I say go out and get Freeney (who despite his lack of sacks did get a lot of pressure on the QB last year) or Abraham (yes I know he is ancient, but concussions are his only injury issue so far, and he is a sack machine) and that would improve our defense a ton more.
 

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Neither has become big. Durant is what he is and what he was before the Cowboys signed him. If you seriously didn't know him then you don't follow the NFL closely. Leary was well known prior to the draft as a normally draftable G who will probably not be drafted because of the knee. It's not a shock to see him become a solid player here.

Ummmmmm.....I think maybe it's you who's not paying much attention to the NFL since you are mocking this pickup as a nobody. Guy played pretty well for the Chargers last season.
 

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Without reading this whole novel, have the contract details been released? This is definitely the sort of contract where the proof is in the pudding or whatever. If there is more than a million guaranteed and there aren't a lot of incentives involved it could be bad, if there is that stuff it is very very good.
 

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It's just the opposite. Fill the position holes you have prior to the draft with solid vets, and then draft and develop players for your system.

Gachkar, I can rationalize. Brinkley does nothing for me. The fullback was a trade off.

We will see how rummaging around in the dumpster turns out.

I didn't want to overpay for Murray in the first place, and there's no available replacement at that spot worth the FA premium, so that pretty much had to be a draft day roster replacement.

Banking on the draft to replace more than a few starters is very very shaky. That is a reason why teams panic and blow money on free agents.

You shouldn't have to be reminded that the draft is a crap shoot, at this point. It always has been. The goal is to build a systems where you know what it is you need to find in the draft and to be better at finding it than the other guys are in order to give yourself a chance to compete each season. Get better at shooting craps. You can't build a team in a resource limited ecosystem by consistently buying high and selling low. You need to do like the Packers do and build through your draft and sign your own. They've got one player out of 60 who's ever played a down for another team. That's hardcore player development.

And LB and DL were already on the list of position groups in desperate need of upgrading.

And we have yet to be this team that has a "system". We are one year into one that worked.

The Packers are a model. I fail to see how after one successful year, we have demonstrated much more than we are trying to copy the model.

We did that before when we copied Philadelphia by extending young players early. That too did not work out that well.

There is no right or wrong way. It comes down to who is making the decisions.
 

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Another promising youngster to add to our LB corps. He's only 24 and has demonstrated good ability during his backup experience in San Diego. The fans on the SD team's website are mostly expressing their regrets to see him go. At 6-3 and 240 lbs, he has nice size to complement our current backups. It's been said this shouldn't change anything with the team's intent to re-sign Rolando McClain but if that doesn't pan out, who knows?
 

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I like ST guys who can push to get on the field. Nothing wrong with this deal. Doubt it has anything to do with Ro
 

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Three years is a pretty solid time frame to go on considering it most accurately involves the people making the decisions on this team currently.

This is what I do. I speak truth. I'm not a rah-rah nonsense guy. I'd love for it to be so that the Cowboys are LB U and they just churn them out effortlessly. The fact is they've drafted some pretty poor ones over the last three years. In fact, I wouldn't want a single one of those LBs on my team.

You speak like someone who constantly has a grudge against the team....firstly you mocked them for not drafting OLineman, now they spend considerable efforts doing so at the expense of other positions and you criticize there choices of linebackers even though none were drafted higher than four and two of them would have played considerable snaps had Holliman stayed healthy. Man, you really should apply for a GM position because I've never seen someone with such football acumen that every pick he makes would be a grand slam!
 

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I wouldnt be surprised if he was the best signing so far this season,Brinckley and Mcfadden seem like a stop gap and placeholders for future drafted players.
 

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I love shopping on the clearance aisle as much as anyone, but man, I don't buy everything from there.
 

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Marinelli is Jedi master.

Trust him.

So we have Jedi Marinelli. We have also been informed we should have blind faith in McClay.

A lot of this signing screams two of our coaches.

Just want to be sure whom I should place the blind faith.
 

Alexander

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He replaces Dwayne Harris on coverage units on ST.

Also gives quality depth at an annually injured and thin position.

I can agree with this. Especially the replacing Harris part. The only issue is that he is not a gunner. This is more replacing Cameron Lawrence inside on coverage units.
 
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