Cutting Dez is a Huge Mistake

[OmerV]

Should have kept Dez and got rid of Garrett instead.

Is your contention that the Cowboys should never make any move while Garrett is still coach? There was not a Garrett or Dez choice, so why the need to try and hijack the thread into a Garrett bash? Let the thread exist based on what it is.

 

[DIAF]

All of Dez's tweets and behavior after the release happened show you exactly why it was necessary.

 

[Captain-Crash]

Cutting Dez is a Huge Mistake .. um why because you can't wear his jersey anymore....lol...football goes on..

 

[TwoDeep3]

Child please

Dez' best 5 years are on par with DWare's and you know it...DWare just didn't have a huge injury like Dez

I have brought this up all over the board yesterday. Dez did not work hard. He did not refine his game. He pouted, was petulant, and ran on raw talent. But what made Dez who he was the first five years was Tony Romo. Tony could adjust and get him the ball.

But further, as i have stated twice now. I went to training camp in San Antonio and watched the first team work as Dez worked with a receivers coach. The coach had the playbook and was testing dez on routes. This was not his rookie year. The coach consistently shook his head no when Dez gave the answers. Then indicated the route.

Now we see Dez agree to work with the new WR Whisperer Robinson on running crisp routes. This guy is going into his ninth year (geez, I thought it was his eighth) and now he wants to get serious about route running.

By the way, he had 561 yards his first year and 928 his second. Hardly note worthy as you suggested.

The guy had three stellar years. 2012, 2013, 2014. Since then, after his big payday, he went back to average. I understand the injury. But those two guys are not alike. You can't cherry pick a few years of a guy who never worked to get to the top and say he is alike a guy that was always a worker who wanted to be the best,

 

[817Gill]

https://www.___GET_REAL_URL___/s/www.ninersnation.com/platform/amp/2018/1/10/16872606/kyle-shanahan-49ers-receiver-marquise-goodwin-pierre-garcon-andrew-hawkins “Very rarely do teams with a top wide receiver win the Super Bowl,” Hawkins said. “That’s just not what it takes. I think you can find good receivers (everywhere). The top guys are not Super Bowl winners. Over the last 15 years, you can look at the teams with top wide receivers, and they don’t win Super Bowls. I don’t think that’s a coincidence, because I think it’s more of a chemistry thing. When you have that big time receiver who commands the ball so much, or you’re trying to get him the ball in certain situations, I think it kind of hurts the chemistry of the offense.”

This is a quote from Andrew Hawkins referring to Kyle Shanahans philosophy on WR1’s. The league is trending towards a decline in the reliance on a traditional #1 receiver. We just need a guy who could win 1v1 and Dez can no longer do it. If you go back and look at his career highlights he’s always been poor at separation, he just had the athleticism and strength in his youth to out-muscle the defender. Dak needs someone who can be where they are supposed to be when they are supposed to be, one of the many wrinkles of a Dak friendly offense. Not a freelance route runner who curves out his breaks instead of sinking his hips and making sharp cuts. With Hurns, Beasley/Switzer, and the right 1st/2nd round WR we will have 3 guys who can do that, thus making our offense a lot harder to defend than the Dez/TWill combo.

 

[DEA_dad]

Watch Ravens sign Dez, Flacco gets hurt then it’ll be RGIII throwing td’s to Dez, who woulda thought it

 

[Nightman]

I have brought this up all over the board yesterday. Dez did not work hard. He did not refine his game. He pouted, was petulant, and ran on raw talent. But what made Dez who he was the first five years was Tony Romo. Tony could adjust and get him the ball.

But further, as i have stated twice now. I went to training camp in San Antonio and watched the first team work as Dez worked with a receivers coach. The coach had the playbook and was testing dez on routes. This was not his rookie year. The coach consistently shook his head no when Dez gave the answers. Then indicated the route.

Now we see Dez agree to work with the new WR Whisperer Robinson on running crisp routes. This guy is going into his ninth year (geez, I thought it was his eighth) and now he wants to get serious about route running.

By the way, he had 561 yards his first year and 928 his second. Hardly note worthy as you suggested.

The guy had three stellar years. 2012, 2013, 2014. Since then, after his big payday, he went back to average. I understand the injury. But those two guys are not alike. You can't cherry pick a few years of a guy who never worked to get to the top and say he is alike a guy that was always a worker who wanted to be the best,

OH....you didn't tell me you went to a practice

I take it all back....... you are 100% right.... the All Time TD leader for DAL WRs is a bum

 

[jay94]

Child please

Dez' best 5 years are on par with DWare's and you know it...DWare just didn't have a huge injury like Dez

Dware was helping carry a sorry *** defense most his career him and Lee, while Dez had one of the most underrated players in the past 20 years, help him ascend to what he was.

 

[Nightman]

Dware was helping carry a sorry *** defense most his career him and Lee, while Dez had one of the most underrated players in the past 20 years, help him ascend to what he was.

Look I can admit DWare had a better career than Dez but it wasn't by much

The are both RoH

One is the all time Sack Leader
One is the all time WR TD Leader

Neither one should have been cut........the Joneses are morons that copy parts of smart FOs

 

[TwoDeep3]

OH....you didn't tell me you went to a practice

I take it all back....... you are 100% right.... the All Time TD leader for DAL WRs is a bum

8 more TDs on a team that predominately didn't have a running back most years versus the team with Emmitt who scored most of the TDs for that team. Man, you told me.

 

[OmerV]

Look I can admit DWare had a better career than Dez but it wasn't by much

The are both RoH

One is the all time Sack Leader
One is the all time WR TD Leader

Neither one should have been cut........the Joneses are morons that copy parts of smart FOs

Like it or not, the fact that there was drama around Dez and not around Ware makes a difference. It also matters that not only is DeMarcus the Cowboys sack leader, he is #8 all time on the NFL sack list. Of course, Dez still has time to move up the all time TD list (currently at 37).

A key for Dez may be what he does after leaving Dallas. If his career going forward is drama free, and the numbers are solid, it may improve his overall image and help him get in the ROH. If drama continues to follow him, it will hurt him. On the flip side, if he becomes too synonymous with his new team that could hurt him.

 

[JoeKing]

Yer' just a genuine stickler with that " you're& your" literary sniggler of a pet peeve, huh,Joe?

Yup, I can't help it.

 

[DandyDon52]

Go Cowboys we now have a bottom 5 receiving core in the league, if that is Dak friendly than sure.

Why do u say bottom 5?
They might be top 5 by end of season.

 

[blindzebra]

Child please

Dez' best 5 years are on par with DWare's and you know it...DWare just didn't have a huge injury like Dez

Ware 4 time first team All Pro, 9 Pro Bowls
Dez 1 time All Pro, 3 Pro Bowls

They aren't in the same town much less neighborhood.

 

[Texas_Pete]

 

[River82]

He's been a liability last couple of years. Cutting liabilities is a mistake only if you live in bizarro land

 

[Melonfeud]

now that's some solid perspective to draw from,as the logical correlation indicates the #88 A 2 version is already in existing inventory& ready to field!

* that's FANTASTIC NEWS @Texas_Pete for if that 'info' is viable it won't even be a flaming fart of fire out #4's 750 cfm HOLLEY double pumping high rise intake manifold mounted carburetor

** yet,,,I'm still gonna sweat it out over the possible 'boners' that could go down in the first 4 RDS of this DALLAS HOSTED DRAFT

 

[GreenMean69]

The 2016 team was built for Tony not Dak. They obviously are 2 different Qbs which seems for some hard thing to grasp. A Dez type player is a huge waste on QB like Dak .... You need WRs / TEs that can get some space for him. Dak likes to move out of the pocket and does extremely well. Dallas should be running more 2 TE sets

 

[Jake]

It's definitely going to be rough without Dez. Who knows, the Cowboys might lose in the divisional round of the playoffs, go 8-8, or even have a losing season?

Come to think of it, that's what they did in the years WITH Dez.

 

[Nightman]

Ware 4 time first team All Pro, 9 Pro Bowls
Dez 1 time All Pro, 3 Pro Bowls

They aren't in the same town much less neighborhood.

That is the same block holmes.....wake up