I stand somewhere in the middle on this,
but I don't think that was where their mindset was there's no way that anything they would've done in the offseason including keeping Gilmore or bringing over Henry.. if you just want to throw that out there as a hypothetical you would never have covered up all these injuries there was no way to come back just like in 2020 and look at San Francisco last year..
sometimes the injuries happen to too many players especially all at the same position when it eats up three positions that are vital to winning, you're not winning no matter how good your offseason was you just can't cover up that many injuries.
A lot of the people that you're talking to, I already have on ignore because they don't see the middle, there's nothing they could have done this last offseason that could have predicted and also covered all those injuries, IMHO it would have been a waste to have Derrick Henry behind that offensive line with this coaching staff and the way they couldn't even figure out how to use the guys we had here let alone wait till it's all over until they go on a little run at the end of the year it's all a mirage.. And I do realize this is speaking in hindsight where we know what happened so we can't really give them a full pass about the inactivity but in the end it would not have helped..
This team was built like a 12 win team ,and almost all of them got hurt, there was far too many injuries at critical areas of the team and not just the starter the backups backups got hurt at defensive end ,at corner, on the offensive line, I mean it was terrible dude.. I can't even think of all the injuries that we had last year it's something similar to but not exactly at The Mavericks are experiencing right now they're blaming the Luka trade which was terrible and I get it it was a bad trade they shouldn't have got rid of him, but if they did they should have got a lot more for him but those injuries started at the beginning of the year and they haven't stopped there's no way The Mavericks even if they would have kept Luka would be doing anything right now ,not with all the injuries that they have..
Sometimes you just have to chalk it up to bad luck and you move on but you're trying to tell me that Gilmore and Henry in your scenario would've got our team in a better situation like we would have made the playoffs with just those two moves that you didn't like?
I would have to disagree with you,
but at the same time I do agree that for whatever reason last year was the most inactive I've ever seen them, and I don't think it was purposeful there's no way they spent the money on lamb and Prescott and then wanted to lose, nobody invest that much money To lose..
they just made some questionable decisions and I and I don't have any answers for it either,
but I don't think it would've helped it would've been nice for the fans to be cheering on Henry but hell Derrick Henry didn't even help the Ravens get better.
I know we could this all day this is how I look at it the man came to a team that the year before went to a championship game and got close to a Super Bowl they fell far short of that with Henry everybody hyped up that move it didn't work the same way with the Christian McCaffrey $19 million / 2 years for $38 million and somehow people thought Christian McCaffrey was going to put the 49ers over the top and he did not they got to the same spot or worse over those two years they did not complete the goal even with those moves..
Which by the way, I don't agree with a lot of what Steven Jones or Jerry says in the public, when they were talking about the eagles a month or so ago, and some of these teams are goanna have to pay the piper and eat that salary cap from all in risk taking, and right now ,I realize the Rams are rebounding maybe a little earlier than people thought,
but they still haven't been back to a championship game and they still haven't been back to a Super Bowl, but it wasn't the eagles right now even though they're losing a lot of good players after the Super bowl,
look at San Francisco their in-salary cap hell, might be the worse than anyone in the league right now,
and they have lost about 30% of their team and they are making questionable trades go look at their trades they're not getting value not in my opinion you think Jerry Jones trades like Amari Cooper for 5th, seems strange, will take a look at what they're doing. I mean they're supposed to have one of the better GM owner and coaching Staffs in the league and they're making some very questionable moves with cuts and trades and waiting on paying players as well or overpaying players like Samuels and then pretty much getting nothing for him...
Yes they made it to a couple of Super Bowls they've been to some championship games and that's great but they are in cap hell and I see these threads about why is Jerry a little too timid about going into cap hill it's because you're right he does not want to break it all the way down to a point because we have been more consistent than those other teams as far as staying consistently in the regular season win percentage staying relative playing on prime time at least winning some divisions getting to the playoffs and I realize that's not enough but I think that's the way they see it they don't want to be bad for the next three to five years while they wait on a new crop of players to get back to that very spot and then hope to get further..
Fans act like the Cowboys have been in the dumpster bringing up the rear in the NFC East practically ever year. The team has been competitive most years they just haven’t had playoff success. We’ve won the NFC East 6 times since 97 and have had 2 number one seeded teams. We’ve had some very successful regular seasons but it hasn’t gone well in the playoffs. Yes, it’s been very disappointing and frustrating not having won a divisional round game or reached a SB in almost 30 years but there’s teams that have had it much worse than the Cowboys over that period.
