Fisher: Cowboys Exploring Jarran Reed

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AsthmaField said:
Yeah, the scheme was terrible last year and frankly, for the first part of the season about half the guys on defense had no idea where to be or what to do. It was a cluster **** that happened because Nolan and Tomsula couldn’t connect with their players and the chemistry was horrible.

They were missing assignments all over the place way more than they were getting physically beat by better players. It was, in large part, the players not buying in to what the coaches wanted to do. Guys like Poe, who simply wanted a paycheck and put forth little effort, and Griffen who openly complained about the scheme, only served to disenfranchise the rest of the players to what they were doing defensively.

Once they got rid of the malcontents and went back to more of what the defensive players were used to, things got noticeably better.

By that time though, so many injuries had hit that, while the scheme and chemistry were better... there were actually talent issues. The DT’s were down to guys we didn’t even really know and rookie Gallimore. LVE was out or not effective because of injuries and half the secondary was out hurt or other teams cast offs. The best secondary players were a rookie corner who missed over a month with a broken foot and a late round safety that was having to learn as he went.

It all came together to make an all-time disaster on that side of the ball and frankly, nobody looked good. It is more than disingenuous to simply say the players sucked and that they need to be replaced. Smith may not be great but he was nowhere close to as bad as some make him out to be. I’ll be fine if they replace him soon but it is lunacy to want to cut the guy and simply eat that salary... particularly after they paid his roster bonus. There is no logic behind that.
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You're right man....and what's crazy.....they somehow managed to generate the 5th most turnovers in the league. A very odd, bad, uneven performance from that unit last year.
 
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Aven8 said:
Reed and KJ make too much sense. So it won’t happen. I also worry that it appears like the Griff, Poe, McCoy moves as well. Just names.
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Would have taken Reed and KJ as opposed to the 7 or 8 unknowns that we signed already.
 
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Risen Star said:
Reed, Wright and Kazee make this defense a level better. You could actually hope for league average this year.
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Im good with that, its a step in the right direction, cant get much worse than last in the league, so at least we possibly cant do worse.
The moves we made so far are clearly upgrades over Woods and Crawford, so Im good with that, but the ceiling is much higher with this years FA crop,,
So fans can call me a homer all they want, this defense has progressed at least over the past few weeks.
 
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Floatyworm said:
He wouldn't need to be.....when he's replacing Jaylon. Hell....Jaylon isn't a full time starter now....but we are paying him like he is. If Jaylon is a 3 down player.....then why did we sign Neal as a WLB? LVE isn't coming off the field for the gimp....you can take that to the bank.
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Said that as well, Jaylon will be getting phased out,, eat that bad contract,,, lot of cap going to the bench, a very nice back up.
Stupid contract, was then is now, we seem to love over paying those that probably like to hug Jerry a lot.
If Quinn had confidence in Jaylon I doubt he would have brought in Neal, so its Quinn sending a message at least,, I like that,,, watch Quinn end up being the next HC here..
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CowboyRoy said:
Would have taken Reed and KJ as opposed to the 7 or 8 unknowns that we signed already.
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They aren't unknowns and the Cowboys can sign these 2 guys which gives them 8 new defensive players so far and we still have the draft coming.
 
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rambo2 said:
They aren't unknowns and the Cowboys can sign these 2 guys which gives them 8 new defensive players so far and we still have the draft coming.
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Oh yah.........Im sure all the guys we have signed so far were on your list right? Just who you wanted?
 
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