Hill - Cowboys could learn from NFC finalists

[Alexander]

Cowboys could learn from NFC finalists
Posted Friday, Jan. 17, 2014


The NFL’s version of the Final Four will take place this weekend for an 18th consecutive season without the Dallas Cowboys.

After playing in the conference-title-game weekend for four consecutive years from 1992-1995 — winning three Super Bowls in the process — the Cowboys haven’t come close to a return.

But none of this is news, considering the Cowboys have only two playoff wins since their last Super Bowl title in 1995 and just one since 1996.

And never mind what owner Jerry Jones has said in his repeated attempts to justify the Cowboys’ current state of mediocrity. Having a chance to make the playoffs by losing a winner-take-all game for the NFC East title and the postseason on the last day of the regular season in each of the past three years is not coming close.

The facts are that the Cowboys are closer to the worst of the NFL than they are to the best.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/01/17/5494994/cowboys-could-learn-from-nfc-finalists.html

 

[Eddie]

This tricky thing with the Niners and C-hoks, is that Kap makes about $1.25 mil (less than his backup) and Wilson makes about $600K. The team is then able to use the money to stack the remainder of the team. When the Cowboys are paying Romo $100 mil and Kap is making $5 mil over the same period ... we can see who has the financial advantage.

We'll see what happens to the Niners and Hoks when it's time to pay the piper. When Kap and Wilson are holding down 20% of their team's salary cap ... let's see how good they can stack their squads.

 

[Alexander]

This tricky thing with the Niners and C-hoks, is that Kap makes about $1.25 mil (less than his backup) and Wilson makes about $600K. The team is then able to use the money to stack the remainder of the team. When the Cowboys are paying Romo $100 mil and Kap is making $5 mil over the same period ... we can see who has the financial advantage.

We'll see what happens to the Niners and Hoks when it's time to pay the piper. When Kap and Wilson are holding down 20% of their team's salary cap ... let's see how good they can stack their squads.

The article was not even talking about stacking of the talent. It was more about having a vision.

Everyone knows that the Seahawks and 49ers are going to play strong aggressive defense. The Cowboys do what exactly?

 

[slomoxn]

These teams also have a design on what type of team they are. It makes it easier to draft players that fit what and who they are. Since this team changes their identity every three years they really have none, basically they don't know what they are doing and therefore have no design, vision, plan on how to build a winner. I believe Jasom has a vision but us supremely hindered in implementing it and the more Mumbra hamstrings his authority the less control he has and further away from what he is trying to build they become.

 

[noshame]

Sounds to me like Jerry's staunchest die hard supporters have had enough. Good, if the season unravels the dam may break and Jerry will have no where to hide.

 

[Aven8]

I've calmed down since the end of the season when I wanted a new regime........but

All I needed to hear that we were 3-23 the past three seasons against team at .500 or better. Blasphemy.

How Jerry can just sit there and keep JG is beyond me. This is getting ridiculous. We have no direction, and no goals. Reading the article just makes me as mad as I was at the end of the season. I just wish somebody, anybody, could explain to me why/how there should be any hope what's so ever?

Romo use to give me that hope, but now he's hamstrung with this idiot still coaching him for another season and a bad back. Give me some hope already!!

 

[noshame]

I've calmed down since the end of the season when I wanted a new regime........but

All I needed to hear that we were 3-23 the past three seasons against team at .500 or better. Blasphemy.

How Jerry can just sit there and keep JG is beyond me. This is getting ridiculous. We have no direction, and no goals. Reading the article just makes me as mad as I was at the end of the season. I just wish somebody, anybody, could explain to me why/how there should be any hope what's so ever?

Romo use to give me that hope, but now he's hamstrung with this idiot still coaching him for another season and a bad back. Give me some hope already!!

I knew we were bad against .500 or better.......but damn, that's a ridicules number.

 

[CowboyFan4Eva]

This tricky thing with the Niners and C-hoks, is that Kap makes about $1.25 mil (less than his backup) and Wilson makes about $600K. The team is then able to use the money to stack the remainder of the team. When the Cowboys are paying Romo $100 mil and Kap is making $5 mil over the same period ... we can see who has the financial advantage.

We'll see what happens to the Niners and Hoks when it's time to pay the piper. When Kap and Wilson are holding down 20% of their team's salary cap ... let's see how good they can stack their squads.

Sounds like a model worth following? 3 NFCCGames for the Niners.....

 

[percyhoward]

"The Cowboys have a 3-23 mark against teams with a .500 or better record the past three years, when they were on the brink of the playoffs (and supposedly a possible Super Bowl run) on the final day of the regular season. They were 1-8 in such games in 2013."

Technically, Dallas was 1-7 in 2013 against teams that were .500 or better, because the Lions were 7-9. (We were actually 3-1 vs. 7-win teams). What's funny is that we scored about the same amount of points in the wins as we did in the losses.

We scored an average of 27.8 points in the wins, and 27.3 points in the losses.

We allowed an average of 18.5 points in the wins, and 35.5 points in the losses.

 

[Picksix]

I've always been for having a vision, creating a style or identity in terms of how you mean to play, and getting players to fit that style. But then I read people criticize Garrett and Co. for not being able to adapt their style to maximize the talent and abilities of the players they have. Is one more important than the other? Are the two mutually exclusive, or is there a way to balance them?

 

[Hoofbite]

This tricky thing with the Niners and C-hoks, is that Kap makes about $1.25 mil (less than his backup) and Wilson makes about $600K. The team is then able to use the money to stack the remainder of the team. When the Cowboys are paying Romo $100 mil and Kap is making $5 mil over the same period ... we can see who has the financial advantage.

We'll see what happens to the Niners and Hoks when it's time to pay the piper. When Kap and Wilson are holding down 20% of their team's salary cap ... let's see how good they can stack their squads.

The 49ers built their team while they were paying Alex Smith #1 overall money. So they were paying a record amount at the time and not getting anything close the production they should have from that amount. Furthermore, it's not like Dallas has been taking gigantic cap hits for Romo over the past however many years. They've been shoving money down the line forever so any idea that Dallas has been at a disadvantage because they had to pay top dollar for a QB can pretty much go out the window.

Dallas only took a cap hit of $11M for Romo this year. I think it was about $8M last year and the best information I can find was that it was $6.5M the year before.

In 2010 it was higher but $12M and in 2009 and 2008 it looks to have been less than $5M. I'm using Spotrac's cap table and inputting a year that you cannot select so maybe the numbers aren't accurate but who knows.

Bottom line, Dallas has never been at a disadvantage because they're paying Tony a ton of money because they keep deferring the cap hits. From what I can tell, Tony has never approached 20% of the cap, and it looks like he's only been at about 10% twice in the last 6 years.

If there's a disadvantage for Dallas in having to take cap hits on Romo, is there not the same relative disadvantage for the Seahawks when it comes to having Russell Okung count for about $9M per year in cap charges since 2011 while Tyron Smith has counted for about $9M TOTAL since 2011?