DavyBaby
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It seems like the past several years Cowboy fans (of which I am one) take solace in the fact that if it weren't for key injuries, the team would have had great success in the preceding year.
Why this may be true, I wonder if this sentiment is missing an overall new "normal."
Periodically, I like to watch older Cowboy games from my video archive, what really jumps out to me, is how **incredibly faster** and **more violent** the game is today as opposed to 20-25 years ago.
So I strongly suspect that serious injuries are just much more common today for **all** NFL teams.
The consistently winning teams in recent years seem to be following a paradigm of **not** tying too much of their salary cap in a few key players and instead spread it more evenly around their entire roster to build better depth to withstand the **inevitable** onslaught of injuries. I am thinking New England here.
This (it seems to me) is the real root of Dallas's mediocrity in recent years. No depth, and when key injuries occur the team is in real trouble.
So rather than hope for better "luck" on the injury front, I think the Dallas front office needs to rethink its salary cap approach to building a team around a key starters and hope for the best (regarding injuries). We need a new paradigm in front office "team construction." Better drafting is a factor as well.
I know I need some documentation here to support this (may be someone can help out?)
1. Percentage of salary cap $$ devoted to a team's top ten salaried players (over the past few years).
2. Percentage of salary cap $$ devoted to a team bottom thirty salaried players (over the past few years).
3. Number of games lost (by starting players) to injuries for all NFL teams for comparison purposes (over the past few years).
Any thoughts on this?
Why this may be true, I wonder if this sentiment is missing an overall new "normal."
Periodically, I like to watch older Cowboy games from my video archive, what really jumps out to me, is how **incredibly faster** and **more violent** the game is today as opposed to 20-25 years ago.
So I strongly suspect that serious injuries are just much more common today for **all** NFL teams.
The consistently winning teams in recent years seem to be following a paradigm of **not** tying too much of their salary cap in a few key players and instead spread it more evenly around their entire roster to build better depth to withstand the **inevitable** onslaught of injuries. I am thinking New England here.
This (it seems to me) is the real root of Dallas's mediocrity in recent years. No depth, and when key injuries occur the team is in real trouble.
So rather than hope for better "luck" on the injury front, I think the Dallas front office needs to rethink its salary cap approach to building a team around a key starters and hope for the best (regarding injuries). We need a new paradigm in front office "team construction." Better drafting is a factor as well.
I know I need some documentation here to support this (may be someone can help out?)
1. Percentage of salary cap $$ devoted to a team's top ten salaried players (over the past few years).
2. Percentage of salary cap $$ devoted to a team bottom thirty salaried players (over the past few years).
3. Number of games lost (by starting players) to injuries for all NFL teams for comparison purposes (over the past few years).
Any thoughts on this?