CFZ Instead of a soft rebuild, the 2024 season became a kamikaze mission

[LACowboysFan1]

I think he wanted to blow up the season, when you sell a team, don’t you want it to be good. When you go to the draft, don’t you want the best pic. I don’t know what this senile owner is thinking.

Jerry had three 12-win seasons in a row. That avoids what he hates the most - to have poor season records. Playoff wins be darned, but to have seasons like 6-11 or 5-12 or such is abhorrent to him, even if it would mean down the road the team could be a competitor for the SB.

He's not going to blow up the season, he knows there's enough poor teams like the Giants, Panthers, etc. to keep Dallas in the 10-plus win range, and that makes JJ happy...

 

[starfan1]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

injuries and disappointing play in the line is huge. Mazi hasnt got better hes gotten worse and Osa looks like hot garbage and the secondary is terrible but I am still at the were only 7 games in point. is it possible to win a championship? I highly doubt it but this team can still make a little noise. There's no one on the schedule that I look at and say we cant beat. on the flip side we could lose to all of them as well.

I much prefer the glass half full approach rather than be pessimistic.There are things that need to be done in the offseason to upgrade this roster and $$ wont hold us back. A stupid and selfish GM may but they have the money.

 

[Whirlwin]

Jerry had three 12-win seasons in a row. That avoids what he hates the most - to have poor season records. Playoff wins be darned, but to have seasons like 6-11 or 5-12 or such is abhorrent to him, even if it would mean down the road the team could be a competitor for the SB.

He's not going to blow up the season, he knows there's enough poor teams like the Giants, Panthers, etc. to keep Dallas in the 10-plus win range, and that makes JJ happy...

I’ll go insane if we lose to the Eagles twice in the commanders twice

 

[rags747]

D Henry on our team would have as many yards as Zeke, Hit immediately in the backfield is no way to have a successful running game Plus the fact that we have absolutely zero talent at the skill positions to make teams back off, except CeeDee.

 

[FVSTONE]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

I spotted a lipstick salesman leaving JJ's executive office with a huge smile on his face!

 

[Kevinicus]

Starters or major contributors lost from last year:

• OL: LT Tyron Smith, C Tyler Biadz
• RB: Tony Pollard
• WR: Michael Gallup
• LB: Leighton Vander Esch (retired)
• DL: Jonathan Hankins
• DE: Dorance Armstrong, Dante Fowler
• DB: Stephon Gilmore, Jayron Kearse

Thats 10 players who played key roles with this team, 8 of them starters at one time - T Smith, Biadz, Pollard, Gallup, LVE, Hankins, Gilmore, and Kearse. That’s a lot of at the very least, good players who have been replaced with: Tyler Guyton, Cooper Beebe, Zeke, Tolbert, Eric Kendriks (good signing), Linval Joseph, Marshawn Kneeland, Carl Lawson, Caelen Carson, and Malik Hooker.

Some of those rookies will certainly get better. But almost all the vet FAs we brought in were certainly cast-offs no one else wanted. “All in” was a lie.S

Several of those players barely contributed last year.
You also had Diggs coming back.
Hankins was never very good here.
Biadz was not thought very highly of.
Smith...we know his issues.
Kearse was so good, he's still not on a team.

Pollard, Smith, Armstrong are really the only 3 of much significance. Maybe Gilmore, but you had Diggs coming back. Pollard wouldn't make much difference behind this blocking. Kneeland showed promise. Who knows what Williams would have grown into with another year. Overshown was coming back after showing promise in preseason last year.

Replacing with youth is fine, often times better than FA experience.

Again, you didn't actually listen beyond the word "in" to see what "all-in" meant. It was not a lie. It's been exactly as he said. You can think that it's terrible, but it wasn't a lie.

 

[ArtClink]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

Great post Hazey and all true. This is an almost 30 year dumpster fire and there's no end in sight until the Jones family no longer owns the team. Sorry, I don't believe ANY Jones famiily member present or future will do what's best for our team. And I've already got the tar & feathers ready for when they unveil the fuhrer's statue outside the stajum lol.

 

[ArtClink]

The FO's offseason reaction seems to say "we're doing everything possible to spend as little as we possibly can and get the very cheapest players possible to replace the talents that we've cut. It's just my way to get revenge on the players that failed to impress me." Thanks a lot, Mr. GM, sir!

Agreed and I think Jerry has put the worst possible offensive talent around Dak. Dak has been bad too, but geez he has 1) one playmaker when he runs the right routes and 2) a terrible defense.

 

[ArtClink]

You know the first thing I thought after reading this, if only Jerry and son were actually flying a Japanese zero

They would never do that since they're both cowards. Heck, Jerry won't even take calls from fans on this radio shows.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

oh, this is not going to get fixed in one year....this team is now so devoid of talent and given Jerry and Stephen don't like to cut players and have dead cap and given that the past two years have robbed the cowboys of any talent infusion and we don't do FA, then we probably won't be able to find two Tackles, a guard, two DTs, two DEs, another couple of LBs, two safties, RB and another TE and WR depth in one draft. this team is gotten old, lost talent and didn't get any new talent......this pain and losing is going to be multi-year. and perhaps that's what it will take for jerry to relinquish some power and just be the TV face and let a real GM really do all the GM stuff and Jerry can take credit.

 

[john van brocklin]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

This is our lot as Cowboys fans until Jerry moves on.
So I have seriously dialed back my investment in this team.
Includes games watched and being overly involved emotionally.
If the owner does not care to put a well run org together, that's my position.

 

[fivetwos]

Jerry had three 12-win seasons in a row. That avoids what he hates the most - to have poor season records. Playoff wins be darned, but to have seasons like 6-11 or 5-12 or such is abhorrent to him, even if it would mean down the road the team could be a competitor for the SB.

He's not going to blow up the season, he knows there's enough poor teams like the Giants, Panthers, etc. to keep Dallas in the 10-plus win range, and that makes JJ happy...

That’s probably as accurate a guess as I’ve seen. I can’t make sense of any of it, and really want to believe there’s some sort of an actual plan.

I just think they flat out aren’t any good at this. In way over their heads, and can’t admit it or even realize it since they think so much of themselves. When you factor in the ego manic narcissistic billionaire situation, I guess it makes a little sense.

I mean, the kid says the ‘ball doesn’t always bounce the right way’ as an excuse when they haven’t gotten closer than three difficult wins away from a title. Is that selling the product or pure delusion?

 

[Aven8]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

Now they’ve moved onto “we have reinforcements coming”…..smh….what a joke.

 

[Established1971]

Turns out Jerry did not say "we are all in" in that interview this past off season. He said "we are fallin' "

 

[links18]

I honestly thought this season was going to be a tank-out. Letting vets walk, not replacing them, not resigning Dak, every coach signed to a lame-duck 1 year deal.... what else could the plan be?

Then we resigned Dak at the 11th hour, and all those hopes were for naught. We got the roster and coaching staff of a tank-out, with a Dak contract that says "long haul".

It's just sickening. By about March, we knew the 2024 season would have no hope. But next season doesn't have any hope either.

It's a "soft tank." They resign just enough of a "core" to be relevant late in the season, and not hit bottom, but gut the rest of the team and cry poverty in FA.

The trouble for them is they overvalued their "core" and now they can't even get the 10-7, 11-6 season that keeps fans hoping and the media interested. They are just a laughing stock, now. Well deserved laughing-stock.

 

[Streifenkarl]

The "all in" statement and the later explanation of what it was supposed to mean was the biggest bullcrap I have ever heard from Jerry, the Cowboys or anyone NFL related to be honest. Alot of us called Jerry out after that nonsense. To this day I'm wondering whether Jerry really believes this crap or if he was simply lying.

At no time in the history of professional sports has "all in" ever meant just resigning your own players.

I mean how did the Skins get rid of their owner? Couldn't that be a blueprint for us?

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

You've written a lot of good material. This is one of your best!

 

[DandyDon52]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

Bob I think this is just jerry tanking, without being obvious about it. Also makes it easier to fire MM.

If he had got henry and some others and MM went 12-5 again and got to champ game, or even lost in div round in close game,
could jerry then fire him with no blowback?? I dont think so.

So this way it is easy to let mm walk, dont even have to fire him just dont renew.
Draft picks will be higher instead of down in the 20's.
And jones boys roll a bunch of cap over into 25.

NOw what they have planned or do in 25, I dont know, with these bozo's there is not telling.
We just have to wait and see next year.

I knew back up in may that they were just going to throw this season in the trash can and wait for 25.

 

[CWR]

This last off-season, most Cowboys fans watched mystified as a team that had won 36 games in three seasons lost 6 starters and other key contributors to free agency, and saw them replaced with rookies and dumpster dive free agents in a so called “soft rebuild”. And we were supposed to believe this would just fly on auto-pilot.

And on top of all that, fans were fed a steady off-season diet of gaslighting about cap restrictions not allowing them to sign any of the better FAs. Which was not only false, it was mostly due to the owner’s own dilly-dallying waiting to sign people he already knew he was going to sign.

All the while piling on his lies with the infamous, “I’m all in” statement. Then putting his head coach and entire coaching staff in a hangman’s noose “all or fall” year with a team full of holes. And a first place schedule, making this team twist in the wind with gigantic holes in its roster while playing the better teams in the league.

Soft rebuild? More like a free fall kamikaze mission. How did this season become a suicide mission?

• Losing some really good players who in fairness we mostly could not have kept. But here’s the mistake: replaced them ALL with either untested rookies or dumpster dive free agents no other team wanted. That’s not a wise rebuild.
• Instead of signing their big contract WR and QB in the spring so they could turn those extensions into cap space, the owner/GM decides to turn that into a PR game of dragging out negotiations, then when it’s too late for other meaningful FA moves, they sign those guys anyway at the price they could’ve made in May instead of Sept.
• When given the opportunity to sign a generational RB talent in Derrick Henry, at a very reduced price (about the same cap hit as their third string QB who never plays) this FO didn’t even make a phone call. Then lied saying “we can’t afford him”. Then lied again saying, “He wouldn’t fit our scheme”.
• When multiple opportunities to draft a RB in the 2024 draft fell their way in rounds 4-7, this FO said “We’re good” with Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, Royce Freeman, and washed up vets Zeke Elliott and Dalvin Cook. Not surprisingly this is the worst rushing team in the NFL.
• And finally, with the trade deadline looming and multiple options available to help this anemic offense have at least some weapons to threaten a defense, they have made it clear, they will pass.

Soft rebuild? This season has turned into a very hard pill to swallow as we all watch helplessly as our once talented team heads into a very predictable crash. And the guy 100% responsible refuses to ever take responsibility. Jerry has become the Joker in the Batman series. He would rather “watch it burn“ than ever acknowledge this organization needs someone else in charge of football operations.

The whole point is to get close enough to push your chips in. Instead Jerry folded. Then he bragged about having a royal flush, as if we'd believe him.

 

[Bobhaze]

Bob I think this is just jerry tanking, without being obvious about it. Also makes it easier to fire MM.

If he had got henry and some others and MM went 12-5 again and got to champ game, or even lost in div round in close game,
could jerry then fire him with no blowback?? I dont think so.

So this way it is easy to let mm walk, dont even have to fire him just dont renew.
Draft picks will be higher instead of down in the 20's.
And jones boys roll a bunch of cap over into 25.

NOw what they have planned or do in 25, I dont know, with these bozo's there is not telling.
We just have to wait and see next year.

I knew back up in may that they were just going to throw this season in the trash can and wait for 25.

You may be right Dandy. But if that’s what he did, it once again shows how willing he and his #1 son are to just throw whole seasons away without a second thought.

Is there a GM in any pro sport this comfortable with tossing a season away like it was just the day’s garbage?