Is it possible for Jerry to tank the year?

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BlindFaith said:
How bout this for a plan. Is Jerry seriously considering tanking this season to make a run in 2015?

It makes sense if you do it right and Jerry is putting himself in a position to do it.

The cap situation next year looks much better. And if we don't make any big FA signings we could push the savings over to next year.

Then you trade our number 1 pick for multiple picks next year. Romo is on a three year deal. With multiple first round picks in next years draft we can grab our QB of the future and let him sit for two years learning, or just dump Romo after 2015. Heck, if we tank this year enough, we could even get ourselves the number one pick.

Then in 2015 we get our new coaching staff. They can pick their QB of the future. We'd have plenty of cap room, a solid oline, high draft picks. We'd still have Romo and a solid offense.

We spend the rest of the picks in this years draft shoring up the defense. Next year we solidify the defense and make a run with Romo.

I think we're not quite an 8-8 team this year. Why not just tank it all together and focus on 2015.
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If he's tanking the season then he won't be firing JG.
 
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17yearsandcounting said:
Myth.

New Orleans or Chicago ring a bell?

Bruce Carter jogging around trying to avoid contact sound familiar?
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Bluestar's right. The team played hard for JG. Carter was lost. The games you mentioned it was over before it started. When the Cowboys were in it, they played hard. Got to give credit where credit's due.
 
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bklyn1028 said:
Not talking about Garrett.....He's not the problem.....Jerry / owner / gm is the problem. It is extremely hard to be an owner of a sports team (with other main revenue interests at hand) and be the GM on top of it. It almost never works out.
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The issue with Jerry as GM is simple: He cannot leverage the difference between building a winning team and selling tickets. To sell tickets, you go get players people know and/or give the players they already know and love too much money to continue playing, which typically leads to spending too much, which typically leads to the situation the Cowboy's find themselves in now: Cap Hell. To build a winning team, you build through the draft (and to a limited extend, Free Agency - see Patriots model for reference) and you accept that it may take a few losing seasons to return to greatness.
 
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Jerry Jones has been tanking seasons since 1994. He tried hard in 95 but we won Super Bowl anyway.
 
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Its very possible we will tank, but I dont think it will be on purpose. If we tank, its because our team is just not very good.
 
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FuzzyLumpkins said:
I don't think you understand the difference between getting beat and giving up.
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Fuzzy, remember who you are responding to....!

Last season's team did not give up, they played the best they could considering the injuries....but, you have these kind of posters here all the time.
 
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BlueStar22 said:
Say what you will but those guys play hard for Garrett. So doubt it.
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Just about any coach can get their team to play hard for them. I think were overrating Garrett as though he has a monopoly on players playing hard.
 
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Sorry but ain't happening if Romo plays the whole season. Dude just carried the worst defense in franchise history to an 8-8 record with a bad back. Only way this team sniffs a top 10 pick is if he gets knocked out early in the season.
 
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No chance they would decide to tank the season before it even started.
 
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The New Orleans and Chicago games are one thing...losing to Green Bay on the other hand...
 
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Blackspider214 said:
Our door has been closed. At least with Romo at the helm. QBs who are 34 who have no success at all are not going to just flip a switch and start becoming something they are not. I know it took Elway all those years to finally win it all but he had tons of success before then. And now Romo is coming off 2 back operations in the span of a year. Plus how old he is. Not a good combination. He's finished. You just have to ride him and Witten's contract out.

There will be no run in 2015. Start building for the future now. Meaning drafting in the trenches and building a foundation. Get some d line in here over the next 2 years and adding a few other OL pieces. As well as a few safeties.

People need to come to grips Seattle, NO and SF are the class of the NFC and we are far away from them. Start building for the future and getting pieces in place.

The worst thing possible is to sign overpriced FAs who won't help a team in our position and keep hanging onto the old guys we have. Let them go. It was a start letting Ware, Spencer, Ratliff and Hatcher go. Now let's see if we can continue on that path.
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It's possible for a QB to succeed late in his career, but very difficult. It happened with Jim Plunkett. If We had a killer defense to support Romo I would be hopeful it could happen. Romo hasn't gotten a ring because he's never had the team he needs to get one. Next year will be more of the same.
 
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