JJT: Arrogant offseason approach has Cowboys at bottom of NFC

[Junglist]

Wait. Timeout. You're a diehard Cowboys fan, right? You must be to be in here. And you're sitting there flabbergasted that the HEAD COACH IN DALLAS gets a free pass year after year?

This is the issue you see? When, oh when, will the dang head coach finally gets some blame with the Cowboys?

I get it. You're obsessed with Jerry. Im not a fan, either. But yes, Garrett (with his countless gaffes) gets a pass year after year here in the media. Do you live here?

 

[dallasdave]

None of them have the guts to do it. The old man will lose his temper and the media will lose their courage to continue any further. I've seen it happen countless times. They don't want to lose their access to the team.

Give me 5 minutes with Jerry and Stephen on ESPN in an open forum and I'll expose them as the complete frauds and the #1 enemy to the Dallas Cowboys that they really are. All of this 20 years, and I mean All. Of. It., has to do with an egotistical maniacal owner who bought this team and has held it hostage to appease his own ego. Until death do they part. Oh, and I have my chubby son waiting in the wings to continue this crime when I'm gone.

Any Cowboys fan with at least half of a functioning brain should hate his existence.

~burp~ Now that that's out of my system. Go Cowboys! Who do you think we should draft this year?

 

[DenCWBY]

Wouldnt change anything

Then at least we tried. Jerry loves a microphone more than his own family. If all local media outlets jabbed him every time he stepped up to the podium, I think it would eventually hit home.

 

[DallasInDC]

We went from greatest offseason in the league... To worst offseason I'm history.

Funny how people confuse results and process.

So did we or did we not win the offseason SB???? I gotta know.

 

[Sydla]

The notion that Murray somehow would have reversed the fortunes of this team this year is bizarre. Once Weeden/Cassel went under center, teams could more easily focus on the running game.

Murray looks slow and out of sync in Philly and I suspect he'd look that way here too.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Not a big fan of JJT. But he speaks the truth. The biggest disappointment for me is this: we are not talking about a rookie GM/owner....or a 1st year head coach. This organization KNOWS the window on Romo is closing...and it is stunning that we get this close to the mountaintop...then blow it all up. Say what you want about Murray...but we never really tried to re-sign a 2000 yard RB! Let that sink in for a moment. And if he was that expendable...why did he have almost 500 touches between running/catching for the pre-season, regular season and playoffs?

Everyone knows my position on the RB situation.....it was the most mismanaged position on the team last year. He should have never been given the workload he received...which would have never allowed him to be a 2000 yard RB. Not to mention he wore down the last quarter of the season/playoffs. He should have been a 1400 yard RB...with Randle getting more of a chance. It would have kept Murray fresher and gave us a closer look at Randle. It would have made Murray more affordable...and it would have given us better insight on what we had in Randle. I am trying not to get sucked back into what happened....because it is mind boggling that someone that has been around this game as an owner/GM for 25 years would do this! Did he NOT remember what happened the year we started 0-2 without Emmit. Behind an OL that was top notch as well?

 

[dfense]

Running as a general rule opens up the passing game and moves the chains when the defense thinks your going to run, but you pass and vice versa.

It doesn't open up the passing game if the defense knows your going to run and the hole your trying to target. Of your running everytime on first down, your setting yourself up for bad chain management.

Yeah, you can wear an opposing defense out if you run a lot, but only if you can move the chains and your not doing that consistently on every series without passing successfully.

Every time I hear Garrett talking about the run, I just want to punch him. His whole first tenure as OC and HC was avoiding the run and because of last year, he's saying the exact opposite. The guy is always late to the game and utterly clueless, with no sense of originality. It's not about a mathematical formula, it's about deceiving the defense.

Clueless except for his offenses have always been in the top 10.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

They gambled and lost big.

I have no problem with them letting Murray go. He has done jack squat with the equals and if he would have stayed we probably might have gotten one good year out of him before he turned into an over paid RB who did not produce ala Marion Barber.

The problem with that was not getting a decent replacement.

When someone brought up the idea of McFadden I thought they were clown shoes crazy...next thing you know he is a Cowboy.

After a decent game someone made a post about how do you like McFadden now...after one game i was still not convinced...here at the tail end of the season I am still not convinced.

We did not bother going after a RB in the draft. They got too cute and instead of trying not to reach for one they completely did not draft one. When you got the questions of who is going to be a RB for you going into the season...you draft a RB...even if in the later rounds with a long shot.

They also gambled on Tony staying healthy. We seen how that worked out.

They gambled that Hardy would be a sack machine....he has created pressure but I don't think he has been the player thus far that they have hoped they were getting, especially to counter balance the negative attention he has created.

Randy Gregory...I think they gambled on him as well. To be fair to Randy and the Cowboys...his injury early on has hurt his developement this year but we have seen flashes early on and some starting to show again to think he has a good future. Plus...knock on wood...we have heard No rumblings of him having troubles off the field.

So...They went light on RB, QB and the offense as a whole since it did so well last year.

They went heavy on Defense as far as getting Hardy, Drafting Gregory and signing Crawford to a contract. The defense is a top ten defense in the league right now, they do get pressure at times...but they still have not gotten the pressure enough to get Turn Overs in the secondary.

One would argue that investing a contract in those three should have increased the turn overs.

They have gambled and for the most part they have failed.

The silver lining is Gregory getting healthy.

The gamble that did pay off....OG L.Collins. First round pick due to either the leagues stupidity (for nobody drafting him) or a great bluff from Collins and his agent.
The other gamble that has paid off... S/CB Byron Jones...I say it was a gamble as when you get the 4th DB taken in the first round...it better be a great draft for CBs or you got lucky and got one of the better ones out of the four.

 

[dallasdave]

They gambled and lost big.

I have no problem with them letting Murray go. He has done jack squat with the equals and if he would have stayed we probably might have gotten one good year out of him before he turned into an over paid RB who did not produce ala Marion Barber.

The problem with that was not getting a decent replacement.

When someone brought up the idea of McFadden I thought they were clown shoes crazy...next thing you know he is a Cowboy.

After a decent game someone made a post about how do you like McFadden now...after one game i was still not convinced...here at the tail end of the season I am still not convinced.

We did not bother going after a RB in the draft. They got too cute and instead of trying not to reach for one they completely did not draft one. When you got the questions of who is going to be a RB for you going into the season...you draft a RB...even if in the later rounds with a long shot.

They also gambled on Tony staying healthy. We seen how that worked out.

They gambled that Hardy would be a sack machine....he has created pressure but I don't think he has been the player thus far that they have hoped they were getting, especially to counter balance the negative attention he has created.

Randy Gregory...I think they gambled on him as well. To be fair to Randy and the Cowboys...his injury early on has hurt his developement this year but we have seen flashes early on and some starting to show again to think he has a good future. Plus...knock on wood...we have heard No rumblings of him having troubles off the field.

So...They went light on RB, QB and the offense as a whole since it did so well last year.

They went heavy on Defense as far as getting Hardy, Drafting Gregory and signing Crawford to a contract. The defense is a top ten defense in the league right now, they do get pressure at times...but they still have not gotten the pressure enough to get Turn Overs in the secondary.

One would argue that investing a contract in those three should have increased the turn overs.

They have gambled and for the most part they have failed.

The silver lining is Gregory getting healthy.

The gamble that did pay off....OG L.Collins. First round pick due to either the leagues stupidity (for nobody drafting him) or a great bluff from Collins and his agent.
The other gamble that has paid off... S/CB Byron Jones...I say it was a gamble as when you get the 4th DB taken in the first round...it better be a great draft for CBs or you got lucky and got one of the better ones out of the four.

Great write up !!!!!

 

[black label]

Our rock star GM and coach thought Randle was going to carry the load

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[Alexander]

Our rock star GM and coach thought Randle was going to carry the load

It still amazes me how they untrusted an underwear thief to have that much responsibility, even in a rotation.

If I am playing on a team that did that, I would have a serious question about the direction of the team in general and my faith in the idea they are steering it in the right direction.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

The only 'arrogant' part of the offseason is that we didn't re-sign Murray. And yet JJT never really explains the problems with signing Murray, coming off a 436 carry season and averaging 3.5 ypc with the Eagles.






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[BigStar]

Would be great to see/hear a little more pressure from the Dallas media on Jerry to make the big change.

They seem to prefer to pick on JJ instead of the HC's (they are correct on principle). The problem is, this ironically allows JJ to get away with not making changes to his staff bc they are never held to the same expectations shown in the sports media outlets of other towns with winning organizations. How can you blame THEM (coaching) with him around ,etc. seems to be the DFW vibe in judging HCs and the coaching staff. The media does this while also not putting the fire to JJ's feet; forcing him to answer for mediocrity, yada, yada. JJ owns more things than the Cowboys and some oil fields down there.

 

[Doomsday]

The running game is never going to be really effective when you are going 3 and out on over half your possessions. You are constantly facing a fresh defense instead of one that is starting to wear out as a drive / game continues.

Would the running game be better with Murray, obviously, but not at what the Eagles were willing to pay him. Which is exactly what JJT and every other media person was saying in the off season. The truth is there are a number of contributing factors that have led to a crap offense and to me it all starts and ends with JG.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Then at least we tried. Jerry loves a microphone more than his own family. If all local media outlets jabbed him every time he stepped up to the podium, I think it would eventually hit home.

Doubt it. Nothing has changed in 20 years. It's not just all the sudden going to happen.

 

[ghosttown cowboy]

I read the article below JJT's and I never realized it but we really haven't scored 30 pts in a game this season, when we did it 10 times last year...Wow...

 

[JoeBoBBY]

Best JJT article I have ever read!

 

[Rogerthat12]

None of them have the guts to do it. The old man will lose his temper and the media will lose their courage to continue any further. I've seen it happen countless times. They don't want to lose their access to the team.

Give me 5 minutes with Jerry and Stephen on ESPN in an open forum and I'll expose them as the complete frauds and the #1 enemy to the Dallas Cowboys that they really are. All of this 20 years, and I mean All. Of. It., has to do with an egotistical maniacal owner who bought this team and has held it hostage to appease his own ego. Until death do they part. Oh, and I have my chubby son waiting in the wings to continue this crime when I'm gone.

Any Cowboys fan with at least half of a functioning brain should hate his existence.

~burp~ Now that that's out of my system. Go Cowboys! Who do you think we should draft this year?

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[Carson]

Shades of 2008

 

[Cmac]

The problem is that all of this falls apart if you don't have a QB the defense respects. With Weeden/Cassel running this debacle, all defenses have to do is load up to stop the run for force the QB to beat them. And they can't. Defenses know they can't.

So all these wonderful offensive philosophies go out the window when you don't have a QB who can execute it. Run on first down? Pass on first down? Play action? Drop kick?

It doesn't matter when you QB is worthless.

Can I post this in defense of Dez? (despite his indefensible performance against Green Bay).