Let's Cut To The Chase - Building Blocks

[Vanilla2]

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Draft a corner.

Maybe a top flight running back or hopefully a wide out.

 

[Vanilla2]

What I heard when reading your post.

 

[Corso]

What is wrong with this team is the people who have tried to build it have a loose understanding of what makes a team succeed. I am speaking about the final decision maker who thinks spending 70 million on cornerbacks and not doing zip for the defensive line is a great idea.

Likewise, this team is made in the image of the play caller who tends to run an Andy Reid Eagles pass happy offense. I do not believe Garrett did not still have a huge hand in the play calling.

This is really simple.

1. Build the defensive front with depth to rotate players. The Giants got to two SB's with this in mind as did Jimmy Johnson. The pass defense will be fine once you have made a front seven that create a time issue for the quarterback. He holds it a tick too long and the posse arrives in mass.

2. Build an offensive line so the team can have a BALANCED attack. My biggest complaint is the people running the offense think Romo throwing forty times a game is a good idea. That is not a knock on Romo. But I know he would like to do that as well.

Yet for this team and offense to survive they need to pull away from the record breaking stats of Romo and run the damn ball.

I guarantee the offensive line would love to play smash mouth football.

Two other aspects need to be filled.

1. A safety that can quarterback the DB's and play from sideline to sideline, and deliver the wood when it is time. They haven't gotten close in all the years trying to replace Woodson.

2. A WR across from Dez that forces teams to respect him. T Will may be that guy. I believe in him, but that is emotion talking.

Dez is not a sharp enough route runner that he can work in ta timing based offense. But he is disruptive when he is comfortable. The passing game needs to be revamped in a way to get T Will and the slot guy - Beasley and Harris - open across the middle.

Once you have the defense's attention it is now scheming the supportive WR's to get Dez in a position to dominate.

I am very concerned about Romo's health. This is why I believe this year is all in or rebuild. There is not some magic player that will fix this. It will take an all in effort, and still that depends on some luck and if these guys have the heart to be winners.

If you can't go bag deep this next season, Jerry might as well break up the band.

My opinion.

And your opinion is very valid.

Very good post, friend. I agree with every word. All we can really hope for is a decent signing or two for the DL and some line help from the draft.
There's not much else they can do from a talent acquisition stand-point.

From a strategic standpoint- we can only pray that Garrett does some deep soul-searching this off-season and makes some real adjustments towards more balance and crams every day to become a better gameday manager.

Other than that- I don't know...

 

[LatinMind]

Add Crawford and there was our front 4. What gets me is we still managed to win 8 games despite those problems and a whole lot more on defense.

What i laugh at, is people have been saying this 3-4 was bad for the past couple years and threads were popping up like crazy on this forum asking for a convert to 4-3. Injuries kill your DL and this defense is bad because of it all of the sudden people are saying letting Rob go was a mistake, dallas shouldve never left the 3-4 and they need to go back to it lol. Its comical

 

[1LoyalCowboyFan]

The Cowboys spent more on the DL than almost all other teams in 2013. Ratliff, Spencer and Ware were paid a huge amount of money.

Mind blowing, thanks.

 

[Risen Star]

What is wrong with this team is the people who have tried to build it have a loose understanding of what makes a team succeed. I am speaking about the final decision maker who thinks spending 70 million on cornerbacks and not doing zip for the defensive line is a great idea.

Outstanding, TD. The outfielder didn't even move as your tape measure shot left the park.

It's one thing to know what you need but you can't find it. That's a bad GM. It's another thing to not even know what you need. That's Jerry. A fake GM.

 

[CooterBrown]

well, just for balance and fairness, Ware, Hatcher, Ratliff, Spencer, would have been an awesome front four.....3 years ago. Jerry Jones is such an optomist he looks at his players and sees who they used to be instaed of who they are now.

 

[xwalker]

It's impossible to understand what goes through Jerry's mind. He's obsessed with cornerbacks but continues to neglect safety. Why? Who knows.

The important thing to understand is that Jerry has learned NOTHING about how to build a team. He proved how clueless he was with the CB heavy draft of 2000, and is now repeating those same mistakes more than a decade later by overpaying for Carr and trading up for Claiborne.

The man has absolutely no idea how to build a successful football team and I see no evidence that he'll ever learn.

The number of CBs picked in 2000 was not really the issue. It was the quality of the players picked that was a huge problem. I know for certain that Dwayne Goodrich was a pick that Larry Lacewell pulled out of his backside. He was a CB that could run.

 

[Alexander]

well, just for balance and fairness, Ware, Hatcher, Ratliff, Spencer, would have been an awesome front four.....3 years ago. Jerry Jones is such an optomist he looks at his players and sees who they used to be instaed of who they are now.

His optimism coupled with the fiscal obligations he makes are deadly. Practically every single one of them explodes in our faces.

It is simply amazing and almost unbelievable.

 

[xwalker]

Although I agree with what TD3 is saying, I also recognize that it will likely take 2 to 3 off seasons to pull off what he's arguing for.

Romo will be 36 or 37 by then. It just ain't happenIng.

Cut all the dead weight this offseason. Bring on cap Armageddon. Tank. Rebuild. It's the only way.

They could have an all new DL by next season. Cut Ware, sign 2 quality YOUNG free agents and get 2 DL early in the draft. Add in Crawford and Bass returning from IR and the DL could become a strength of the team. The offense already has the talent to win. The non-DL defensive players would be significantly better with an improved DL.

 

[Alexander]

1. Build the defensive front with depth to rotate players. The Giants got to two SB's with this in mind as did Jimmy Johnson. The pass defense will be fine once you have made a front seven that create a time issue for the quarterback. He holds it a tick too long and the posse arrives in mass.

Correct.

2. Build an offensive line so the team can have a BALANCED attack. My biggest complaint is the people running the offense think Romo throwing forty times a game is a good idea. That is not a knock on Romo. But I know he would like to do that as well.

We had the offensive line to have a balanced attack this season. We refused to utilize it in key situations. I am also not convinced that Romo has a little to do with that if the idea that he had an impact on gameplans like he supposedly did. All in all, Garrett talks about the running game but never trusts it. For years, all we heard was he would not run because he could not trust the line. The line comes together this year and he still does not trust them enough to put the game in their hands. That is not a talent problem. That is a coaching/philosophical problem that has to go away or adding more talent is not going to make that much of a difference.

Yet for this team and offense to survive they need to pull away from the record breaking stats of Romo and run the damn ball.

I guarantee the offensive line would love to play smash mouth football.

All offensive lines do.

1. A safety that can quarterback the DB's and play from sideline to sideline, and deliver the wood when it is time. They haven't gotten close in all the years trying to replace Woodson.

Correct.

2. A WR across from Dez that forces teams to respect him. T Will may be that guy. I believe in him, but that is emotion talking.

Dez is not a sharp enough route runner that he can work in ta timing based offense. But he is disruptive when he is comfortable. The passing game needs to be revamped in a way to get T Will and the slot guy - Beasley and Harris - open across the middle.

Once you have the defense's attention it is now scheming the supportive WR's to get Dez in a position to dominate.

I am not concerned about the WRs. At all. If we went ahead and got another high investment WR to add across from Bryant all it would do is encourage more of the pathological fascination with throwing the football and encourage more imbalance.

You left out some other key components. Namely outside linebackers. I have lost all faith in Bruce Carter.

 

[zekecowboy]

I agree completely with TD3. I don't think it will be accomplished for at least 2 years because of the cap hell Dallas is in. Best thing
Dallas can do is rebuild. Cut Ware or Ware takes a pay cut like Free. If Ware takes a pay cut it is possible to rebuild quicker.

I am very concerned with Romo's health, i.e., back. If Romo has problems and needs to retire, his $40 M guaranteed salary will hurt big time even if its split over two years.

Although I agree with what TD3 is saying, I also recognize that it will likely take 2 to 3 off seasons to pull off what he's arguing for.

Romo will be 36 or 37 by then. It just ain't happenIng.

Cut all the dead weight this offseason. Bring on cap Armageddon. Tank. Rebuild. It's the only way.

 

[The Quest for Six]

The Cowboys spent more on the DL than almost all other teams in 2013. Ratliff, Spencer and Ware were paid a huge amount of money.

and all three were mistakes

 

[xwalker]

and all three were mistakes

That is irrelevant to this thread. The OP indicated that the Cowboys were cheap on DL and spent 70M on CBs.

 

[waving monkey]

Although I agree with what TD3 is saying, I also recognize that it will likely take 2 to 3 off seasons to pull off what he's arguing for.

Romo will be 36 or 37 by then. It just ain't happenIng.

Cut all the dead weight this offseason. Bring on cap Armageddon. Tank. Rebuild. It's the only way.

I almost agree at least cut the dead weight. We have been rebuilding.