My Mid-Season Rant

[BotchedLobotomy]

The phrase "Defense Wins Championships" is a bit of a over-statement. You can win in the NFL on a regular basis with an average Defense and a good offense. I think off and on, Red has had and average Def paired with a good offense in his tenure year. Bottom line is this team has not won enough games based on the talent Red has to work with.

 

[khiladi]

Remember when it was the fault of the defense for yardage...

Remember when Dallas got the ball back four times against Detroit a couple years back and we didn't do jack squat. Or last week when Hardy got the INT in the red-zone and our offense couldn't score.

Remember during Wade's tenure in his last year, when the Dallas defense caused 5 TOs and the Giants had 500 yards of total offense, but the Cowboys offense led by Garrett only amassed less than a whopping 300 yards...

When Rob Ryan was fired, Garrett said explicitly the reason was because of TOs and giving the offense more opportunities to capitalize. The opposing offense has no need to take risks, when they know your offense isn't going to keep pace scoring.

Looks like Jerry is setting up the excuse for Garrett and the offense again... We've changed our DC to Ryan, to a 4-3 with Kiffen and now Marinelli...

 

[khiladi]

The phrase "Defense Wins Championships" is a bit of a over-statement. You can win in the NFL on a regular basis with an average Defense and a good offense. I think off and on, Red has had and average Def paired with a good offense in his tenure year. Bottom line is this team has not won enough games based on the talent Red has to work with.

Exactly... this offense has floundered multiple times when the defense did provide the offense TOs...

Last year was the exception, because Romo started coaching the offense and they just totally controlled the TOP...

 

[Wolfpack]

Remember when it was the fault of the defense for yardage...

Remember when Dallas got the ball back four times against Detroit a couple years back and we didn't do jack squat. Or last week when Hardy got the INT in the red-zone and our offense couldn't score.

Remember during Wade's tenure in his last year, when the Dallas defense caused 5 TOs and the Giants had 500 yards of total offense, but the Cowboys offense led by Garrett only amassed less than a whopping 300 yards...

When Rob Ryan was fired, Garrett said explicitly the reason was because of TOs and giving the offense more opportunities to capitalize. The opposing offense has no need to take risks, when they know your offense isn't going to keep pace scoring.

Looks like Jerry is setting up the excuse for Garrett and the offense again... We've changed our DC to Ryan, to a 4-3 with Kiffen and now Marinelli...

Actually the fall guys on the defensive side is longer; Stewart, Wade, Ryan, Kiffen and now Rod. All in like about 6 years?

 

[plymkr]

But going back to the safety issue. I agree and I appreciate the OP. Our safeties have sucked since Woodson retired. The last good pair of safeties we had was Woodson and Roy Williams. Then #28 retired and Roy Williams started to fall off. That's why Darren is in the ROH is becuase he made up for a lack of talent in areas of the secondary. So much love to Darren Woodson, but now to the present. Does it really take 6-8 years to find a quality safety. Seriously. Hopefully Byron Jones will develop into either a good cb or a good safety. But wow, how can a team go for so long without either developing or drafting or signing an area of need. It's pretty bad when this team hopes Matt Johnson will develop into a good safety that we kept him on the team on IR for like 3 or 4 years, or whatever. It's like we don't know when to give up on a player we're trying to develop. How many games have been lost to poor safety and CB play.

Stop trying to develop players that suck. If they suck then cut them. It's not that difficult. I'm sure Wilcox, Webb, Heath and whoever else has great potential but you can't rely on future potential to win today. Frustrating. Future potential could not stop the present day Eagles from going down the field and scoring. Other teams live in the present. We for instance live for the future with the safety position. always looking to develop some player for the future and we'll be set.

I would love for Jerry and his minions to flip flop that philosophy and go for present day talent with the safety position and maybe, just maybe think about getting a qb to develop. I don't know, maybe that might be the position to look for to develop when your current QB is getting older.

But no, we'll ignore Romo's age and pretend that he can play forever, just like we did with Aikman and then Romo will retire and we won't be prepared for it.

But take heart cowboyszone. We will find that franchise safety to develop because franchise safeties win super bowls. On a yearly basis we're taking some flyer or trying to find the diamond in the rough for a safety but we go decades between drafting qb's to develop. Don't get me twisted, I'm not saying I want Romo replaced. I'm pointing out the completely inept thinking when it comes to which position on the team they decide to always look for the next star to develop and their ineffectiveness to do so.