After the pain of this latest nut kick has calmed down enough.. we must endeavor to figure out to avoid a repeat next season. Here's mine..
#1 ) Fire Philbin - The o-line struggles are on him.. These guys are too good to be getting whipped with this much regularity. he gotta go...
#2) and maybe 1a) replace Williams.. too many holding calls and too many times pushed back into the QB or the running back.. He gotta go.
#3) Pray somebody hires Kellen Moore away.. When teams are all saying the same thing about how to stop your offense (and it keeps working) then it's time for a new offense. The Cowboys have never been good when they could not run the ball consistently.. and Moore does not want to run the ball at all. He gotta go.
#4) Draft another Micah Parsons.. no not necessarily another super freak linebacker.. just another hungry play maker on defense. Failing that, get us a dawg for the offensive line to replace either Williams or Biadasz.. better if we could replace both.. maybe one draft pick, maybe one FA vet.
#5) Get healthy.. Captain Obvious right.. The big three of Dak, Zeke and Tyron being dinged up frankly derailed this season as much as anything.. Neither of these guys was the same player after their injury and the cumulative effect on the offense when THEY dropped off was monumental.
#6) Put all the DTs on whatever program Neville Gallimore was on.. Dude clearly put on 25-30 pounds of muscle this offseason and came back a completely different body type. He now has 1-tech size and 3-tech agility.
#7) Pay whatever it takes to keep Dan Quinn.. that turnaround on defense was amazing. Even in this playoff game after getting run over early the adjustments to slow the 49ers down were impressive.
I'm sure there are other areas folks would like to give attention.. but these were the first ones that leapt to mind for me. By all means.. please share yours..
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1- Address the coaching/coordinator situations first. Who leaves – who stays. Prepare for successors;
- If Quinn departs – aim at possible insiders Ala Edwards, Whitt Jr. both familiar with Hybrid type defenses and the HC.
- If Moore departs - aim at possible insiders ala Nussmeirer, McAdoo or yes, even Philibin. McCarthy needs to play a bigger part and responsibility for the offense.
- If outside DC consideration: Only Vic Fangio, imo.
- Now should Kellen stay ? … flat simple and plain, the Jones need to let McCarthy intervene in the offense.
Otherwise the stalled offense output vs better, competitive teams.. continue all season long in 2022.
Either Nuss in next in line for OC, or Promote Philibin to OC, hire ex-McCarthy OL coach James Campen – both were OC and OL coach respectively for MM in GB.
2) Address the OL personnel
– I’d love to move on from Tyron Smith and this fiasco. But his contract is a huge hurdle, and we cannot make these many OL changes in one year.
Vibe I get is team will go Tyron again and have a Plan B option for the usual (Steele, Josh Ball)
- If we did decide to move on away Smith, it’s luckily getting to draft a regarded OT in the 1st, 24th overall or for moving Collins to LT, and let Steele and Josh Ball battle for RT role.
- Will be Drafting Williams replacement at LG (rounds 1-3) don’t be surprised if it’s a OG/C combo prospect.
- Drafting another interior guy (4th) that is a combo type. Competition at center.
3) Not likely a Parson type at 24th overall, but for draft board value sake if there’s a
Fred Warner, ..
Lavonte Davis or
Denzel Perryman in 2nd, 3rd I can definitely live with that.
- Sorry with just 9 mere snaps and IR remaining year, I dunno what we have in Jabril Cox who’ll be coming off ACL injury
4) There’s no converting and miscasting with DTs – if you need a big body, why not get a big bod that particularly specializes stuffing the in run defense - which is still major D” weakness.
5) Its not about paying more for Quinn, it's about Dapper Dan wanting to run his own team again per Denver- big thing is luring a prime time QB (Rodgers, Watson or Wilson ?) But he has to
have one of those to have a chance in say Denver