Name Your Two

[CowboyMcCoy]

In your opinion, what are the two biggest mistakes this team as a whole has made since getting beaten by Minnesota last year?

 

[JBell]

1. Not upgrading tackle.

2. Not upgrading safety.

 

[Outtayourleague]

1. Not upgrading tackle.

2. Not upgrading safety.

1. Not firing wade. 2. Not firing wade

 

[SDCowboy]

1. Not overhauling the Oline (Free is a great start though)
2. Not replacing Wade with Shanahan.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

1. Not firing wade. 2. Not firing wade

This..

 

[Hostile]

1. A 50 year anniversary patch in year 51.

2. No former legend to be honored with induction into the ROH.

 

[Hoofbite]

Thinking Alan Ball could play looks pretty terrible right now.

 

[sonnyboy]

In your opinion, what are the two biggest mistakes this team as a whole has made since getting beaten by Minnesota last year?

I don't know that made any big mistakes. No more so than any other team. Even those with winning records.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

1. Not hiring Dan Reeves
2. Kicking/safety/O-Line situation

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

1. A 50 year anniversary patch in year 51.

2. No former legend to be honored with induction into the ROH.

I know you don't like to "dog" on the team. But that's not what I'm trying to establish here.

Anyway, my two are releasing Ken Hamlin and F. Adams. One of those don't know what you got till it's gone things.

 

[yimyammer]

1. A 50 year anniversary patch in year 51.

2. No former legend to be honored with induction into the ROH.

Do you think Jerry is deliberately doing this or just insensitive to the players that truly made Dallas America's team?

 

[urface59]

1. Not upgrading safety though i'll admit I thought Ball or M. Hamlin would be at least end up slightly better than K. Hamlin was. I was wrong.

2. Even though it's popular to put "not firing Wade" or "not upgrading O-line" here I will not go with either. At the time there was really no reason to can Wade because he had just led us to a division title and a playoff win. Despite our bad start you can't honestly say firing Wade after Minny was the logical thing to do. As for the O-line, I don't think there was anyone available that would be an instant upgrade without us giving up high draft picks and botching next years draft. Plus Free has been an upgrade at the very least.

So I think the other biggest mistake has simply been the team shoving their heads up there butts before every game so that they can lose in the stupidest most frustrating ways imaginable.

 

[craig71]

1. Not firing wade. 2. Not firing wade

Sounds good to me.

Craig

 

[renny]

1. Using top picks on injury plagued players 2 years straight.
2. Not developing practice squad players.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Barron and Ball

 

[JackMagist]

1. Letting Hamlin go without a solid plan for a replacement.

2. The Carpenter for Barron trade.


Carp was a solid nickle LB and now we don't have one. Meanwhile, Barron is not a solid anything.

 

[Vertigo_17]

not addressing the safety position, Ball and Hamlin were huge gambles with no real contingency plan.

should have look at upgrading the PK position

 

[Bob Sacamano]

1. Neglecting the safety position.

That's about the only thing I can think about. They did address the line and ILBs, the next two culprits.

 

[JustDezIt]

not taking a knee before the half of game 1.

celebrating after the tying touchdown of the last game.

these two things go down differently and there is the possibility of people being up on this team instead of down.

 

[sonnyboy]

In your opinion, what are the two biggest mistakes this team as a whole has made since getting beaten by Minnesota last year?

OK Just thought of one. And it's a real sore spot for me, because I really thought they'd do this.

Bring back Folk to compete with Beuhler. He needed to be cut after the Saints game and no one including Folk could disagree.

But I had seen too much from Folk to believe he wouldn't or couldn't get back to being the excellent FG kicker he had been.

I thought bringing him back was a no brainer.