NFL.com - 10 most talented teams

[Stash]

An awful lot of love for Scandrick in that piece.

 

[visionary]

Should have been 2 years ago. We know what happened last year.

We have a top 10 talented team
A top 5 QB
A great HC
A great GM
We're in the playoffs every year
Look at our stellar playoff record

And fans are still not satisfied

SB here I come

 

[DallasDomination]

What? It's literally the most important aspect of winning.

In terms of winning I would say there's a few that come before talent.

1. Execution
2. Physical endurance/stamina
3. Mental discipline
4. Chemistry
5. Talent

 

[Toruk_Makto]

It is just a misused term. A lot more goes into winning games than pure talent. There is coaching, how that talent is used and works together. Lots of teams are "talented". The Eagles Dream Team was "talented". Did not matter at the end of the day.

I feel you're being obtuse to be obtuse.

Clearly coaching and team construction and fit matter.

So does talent. This isn't really a complicated discussion.

 

[DFWJC]

They seem to be pretty generous in who they're calling "blue chip" on some teams.

Anyway, I do think Dallas should be a top 10 team, so the end result matches up fairly well even if it is coincidental.

 

[Future]

In terms of winning I would say there's a few that come before talent.

1. Execution
2. Physical endurance/stamina
3. Mental discipline
4. Chemistry
5. Talent

Talent trumps all of those things. Talent alone won't win, but none of those matter without talent.

 

[bayeslife]

>Janoris Jenkins
>Blue chip

Okay

 

[JoeBoBBY]

Yeah but we are kind of top heavy in some positions. Great QB, but can he stay on the field? Great TE, but he has lost a step(I still keep him playing as long as he wants too), Dez is Dez....

But, I think there is a pretty big drop off in the middle................ we sink far, when it comes to role players, middle to lower level players.....

At least that is my impression........

For example, I think Wheaton, 3rd stringer in Pittsburgh, starts for us....I think there are many WRs riding the bench on other teams, that start for us. Same with the Defensive backfield and Defensive Line...

 

[MichaelWinicki]

No New England in there and they'll still win 10 games...

And how often over the past decade was New England a top-5 team in talent or even top-10?

Not many.

Geez, maybe it's not all about "talent"?

 

[rockj7]

10) Dallas Cowboys

Blue chips: Tony Romo, QB; Dez Bryant, WR;Jason Witten, TE; Travis Frederick, C; Zack Martin, OG; Tyron Smith, OT; Sean Lee, LB;Orlando Scandrick, CB; Dan Bailey, K.

Risers: DeMarcus Lawrence, DE; La'el Collins, OG.

Despite the Cowboys' 4-12 record in 2015, they should rebound nicely with the top players back on the field. Romo and Bryant fuel a dangerous aerial attack that perfectly complements a rugged running game -- one that could truly explode with dynamic rookieEzekiel Elliott as the RB1. The Cowboys' star-studded offensive line is a force to be reckoned with: Smith, Martin and Frederick move bodies off the line of scrimmage on run plays and form an impenetrable wall on passes. On defense, Scandrick's return from injury -- he missed the entire 2015 campaign after tearing up his knee in training camp -- gives the unit an ultra-athletic CB1 to shadow the elite receivers in the NFC East. If he and Lee can stay healthy, the Cowboys' defense might exceed expectations.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...e-10-most-talented-teams?campaign=Twitter_atn

They do this crap on purpose they will never let us fly under the radar. I am optimistic with this team I just wish we could prove who we are on the field and not on radio TV or magazines

 

[Fletch]

I just thought on this Tuesday morning we can all take some time to marvel at our amazing talent.

Go Cowboys, bros.

I'm seriously freaking out.

 

[LandryFan]

I just thought on this Tuesday morning we can all take some time to marvel at our amazing talent.

Go Cowboys, bros.

Your positivity and enthusiasm knows no bounds. I'm working on that award on your behalf...almost there.

 

[Seven]

I would argue that with a younger Romo & Witten we would be top 5.

Why isn't such a talented roster competing in championship games?

Because Dallas got JOBBED and then decimated with injuries.

Prior to that, jerry was still trying to buy a championship and meddling with football.

 

[DC Cowboy]

The Vikings as top 5 surprised me...

Sleeper of the draft - the WR they picked from Germany.

 

[Direwolf63]

The talent level on this team is constantly overrated.

 

[slick325]

Sleeper of the draft - the WR they picked from Germany.

He's intriguing as a prospect. I also like Diggs at WR, the TE and of course AP. Bridgewater needs to take more steps forward and the OL is just ok to me. The defense has some pieces but they don't look like the Seahawks or Harbaugh's 9ers D of a few years ago.

Guess we'll see if Minnesota has broken through and is a uber talented team or was last season a fluke.

 

[Idgit]

The talent level on this team is constantly overrated.

Not in a case like this one. We've got a lot of decent players. Where we've struggled is in players ~15-53. People see the stars, and they see the team swinging for the fences on high profile players and they see us play well when everybody's in the lineup and we look pretty good. It's when somebody has to step up where we run into problems. And I'm not just talking about Tony and Dez being out last season.

This is where trading up for picks instead of down and where taking long shots in injured players and wildcatting in general bites us in the Snyder all the time.

 

[CowboyChris]

Not in a case like this one. We've got a lot of decent players. Where we've struggled is in players ~15-53. People see the stars, and they see the team swinging for the fences on high profile players and they see us play well when everybody's in the lineup and we look pretty good. It's when somebody has to step up where we run into problems. And I'm not just talking about Tony and Dez being out last season.

This is where trading up for picks instead of down and where taking long shots in injured players and wildcatting in general bites us in the Snyder all the time.

Spot on, other than OL, and maybe DT, there is no depth on this roster to cover injuries.

 

[Direwolf63]

Not in a case like this one. We've got a lot of decent players. Where we've struggled is in players ~15-53. People see the stars, and they see the team swinging for the fences on high profile players and they see us play well when everybody's in the lineup and we look pretty good. It's when somebody has to step up where we run into problems. And I'm not just talking about Tony and Dez being out last season.

This is where trading up for picks instead of down and where taking long shots in injured players and wildcatting in general bites us in the Snyder all the time.

I don't disagree. But you can't rattle off 5 or 6 names and then say your team is talented. That's what this guy does in the article.

If your roster depth is poor, and in the Cowboys case it definitely is, then you are not a talented team. What you are is a team with below average talent with a few talented guys at the top.

That's where we are.

 

[Idgit]

I don't disagree. But you can't rattle off 5 or 6 names and then say your team is talented. That's what this guy does in the article.

If your roster depth is poor, and in the Cowboys case it definitely is, then you are not a talented team. What you are is a team with below average talent with a few talented guys at the top.

That's where we are.

Yep, it's just a bad method for judging overall talent. The assumption is that the backs of the rosters pretty much look the same, but that's a bad assumption.

What we've got here, though, is just a thread where Risen wanted to get ahead of the message since it shows the Joneses in an otherwise positive light so he wanted to find something 'new' to mock, tedious as that is. There's certainly nothing wrong with the players they've got listed as blue-chippers. Though many of them are really red-chippers in my book.

But, yeah, we've got to do a better job on the bottom 20 players or so on this roster, for sure. An NFL team is a bucket with a hole in the bottom of it. You have to add the talent faster than it gets away from you in FA. We've improved our 'stream' here recently, and done a nice job of hitting on the top picks, but the best teams are better at it then we are still. We've got to be hitting not just early and in CFA if we're ever going to catch up.