Obvious lessons on how to win a Super Bowl

[Bobhaze]

Winning a Super Bowl is never an easy task. But the basic ingredients to win one are not that difficult to spot. Watching the game yesterday provided some obvious lessons:

• The winning owners of the last 26 Super Bowls all share a common link: They hired a GM to run their football operations and then let them hire a quality head coach.

• Coaching matters a ton.

• Having a GM that is not hesitant to trade or release “popular” players and is proactive in churning the roster.

• It takes a good GM like the rams’ Les Snead who has taken two different rosters to SBs, using two different starting QBs and lots of FA signings and trades and lots of roster turnover.

• Teams winning SBs lately don’t have a “star” or “bell cow” expensive RB. In fact they often have a RB by committee situation.

• SB winning teams require discipline and attention to detail.

• SB winning teams require good drafts AND good FA acquisitions.

These are just a few things that are obvious. What else?

 

[kuyyo_morro]

Be aggressive in free agency than shopping at walmart during free agency. NFL season for front offices starts right after super bowl ends. Not in August, September.

 

[Kingofholland]

I would throw in a dominant lines. The Rams won because of the pressure they created, while the Bengals lost because of their inept oline.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

 

[Proof]

whatever the winning team did in a given year is the obvious blueprint until the following year

 

[cowboyblue22]

well the league wanted the rams to win and they did so every think is coming up roses in nfl land

 

[thunderpimp91]

The RB situation really hits home. For as much as we talk about the contracts of Dak, DLaw, Cooper, etc the Zeke deal is the one that really kills the Cowboys. It just doesn't make sense to commit significant money to the RB position. Without Zeke's cap hit our current cap situation really isnt bad at all.

 

[Bobhaze]

The RB situation really hits home. For as much as we talk about the contracts of Dak, DLaw, Cooper, etc the Zeke deal is the one that really kills the Cowboys. It just doesn't make sense to commit significant money to the RB position. Without Zeke's cap hit our current cap situation really isnt bad at all.

It kills our ability to do things in free agency.

 

[Aven8]

Cincy has a ton of money and they spent on Defense last season and it worked. Now they can build the Oline and should be good for years to come.

Stephen is not going to change unfortunately.

 

[reddyuta]

to me its obvious that if you have weakness at either line you will have trouble to win it all,its commendable the bengals made it so far with patchwork Oline.

 

[Risen Star]

Cincy has a ton of money and they spent on Defense last season and it worked. Now they can build the Oline and should be good for years to come.

Stephen is not going to change unfortunately.

Stephen doesn't make roster decisions.

 

[TequilaCowboy]

Winning a Super Bowl is never an easy task. But the basic ingredients to win one are not that difficult to spot. Watching the game yesterday provided some obvious lessons:

• The winning owners of the last 26 Super Bowls all share a common link: They hired a GM to run their football operations and then let them hire a quality head coach.

• Coaching matters a ton.

• Having a GM that is not hesitant to trade or release “popular” players and is proactive in churning the roster.

• It takes a good GM like the rams’ Les Snead who has taken two different rosters to SBs, using two different starting QBs and lots of FA signings and trades and lots of roster turnover.

• Teams winning SBs lately don’t have a “star” or “bell cow” expensive RB. In fact they often have a RB by committee situation.

• SB winning teams require discipline and attention to detail.

• SB winning teams require good drafts AND good FA acquisitions.

These are just a few things that are obvious. What else?

Great post.....accountability begins with the FO (the GM and staff) and spreads down to the coaches and then the players. Changes happen fast because getting fired is always an option. Great decisions and choices are made when you have skin in the game, not when you are sitting in a cushy job with no fear of failure. Players know who is in charge. In Dallas' case, the owner is screaming into his pillow.

 

[GMO415]

It's a process.

 

[RonnieT24]

Are we just going to pretend that Marshawn Lynch wasn't on the Seahawks' roster? Or that Reggie Bush wasn't on the Saints'? This is intellectually dishonest BS.

 

[Miller]

Agree with coaching. The Ticket was talking this morning…you have 2 teams with the least penalties. You had 2 teams where there was basically no chaos getting plays called and into a game. You had 2 coaches that had all 3 timeouts at the end of the game because they didn’t have to burn them because of the point above. It’s refreshing.

 

[Mobinvans]

Be aggressive in free agency than shopping at walmart during free agency. NFL season for front offices starts right after super bowl ends. Not in August, September.

^^^^this

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Superior Olines AND Dlines.

Last 2 Super Bowl losers had Olines that got absolutely ravaged. Part of the reason the 9ers made it so far this year, and almost entirely why Philly won in 2017.

 

[john van brocklin]

Winning a Super Bowl is never an easy task. But the basic ingredients to win one are not that difficult to spot. Watching the game yesterday provided some obvious lessons:

• The winning owners of the last 26 Super Bowls all share a common link: They hired a GM to run their football operations and then let them hire a quality head coach.

• Coaching matters a ton.

• Having a GM that is not hesitant to trade or release “popular” players and is proactive in churning the roster.

• It takes a good GM like the rams’ Les Snead who has taken two different rosters to SBs, using two different starting QBs and lots of FA signings and trades and lots of roster turnover.

• Teams winning SBs lately don’t have a “star” or “bell cow” expensive RB. In fact they often have a RB by committee situation.

• SB winning teams require discipline and attention to detail.

• SB winning teams require good drafts AND good FA acquisitions.

These are just a few things that are obvious. What else?

Sounds like the opposite of our team...

 

[john van brocklin]

The RB situation really hits home. For as much as we talk about the contracts of Dak, DLaw, Cooper, etc the Zeke deal is the one that really kills the Cowboys. It just doesn't make sense to commit significant money to the RB position. Without Zeke's cap hit our current cap situation really isnt bad at all.

Plus they reworked his contract last off season, so we cant release him this off season...

 

[Captain-Crash]

the lesson you should have learned, Is without a good QB you're going nowhere.

let's surround a crap qb with elite everywhere. lmao.