Is there another GM in pro sports capable of surviving this kind of pathetic incompetence without getting fired? Only Mike Brown who also owns the bungles. 30 other GMs get fired for this kind of organizational slop.
This screams either laziness or incompetence or both. Damning either way.
why would you need these many FAs for defense? because your defensive drafting is down right awful....compare offensive draft picks to defensive draft picks. this is the culture of the cowboys, because of jones, and his penchant for glitzzy and glamour and selling jerseys. the whole organization is focused on offense and glitz. why else would we whiff on all defensive players, yet manage to find players like gallup, pollard and schultz in lower part of the draft? yet, we missed on taco, lawrence (sorry, he is not worth 20M/year), jaylon, LVE (history of injuries), Gregory (has spent more time off the field, than on the field), hill, crawford (is he worth his contract?)......and haven't found one player in lower rounds...and we find Jones and manages to let him walk.
this is an entire organizational cultural issue. there is no emphasis on defense. there is no focus on defense. there is no proper evaluation on defense.
what they did with this off season FA signings, is sign a bunch of names that people had heard about.....nobody really evaluated them for fit, ability, etc.