Romo as Cowboys OC?

[Galian Beast]

My point is to show replacing Linehan with Romo achieves nothing. It's still Garretts offense we're running.

To your point, yes I do believe the offense is A problem when one person is injured or unavailable and the whole thing goes in the toilet, whether it's Romo(in the past) or now Zeke. We have enough evidence to suggest that this same brilliant offense and coaching staff is incapable of adjustments and accounting for the loss of key personnel.

This team has been wholly incapable of building depth. Next man up doesn't exist here like it does on the Patriots.

We have overpriced "stars" who if lost, immediately create a large chasm in the team's performance.

The Patriots are able to avoid this because they don't sign big second contracts to players who haven't earned them. How Crawford makes 9 million a year without ever going to a pro bowl, I'll never be able to explain.

La'el Collins got an extension this year, before having actually earned it.

Jason Witten remains entirely too expensive for his declining production and blocking ability.

The Patriots are spending wiser, drafting wiser, and spending more on defense than we are by about 20 millions. It all shows.

That gap goes to almost 30 million next year, though with Irving and Lawrence, I would expect it to change.

 

[Galian Beast]

The offense that was historically great last year and was top 5 before this 3 game clunker? The one installed by one of the most respected offensive minds in the league?

That offense is the problem?

We had a really weak schedule last year. That helped inflate the offense as did the stretch where we consistently scored 30 points a game this year.

We haven't drafted a skill player on offense in the first three rounds of the draft outside of Elliott who is now suspended since 2013 with Gavin Escobar in the 2nd round (terrible pick) and Terrence Williams (very inconsistent and dumb player). Before that? DeMarco Murray in 2011 (3rd round) who is no longer on the team.

This front office has overloaded on defensive players and offensive linemen (which is fine), without making the slightest efforts to ensure that we are maximizing those areas of strength.

We knew Zeke could be suspended this year. Did we make any effort to ensure that his replacement kept the offense working at a similar capacity with him gone? No we didn't. We knew Tyrone Smith had back issues and we let Leary walk and let Doug Free retire. Did we make significant investments to patch up the line? No we didn't. We relied on Green who showed consistently that he was unreliable. We moved Collins to a new position.

If this team relies on offensive line and running game to work, what efforts did we make to ensure they still worked as well as they did last year?

Did we improve the defense this year with the full belief it would be better than last year?

No we didn't...

The lack of free agent moves was farcical. The cowboys are hoping and praying for a time period that won't really present itself.

We have 24.2 million in dead money this year. So the Cowboys didn't want to make moves. They want to wait til that money falls off and then potentially invest in some players, but soon even an average QB like Prescott will cost you a bunch of money. We still have 13.4 million in dead money next year.

The patriots have like 5.6 million in dead money.

They don't have 14 million tied up in an underperforming WR or 9/10 million in a DT/DE.

 

[erod]

I think this might be a win win. I also think he could replace JG at some point. He has a great relationship with Dak and they respect each other. Our play calling has been horrendous and we need a change, I really was hoping to wake up to today and see that Linehan was fired..

How many $150 million players take 90-hour-per-week coaching jobs?