Sturm makes bold statement on the incompetence of the 2022 offseason

[nalam]

No doubt that the WR Corp last year was thin. We all knew that. Why else was their all that OBJ talk?

2023s WR Corp is a marked improvement. Hopefully the unknown production at TE will not negate this

Fergie and Hendershot performed when given opportunities and block better than mr.whiff schultz, so hopefully it wont be a drop.

but with Lamb, Cooks and better Gallup, plus better experienced Tolbert and pick from ‘23 draft we should have enough at WR ( obviously injuries cant account) . Wouldn't mind Hilton brought back for reasonable price, he showed much better maturity and understanding last year.

 

[gtb1943]

Ownership are incompetent fools who don’t care, our HC and QB suck, OL and WR is weak, Zekesucks and Pollard is injured and underused—how in the HELL did we go 24-10 with playoffs the last two years? Yeah yeah, we’re short of our glory years standard, but we sure ain’t Cleveland!

AT LEAST WE AIN'T CLEVELAND.

That is so pathetic.

 

[ghst187]

This is the issue I’m having with a lot of this hindsight opinions….if Dak sucks, Mike can’t coach, Zeke is finished….receivers suck….how in the hell did we win 12 games? Especially with Jerry at GM? It’s not adding up.

Mostly the D, esp the first half of the season.

I still believe that had Jerry not ran Amari off we win another game or two. I tend to agree with Sturm’s comments, I don’t know if we stopped running our offense but we had to panic sign TY for a reason and outside of Ceedee…no one got any separation. I hope Gallup surprises me but I thought it was a mistake to sign him to a substantive contract. He is decent but even before the injury could never separate. Cooks was an absolute minimum addition to a subpar position group but is he enough? Gallup HAS to be better and Ceedee and Cooks stay healthy or may be problems.

 

[OmerV]

His point is they did alter the offense and use more 12 and 13 personnel than 11.

But surely Lamb, Cooks and Gallup with an extra year of recovery is better than Lamb, Noah Brown and Gallup just coming back from surgery.

Sure, we can't say for sure how that will translate on the field, but teams always go into the season with some questions.

 

[Mr_437]

If anyone thought Gallup was going to be pre-ACL Gallup with that short of recovery time is an idiot.

 

[cmoney23]

I can't link it. You know where he is. In his most recent piece he makes the following statement when asked how the personnel packages on offense will change this year under McCarthy.

After breaking down their personnel usage last season he says the following:

Somehow, this team was so ill-prepared at receiver that it had to basically stop running its offense because it did not have NFL wide receivers anymore.

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Whoa. Now let's say he's right. Pretty damning of the front office but does Brandin Cooks change that? Obviously he helps but is that enough? Are we going to rely on a rebuilt (and overrated) Michael Gallup and a Jalen Tolbert sighting (other than a few blurred images floating around the internet) so we are free to run the offense we want to run this year?

I like Brandin Cooks and he certainly is worth the cost to obtain him but the WR position still makes me feel uncomfortable. I want to surround Prescott with so many weapons that even he can beat the 49ers in January.

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AdminEdit:

This thread is about RECEIVERS, not Dak Prescott.

Does not matter if you are a Dak hater or homer. Use one of the many other threads to post your constantly repeated opinions on Dak.

CeeDee over the course of a 17-game season put up some nice numbers... but he struggled at points and honestly was a bit of a liability in moments. By the end of the year, he proved he could be "the guy" but, while I'm very hopeful, I'm not sure he can level up again.

outside of CeeDee... I would agree with the comment:

did not have NFL wide receivers anymore

Gallup was a shell of his former self
Noah Brown is a 4th WR at best
and the young guys didn't pan out.

Cooks is a nice player but he isn't the answer. But he causes a bigger problem.

You start adding up the salaries of the WR room and you are investing a lot for not a lot.

 

[America's Cowboy]

I can't link it. You know where he is. In his most recent piece he makes the following statement when asked how the personnel packages on offense will change this year under McCarthy.

After breaking down their personnel usage last season he says the following:

Somehow, this team was so ill-prepared at receiver that it had to basically stop running its offense because it did not have NFL wide receivers anymore.

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Whoa. Now let's say he's right. Pretty damning of the front office but does Brandin Cooks change that? Obviously he helps but is that enough? Are we going to rely on a rebuilt (and overrated) Michael Gallup and a Jalen Tolbert sighting (other than a few blurred images floating around the internet) so we are free to run the offense we want to run this year?

I like Brandin Cooks and he certainly is worth the cost to obtain him but the WR position still makes me feel uncomfortable. I want to surround Prescott with so many weapons that even he can beat the 49ers in January.

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AdminEdit:

This thread is about RECEIVERS, not Dak Prescott.

Does not matter if you are a Dak hater or homer. Use one of the many other threads to post your constantly repeated opinions on Dak.

Totally agree with Sturm. Everyone can see it. This team needs another top talented WR. I won't be surprised if the Cowboys target WR with one of their first 3 round picks. Let's just hope they choose wisely.

 

[CWR]

How much you wanna bet?

Oh, an internet bet with a stranger. These are always super serious, pink slips?

Honestly his numbers last year were crap. Those will improve, but quantifying his role as the third option is challenging. I think in order to justify his contract his impact will have to be that of a wr2/3. He was signed because he's shown he can put up 1200yds in a season. He's going to need to be close to 1k. I think he'll manage that, a year recovered from injury.

 

[ESisback]

I get what your saying, and yeah thats a valid point, to the thread its probably more like..The team Dr was too optimistic on MG's return, we missed on what Tolbert could do year 1 (we have had plenty of draft wins this one didnt break well year 1) and James washington was a 50/50 that broke the wrong way also..I think Wilson gets retained if they could see the future but after Cooper and Jerry had public disagreement on a certain issue there is no way Cooper comes back...that is the one thing you can not do here as a player..scuff at the coach or other players, thats ok, publicly go against Jerry and your gone.

Yep

 

[ESisback]

Yes. A sentence buried into a Q&A was made to generate clicks.

You guys really need to come up with new excuses.

Well, you can fuss all you want. I’m not gonna!

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Mostly the D, esp the first half of the season.

I still believe that had Jerry not ran Amari off we win another game or two. I tend to agree with Sturm’s comments, I don’t know if we stopped running our offense but we had to panic sign TY for a reason and outside of Ceedee…no one got any separation. I hope Gallup surprises me but I thought it was a mistake to sign him to a substantive contract. He is decent but even before the injury could never separate. Cooks was an absolute minimum addition to a subpar position group but is he enough? Gallup HAS to be better and Ceedee and Cooks stay healthy or may be problems.

Yeah but then the defense tailed off eventually. I mean they couldn't stop anyone from Minshew, Dobbs, Texans QB's.....defense peaked first 6 or 7 weeks of the season it seemed.

I don't disagree that the receiving group could be better but I can't say worst in the league. My issue was more so the playbook and what the receivers were asked to run. Corners knew their routes better than they did it seemed.

 

[Whyjerry]

Brown is a special teams guy and a 5/6 receiver. That he was 2/3 is a disgrace. I also think believing Gallup would be 100 pct would be enough to get people fired. Knees ALWAYS take a year. ALWAYS. Tolbert was also not ready. I think a redshirt year will be perfect for him. Gallup will be back. Cooks will cook. Lamb is a star. They are fine now.

 

[Risen Star]

If anyone thought Gallup was going to be pre-ACL Gallup with that short of recovery time is an idiot.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I think Sturm went too far.

BUT expecting Gallup to be 100% was a BIG MISTAKE and clearly the worst one they made as regards WRs.

When you put a lot of faith in hope you will get disappointed more often than not.

Now I'm worried about tackle. Steele coming off an ALC and Tyron is sketchy.

 

[Big_D]

Cooks will be fine. Much better situation than last year. The fact that they thought Washington was gonna be that guy was just a terrible call, then they did absolutely nothing after he got hurt which was pretty baffling.

 

[darthseinfeld]

I can't link it. You know where he is. In his most recent piece he makes the following statement when asked how the personnel packages on offense will change this year under McCarthy.

After breaking down their personnel usage last season he says the following:

Somehow, this team was so ill-prepared at receiver that it had to basically stop running its offense because it did not have NFL wide receivers anymore.

-

Whoa. Now let's say he's right. Pretty damning of the front office but does Brandin Cooks change that? Obviously he helps but is that enough? Are we going to rely on a rebuilt (and overrated) Michael Gallup and a Jalen Tolbert sighting (other than a few blurred images floating around the internet) so we are free to run the offense we want to run this year?

I like Brandin Cooks and he certainly is worth the cost to obtain him but the WR position still makes me feel uncomfortable. I want to surround Prescott with so many weapons that even he can beat the 49ers in January.

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AdminEdit:

This thread is about RECEIVERS, not Dak Prescott.

Does not matter if you are a Dak hater or homer. Use one of the many other threads to post your constantly repeated opinions on Dak.

Its probably why they are hard at the WR's at 26.

They made almost as bad a mistake this year as the did the WR By Committee year of 2018. At least in 2022 they knew they had Lamb, but they knew Lamb was going to miss the first quarter of the season and their solution was a vet minimum they liked the year he was drafted

 

[darthseinfeld]

Bengals
JaMar Chase Draft grade 7.12 R1 P5
Tyler Boyd Draft grade 6.4 R2 P24
Tee Higgins Draft grade 6.37 R2 P1

Cowboys
Cee Dee Lamb Draft Grade 6.81 R1 P17
Jalen Tolbert Draft Grade 6.21 R 3 P24
Michael Gallup Draft Grade 6.2 R3 P17

Cooks was a necessity and with 8 WRs with starting grades in this years draft (last year there were 5) it would be an absolute crime to let two third round picks stop them from drafting one of them.

Higgins is probably a #1 on 75% of NFL teams

 

[noshame]

But as we added receivers the play book continued to shrink. When we discovered Pollard was such a weapon the tree still shrunk. Then there were the talented young TEs.
Not sure this was on the missteps of the FO..
Lord knows I blame Jerald for lots!!

 

[T-RO]

At the beginning of the season receiver room was obscenely thin.

Cowboys still do need a receiver 4 who can scare some people. Not sure this draft has enough options to make that happen.

 

[CWR]

I'm not dismissing him but as a FO building a team this is a legit concern in my opinion, to me these 2 statements are not the same.."MG should be fine but we are going to hedge our bet with this WR or pick"..."Our WR core is fine MG will return to form"...

Wouldn't that be why they picked up Cooks though? Gallup is running as a wr3 this season. As far as those go there are very few teams who have legit 1k wrs at the position. Cincy is the only that comes to mind quickly.