Sturm makes bold statement on the incompetence of the 2022 offseason

[Kwyn]

Sturm has been angry since the Cooper trade and this is just an extension of that.

At the end of the day we have replaced Cooper with Cooks and are paying him 40% less for about the same production. Lamb will continue to improve. His route running took a huge leap last year.

The question mark is about WR3. Would you like a surer thing than Gallup and Tolbert? Gallup will be two years and fully recovered from his injury but he was clearly physically diminished last season as evidenced by the absence of his staple go routes. Tolbert is a small school prospect. He could end up anywhere. He was clearly unreliable from an assignment standpoint last year.

I guess so but I am much more worried about LG, NT, RB2 and TE2. WR is definitely in the discussion though, just look at their visits.

Huh. People dog Sturm for being a homer. He’s usually pretty consistent.

 

[Strol]

Draft one more guy in round 1-3

2-3 Dallas simply cannot win a Super Bowl with the 25th best passing blocking in the NFL. First round O-line is a must.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Sturm's take on Gallup is way off base.

Way WAY off base IMO.

 

[Risen Star]

Anyone that thinks Gallup was capable of returning to his 2021 form 9 months after going through tendon surgery does not understand the physical demands of NFL football.

Gallup was injured in game 16 of the 2021 season. The 2022 season gave us Gallup at about 70%. The 2023 season will be different, Gallup is an excellent receiver.

Do we need more receivers. Sure, so long as they are an upgrade to what the Cowboys have at #4. However, the first three receivers are solid.

Sturm's take on Gallup is way off base.

But he's talking about the 2022 Gallup. The guy you say was 70% of his former self and that guy absolutely was a JAG.

 

[ESisback]

He was talking about last year

No cooks
Gimped gallup
Noah Brown.

What have a sub and read the article. He didn’t say what you are claiming he said

Yeah bro, you’re right. I didn’t read it. It’s a natural reflex anymore. Everyone criticizes Dallas, deserved or not. I’m just responding to the tiresome perception that never seems to stop—incompetent fools who don’t care, guaranteed to fail.

 

[Risen Star]

More idiocy from Sturm, which has become the norm from him since he sold his soul for afternoon drive.

So you think the WRs were fine last year and the Cowboys just decided to use less 11 personnel than recent years because of how super awesome our TEs were?

 

[ChuckA1]

Clearly wasn't the wide receivers... the water boy did it!

 

[TwoDeep3]

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.

I have expressed over and over since the end of the game against the 9ers that the team had an unbalanced offense going in which was made worse by Pollard's injury. I don't always agree with Sturm, but he hit the nail on the head with this opinion.

Dallas seems incapable of building a team on both sides of the ball in the same season. The attrition of aging players, and limited talent of questionable players, leaves rebuilding to a quality outcome to be multi-year at best. And now the rubber meets the road with problematic decisions on a WR corps that seems half-arsed by the front office. And the offensive line.

Welcome to 2022 2.0 as far as the WR's go. Back in 2001 Jerry traded down and then traded back up to draft Quincy Carter in the second round. Why does the trading of Amari Cooper, to go one year looking like a community college team at WR, to then trade for Cooks resemble the Carter miscarriage?

Last year was there one fan on this site who actually thought and expressed the run defense would be sufficient? Now we see the offensive line later in the year eroding. So what does the front office do? They bring back an OT who struggles to play half a season. And on top of that he will play a position he hasn't played much at all.
The guy they have penciled in at guard would be better off unloading trucks at Nebraska Furniture. They plan on introducing Steele as the swing player for the line after he wrecked his knee later last year. Yeah, don't allow the guy to heal completely.

What you witnessed in the 9ers game was an offense that was not competitive. It had no running game after the second quarter, and no passing game from the first kick-off.

This team will be moderately competitive. Just enough to end up picking on the back end of rounds in next years draft. It's a pity the NFL doesn't give a mediocrity trophy. Dallas would look like the Patriots and their Super Bowl wins.

 

[Risen Star]

There were times outside of lamb that Ty looked like the only wr that was prepared and understood what was going on. Which is absolutely sad considering he was a late season acquisition

I would not hate bringing him back but I doubt he'd be interested in a 4th WR role.

 

[gtb1943]

Did it count against the Bucs the week before? Was that win or go home?

It must have been one of those schemes that only thrives during the regular season and wild card round.

Only a football moron boasts of beating a losing team. As pathetic as that Bucs team was, probably 20 teams in the NFL could have scored just as many
And some here are actually DUMB ENOUGH to think it matteres?

 

[Risen Star]

Only a football moron boasts of beating a losing team. As pathetic as that Bucs team was, probably 20 teams in the NFL could have scored just as many
And some here are actually DUMB ENOUGH to think it matteres?

You just solved the problem. It's not the scheme. It's the talent.

 

[Kwyn]

Yeah bro, you’re right. I didn’t read it. It’s a natural reflex anymore. Everyone criticizes Dallas, deserved or not. I’m just responding to the tiresome perception that never seems to stop—incompetent fools who don’t care, guaranteed to fail.

I hear ya. It’s hard, especially around here, where there are so many loud voices who just try to stir the pot,

 

[Jumbo075]

I think it was a mistake to count on Gallup to be 100% last season.

It’d be another mistake to overcompensate and figure that he still won’t be right for the coming one.

Tolbert was the big mistake.

Overrating Noah Brown for what seems like the fifteenth season in a row was another.

And in a similar manner, it is unwise to rely on Tony Pollard to be healthy in 2023. That is why drafting a RB is very important this year.

 

[Jarntt]

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.

It’s just an incorrect statement to say we couldn’t even run our offense, so using that as a starting point is already flawed. Gallup should be better than he was last year. CeeDee should keep improving. Cooks is a huge addition. Will Tolbert be good enough to play? I have no clue but finding a #4 WR is pretty easy and anyone worried about that in April when we have issues elsewhere is odd. Our top 3 plus Sturm himself as our #4 is good enough.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Huh. People dog Sturm for being a homer. He’s usually pretty consistent.

He has been consistently angry and running a "have they done enough to replace Cooper" narrative ever since.

 

[buybuydandavis]

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.

We chose Gallup and Schultz over Cooper, and they both underperformed.

 

[CWR]

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.

Always the conundrum. If you ask some here, everyone sucks. Somehow with a trash qb, wrs and coach we win 12. It doesn't make any sense.

 

[EST_1986]

This team needs 12 all-pro receivers so for some "unknown" reason

 

[gtb1943]

This team needs 12 all-pro receivers so for some "unknown" reason

I would be happy with 3.

 

[Aven8]

When you start the season with Dennis Houston and Noah Brown as your two other WR’s you have problems. Also, when Schultz went down for a spell you played Fergs and Hendershot and they flourished, but than never to be seen again. Remember the dart down the sideline pass to Hendershot for the TD?

That’s why Moore is in LA now folks.