Sturm makes bold statement on the incompetence of the 2022 offseason

[Mr Cowboy]

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

Gallup was a good WR3 behind Cooper and Lamb. He was not a good WR2 coming off an injury last year. He'll be a highly paid WR3 this year, but I have doubts that he will be better after getting paid.

 

[Mr_437]

Gallup was a good WR3 behind Cooper and Lamb. He was not a good WR2 coming off an injury last year. He'll be a highly paid WR3 this year, but I have doubts that he will be better after getting paid.

You think the money will change him?
Imo, it's more of a health issue.

 

[Rockport]

This is one of the most stupidest things I heard from Sturm or anyone else.

It’s absolutely the truth and what is intelligent fans have been saying for months now.

 

[jazzcat22]

It’s absolutely the truth and what is intelligent fans have been saying for months now.

So are you calling me stupid then?
calling others stupid Just because they don’t agree with you?
clarify your comment.

 

[RonWashington]

This is one of the most stupidest things I heard from Sturm or anyone else.

Sturm likes to hear himself yak . And when you get paid to yak you take yourself too seriously .

 

[Beast_from_East]

This is one of the most stupidest things I heard from Sturm or anyone else.

How is it stupid when the front office admitted at the combine that they totally screwed up the WR position last year?

Gallup was a gimp, he was as shell of his former self and Tolbert played WR at South Alabama, not Alabama, he was in no way shape or form ready to compete at the NFL level.

Outside of CD Lamb, our best receiver was T.Y. Hilton who they found sitting on his couch.

If the 2nd best WR on the team was sitting on his couch eating Oreos, then you have officially botched the position, no way to sugar coat it and even Stephen Jones admitted as such at the combine.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

We've seen worse set of receivers on other years. To me its just more whining and excuses about our lack of post season success. It's not the talent when we can have regular season success but then are not competitive in the Post season. It doesn't matter who your receivers are if you don't fix the culture/leadership of this team. You can always have talent that under performs with the wrong culture and no leadership.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

So are you calling me stupid then?
calling others stupid Just because they don’t agree with you?
clarify your comment.

when someone sees an analyst on the internet that agrees with them, that makes them intelligent. If they see an analyst that counters their point, then that analyst doesn't know what they are talking about.

 

[Kwyn]

Sturm likes to hear himself yak . And when you get paid to yak you take yourself too seriously .

You think? He’s more connected and informed that 99% of the fans and he takes his job pretty seriously. He spends loads of “unpaid” time researching his opinions.

He’s not just some radio guy that shows up and punches the clock while firing off random opinions.

Pretty sure you’re just limping him in with the “evil media”.

Plenty of them suck but he at least puts in the work.

 

[jazzcat22]

How is it stupid when the front office admitted at the combine that they totally screwed up the WR position last year?

Gallup was a gimp, he was as shell of his former self and Tolbert played WR at South Alabama, not Alabama, he was in no way shape or form ready to compete at the NFL level.

Outside of CD Lamb, our best receiver was T.Y. Hilton who they found sitting on his couch.

If the 2nd best WR on the team was sitting on his couch eating Oreos, then you have officially botched the position, no way to sugar coat it and even Stephen Jones admitted as such at the combine.

It was a stupid comment. I stand by my post.

 

[eromeopolk]

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 will say it again, trading for Amari Cooper was the best move Jerry Dumbo GM Jones has made since messing up everything at the Owner's meeting spring 1994. Then he did the worst thing giving away Amari Cooper to the Browns thinking Cee Dee Lamb was better than Amari Cooper.

Jerry Dumbo GM Jones and Dez Bryant fooled everyone but me that James Washington, who was not a speedster, and could not seperate from NFL DBs at Pittsburgh was the answer. Also, that a one legged WR, Gallup, coming off and ACL would be effective in his first year after surgery. Even Michael Irvin could not pull that off with his renowned work ethic. Tolbert, a 3rd round WR was a stretch to start let alone be an effective 3rd or 4th WR on the roster.

The issue you have with Brandin Cooks, is the concussion issues. His skill set has always been speed, quickness, agility. However, he has a lot of rust after wasting the last in Houston. How do you get that rust off without risking training camp injury?

The Cowboys need a young WR that can be the 3rd WR and replace Cooks by the end of the season for the no.2 WR spot this year. That person is not on this roster.

 

[Kwyn]

We've seen worse set of receivers on other years. To me its just more whining and excuses about our lack of post season success. It's not the talent when we can have regular season success but then are not competitive in the Post season. It doesn't matter who your receivers are if you don't fix the culture/leadership of this team. You can always have talent that under performs with the wrong culture and no leadership.

I would be interested in WR depth over the years that was worse than 2022.

It would surprise me to find more than one or two rosters that could compete with that level or journeymen, injured dudes and spare parts.

CeeDee
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Bunch of straight up spares

 

[ConstantReboot]

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.

We had all the chance to replace Amari with someone else. Yet all they did was lineup Brown opposite of Lamb. Shows how clueless this FO really is to think that Noah Brown is the answer.

 

[loublue22]

We mostly lack quickness, I wish we could find a good slot guy.

 

[Beast_from_East]

We mostly lack quickness, I wish we could find a good slot guy.

Exactly................the Cowboy's WR were ranked 32nd in separation according to next gen stats.

This means the majority of their receptions were contested..........which I think they use 1 yard or less as the definition of contested catch.

That is also why we saw so many balls that were tipped or bounced of the wr end up being interceptions, because the defender was always right there when the catch was trying to be made.

Cooks should help in this regard a lot.

 

[CouchCoach]

Is this the first time this brain trust has misjudged the WR talent on the team?

Most would have learned after having to trade for Cooper in season that they overestimated the quality of their WR corps. They didn't even have a true WR1 to start that season.

But long before the media and fans notice the problem, the DC's and DBC's notice it and begin a clamp down effect on the QB and offense. At least one receiver has to worry the DC.

There are a lot of good QB's in the NFL but damned few that can thread the needle when under duress. This "throwing the receiver open" is not accomplished but by a handful of QB's and even they're not consistent enough at it.

I've seen a thread bragging about Prescott making the most tight window throws.......while leading the league in picks with 5 fewer games. This QB is not Rodgers, the best I have ever seen in threading the needle.

 

[phildadon86]

We mostly lack quickness, I wish we could find a good slot guy.

Jayden Reed

 

[Creeper]

I think this is an obvious statement. The Cowboys left some holes in the roster after free agency and had to chase positions in the draft. They went into the season thinking Dennis Houston would be an answer at WR because he had success against scrubs in preseason. Then they tried to make Tolbert, a rookie, the guy to play every WR positions and overestimated his ability to absorb all that.

The simple fact of the matter is, they gave away a top WR for practically nothing and did not replace him. It was just a bad plan. But at the same time they hit on a few decisions. Tyler Smith turned out to be a stud, but more importantly they were right about Terence Steele. They got some luck when McGovern turned out to be better than expected and Biadasz improved greatly from the prior season.

Still, they made a mistake depending on Tyron Smith and their defensive tackles. They save those mistakes by acquiring Peters and Hankins.

Overall though, I woul dhave to give them at best a D for last offseason.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Then he did the worst thing giving away Amari Cooper to the Browns thinking Cee Dee Lamb was better than Amari Cooper.

That's not the reason Cooper was traded.

 

[eromeopolk]

That's not the reason Cooper was traded.

Regarding Amari Cooper, I Was not giving a reason. Before making a dumb trade (giving away Amari Cooper), I was giving fact that Jerry Dumbo GM Jones should have known.

As proven in 2022 what was known in 2021, Lamb was not better than Cooper yet, James Washington had no value in Pittsburgh (this I gave reasons) so he had no value in Dallas, Gallup was not ready to come back, and Tolbert was a stretch to be a no.2 WR as a 3rd round pick.

Like passing on Randy Moss, trading Amari Cooper was just Dumbo GM decision making.