Sydla's long thoughts of despair

[Sydla]

You're too emotional to even see logic, and now you're just putting words in people's mouths.

Have fun with that. Try not to hurt yourself.

Says the guy who put words in my mouth with the whole, "blow cap space on mediocre FAs" comment.

I am completely unemotional at this point. You are too wrapped up in your Garrett fanboi schtick to see reality.

He's a mediocre head coach and this franchise is going nowhere with him. 1 playoff win in 8 years. But yeah, I am the one who apparently has logic issues.

 

[cowboys1981]

Good points OP.

We need bigger; effective bodies at DT spot. Price is no McClain. We don't have a DT that commands a double team and it is freeing up a blocker to the second level almost on every run. On top of that we don't have a ball hawk safety that most elite defenses do. Byron Jones shouldn't be associated with the position safety moving forward. A safety should have some form of capability in taking the correct angle on a tackle. It almost seems as if he's scared to come up and hit.

Our young CBs are on an island of their own. You have a DC who can't scheme, a FS who can't make plays and a defensive front that can't consistently push the Oline, particularly on runs.

 

[kevm3]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jason Garrett needs superior talent across-the-board in order to get to the NFC Championshup or even the Super Bowl. He doesn't give us a coaching edge, and that's why in games we really need coaching, we come up short.

I had confidence in him earlier in his career. Not anymore.

And that's the fundamental problem with this coaching staff. They need elite talent at every position because we're trying to out talent the rest of the league running a 90s style program. You can't do that in the salary cap era because you will be outtbidded for your better players. In this era, two places where you better be great if you want long-term success is in the front office and the coaching staff. You can't keep a roster full of the best players for long, so your coaching staff better know how to get the most out of players and know how to draw up some amazing schemes and your front-office better know how to draft and utilize free agency to their advantage. The only area out of those I feel where we are above average is our draft. We did nothing in free agency, and does anyone ever really feel on gameday that our coaching staff is drawing up amazing plans that put our players in positions to win? I don't.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Neither is getting new talent or experience.

The best we can hope for is that some of the young guy on defense start to play better towards the end of the season.

But this could end up being a 7-9 season.

 

[CheapietheCheapskate]

That's exactly right. One team. All the rest are followers... Some a little closer than other.

They could all learn from his work ethic, accountability, creativity and never being satisfied and content. Garrett couldn't even be his pool boy.

 

[Broges74]

The team needs more defensive talent and experience.

That's the long & short of it.

The idea is correct. Our secondary needed an overhaul but the execution was severely lacking. All offseason, I kept asking why we were going to run with rookies and Heath without a fallback plan. Most people thought we'd be better than last year but I was seriously worried about what looked like a complete blowup and start over strategy that left us depending on Brown to repeat his rookie campaign and depend on a JAG Carroll.

I think JG was handcuffed by the FO this season and should be given one more season without being thrown under the bus via extremely optimistic FO moves.

 

[CyberB0b]

The team needs more defensive talent and experience.

That's the long & short of it.

We've been saying that since JG took over.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The idea is correct. Our secondary needed an overhaul but the execution was severely lacking. All offseason, I kept asking why we were going to run with rookies and Heath without a fallback plan. Most people thought we'd be better than last year but I was seriously worried about what looked like a complete blowup and start over strategy that left us depending on Brown to repeat his rookie campaign and depend on a JAG Carroll.

I think JG was handcuffed by the FO this season and should be given one more season without being thrown under the bus via extremely optimistic FO moves.

I think the moves were correct also.

This team wasn't going to go deep into the playoffs with last year's secondary.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

We've been saying that since JG took over.

And it's true.

The focus has been on the offense since Romo became the starter.

 

[Sydla]

The best we can hope for is that some of the young guy on defense start to play better towards the end of the season.

But this could end up being a 7-9 season.

Shame Awuzie is hurt again. I'd start playing him, Lewis and Woods predominantly at this point for experience. Take their lumps now.

Then give them a real defensive coaching staff this offseason.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Shame Awuzie is hurt again. I'd start playing him, Lewis and Woods predominantly at this point for experience. Take their lumps now.

Then give them a real defensive coaching staff this offseason.

Yeah, I'd support that.

 

[Zordon]

A team that cant find a way to upgrade Kyle Wilber year after year has become complacent beyond any serious will to improve.

Waiting for someone to chime in and tell me Wilber had a good game.....

lol i've been saying the same damn thing word-for-word for years. a guy like wilber is upgraded every year on 31 other teams. yet somehow in dallas he gets to qualify for a pension.

@Sydla i agree with everything you said. although the fade route was literally ZERO reward. even if we scored it was stupid. i know it won't happen but i'd like hear someone get called out publicly for that stupidity. there is no reason Rodgers should have got the ball back with more than 30 seconds. no reason.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

We've been saying that since JG took over.

The front office has focused on making this team "QB friendly" for a long time.

 

[Zordon]

Shame Awuzie is hurt again. I'd start playing him, Lewis and Woods predominantly at this point for experience. Take their lumps now.

Then give them a real defensive coaching staff this offseason.

Yeah, I'd support that.

The thought of Garrett getting another 4-5 years to implement a new defensive staff is very depressing.

 

[mahoneybill]

Here's a quote from Sturm's blog: (Hope I can post this?)

"Green Bay wins again, 35-31. They won in the playoffs, 34-31. The Rams won last week, 35-30. If you are wondering if the Cowboys offense can protect its defense, the answers here are pretty clear. In fact, thanks to football writer Scott Kacsmar we have this ominous statistic to chew on: Since 2010, the Cowboys are only 15-10 in home games in which they score at least 30 points. 10 losses is double that of any other team in the NFL over that span. The league wins 89% of the time over that span. New England is 40-2, Green Bay is 28-1, Denver is 24-2, and Seattle is 21-2. Basically, nobody ever loses home games win scoring 30 points besides the Jason Garrett-era Dallas Cowboys. They have lost 10 times in 25 chances."

Thanks for that stat... Shows how bad our D's have been when given in the vast majority of cases enough points by the rest of the team to win the game the vast percentage of times....

 

[mahoneybill]

The best we can hope for is that some of the young guy on defense start to play better towards the end of the season.

But this could end up being a 7-9 season.

With this D and our schedule could be 6-10 or even worse....

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Rodgers had 220 yards yesterday.......as bad as you guys think these young rookies are........they are doing a better job than those vets did and those vets wouldn't have done any better.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

With this D and our schedule could be 6-10 or even worse....

I'd take that.

My feeling is if you can't be first you might as well be last.

 

[Sydla]

I'd take that.

My feeling is if you can't be first you might as well be last.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The thought of Garrett getting another 4-5 years to implement a new defensive staff is very depressing.

If nothing else, the defense needs more talent.