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https://bleacherreport.com/articles...ediocre-dak-prescott-and-his-mediocre-cowboys
There's No Silver Lining for Mediocre Dak Prescott and his Mediocre Cowboys
....Linehan is the most likely candidate to lose his job, or at least his play-calling duties, once the roulette wheel of blame stops spinning. That's how the NFL works: Coordinators are ritually sacrificed to preserve head coaches and quarterbacks, as well as general managers in cases where the front office isn't ruled by a hereditary monarchy.
Linehan, like most long-tenured NFL offensive coordinators, looks like a genius when given outstanding personnel, but he's just another guy with a headset when he doesn't have a future Hall of Famer or two to work with. Play-calling was easy with three All-Pro linemen, Bryant and Jason Witten in the huddle in 2016. Replace Bryant and Witten with Deonte Thompson and Geoff Swaim—and take away Travis Frederick, who was diagnosed with a rare illness in August—and those play-action passes suddenly no longer look like tactical wizardry....
....Mediocrity is baked into the current Cowboys. Mediocre ownership is saddling mediocre coaches with mediocre receivers and dragging a once-promising quarterback into the mediocrity while truly good former Cowboys quarterbacks and receivers comment from the booth or couch. What we saw in Week 1 is what we're going to get for the rest of the season, no matter who draws up the plays.
There's No Silver Lining for Mediocre Dak Prescott and his Mediocre Cowboys
....Linehan is the most likely candidate to lose his job, or at least his play-calling duties, once the roulette wheel of blame stops spinning. That's how the NFL works: Coordinators are ritually sacrificed to preserve head coaches and quarterbacks, as well as general managers in cases where the front office isn't ruled by a hereditary monarchy.
Linehan, like most long-tenured NFL offensive coordinators, looks like a genius when given outstanding personnel, but he's just another guy with a headset when he doesn't have a future Hall of Famer or two to work with. Play-calling was easy with three All-Pro linemen, Bryant and Jason Witten in the huddle in 2016. Replace Bryant and Witten with Deonte Thompson and Geoff Swaim—and take away Travis Frederick, who was diagnosed with a rare illness in August—and those play-action passes suddenly no longer look like tactical wizardry....
....Mediocrity is baked into the current Cowboys. Mediocre ownership is saddling mediocre coaches with mediocre receivers and dragging a once-promising quarterback into the mediocrity while truly good former Cowboys quarterbacks and receivers comment from the booth or couch. What we saw in Week 1 is what we're going to get for the rest of the season, no matter who draws up the plays.
