The GM is getting just what he deserves

[CouchCoach]

We are just witnesses but this is all by design and the result of consciously planning this.

First off, let me say that after Rivera was gone, McC was my choice but I made an assumption that has not come to be yet. I assumed that he spent that year off, after being fired, in introspection and seeing just why his successor took his team to the NFCCG except for 3 changes on his team, the Smith's and Amos, the best FA D haul since FA began.

The GM decided on a passing HC for a run first team. Say what you will about his predecessor but he understood what this team was built to do. He was a running HC, he learned the game that way and he'd try to stay with that to a fault. But he knew the strength of his team as well as the need to protect the weakness.

The GM is so infatuated with the passing game and wants one of those high octane offenses that he spent his 1st pick on a luxury item at WR and the excuse here is "ya gotta take him at 17". Nothing against Lamb, he's a good player, but 7 other GM's passed him by for a D player and 4 for an OL. He used the pick on an O skill position on the #1 O in the league with a mediocre D and aging and disintegrating OL.

That's like being out of food and giving someone money to go to the store and they return with a new pretty watch. He is too enamored with himself and his own ego to be making that pick.

Let the best pass rusher and cover CB walk and give the WR1 20M after giving the RB 15M. Now all he needed was a HC to showcase his toys and who better than a WCO guy with two HOF QB's.

The problem with the team was the HC had been there too long and the stories were getting old and the defense was always an afterthought, both in coaching and player acquisition. So he hires a passing HC who hires a journeyman DC with little to his credit. Problem not fixed, problem disregarded.

You are not getting what you deserve, you deserve better for your support. But this GM deserves exactly what he is getting because it's all by design. Won't happen but there was another Texas GM that needed to take a walk. The one that always gets what he wants.

 

[Mk2_Cowboys]

Yup sums it up nicely .
Reality is going to hit the GM in the face when cowboys drop one to the giants and are in last place next Monday morning .

 

[jazzcat22]

In January it was GREAT...new coach and staff...it is what we needed and wanted...we got it. Our GM finally did the right thing.
The 3 days of the draft...our GM was great as he stuck to the draft board presented to him. What more could you have asked for. He seemed to have nailed it. AND CeeDee was the correct choice, hands down. Shiny new watch or not.
A very unfortunate off season as it could not be the GM's fault. But yet 4 games into a very unpredictable season, and still put it all on the GM?

The GM is not infatuated with the passing game.

4 games into the season, And it looks bleak, but hardly all on the GM. Though ultimately it is as he is the one that can make changes. But way too early for that. Though a change in DC would suffice at the moment.

 

[Future]

The running game doesn't matter other than as an accessory to the passing game.

 

[dsturgeon]

starting RT (collins)
starting TE (jarwin)
starting MLB (vander esch)
starting Corner (awuzie) and corner (brown)
maybe starter DT (MCCoy)
LB (Lee)
LT (Smith) out half the games so fa

All out with injuries

New head coach, New Defensive Coordinator, New Special teams coach, very little off season, and no preseason games.

Got to give them some time. It is a good thing The NFC east sucks. All you have to do is get in the playoffs

 

[glimmerman]

We fall behind and abandon the run. Then we hand off to Elliot and he is fumbling. That fumble Sunday was a killer. A 20 yard gain.

 

[CouchCoach]

In January it was GREAT...new coach and staff...it is what we needed and wanted...we got it. Our GM finally did the right thing.
The 3 days of the draft...our GM was great as he stuck to the draft board presented to him. What more could you have asked for. He seemed to have nailed it. AND CeeDee was the correct choice, hands down. Shiny new watch or not.
A very unfortunate off season as it could not be the GM's fault. But yet 4 games into a very unpredictable season, and still put it all on the GM?

The GM is not infatuated with the passing game.

4 games into the season, And it looks bleak, but hardly all on the GM. Though ultimately it is as he is the one that can make changes. But way too early for that. Though a change in DC would suffice at the moment.

Yes, I put it all on the GM. It is the GM's job to select the HC as well as acquire the talent through the draft and FA and with some GM's, establish the identity of the team and build toward that. So, it is all his fault as this is his design.

You've got a bunch of players sleepwalking through the games and playing poorly but on all other teams, I would fault the coaching staff but not on this one. This coaching staff has to run the game plan by the GM for his approval. Don't deal with players without his permission.

 

[lukin2006]

We are just witnesses but this is all by design and the result of consciously planning this.

First off, let me say that after Rivera was gone, McC was my choice but I made an assumption that has not come to be yet. I assumed that he spent that year off, after being fired, in introspection and seeing just why his successor took his team to the NFCCG except for 3 changes on his team, the Smith's and Amos, the best FA D haul since FA began.

The GM decided on a passing HC for a run first team. Say what you will about his predecessor but he understood what this team was built to do. He was a running HC, he learned the game that way and he'd try to stay with that to a fault. But he knew the strength of his team as well as the need to protect the weakness.

The GM is so infatuated with the passing game and wants one of those high octane offenses that he spent his 1st pick on a luxury item at WR and the excuse here is "ya gotta take him at 17". Nothing against Lamb, he's a good player, but 7 other GM's passed him by for a D player and 4 for an OL. He used the pick on an O skill position on the #1 O in the league with a mediocre D and aging and disintegrating OL.

That's like being out of food and giving someone money to go to the store and they return with a new pretty watch. He is too enamored with himself and his own ego to be making that pick.

Let the best pass rusher and cover CB walk and give the WR1 20M after giving the RB 15M. Now all he needed was a HC to showcase his toys and who better than a WCO guy with two HOF QB's.

The problem with the team was the HC had been there too long and the stories were getting old and the defense was always an afterthought, both in coaching and player acquisition. So he hires a passing HC who hires a journeyman DC with little to his credit. Problem not fixed, problem disregarded.

You are not getting what you deserve, you deserve better for your support. But this GM deserves exactly what he is getting because it's all by design. Won't happen but there was another Texas GM that needed to take a walk. The one that always gets what he wants.

We are not usually in the loop about players in practice. I find it hard to believe they missed an opportunity at 17. Someone on the team should have known what we had in Wilson and Brown. Pretty sure we'd have been fine without Lamb...and I like Lamb...but this D had too many holes and free agent money should have gone to Jones and Quinn. And where has Griffin been...might be a reason he didn't get signed by another team.

 

[glimmerman]

Yes, I put it all on the GM. It is the GM's job to select the HC as well as acquire the talent through the draft and FA and with some GM's, establish the identity of the team and build toward that. So, it is all his fault as this is his design.

You've got a bunch of players sleepwalking through the games and playing poorly but on all other teams, I would fault the coaching staff but not on this one. This coaching staff has to run the game plan by the GM for his approval. Don't deal with players without his permission.

I haven’t hear them having to run the game plan by JJ. If that’s true then it’s wrong and JJ should be spanked and sent to his yacht.

 

[dsturgeon]

We are not usually in the loop about players in practice. I find it hard to believe they missed an opportunity at 17. Someone on the team should have known what we had in Wilson and Brown. Pretty sure we'd have been fine without Lamb...and I like Lamb...but this D had too many holes and free agent money should have gone to Jones and Quinn. And where has Griffin been...might be a reason he didn't get signed by another team.

After next year with you as GM, do you have the money to sign Gallup, or do you let him go? If Gallup goes do you have a real number 2?

I would have signed Jones over zeke, but it didnt work out.

If you knew they were getting rid of the marijuana policy, would you sign quinn, or go with smith and gregory? both are better than quinn.

Hard to deal with you Starting MLB, Starting corner, 3rd corner, and really good back up LB going down with injuries. That is a large part of the secondary.

 

[CouchCoach]

I haven’t hear them having to run the game plan by JJ. If that’s true then it’s wrong and JJ should be spanked and sent to his yacht.

He said it himself and I was shocked. Other GM's might do that but not openly share it.

And I do not think the game plans are suspect as that is pure strategy. Garrett had some good game plans but when it came to tactics when it's not going according to plan, he was not good.

I think there is one huge similarity between Garrett and McC because of the ability of their QB's to improvise. I think a lot of warts on the game plan and play calling got covered up by the plays the QB's could make.

 

[glimmerman]

He said it himself and I was shocked. Other GM's might do that but not openly share it.

And I do not think the game plans are suspect as that is pure strategy. Garrett had some good game plans but when it came to tactics when it's not going according to plan, he was not good.

I think there is one huge similarity between Garrett and McC because of the ability of their QB's to improvise. I think a lot of warts on the game plan and play calling got covered up by the plays the QB's could make.

Well I don’t think at this point Dak is the problem. The Offense is putting up points. Not liking the throwing it as much. But falling behind is happening every game. Our Defense can’t get a stop and if we do make them punt we get it pretty far back.

 

[Stash]

We are just witnesses but this is all by design and the result of consciously planning this.

First off, let me say that after Rivera was gone, McC was my choice but I made an assumption that has not come to be yet. I assumed that he spent that year off, after being fired, in introspection and seeing just why his successor took his team to the NFCCG except for 3 changes on his team, the Smith's and Amos, the best FA D haul since FA began.

The GM decided on a passing HC for a run first team. Say what you will about his predecessor but he understood what this team was built to do. He was a running HC, he learned the game that way and he'd try to stay with that to a fault. But he knew the strength of his team as well as the need to protect the weakness.

Sorry, you're never going to sell to anyone that Garrett was ever a "running HC". In fact, all stats point to the opposite, and the guy was even labeled as "pass happy". Revisionist history now won't float.

The GM is so infatuated with the passing game and wants one of those high octane offenses that he spent his 1st pick on a luxury item at WR and the excuse here is "ya gotta take him at 17". Nothing against Lamb, he's a good player, but 7 other GM's passed him by for a D player and 4 for an OL. He used the pick on an O skill position on the #1 O in the league with a mediocre D and aging and disintegrating OL.

That's like being out of food and giving someone money to go to the store and they return with a new pretty watch. He is too enamored with himself and his own ego to be making that pick.

Let the best pass rusher and cover CB walk and give the WR1 20M after giving the RB 15M. Now all he needed was a HC to showcase his toys and who better than a WCO guy with two HOF QB's.

The problem with the team was the HC had been there too long and the stories were getting old and the defense was always an afterthought, both in coaching and player acquisition. So he hires a passing HC who hires a journeyman DC with little to his credit. Problem not fixed, problem disregarded.

You are not getting what you deserve, you deserve better for your support. But this GM deserves exactly what he is getting because it's all by design. Won't happen but there was another Texas GM that needed to take a walk. The one that always gets what he wants.

I don't disagree that Jerry is getting what he deserves for some of his (and his idiot son's) decisions.

 

[CouchCoach]

After next year with you as GM, do you have the money to sign Gallup, or do you let him go? If Gallup goes do you have a real number 2?

I would have signed Jones over zeke, but it didnt work out.

If you knew they were getting rid of the marijuana policy, would you sign quinn, or go with smith and gregory? both are better than quinn.

Hard to deal with you Starting MLB, Starting corner, 3rd corner, and really good back up LB going down with injuries. That is a large part of the secondary.

That is true but every team is dealing with missing players and every GM must decide on his depth positions.

OK, you're GM, where do you have your depth? QB, RB and WR or LB and secondary where there are real questions with losing the best DB and injury issues at LB?

Booger is a follow the ball GM with an affinity for WR's.

 

[dsturgeon]

That is true but every team is dealing with missing players and every GM must decide on his depth positions.

OK, you're GM, where do you have your depth? QB, RB and WR or LB and secondary where there are real questions with losing the best DB and injury issues at LB?

Booger is a follow the ball GM with an affinity for WR's.

Cooper signed until 2025
Lamb here until 2025- on rookie deal
Gallup is here through next year.

There is a very good chance lamb becomes one of the top WR's in the league soon. You can't pass on that.

You now have the option of keeping Gallup or letting him go, and still having one of if not the top WR core in the nfl.

I agree about him liking WR's, and i personally like teams with good defenses, but taking Lamb was the right move.

They got Diggs 2nd round, and spent a first and 2nd on LB, bad luck there. It is very hard to have an elite offense and elite defense at the same time, one is always going to suffer

 

[HungryLion]

I’m sure the GM is suffering badly on his 250 million mega yacht right now.

poor guy.

 

[JJHLH1]

Worst GM in the history of sports.

Jimmy takes a 1-15 team and 4 years later has back-to-back Super Bowl trophies.

You’re fired.

 

[MyFairLady]

A Cowboys in a number 88 jersey caught 2 TDs on Sunday. This my friends is priority #1.

 

[MikeB80]

I heard Shaun Shariff this morning on the fan say that he was told by a source recently someone that he trusts that the cowboys front office was not even interested in Mike McCarthy until Jay Glazer had a long talk with Stephen Jones.

In the past I would have had a fairly passionate response to that. Now it makes complete sense to me. Nobody in the front office here knows what kind of team they are trying to build or how to do it. They just wing it and then promote the hell out of whatever decisions they flipped a coin on.

it would have been fun though if they hire Jay Glazer as head coach.

 

[CouchCoach]

Well I don’t think at this point Dak is the problem. The Offense is putting up points. Not liking the throwing it as much. But falling behind is happening every game. Our Defense can’t get a stop and if we do make them punt we get it pretty far back.

We knew the D would be problematic but few thought it would be this bad.

The QB is not the problem and the O is putting up a whopping 32 points a game but giving up a whoppier 36.5.

And this brings up the question of the game plan now. They just about have to go into it assuming the D is going to give up 35 to a good offense. They won't have that problem with the Giants this week, it takes them 3 games to get to 35.

If I am the HC and DC, I have to ask myself "what's going to change"? Getting some players back would surely help but when and how healthy? But the real problem is the other issue.

The other issue the coaches must face is the results of the film. Two previous weeks, those OC's saw the holes in the pass D, last week, that OC saw the huge hole in the run D. As the HC, can you fix both or fix one without making the other weaker and it's OC's choice now on any good offense. It is not the norm for a poor D to be so poor at both.