The Stomach

[Sully]

Bryan Broaddus has mentioned this point several times:

The Jones do NOT have the stomach to make the hard choices. They enjoy being comfortable and riding it out.

Buffalo and the Vikings got rid of their best WR-- Stephen Diggs. He was a pain in the butt for both teams. And both teams have gotten better getting
rid of their best WR. ( No I am not saying get rid of Lamb).

Packers TWICE moved on from legendary QBs: Favre and Rodgers. Moved on. And they just keep moving along. Got rid of their best RB, who went to Minnesota and got another one.

Dallas shown they don't want to change by signing a QB, who is not a difference maker to a NFL record contract. Jerry couldn't stomach it by moving along after the embarrassments vs 49ers and Packers in the playoffs. Dallas/Jerry loves to sign their own. From players and coaches like Zimmer.

 

[Bagman]

Exactly. Part of being risk averse is laziness. They're too lazy to put in the effort required to change things. The other factor is stupidity. They just don't know what they're doing. Period.

 

[Sully]

Exactly. Part of being risk averse is laziness. They're too lazy to put in the effort required to change things. The other factor is stupidity. They just don't know what they're doing. Period.

Can't argue that....

 

[Hardline]

You would think an owner and GM that has no threat of losing his job would take lots of chances and moves.
It's the total opposite.

 

[sunalsorises]

Dallas has made some hard choices. They let Demarco Murray walk. They got rid of Amari Cooper. They cut Romo (and Aikman). Don't confuse hard choices with correct choices.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

And Philly dumped Wentz who had just made the playoffs 3 of the last 4 seasons, and Minnesota dumped Cousins who was their entrenched franchise QB that won 13 games just the season before, and Washington is immediately being rewarded for starting over at the QB position, and LA Rams traded away their pro bowl QB and immediately made the playoffs 3 of the next 4 years, and Pittsburgh moved on from their 1st round QB and immediately (maybe) won their brutally difficult division, Houston traded away their franchise QB and 3 years later has won their division back to back seasons, and Tampa Bay had Brady retire after an 8-10 season and went with whatever was available in the FA pool.

All those teams are having great playoff seasons today. No, not every scenario is exactly 1-to-1 to Dallas’, but the connecting factor is every team had either a qb issue or a good-not-great QB, decided to move on, and is better for it.

 

[noshame]

Well, the good news is for us East coasters. We should have less night games next year. That's for sure.

 

[WillieBeamen]

Whats ironic is they did make the hard decision in sticking w Dak over Romo and it proved to be the wrong decision

Why they doubled down and tripled down on sticking w Dak these last 9 years is beyond me

 

[WillieBeamen]

Add LA moving on from Goff for Stafford just 2 years removed from a SB appearance

 

[Hawkeye0202]

IDK .........if they don't have the balls for tough decisions, just hire a GM and give him the key.

 

[Flamma]

We don't know that they regret signing him. Besides that, if they post June 1st cut him, it's a 90M and 62M dead cap for the next two years. If you're going to do something drastic like that, there should be some logic behind it.

Releasing him after this season is not a smart choice just by the numbers. They'd be taking roughly the same cap hit over the next two years with or without him. If they just wait one year, the numbers get way better. The difference is night and day. That also gives them a chance to implement any plan B they might have. There is no plus side to doing it after this season. That's if they want to do it in the first place.

 

[Flamma]

Add LA moving on from Goff for Stafford just 2 years removed from a SB appearance

That wasn't a hard decision. They didn't have a 152M dead cap and they upgraded the position at the time. Our situation is akin to driving your car into a lake and then making payments on it.

 

[Mannix]

Exactly. Part of being risk averse is laziness. They're too lazy to put in the effort required to change things. The other factor is stupidity. They just don't know what they're doing. Period.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Early candidate for post of the week

 

[Mr_437]

Stomach = lazy. They don't want to do the work to make the changes.

 

[Plankton]

Stephen definitely has the stomach for cheeseburgers, but not so much for running a football team.

 

[Johannes44]

Look around the league at what the most competitive teams are doing, they are constantly churning their rosters getting better. They try something and if it works great, if not, they don't wait around but cut and move on.

 

[FanofJerry]

Creating a voodoo doll and enslaving it is trash lazy

 

[John813]

You would think an owner and GM that has no threat of losing his job would take lots of chances and moves.
It's the total opposite.

This is the Jones duo.
They are so smug in their decisions they enjoy their own farts.

 

[MapleLeaf]

We don't know that they regret signing him. Besides that, if they post June 1st cut him, it's a 90M and 62M dead cap for the next two years. If you're going to do something drastic like that, there should be some logic behind it.

Releasing him after this season is not a smart choice just by the numbers. They'd be taking roughly the same cap hit over the next two years with or without him. If they just wait one year, the numbers get way better. The difference is night and day. That also gives them a chance to implement any plan B they might have. There is no plus side to doing it after this season. That's if they want to do it in the first place.

The right decision is to let Dak come back this upcoming season. Everyone has an opinion on Dak. Let's see what Dak 3.0 looks like. 1.0 Rookie Dak. 2.0 Horrible ankle injury Dak. 3.0 Is torn hamstring Dak.

I would give him 2025, and see what he can do. It could be that both injury and decreased physical ability makes the decision easy for the team.

If he balls out, then I would look to trade him because his salary cap is a burden to building a younger team, and we have way too many holes to fill with Dak occupying that much space for the next three years.

 

[john van brocklin]

Bryan Broaddus has mentioned this point several times:

The Jones do NOT have the stomach to make the hard choices. They enjoy being comfortable and riding it out.

Buffalo and the Vikings got rid of their best WR-- Stephen Diggs. He was a pain in the butt for both teams. And both teams have gotten better getting
rid of their best WR. ( No I am not saying get rid of Lamb).

Packers TWICE moved on from legendary QBs: Favre and Rodgers. Moved on. And they just keep moving along. Got rid of their best RB, who went to Minnesota and got another one.

Dallas shown they don't want to change by signing a QB, who is not a difference maker to a NFL record contract. Jerry couldn't stomach it by moving along after the embarrassments vs 49ers and Packers in the playoffs. Dallas/Jerry loves to sign their own. From players and coaches like Zimmer.

Yup, they love their guys!
Players, Coaches ect....