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a lot was exposed on this team when Romo was out and how much he was helping to mask.
Obviously the defensive short comings. Not sure why but I had high hopes for this defense this off season and its been a disaster. this is no where close to a dominant defense, nor are they physical like the Carolina and Seattle defense and punish you during the game. we are soft. we are bend and break defense. our 3rd down defense sucks and its been that way for years. the lack of talent except in certain spots is evident.
our WR depth was clearly exposed as none of them were able to step up and were all nothing but special role players or one trick ponies. when you have a Romo (or a brady), then they can make any WR look good. its clear that Romo makes Williams look good for the few plays that he can run the right routes. much like what brady does for the WR corp at new England.
all of this points to me that we lack talent and in the NFL, outside of a few coaches (Tomlin, Bilicheck), the rest need talent to win. there is no denying that. so were are we failing?
over all our drafts have been pretty bad. outside of first round, we have no impact players drafted in the 2nd round and below in the past 7 years outside of Murray. Our scouting has lacked. We have been pretty good in hitting first rounders, but 2nd round and below has been awful Lawrance is the best of the bunch and he is ho-hum average player and has had no impact. carter in the second round was average. sean lee maybe good, but his reputation in college was injury prone and its the same in the NFL.
I understand some may point to Gregory as a potential impact 2nd rounder but he was a top ten talent that fell because of off field issues. Crawford just got a big contract. but he is not playing like it.
so we are trying to build a team with only first rounders. that's tough. I think if we are to clean house as many want, the next group of coaches will end up in the same boat, unless we fix our scouting. you have to find some impact players in lower rounds and you have to find solid contributors in lower rounds, none of which we have done.
Obviously the defensive short comings. Not sure why but I had high hopes for this defense this off season and its been a disaster. this is no where close to a dominant defense, nor are they physical like the Carolina and Seattle defense and punish you during the game. we are soft. we are bend and break defense. our 3rd down defense sucks and its been that way for years. the lack of talent except in certain spots is evident.
our WR depth was clearly exposed as none of them were able to step up and were all nothing but special role players or one trick ponies. when you have a Romo (or a brady), then they can make any WR look good. its clear that Romo makes Williams look good for the few plays that he can run the right routes. much like what brady does for the WR corp at new England.
all of this points to me that we lack talent and in the NFL, outside of a few coaches (Tomlin, Bilicheck), the rest need talent to win. there is no denying that. so were are we failing?
over all our drafts have been pretty bad. outside of first round, we have no impact players drafted in the 2nd round and below in the past 7 years outside of Murray. Our scouting has lacked. We have been pretty good in hitting first rounders, but 2nd round and below has been awful Lawrance is the best of the bunch and he is ho-hum average player and has had no impact. carter in the second round was average. sean lee maybe good, but his reputation in college was injury prone and its the same in the NFL.
I understand some may point to Gregory as a potential impact 2nd rounder but he was a top ten talent that fell because of off field issues. Crawford just got a big contract. but he is not playing like it.
so we are trying to build a team with only first rounders. that's tough. I think if we are to clean house as many want, the next group of coaches will end up in the same boat, unless we fix our scouting. you have to find some impact players in lower rounds and you have to find solid contributors in lower rounds, none of which we have done.
