CFZ This sounds familiar

[Whyjerry]

Climb off the ledge, it’s only May 4th. Jeez the quitters here.

I know right? I mean it’s only been 30 years. What’s the rush?

 

[Montanalo]

Remember the 2018 off-season? Our front office decided we didn’t need expensive WRs. We can “develop our own”, and even find some cheap decent receivers in free agency. After releasing Dez Bryant, the Cowboys signed FA Allen Hurns, kept slot receiver Cole Beasley, still had a very diminished Terrance Williams. We drafted Michael Gallup in round three but he was almost a year away from finding himself. It didn’t go well.

Fast forward to mid-season 2018. The Cowboys were struggling offensively with essentially no WR to seriously threaten the defense. With no big receiving threat, DCs stacked the box and made the Cowboys offense crawl into the late October bye with a 3-4 record. So much for not needing any marquee receivers.

So Jerry picked up the phone and acquired talented young receiver Amari Cooper from the Raiders in exchange for the Cowboys 2019 first round pick. (a WR trade? Now that sounds very familiar!) The good news was Cooper was an immediate help and the Cowboys went 7-2 the rest of the season. We made the playoffs and beat the Seahawks in a wild card game that January. Only to get rolled by the rams in the divisional round.

Fast forward to the 2024 off-season. Tony Pollard is gone. The Cowboys chose not to draft a RB. We are in the midst of retooling our OL and made a big effort to address that in the draft with Tyler Guyton and Cooper Bebee. But we have chosen to re-sign the ancient, declined Zeke Elliottt while pretending that Rico Dowdle and Chihuahua sized Deuce Vaughn will be plenty good to build a good running game around. Jerry says Zeke still has “RB1 qualities”. Wow.

So…this 2024 off-season is starting to sound eerily familiar. Is a trade for a RB in the future? Before midseason? Or will we find a decent one in late summer cuts? Just in time for the regular season when the real games that matter begin. SMH. This sounds too familiar.

I made the observation in another thread that the Cowboy's FO isn't a learning organization - thanks for the excellent example.

Over the last few decades, the Cowboys have had their best success with a featured RB. I don't necessarily mean a round 1 or 2 RB but rather, a dependable workhorse. They don't have that now and are unlikely to find one in the FA market later in the year. The end result is that even more of the offense will be on Dak's back.

With all that said, I am glad they didn't make an ill-fated trade in the draft or FA for a back.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

12:00am starts a new day, may still be night but it’s a new one.

 

[Motorola]

BH, I hear you. Cowboys need a legit weapon at RB and a legit WR2.

This is going to be a struggling season, especially after having the hardest schedule out of all 32 teams.

Mentioning the schedule --- the NFL release date for the 2024 season should happen either later this week or the next. (Last year it happened on May 11th.)
I commented in a couple of threads earlier this year that the I believe the Cowboys will be the Panthers' opponent for their International Series game in Germany this upcoming season.
Besides Dallas, the only marquee teams on Carolina's home schedule are Cincinnati and Kansas City.
Since KC played in Germany last year against the Dolphins, they won't be going overseas again in 2024.
That leaves the Bengals and Cowboys to be prime candidates for a matchup with a team coming off a 2-15 season with a QB in his 2nd year plus a new, rookie HC.
It will be the Cowboys IMO.

 

[shabazz]

Remember the 2018 off-season? Our front office decided we didn’t need expensive WRs. We can “develop our own”, and even find some cheap decent receivers in free agency. After releasing Dez Bryant, the Cowboys signed FA Allen Hurns, kept slot receiver Cole Beasley, still had a very diminished Terrance Williams. We drafted Michael Gallup in round three but he was almost a year away from finding himself. It didn’t go well.

Fast forward to mid-season 2018. The Cowboys were struggling offensively with essentially no WR to seriously threaten the defense. With no big receiving threat, DCs stacked the box and made the Cowboys offense crawl into the late October bye with a 3-4 record. So much for not needing any marquee receivers.

So Jerry picked up the phone and acquired talented young receiver Amari Cooper from the Raiders in exchange for the Cowboys 2019 first round pick. (a WR trade? Now that sounds very familiar!) The good news was Cooper was an immediate help and the Cowboys went 7-2 the rest of the season. We made the playoffs and beat the Seahawks in a wild card game that January. Only to get rolled by the rams in the divisional round.

Fast forward to the 2024 off-season. Tony Pollard is gone. The Cowboys chose not to draft a RB. We are in the midst of retooling our OL and made a big effort to address that in the draft with Tyler Guyton and Cooper Bebee. But we have chosen to re-sign the ancient, declined Zeke Elliottt while pretending that Rico Dowdle and Chihuahua sized Deuce Vaughn will be plenty good to build a good running game around. Jerry says Zeke still has “RB1 qualities”. Wow.

So…this 2024 off-season is starting to sound eerily familiar. Is a trade for a RB in the future? Before midseason? Or will we find a decent one in late summer cuts? Just in time for the regular season when the real games that matter begin. SMH. This sounds too familiar.

I will respond by asking , Can we run the ball with a LESSER offensive line talent and LESSER Rb talent?..... because we couldn't last season and if we are one dimensional again, it won't matter what glue horse WR Jerry finds in the pasture.

When they brought Amari in we had a top 5 offensive line and a top 3 running back........this time, not so much

The rebuild will have no positive effect on the 2024 season.....patience.

 

[cowboybish]

Only difference Jerry can't afford to trade a number 1 2025 draft pick to obtain a #1 running back. Got to save that for potential quarterback, wide receiver or offensive line position. Easier just to accept the retooling year and start over with new coaches in 2025. For all we know, Jerry already has someone in mind already. Just playing out the 2024 script.

Jerry doesn’t have a whole Lotta days left to be playing out anything

 

[morasp]

RBs are generally more affordable than WR1s.

 

[Bobhaze]

Bob, it’s May 4th.

Rock, it’s an opinion forum.

 

[shabazz]

Rock, it’s an opinion forum.

And this is the time and place to speculate because it's only May 4th

We look at FA acquisition (or lack thereof) and the draft and debate on the fruits of those choices........as we have nothing else concrete.

IF we had extended Dak, Ceedee and Micah AND acquired a few Blue Chip free agents AND traded up in the draft the conversation would be 180 degrees different.

I don't take any pleasure in pointing out all of these things but it's not just a few of us doing it......the entire national media, not controlled by Jerry, is aping the same message.

However, I am absolutely STOKED that we are appearing to do things differently here and if that means short term pain for a new long lasting philosophy that will, get us to the promised land , IM ALL IN!

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

How could anyone forget watching the know-it-all Jones FO tuck their tails between their legs and go get Cooper; despite digging their heels in all that summer “WR by committee”

This FO is a joke, they often cling to mimicking what other successful teams trend instead of paving their own ways to success.

 

[75boyz]

Remember the 2018 off-season? Our front office decided we didn’t need expensive WRs. We can “develop our own”, and even find some cheap decent receivers in free agency. After releasing Dez Bryant, the Cowboys signed FA Allen Hurns, kept slot receiver Cole Beasley, still had a very diminished Terrance Williams. We drafted Michael Gallup in round three but he was almost a year away from finding himself. It didn’t go well.

Fast forward to mid-season 2018. The Cowboys were struggling offensively with essentially no WR to seriously threaten the defense. With no big receiving threat, DCs stacked the box and made the Cowboys offense crawl into the late October bye with a 3-4 record. So much for not needing any marquee receivers.

So Jerry picked up the phone and acquired talented young receiver Amari Cooper from the Raiders in exchange for the Cowboys 2019 first round pick. (a WR trade? Now that sounds very familiar!) The good news was Cooper was an immediate help and the Cowboys went 7-2 the rest of the season. We made the playoffs and beat the Seahawks in a wild card game that January. Only to get rolled by the rams in the divisional round.

Fast forward to the 2024 off-season. Tony Pollard is gone. The Cowboys chose not to draft a RB. We are in the midst of retooling our OL and made a big effort to address that in the draft with Tyler Guyton and Cooper Bebee. But we have chosen to re-sign the ancient, declined Zeke Elliottt while pretending that Rico Dowdle and Chihuahua sized Deuce Vaughn will be plenty good to build a good running game around. Jerry says Zeke still has “RB1 qualities”. Wow.

So…this 2024 off-season is starting to sound eerily familiar. Is a trade for a RB in the future? Before midseason? Or will we find a decent one in late summer cuts? Just in time for the regular season when the real games that matter begin. SMH. This sounds too familiar.

Excellent comparison. By fortifying the o-line without having a legit RB1 to run behind it does make me agree with your speculation here Bob.

Theres a decent chance somebody not on the roster with some decent legs still left will prolly end up being our bell cow.

At least I hope.

 

[Creeper]

Yes, we overpaid for Amari Cooper then got fleeced when we traded him to Cleveland. This is the Jerry way of doing things.

 

[Aven8]

Outside of Mighty Mouse I don’t see any hope at the position. Maybe the speedster kid out of Stanford as well. Having said that they will pound Zeke because he is Jerry’s boy and makes the most.

Going to be a super slow football team offensively….

 

[KingintheNorth]

So basically, you are predicting the Cowboys will send their 2025 1st round pick to Pittsburgh for Najee Harris? Wonderful.

 

[tunahelper]

Bob, it’s May 4th.

What is your projection for the ground game? Will we stick with the same room we have now and will they produce?

 

[Redsfan_83]

As always we are dumpster diving. It doesn't matter what the cap situation is, we dumpster dive when possible

 

[DallasMike]

Remember the 2018 off-season? Our front office decided we didn’t need expensive WRs. We can “develop our own”, and even find some cheap decent receivers in free agency. After releasing Dez Bryant, the Cowboys signed FA Allen Hurns, kept slot receiver Cole Beasley, still had a very diminished Terrance Williams. We drafted Michael Gallup in round three but he was almost a year away from finding himself. It didn’t go well.

Fast forward to mid-season 2018. The Cowboys were struggling offensively with essentially no WR to seriously threaten the defense. With no big receiving threat, DCs stacked the box and made the Cowboys offense crawl into the late October bye with a 3-4 record. So much for not needing any marquee receivers.

So Jerry picked up the phone and acquired talented young receiver Amari Cooper from the Raiders in exchange for the Cowboys 2019 first round pick. (a WR trade? Now that sounds very familiar!) The good news was Cooper was an immediate help and the Cowboys went 7-2 the rest of the season. We made the playoffs and beat the Seahawks in a wild card game that January. Only to get rolled by the rams in the divisional round.

Fast forward to the 2024 off-season. Tony Pollard is gone. The Cowboys chose not to draft a RB. We are in the midst of retooling our OL and made a big effort to address that in the draft with Tyler Guyton and Cooper Bebee. But we have chosen to re-sign the ancient, declined Zeke Elliottt while pretending that Rico Dowdle and Chihuahua sized Deuce Vaughn will be plenty good to build a good running game around. Jerry says Zeke still has “RB1 qualities”. Wow.

So…this 2024 off-season is starting to sound eerily familiar. Is a trade for a RB in the future? Before midseason? Or will we find a decent one in late summer cuts? Just in time for the regular season when the real games that matter begin. SMH. This sounds too familiar.

How about when they let Murray go and thought they were okay? The following year they felt the need to draft Zeke.

 

[Established1971]

Remember the 2018 off-season? Our front office decided we didn’t need expensive WRs. We can “develop our own”, and even find some cheap decent receivers in free agency. After releasing Dez Bryant, the Cowboys signed FA Allen Hurns, kept slot receiver Cole Beasley, still had a very diminished Terrance Williams. We drafted Michael Gallup in round three but he was almost a year away from finding himself. It didn’t go well.

Fast forward to mid-season 2018. The Cowboys were struggling offensively with essentially no WR to seriously threaten the defense. With no big receiving threat, DCs stacked the box and made the Cowboys offense crawl into the late October bye with a 3-4 record. So much for not needing any marquee receivers.

So Jerry picked up the phone and acquired talented young receiver Amari Cooper from the Raiders in exchange for the Cowboys 2019 first round pick. (a WR trade? Now that sounds very familiar!) The good news was Cooper was an immediate help and the Cowboys went 7-2 the rest of the season. We made the playoffs and beat the Seahawks in a wild card game that January. Only to get rolled by the rams in the divisional round.

Fast forward to the 2024 off-season. Tony Pollard is gone. The Cowboys chose not to draft a RB. We are in the midst of retooling our OL and made a big effort to address that in the draft with Tyler Guyton and Cooper Bebee. But we have chosen to re-sign the ancient, declined Zeke Elliottt while pretending that Rico Dowdle and Chihuahua sized Deuce Vaughn will be plenty good to build a good running game around. Jerry says Zeke still has “RB1 qualities”. Wow.

So…this 2024 off-season is starting to sound eerily familiar. Is a trade for a RB in the future? Before midseason? Or will we find a decent one in late summer cuts? Just in time for the regular season when the real games that matter begin. SMH. This sounds too familiar.

chichuahua lol
yo quiero good running back

 

[Established1971]

There will be some good RBs on the waiver wire and other teams practice squads.

and the UFL, dont forget them, their season ends June 16

https://www.foxsports.com/ufl/stats...yds&season=2024&seasonType=reg&sortOrder=desc

 

[Bobhaze]

How about when they let Murray go and thought they were okay? The following year they felt the need to draft Zeke.

Good example. Reactive rather than proactive. Too often repeating and chasing mistakes instead of learning from them and growing.