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This team gets better the most swiftly by having a really high draft pick (hopefully top 2) and trading back with a team just behind them that really needs a QB and trades back multiple times but still stays in that top tier of blue chip players. That’s the best case scenario with Dak returning. No lag time on QB maturation.
 
This team gets better the most swiftly by having a really high draft pick (hopefully top 2) and trading back with a team just behind them that really needs a QB and trades back multiple times but still stays in that top tier of blue chip players. That’s the best case scenario with Dak returning. No lag time on QB maturation.

We aren’t winning next year anyways.

Give me Trevor Lawrence and a cheap contract over our version of Alex Smith.
 
This team gets better the most swiftly by having a really high draft pick (hopefully top 2) and trading back with a team just behind them that really needs a QB and trades back multiple times but still stays in that top tier of blue chip players. That’s the best case scenario with Dak returning. No lag time on QB maturation.
Honestly, My Answer to the original question, the team improves most swiftly starts with something that won’t happen- Jerry steps aside.

Now, to the other faster ways to improve:
  • Start with recognizing this team’s reality IMO- it’s not as talented a roster as Jerry or most of us had thought- on both sides of the ball. Yes we have a really, really bad defense. But I’m very concerned about Tyron Smith and maybe La’el Collins too. I could see Ty Smith calling it a career. The neck and back stuff he’s dealing with are the kinds of things that usually signal decline- fast. We do have talent on offense like WR, QB and RB (although declining) But this offense needs some upgrades too. Defense is obviously needing help more though.
  • Develop a long term philosophy based on these questions: What kind of team are we trying to be? What kind of player gets us there? The answers to those questions should drive every personnel decision that is made with this team. In drafting and free agency. That’s what great organizations do- they know what they’re trying to be and select people that help them get there. Look at Pitts and Balt for example. They know what kind of players they want.
  • Along the same lines, decide once and for all- what kind of defense are you trying to build? Is this 4-3, 4-2-5, 3-4/4-3 hybrid. For gods sake, decide what you are and draft accordingly. This team seems to change defensive philosophies like laundry. If you don’t have a guiding philosophy, you drift like the wind. Unfortunately, that’s the way our GM runs this thing.
Conversely, if you’re serious about getting better fast, that will not happen by getting rid of Dak. I don’t care if you draft Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields. Even with those guys talent, there are zero guarantees that they are “the answer”- certainly not in the first two years. The constant drum beat for a stud QB at this point seems naive and a little overconfident that having TL solves our problems. It won’t.
 
The best thing about teams having a General manager is they are forced to quickly move on from mistakes early and often. We do not have that. There is no downside for stephen extending zeke too early when it comes to personal accountability. Cutting poe and worley was the right move but it was also an easy move to make with no dead money and a little cap savings. But we still haven't moved on from crawford or lee who neither are the future of our franchise and likely walk away in free agency.
 
It doesn't improve swiftly. It is farther away than it is close.

This thinking "they're only a few players away" is nothing more than selling yourself they're better than they really are.

The fact is they do not have the talent to be a true contender and there are few shortcuts and even fewer for one bragging about not being an early player in FA.

"We like our guys" is like the blind man thinking he's married to a beautiful woman. I picked her, she must be beautiful.

It's not about "swiftly", with this brain trust is is all about whether that can happen in any time frame.

Is anyone here really expecting these people to get smarter or any better at their jobs? If you are, I'd like to know what makes you feel that way.

If you are one of those that expect people to get better because they keep trying to do the job, I can show you a lot of exceptions to that and I know them personally.

Here's the problem with thinking experience makes people better. If experience is a teacher and the consistent gaining of knowledge, it can help. If it is just the simple passage of time, it cannot. From your observation of these people, are they really experienced or have they just been on the job for a long time?

One person learns from their mistakes so as to not make the same ones to better achieve the results. The other man keeps making the mistakes hoping the results turn out better.

The real problem for us. Doesn't matter because there are no repercussions from mistakes. In fact, it is such a business model oddity, it keeps increasing in value regardless of the mistakes.
 
This team gets better the most swiftly by having a really high draft pick (hopefully top 2) and trading back with a team just behind them that really needs a QB and trades back multiple times but still stays in that top tier of blue chip players. That’s the best case scenario with Dak returning. No lag time on QB maturation.

Jones Sells Cowboys for Record Price!

That's how the team improves swiftly. Draft anyone you want. The same bozos have been doing the drafting since the mid-90s.
 
It doesn't improve swiftly. It is farther away than it is close.

This thinking "they're only a few players away" is nothing more than selling yourself they're better than they really are.

The fact is they do not have the talent to be a true contender and there are few shortcuts and even fewer for one bragging about not being an early player in FA.

"We like our guys" is like the blind man thinking he's married to a beautiful woman. I picked her, she must be beautiful.

It's not about "swiftly", with this brain trust is is all about whether that can happen in any time frame.

Is anyone here really expecting these people to get smarter or any better at their jobs? If you are, I'd like to know what makes you feel that way.

If you are one of those that expect people to get better because they keep trying to do the job, I can show you a lot of exceptions to that and I know them personally.

Here's the problem with thinking experience makes people better. If experience is a teacher and the consistent gaining of knowledge, it can help. If it is just the simple passage of time, it cannot. From your observation of these people, are they really experienced or have they just been on the job for a long time?

One person learns from their mistakes so as to not make the same ones to better achieve the results. The other man keeps making the mistakes hoping the results turn out better.

The real problem for us. Doesn't matter because there are no repercussions from mistakes. In fact, it is such a business model oddity, it keeps increasing in value regardless of the mistakes.
Fans are more in a hurry to get better than the Jones boys. They are the most content FO I have ever seen in my 56 years of watching football. No one named Jones ever has to work with their job being on the line.

30 other NFL owners hire people who’s arse is on the line to win within a reasonable time frame. Like 3-5 years. Not 25. So no, no one in the owner’s suite is in any hurry. And even if they were, they don’t have a clue how to do it anyway.
 
There are no quick fixes. We have GM who wouldn't be hired as a GM by any other team. We have a Head Coach who wouldn't be hired by any other team as a head coach. We have a defensive co-ordinator who wouldn't be hired by any other team as a defensive co-ordinator. We have an offensive co-ordinator who.....you guessed it. Fix this, and that's a start.
 
The best thing about teams having a General manager is they are forced to quickly move on from mistakes early and often. We do not have that. There is no downside for stephen extending zeke too early when it comes to personal accountability. Cutting poe and worley was the right move but it was also an easy move to make with no dead money and a little cap savings. But we still haven't moved on from crawford or lee who neither are the future of our franchise and likely walk away in free agency.
I will never understand the Crawford deal. Years ago, I understood they were trying to lock him in on the cheap. But he has been bad for a long time. Why pay him a bloated contract to suck when we had other options. His dead money was minimal.
 

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