This team needs to evaluate some players

[RJ_MacReady]

I'm done with Wilcox. This isn't about piling on from yesterday's performance, but from reaching back into my memory bank from last year. He's not a FS and Church is a waaay better tackler than him (no matter how much people said that it wasn't Wilcox's fault for getting burned by the Commanders last year), so he ultimately doesn't fit. I don't even think, with his inability to instinctively take angles, he'd be good on S/Ts. Right now, he makes Heath look more valuable to us.

Hayden. What can't be said about this dude?

RoMac: Something is wrong with him again. He flashed last year, but has been playing like a JAG this season.

Hardy: I'd like them to resign him but I think we screwed the pooch on $$$ we can allocate to the defense with T. Crawford's signing. I originally backed extending Tyrone (though not for THAT much $$), but am constantly wiping egg from my face each and every game he gets handled by the opponents O-line.

T.Crawford: We're stuck with him.

Carr: The usual, take a paycut or hit the bricks. I don't think he's that bad, but he's certainly no "lock down" CB as he is being paid (again...mirroring thoughts that have been expressed everywhere).

Claiborne: Same as above. Sign a cheap deal or walk. Spoiler alert: He walks, signs a bigger deal and plays decent for another team.

Street: Let him walk. He has not played as advertised. He's the Dunbar of the receiving corps.

RB: We need two new ones next season. A quality FA RB and one from the draft. Cut bait with Michaels and let Dunbar walk if it is contractually feasible.

Weeden: I hear Home Depot is hiring.

Cassell: Keep him. Give his right arm a healthy dose of roids. I mean, full-on Rocky IV training in the Russian Farm house montage. He may be a veteran that can pick-up the playbook faster than a rookie, but going through a full T/C can do wonders. He's not great, but good enough.


And that's all I've got.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Good idea but what if the evaluators have questionable judgement?

There's a question about this?

 

[Cmac]

Good idea but what if the evaluators have questionable judgement?

....then we'll have a grading curve. A 2-6 curve, but maybe the field trips will remain safe. Tampa Aquarium, here they come.

 

[jobberone]

If and when we get mathematically eliminated then they can do like they do in preseason and evaluate.

Most of the players, coaches and FO work hard all year for the chance to compete. You going to take a player like Witten and throw the towel in. It looks grim for sure but most players won't quit even they do get eliminated.

 

[Chuck 54]

Teams may or may not put a win in question with certain game decisions...maybe playing for draft position. But no one sits a healthy QB of any age; no one pulls quality starters to develop or look at inferior players for the next year. If a team of men who literally put their physical well being and future on the line every play of every game see that a coach is throwing a game he could win, for any reason, you might as well fire that coach because no team will follow him after that.

Even the last two teams in contention for the #1 pick in the draft try to win in the final week. Why? Because 1) that's how you have to play football. 2) because they all know that the draft is a huge crapshoot no matter which pick you have.

The only teams that overtly throw games are those who have secured a playoff spot and can't even change their position with a win. Those teams, including the Cowboys, tend to sit their stars.