Unpopular Football Opinions That You Have

[UnoDallas]

Bill Parcells is one the most overated copaches in history

if it wasn't for Belcheck he never would had made to the playoffs

the only person he drafted that was any good was LT

Belcheck handled the D up there - once a Gaint always a Gaint

I hated Jerry for hiring that fat slob but also new he could build us a D

esp when Jerry talk with Del Rio - I think he would still be our coach

he got a 172 wins to 130 wins .569 per cent

he number 9 in wins

I will never recognize him as being a great coach

Bill Belichick
Parcells inherited him on the Giants staff, but eventually promoted him to defensive coordinator after two seasons.
He rejoined Parcells in New England, and with the New York Jets, where he served as Parcells’ assistant head coach for four seasons before becoming the Patriots head coach in 2000 after initially accepting the Jets job, where he would have worked under Parcells, who was then the top decision maker.

 

[Joe Realist]

Bobby Carpentar is a beast.

 

[Eskimo]

Re-signing the following players before last season was a colossal mistake and proves that you shouldn't pay large bonuses to old players:

TO (everyone can see this one in retrospect)
Flo (everyone can see this one in retrospect)
TNew - most here will still deny this one on the fragile one


I will also add that we shouldn't have given big contracts to unproven players:

Roy Williams as a #1 WR
MB3 as a #1 RB

 

[sonnyboy]

Wade Phillips is a pretty smart guy and a good head coach. He's a great DC. He brings a good bit to the table for us operating as a HC/DC. Any coach working like this really needs a strong and effective OC to pull it off. I think and hope Garrett can be that.

Free Agency has been a good thing for the NFL. Everyone loves to b**** and moan about the negatives, while seldom acknowledging the positives.

1) No more training camp holdouts. Everyone loves to complain about players changing teams and how that has hurt the quality of play and continuity. I call BS! In today's game with all the off season work put in, players are better prepare for the season than prior to FA.
Every single year prior to FA, your average team would have mutiple holdouts missing some or all of traing camp. And that was at a time with far less off-season work being put in so the holdout would oftem come in to play week one in piss poor shape and not get it together for a month!

2) No more mediocre 1st round picks making big money year after year even if their play didn't warrant it.
If you remember the pre FA system of guaranteed pay raises for players with expiring contracts.
Didn't matter how good you were. All that matter was where you were drafted and if the team wanted to keep you.
If you were a high first rd pick and played mediocre you were still guaranteed a min pay raise over your existing contract.

Defense doesn't win Championships. In actual fact it's no more important than offense. Now if you go back and look up the offensive and defensive rankings of each SB champion you will see that the average defensive ranking was in fact slightly higher than the average offensive ranking. That's the rational of the defense wins championships BS.
The reality is that the slighty higher average defensive ranking is simply a bi-product of winning. When you're winning big as SB champions often do during the season, you tend to play it conservative in the 4th Q to run out the game. You seldom find yourself down multiple scores late running a hurry up offense on mutiple possesions padding the offensive stats.

 

[sonnyboy]

I second many of these sentiments, but especially the one about Big Ben. Honestly, he might slightly below average. I know, look at the rings, blah blah blah, but his first year he was almost never asked to throw downfield, the supporting cast has been mentioned (he's in a Dilfer-like situation with the great D), and last year he really played pretty poorly overall. I think luck is just a big part of the game, and Big Ben has gotten lucky twice. Also, remember how good Leftwich looked when he came in for them.

1. Our enormous, slightly elderly O-line is built to crush defenses in September, and pant heavily in December, accounting for most of the famous late-season swoon (unfortunately, as much as I love him, this is particularly true for Flozell). I hope I'm wrong, because we haven't addressed the line very much. Fingers crossed that an emphasis on the run game will somehow make this better next season.

2. Anthony Spencer may be our best OLB. This one is gonna get me flamed, and I almost feel like I deserve it... but it is truly my opinion, and that is the topic here. DWare is a fantastic speed rusher... killer, and he is almost a lock-down when it comes to holding his edge, but he is not unblockable at all, last year many, many of his sacks were coverage sacks, and Ratliff's pressure inflated his numbers a bit too. He can kill certain tackles (even some great ones like Walter Jones), but sometimes he doesn't figure much in a game even without a doubleteam (I've watched). He's very, very, very good, but I don't think he's the second coming of Lawrence Taylor at all. And Spencer, from everything I've seen, is actually a similar player with a little less speed and a good bit more power, who can also shut down his edge of the line to the sweep but seems a little more versatile when rushing than DWare. Of course, he has maybe 4 1/2 sacks, so I have to base this off of potential rather than production, but I still wonder if he isn't going to turn out to be an even better player than Ware himself.

Don't get me wrong though... Ware is a fantastic player with a just about complete game (he can freaking cover the running backs downfield, geez) and I like almost everything about him; but he isn't the union of Deacon Jones and Dick Butkus that he's made out to be.

Just imagine how good our defense would be if you turn out to be right.

Just for the record, I'm a believer in Spencer. I really like his athleticism. But he's not as good as Ware and never will be. Doesn't mean he can't be a great player for us.

 

[UnoDallas]

Re-signing the following players before last season was a colossal mistake and proves that you shouldn't pay large bonuses to old players:

TO (everyone can see this one in retrospect)
Flo (everyone can see this one in retrospect)
TNew - most here will still deny this one on the fragile one


I will also add that we shouldn't have given big contracts to unproven players:

Roy Williams as a #1 WR
MB3 as a #1 RB

I say true on all except Newman

 

[Aikbach]

Dallas would NOT have won five straight Super Bowls with Jimmy Johnson as coach, he was on the verge of burning the team out.

Had Michael Irvin and Jay Novacek and Leon Lett not missed significant portions (or in Jay's case ALL) of the 1996 season, Brett Favre would not have a Super Bowl ring and Barry Switzer would have two.

Take away five minutes of bad football in 1994 and player suspensions in 1996 and dallas would've won five straight Super Bowls and Barry Switzer would go down as a coaching legend, the only man to three-peat.

 

[Four]

Flo (everyone can see this one in retrospect)

don't say everyone, because I think you are wrong, flo was injured, and you don't find his calibre of tackle very often whether you realize it or not.

 

[Aikbach]

If Deion Sanders hadn't of cheated against Michael Irvin in the 1994 NFC Championship Dallas would've three-peated and Sanders would never have been a Cowboy.

Had Erik Williams not been injured, then a wounded rookie named Larry Allen would have either been benched or moved to guard in the 1994 NFC Championship and Aikman would have had ace protection.

Norv Turner and Mark Stepnoski were the greatest free agent blows Dallas took in the 90s, everyone else that left was replaceable.

Steve Young is a whiner, coincidentally that rhymes with Niner.

 

[Skinsmaniac]

The league should contract to 24 teams.

Buffalo, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Tennessee, Minnesota, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, St. Louis would be my choices to go. Maybe Houston could be substituted for one of those teams.

 

[dadymat]

The league should contract to 24 teams.

Buffalo, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Tennessee, Minnesota, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, St. Louis would be my choices to go. Maybe Houston could be substituted for one of those teams.

i think the league should just contract to 31 .......my choice for team to go is :skins:



but really how could justify getting rid of Minny and Tenn? those are good solid franchises replace them with Cards and Seattle

 

[Avaj]

Vince Young will be a great quarterback in the future (if given a chance)
Reggie Bush is overrated
Jimmie Johnson should of NEVER been fired and Jerry should of apologize and try to get him to coach again
just a few of the top of my head, going to keep thinking

 

[TwoDeep3]

Vince Young will be a great quarterback in the future (if given a chance)
Reggie Bush is overrated
Jimmie Johnson should of NEVER been fired and Jerry should of apologize and try to get him to coach again
just a few of the top of my head, going to keep thinking

When you get this one right, you'll change the apology from Jerry to Jimmy.

Even Jimmy has stated he quit.

 

[OAM]

The exorbant amount of revenue generated from the gambling entity of this league does impact certain calls during certain games.

 

[Avaj]

When you get this one right, you'll change the apology from Jerry to Jimmy.

Even Jimmy has stated he quit.

Yep he did quit because he wanted to leave on his own terms. I still feel like Jerry owns him apologize. JMO, which I'm entitled too.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

The exorbant amount of revenue generated from the gambling entity of this league does impact certain calls during certain games.

I think the thread title mentioned "unpopular" not "delusional".

 

[Four]

Yep he did quit because he wanted to leave on his own terms. I still feel like Jerry owns him apologize. JMO, which I'm entitled too.

jimmy was at the grand opening of the new stadium, in jerry's suite.

I suspect they have hugged it out long ago.

 

[TwoDeep3]

Yep he did quit because he wanted to leave on his own terms. I still feel like Jerry owns him apologize. JMO, which I'm entitled too.

Yes, you are entitled.

However, when either Baltimore or Carolina came calling to interview Norv, and Jimmy went public saying, "Why would they want to talk with him when they can talk with me about their coaching job," while we were still in the hunt for the 93 Super Bowl, that showed who Jimmy really was.

I loved the results Jimbo brought. But loyalty means something.

If the Championship stage was so small that it accomodated Jimmy alone, then who would take the field and win the game?

Jimmy left because he always does. His terms is being generous.

 

[Monster Heel]

1) The rookie salary structure isn't broken. I feel that players should be able to make as much as their agent can squeeze out of an NFL team. There are only so many chances an NFL player has to make huge money and I feel that they should go for the jugular every time they get a shot to.

2) Terrence Newman is overrated by Cowboys' fans. I don't care how good he is when he's "healthy". Healthy and Terence Newman are pretty much oxymoron at this point. I also feel that he's a whiner. I hate that he was one of the players to cash in during Jerry's 2008 offseason spending spree.

 

[Avaj]

jimmy was at the grand opening of the new stadium, in jerry's suite.

I suspect they have hugged it out long ago.

Thanks for that.

Yes, you are entitled.

However, when either Baltimore or Carolina came calling to interview Norv, and Jimmy went public saying, "Why would they want to talk with him when they can talk with me about their coaching job," while we were still in the hunt for the 93 Super Bowl, that showed who Jimmy really was.

I loved the results Jimbo brought. But loyalty means something.

If the Championship stage was so small that it accomodated Jimmy alone, then who would take the field and win the game?

Jimmy left because he always does. His terms is being generous.

I just stated my unpopular opinion like the OP ask, that is all.