Luck wouldn't be an upgrade over Romo and Romo has way too many good years left. Wait another two years or so before you start looking for his replacement IMO. BTW there won't be another prospect like Bradford come out for a long time. Bradford may be a top 15 QB in the league already.
Its really sad, but our roster really doesn't not have that many holes in it. Our OL could use an upgrade and our DBs...but every team has issues, most teams have more personnel issues than us. With our high pick next draft, we should obviously go OL and in round 2-3 also pick up a DB if there's a good one. I like Kendall Hunter a lot in round 4 to replace MBIII. The problem is and has been coaching. The staff JJ has assembled is a staff that is largely made up of people who will lapdog him. JJ has let his distant success cloud his self-assessment that he can do it again, this time by himself with puppets doing his bidding. Obviously we went through a long spell where we just flat out didn't have the talent to compete, but with the parity of late combined with the roster that BP largely built, this team should be winning 9 of 10 games. Go through the rosters of any of the "good teams" this year or any of the last few SB participants...you'll find multiple OL and other weaknesses. No team can have a probowler at every position....(oddly enough, we've come closer than any other team in the league)...yet good coaching and scheming covers/masks deficiencies and maximizes strengths.
Now that WP has been brutally exposed, one has to go back and question how many W's and possibly hardware we left on the table. It has become brutally apparent that, not only can he flat out NOT be a HC, but WP is obviously a horrible DC also. Now, as good as our defense has been til this year (and I realize someone will say WP must be a good DC because we had top defenses but keep reading), I have to wonder how good it could've been the past few years if we had a real DC that could draw up a scheme that would actually confuse an opposing QB instead of completely relying on superior personnel to win one on one matchups incessantly. Even as good as our D has been, I challenge someone to go find a game where the opposing QB looked completely confused. Most of our INTs have been Mike Jenkins making great individual plays rather than our combo zone/man or disguise causing confusion. We've all read the verbage from other teams about how simple our schemes are to figure out. We've made David Gerrard look like an all-pro. Every time we play the NYG, Eli looks like the second coming of Peyton. Cutler, Vince Young....the only QB we consistently do well against is Donovan McNabb, probably why Reid traded him to the skins.
I also have been frustrated the last few years how, when an opposing team loads up a huge 7-8 man blitz they always blast Romo immediately before he even has a second to think. Meanwhile, we can blitz 10 people and the opposing QB will still have 3-4 seconds. ***?!?! There's no way our players are that bad, a lot of other teams, who would kill to have our defensive personnel, are using their scrubs to get to our QB. To borrow from the political message and cliche "Its the economy stupid!"....my conclusion about Wade's lack of performance as a DC is "Its the scheme stupid!" And I offer my hypothesis that our D would've been near dominant had we had a decent DC. I think we even might have even missed out on a trophy. IMO, when TO was here, not that i could stand him, we should've had at least one trophy. Anyone else think this?
You can't tell me the Steeler team that won was any good (or the one before that one either), the Saints team that we whipped a few weeks earlier didn't have some major holes and personnel weak spots, or that we didn't whip the same NYG team twice in the regular season only to NOT make any adjustments and lose at home to them when it counted....
uke:
DAL @ GB
