Was the roster good enough to win the Super Bowl This Year?

[Venger]

Yes. We just didn't start the most important player on the roster. You know of whom I speak...

 

[Cowboys_22]

Our team was good enough but sometimes good enough teams lose...

 

[KJJ]

Offensively we had the talent to reach and win the SB but we're not even close to having the defensive talent to win a championship. Once you get past Lee and the potential Irving has we have nothing but JAGS. The defense needs an overhaul.

 

[xwalker]

Was the roster good enough this year to win the Super Bowl? I think the answer to that is YES. We should have beat Green Bay. Part of the loss was poor coaching. Part of the loss was a slow start. Part of the loss was a fluke play by Green Bay. Part of the loss was ****ty officiating. Part of it was random luck.

We were not good enough to win the Super Bowl in spite of all those things. If this season were played a hundred times, I'll bet the Cowboys end up in the Super Bowl about 40 percent of the time and win it a quarter of the time. It just didn't work out that way this year. If they ride Zeke like they should have these numbers probably go up slightly.

It seems unlikely. The Cowboys coaching was good this season considering the talent issues on defense.
Carr - Limited range. If they had a true #1 CB, then they could give him help, but Carr was the #1 most of the season.
Claiborne - Rusty and/or physically limited after long layoff due to injury.
Scandrick - Limited this season due to coming back from severe injury.
Brown - Rookie. Normally would get a lot of help, but the FS was also trying to help cover up for limitations at the other CB position, SS and MLB.
Church - Very limited range. FS can't cover up for everybody.
Hitchens - Good against the run but limited in coverage.
Durant - Player near the end with limitations.
Jones - First year as full time FS but also moved around to cover TEs. Tried to cover for other players but there were just too many and he couldn't cover up for all of them.

DL
Mayowa - OK as backup, but was the staring RDE.
DLaw - Injured and played RDE, but his best position is LDE.
T.Crawford - Probably better at DT but played LDE.
Irving - Good, but not able to focus on just one position.
Collins - Good but just a rookie.
T.McClain- Good but faded after minor injuries late in the season.
Thornton - Good as a backup.
J.Crawford - Try hard guy without much talent.

They had a lot of talent deficiencies. You can cover up for a back 7 player with limited range, but you can't cover up for 3 or 4 of them, especially when you're trying to use young players to do the covering up. You definitely can't do it when you don't have a quality pass rush. On DL they had players that were not in their ideal positions. The defensive coaches has a lot of limitations to scheme around. The good news is that just by adding a couple of better players, the surround players will get better. Carr would be OK if they had a SS with range and a better coverage LB next to Lee. All the DEs would be better if they had a true starting caliber RDE because it would allow the others to play their ideal positions..

Normally, an offense with at rookie QB and rookie RB would only win 13 games if they entire offense was covered up by a great defense. Instead, the Cowboys offense carried the load. It's surprising that a rookie QB had so much success considering that the receivers have limitations. Witten now has very limited speed. Beasley is good but scheme limited due to size. TWill is a good route runner but average at best hands. Dez is very limited as a route runner and still appears to have a very limited knowledge of the scheme. That's a lot of limitations when all added together.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Was the roster good enough this year to win the Super Bowl? I think the answer to that is YES. We should have beat Green Bay. Part of the loss was poor coaching. Part of the loss was a slow start. Part of the loss was a fluke play by Green Bay. Part of the loss was ****ty officiating. Part of it was random luck.

We were not good enough to win the Super Bowl in spite of all those things. If this season were played a hundred times, I'll bet the Cowboys end up in the Super Bowl about 40 percent of the time and win it a quarter of the time. It just didn't work out that way this year. If they ride Zeke like they should have these numbers probably go up slightly.

The talent was good enough to get there....but not win it. We beat Green Bay and Pitt at their place. And both teams made the conference title games. Had we beat Green Bay...we would have played Atlanta in our place. I also think our confidence would have been sky high had we beat Green Bay. Plus we would have knocked the rust off.

The coaching was not even good enough to win one playoff game. And this is not a rant. So for everyone sensitive about Garrett...I am at peace at this point with who Garrett is. He does just enough to keep his job. Which means he has reached his ceiling with this team. I am at peace because I know the owner is in love with him....and it would take a miracle for him to move on from Garrett...much like the miracle of Dak Prescott was what it took for the owner to move on from Romo.

 

[Alexander]

It seems unlikely. The Cowboys coaching was good this season considering the talent issues on defense.

There is only so much lipstick you can put on a pig.

 

[ghst187]

Easily yes. The coaching staff was the problem. Sure our defense could improve but NEs roster is sad outside of Brady and they don't have any problems even without Gronk. There have been a ton of marginal teams win the Super Bowl that were worse than ours this year. After seeing NE in the SB,...they really shouldn't scare us either. If our coaches could keep themselves from being tempted to pass the ball when we are averaging 5 yards per carry, we'd have one ring with Dak already.

 

[cowboyblue22]

yes the pats didn't have near as my all pros and pro bowlers and we have and they had a parade today

 

[Alexander]

Easily yes. The coaching staff was the problem. Sure our defense could improve but NEs roster is sad outside of Brady and they don't have any problems even without Gronk. There have been a ton of marginal teams win the Super Bowl that were worse than ours this year. After seeing NE in the SB,...they really shouldn't scare us either. If our coaches could keep themselves from being tempted to pass the ball when we are averaging 5 yards per carry, we'd have one ring with Dak already.

The biggest difference between New England and everyone else is the coaching and the program in place. There is a reason why teams that are "talented" like Pittsburgh etc. are chasing them year after year. Everyone on that roster, regardless of relative talent, has a role carved out and is held accountable to that role. There is a reason they can take rejects from elsewhere and integrate them into the mentality and still win. That comes from the very top. No team can ever out talent another team in this league and even if they get lose, they can still be outcoached.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Yes, but not likely. I tend to think that down the stretch the Falcons were the better team because their defense was starting to play well. But, we would have been playing them at home and I think once you get those divisional playoff game out of the way, the jitters go away. I think the Patriots were the superior team as well, particularly since our QB is still a rookie. But, we certainly could beat the Patriots.

You are what you are...we went 13-3 and we were a darn good team.




YR

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Yes.

Yes. Only if we run.

Otherwise. No.

 

[CF74]

We definitely had a good enough roster to win it all this year. Problem is, we're not the only team in the league with a roster that's good enough to win it all. There were 5-6 teams in that bucket.

Since it's going to come up in the thread, I also believe our coaching staff is good enough to win a Superbowl. Though we're not alone in that, either.

The good news for Dallas is, where the roster does happen to be deficient, it's in areas where upgrades are generally available. We might not be able to add true impact players everywhere, but upgrading 4-5 positions on a fairly mediocre but overachieving defense is definitely possible. Which means we ought to be in positions where we can contend for several seasons here now.

If we truly upgrade 4-5 positions on defense that would be a coup. I'm thinking 2-3 might be more attainable unless we go crazy in free agency..

 

[Idgit]

If we truly upgrade 4-5 positions on defense that would be a coup. I'm thinking 2-3 might be more attainable unless we go crazy in free agency..

I was thinking key role players, and not just starters, but MIKE, two DE's in the rotation, and a Safety upgrade are what I was thinking of. Plus maybe we elevate from within at SAM if there's a chance to do so. CB is another position where we might see a change, though whether or not that ends up being an upgrade is an open question.

 

[Clove]

Yes. Only if we run.

Otherwise. No.

We were good enough to win the NFC, and go 13-3, then we were good enough to win it all. Unfortunately, there are things (coaching) that aren't on the same page with winning.

 

[Diehardblues]

No.

A good regular season but not proven in the playoffs . Hopefully this experience will provide us more moving forward .

A consistent playoff contender is usually a more vital threat.

There are exceptions but not usually from a Rookie QB. A valiant effort provides more hope next year.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

We had the roster and we have the coaches to win it all. Even in the best circumstances you need a few bounces to go your way, this year they didn't go our way.

 

[haleyrules]

No. The Coaching and Defense were/are not good enough.

 

[lane]

We'll be there next year.

Amazing year we witnessed this year ...The defense is just missing a few cog pieces.


If we draft correctly and Tapper and Smith are the real deal...wow!

 

[Vintage]

Good enough to win that first playoff game though.

Obviously, not.

 

[percyhoward]

No. The defense just wasn't good enough.

Makes seven years in a row.