On paper, we are better than we were last year due to guys like Cooks and Gilmore and some of the defensive pieces we draft, but theme-wise, I don't really see how we constructed a 'super bowl winning team.'
We still have a fundamental O-line problem and that will show when we play against the teams we lose against like the 49ers or Eagles who have a super tough defense/d-line. It's going to be hard to get the ball out to those receivers or get the running game going when our O-line is getting beat up. Eagles just shored up on pass rushers. 49ers always gave us a problem defensively. I'm sorry, but a blocking tightend doesn't solve that problem.
We're also supposedly going to be a running team, but our draft doesn't say that. We're about to do with Tony Pollard what we did with Felix Jones, which drastically reduced Felix Jones effectiveness. Remember, first couple of years in the league, Felix was averaging some ridiculous amounts of yards per carry like 8 and then 6. Once he was utilized a lot more and our o line declined in effectiveness, that dropped drastically. Tony Pollard getting a lot more carries than he did last year, especially coming off of a leg injury is going to reduce his explosiveness. We didn't draft a guy in Deuce that is someone who is going to be able to split carries with him 50/50. We got a guy that can do splash plays every once in a while.
We're pretty much constructed to beat up on the easy teams like always, but when it comes to the tough teams, it's going to be questionable.
We didn't draft bad players by no mean. The problem is, thematically, I have ZERO idea what we're trying to go for. We didn't build a hard-nosed, running team. We just built for more finesse. A blocking tight end and tiny rb instead of a big O-lineman and bell-cow back doesn't scream hard-nosed running offense to me.
The Mazi pick was great and solved a need. I'm not sure what we were doing with the other picks though, theme-wise. We were just replacing guys we already drafted a couple of years prior or shoring up in an area where we are already deep with the LB, CB and DE picks. Like we literally drafted Damone Clark and Jabril the past couple of drafts, yet we spend a premium pick on Overshown.
We improved our blocking from the TE position but if we are dedicated to running, it would be much more effective to upgrade the O-line. We just took Hendershot and Ferguson last year and yet we draft yet another TE.
Just like the Amari Cooper trade last year, several of us were screaming we had a big problem, but we were told it was ok and we saw when it mattered, the Amari hole played itself out in the form of more Dak Prescott interceptions when the receivers aside from CeeDee couldn't get any separation.
This team is just us doubling down on last year instead of really fixing the key holes. They admitted the Amari Trade was bad by getting cooks, but we better not go into the season with our O-line looking like it does right now or Dak and the Rbs are going to get beat up by the Eagles and 49ers. We also have a huge problem at the kicker position, which was one of the reasons for the Dak interception. Instead of kicking the field goal because we didn't trust our kicker, we had him throwing it more.
In a vacuum, the picks were not bad players, but I'm not sure where we really improved? Our key flaws still exist and they will show up against the better teams in the playoff.
you are not allowed to have a positive take on an offseason. You will get banned and stoned for it..lol
