We lose a guy and the dropoff is tremendous

[Miller]

Bad coaching and bad accumulation of talent for a “full roster.” Is every guy going to be good or starter material? No. But the drop off is so large that “next man up” should never be spoken

 

[Miller]

Garrett knows how to run his scheme effectively if he has the players in place, but cannot at all adjust the plan to cover up weaknesses. It is why he will never be more than an average coach in the league and the team will always be at a disadvantage when there are injuries.

• 2014 he had the players in place and he had them rolling until they ran into Aaron Rogers.
• 2015 they lost Romo and he unleashed almost the exact same game-plan every week with disastrous results.
  
• 2016 he had the players in place (thank you Dak) and he had them rolling until he ran into Aaron Rogers.
• Yesterday he again rolled out the same type of game-plan that he would any other week even though he was missing major pieces and they got rolled.

This team needs to be seriously deep or seriously lucky with injuries to win under Garrett.

Perfectly said. Read an analogy on him earlier in the year....he’s a good poker player when given perfect hands but when he actually has to bluff and work to win a hand he’s no good.....the years he did something we’re with everyone in place, no injuries and great bounces. When he doesn’t have that perfect lineup his ability is exposed. Heck even last year was a blessing with Dak because he never would have seen the light of day if “Floaty the Clown” hadn’t also gotten hurt.

 

[TheHerd]

eagles lost their LT and best LB for the year in the same game and came out and scored 51 points the next game.

we have a coaching staff that's heavily dependent on the players (including injury prone ones) and a front office that can't build quality depth through the draft or FA. it's a recipe for failure.

We don't have a system. We have a dependence on our player beating their player. Our offense doesn't really do anything much more complex than that. On defense, I can't answer.

 

[DenCWBY]

The Coaches are responsible for 1) evaluating their own roster, 2) developing the roster they have, 3) pushing the front office to replace players who are uncoachable.

I believe the Cowboys coaches are delinquent in all 3. As well as in-game adjustments.

I get it and mostly agree however, do you think JG could walk into Jerry's office and say "Ok, after much deliberation and thought process by all the coaches and myself, I have decided that we're going to put Witten on the trading block. We have 3 other TE's who are as and even more capable than JW and after checking the market, GB will give us at least 3rd pick for him. By the way, I'm putting J Smith on the practice squad and grabbing this up and coming LB we found off the Broncos practice squad who everyone knows will improve the team. I just wanted to let you know as a courtesy and will send over the details later today after the PC I have arranged."
Can you imagine?

 

[Hardline]

Who all remembers when we were saying Jaylon Smith was going to be elite?

 

[MikeT22]

Poor coaching and no depth due to overall poor drafting and personnel decisions. All goes back to not having a real GM.

 

[Roadtrip635]

 

[Blue&Silver]

It's called quality depth. You see it often with championship teams. We are not there if we can't make up the loss of a left tackle, or middle linebacker.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

When is the last time we had quality depth? The 1990's?

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

Sheesh, that is a painful stat to read.

 

[MRV52]

I've never seen a team like us that if we lose a guy somewhere our opponent just absolutely destroys us.


Tyron Smith down? Oh we will almost give up an NFL record for sacks to the DL across from him.

Sean Lee out? Oh our entire defense is now terrible because 1 guy is off the field.

Tony Romo down? Our entire offense shuts down.



When is enough enough for Jerry with these coaches?

Please get us an NFL coach. Please Jerry.

It's called no depth.

 

[Dre11]

So what?

That's no excuse to completely fall apart. Not one single bit.

Struggle? Maybe yeah. I'll accept a bit of a struggle.

But to just allow the offense to move at will and the opposing teams RE to come 1 sack short of a NFL record is absurd.

So I guess you forgot, we lost a franchise qb last season, replaced him with rookie 4th rounder and went 13-3....lol Greenbay lost Rodgers and won 1 game since.

 

[Dre11]

When is the last time we had quality depth? The 1990's?

Oh when there wasn't a salary cap?

 

[Toruk_Makto]

The team is very top loaded talent wise.

Assuming Dlaw, Martin, Zeke, and Dak all get monster “Top 3 “ type contracts over the next 2 years or so, they will continue to be top loaded.

Zeke isn't getting a monster contract the next 2 years. Dlaw and Martin will get paid over the next two.

OUr better drafting has meant this team has been deeper now than it has been in years. YEARS.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Losing 3 All Pros for most of a single game will hurt a team....yes.

And that doesn't even include Bailey.

 

[reddyuta]

Garrett is the dumbest coach to ever coach our team, I really believe he will never coach in the NFL again if he was fired, every coach knows he is ******* except Jerry.

 

[erod]

To be fair, the most critical players on this team in order are:

1. Tyron Smith
2. Sean Lee
3. Zeke Elliott (is actually #1, but there are reasonable backups there.)
4. Travis Frederick
5. Dak Prescott

You can't erase the first three and hope for much.

When healthy, Sean Lee is the best linebacker in the NFL, and that includes Kuechly and whomoever you want. Lee is irreplaceable.

But Jaylon Smith is a laugh of a player, and the dropoff is astronomical.

 

[IheartRomo]

Losing 3 All Pros for most of a single game will hurt a team....yes.

And that doesn't even include Bailey.

Losing 3 All Pros hurts badly when you have JAGs backing them up. It destroys your chances when you have arguably the worst at their positions in the league backing them up (Green - one terribad game but serviceable in the past, Jaylon as bad as anyone's ever looked). That is what amplifies the losses to the point where this team is not even competitive.

 

[rpntex]

Can anybody name the Patriots backup to Nate Solder? LOL NO of course not.

He just gave up 0 sacks to Von Miller.

What's more likely?

a) They just found the next Tyron Smith on their bench, or
b) They adjusted their blocking scheme and play calls to compensate for starting a scrub LT against Von Miller

If you accept b), the Cowboy could have done the same thing against a MUCH inferior pass rusher to Von Miller, but didn't because they're dumb as hell.

I get your point, but my question would still be who is on the other side from Von Miller? People are glossing over the fact that opposite of Claiborne is Vic Beasley. You can put a tight end on either side to help the tackle, and its still going to “single up“ a pass rusher on one of our tackles. So you pick your poison… help with either Claiborne or Beasley.

 

[IheartRomo]

To be fair, the most critical players on this team in order are:

1. Tyron Smith
2. Sean Lee
3. Zeke Elliott (is actually #1, but there are reasonable backups there.)
4. Travis Frederick
5. Dak Prescott

You can't erase the first three and hope for much.

When healthy, Sean Lee is the best linebacker in the NFL, and that includes Kuechly and whomoever you want. Lee is irreplaceable.

But Jaylon Smith is a laugh of a player, and the dropoff is astronomical.

I would go Sean Lee at 1 followed by Tyron strictly due to being backed up by the worst football player in the entire National Football League. Completely and utterly unacceptable that the coaching staff is content with walking onto the field on game day with him active at this point.