We lose a guy and the dropoff is tremendous

[rpntex]

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.

Don’t forget Dan Bailey, either. I, for one, be leave the game could have been much different if Nguyet doesn’t clank that FG attempt of the upright. Atlanta had just driven for a score, and Dallas answered right back. You could feel the momentum shifting back Dallas’ way. When that attempt hit the upright, it’s sucked all the air out of Dallas’ balloon.

 

[rpntex]

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

No salary cap back then. You could affordably stack depth at every position. With the cap, you are limited as to how much real quality depth you can carry on your roster.

 

[irving]

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.

You are spot on, it appears that the Dallas coaching staff can only win when they have superior talent. Once that talent isn't present, the coaches can't adjust and the depth is usually not very good. We know some the issues with the depth is because the GM took risk that just shouldn't have been taken.

 

[CATCH17]

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.

Yeah after all those QB's that filled in for Romo only 1 could decently move the ball and it was Dak.

Our gameplans with QB's not named Romo until last year were brilliant too.

 

[wssaustin]

You are spot on, it appears that the Dallas coaching staff can only win when they have superior talent. Once that talent isn't present, the coaches can't adjust and the depth is usually not very good. We know some the issues with the depth is because the GM took risk that just shouldn't have been taken.

This is not just a coaching problem, it is this team's culture now. Jones family is running Cowboys more as a business than an actual football team. As long as there are star power and win some games to maintain their revenue, they don't care the rest of the details. The coaches are more or less in the "doing my job & getting paid" mentality.

 

[erod]

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.

Green played in place of Tyron last year and played very well. That was unexpected last night.

 

[IheartRomo]

Green played in place of Tyron last year and played very well. That was unexpected last night.

I was talking about Jaylon. He has been mind numbingly horrific each and every week. The coaching staff knows this and yet continues to trot him out.

Green was horrific yesterday but has been serviceable if not solid in the past. Mishaps like that can and do happen.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

IMO we turned a distinct corner after losing Lee, both sides of the ball. Lee is pronominal, no doubt, but no team should be so single threaded in their play and emotion by one player (not including a franchise QB)

 

[erod]

I was talking about Jaylon. He has been mind numbingly horrific each and every week. The coaching staff knows this and yet continues to trot him out.

Green was horrific yesterday but has been serviceable if not solid in the past. Mishaps like that can and do happen.

Yeah, Jaylon is lost. He looks like a guy in a row boat with only one oar. Can't turn at all.

 

[erod]

Don’t forget Dan Bailey, either. I, for one, be leave the game could have been much different if Nguyet doesn’t clank that FG attempt of the upright. Atlanta had just driven for a score, and Dallas answered right back. You could feel the momentum shifting back Dallas’ way. When that attempt hit the upright, it’s sucked all the air out of Dallas’ balloon.

Agreed. That turned the game ugly.

 

[CATCH17]

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.

This whole depth thing is a bunch of BS.


The NFL is all about QB play and coaching.

You can take some duct tape, smoke, mirrors, some string, and give it to a great QB and great coach and they can make it into a team that competes for a championship.


We have 1 or 2 guys go down and the wheels completely fall off.

Depth is not our issue. It's the lack of coaching. Lack of adjustments.

The thought that we can just go win our 1 on 1's and when that doesn't happen we just accept the L instead of trying something else.

The Dallas Cowboys IGNORE the chess side of football and it's a much bigger problem then our depth.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Green played in place of Tyron last year and played very well. That was unexpected last night.

The story is Atlanta deployed the wide 9 alignment and the team was not expecting and unprepared for it. I call that BS.

 

[erod]

The story is Atlanta deployed the wide 9 alignment and the team was not expecting and unprepared for it. I call that BS.

Philadelphia plays the Wide 9 all the time. Yikes.

 

[PullMyFinger]

Coaching

 

[xwalker]

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.

Other team's message boards say the same thing.

Backups are backups for a reason.

The cap has killed the concept of quality depth.

 

[AzorAhai]

No thanks.

He's Bill Callahan with an attitude. I hate his offensive schemes.

I don’t know for sure that he can’t adjust to today’s game, but he’s been out far too long to take a risk on. The game today is nothing like it was when he was coaching. If they want to go in a new direction, find some coaches who have been part of this new game. Coaches who have innovated some of the things occupying the game now. Not somebody running antiquated schemes or who is going to have to implement something completely new to them. That’s a horrible plan.

 

[Pants]

the ol' "hangin' on by a thread" coaching staff...if only everyone was healthy, and not in trouble....heck we would win 10 SBs, just this year!

stop giving this putz of a HC any more chances....no more excuses "of, but he didn't have his offensive guys...." too bad! good coaches react and do things to make the team successful...Garrett does, well, nothing

 

[CATCH17]

Other team's message boards say the same thing.

Backups are backups for a reason.

The cap has killed the concept of quality depth.

It doesn't cripple other teams like it did the Cowboys yesterday. I'm sorry but it just doesn't unless it's a QB.

 

[sean10mm]

It doesn't cripple other teams like it did the Cowboys yesterday. I'm sorry but it just doesn't unless it's a QB.

Pats start a scrub LT last night against VON MILLER and Brady is sacked to death...

Oh wait, there was only 1 sack, on a safety blitz up the middle that the RB just wiffed on blocking.

 

[CATCH17]

Pats start a scrub LT last night against VON MILLER and Brady is sacked to death...

Oh wait, there was only 1 sack, on a safety blitz up the middle that the RB just wiffed on blocking.

The Patriots have played with some of the most terrible lines you will ever see but they just shorten their passing game and use the rules to their advantage instead of using a 1980's passing scheme with WR's running 25 yards down field every play.

I'll never forget the Phil Costa years when our OL was terrible and we were still running power plays instead of zone and couldn't figure out why our run game was so bad.


You can coach around weakness as long as that weakness isn't your QB.