It has been said for far too long that the Cowboys have one of the most talented rosters in the NFL. It’s especially been said by Jerry and Stephen. I’m not here to say that this team is not talented. We certainly have some talent.
But I’m of the opinion that talent should be measured by what it accomplishes for your team. Whatever level of talent we have had the last 5 years has translated into 1 wild card playoff win under two different coaching staffs. TALENT SHOULD BE MEASURED BY THE RESULTS IT GIVES. If all we get is an occasional divisional “title” is that great?
We fans love our team and our players. But sometimes we have to take off the fan glasses and see things as they really are.
To avoid having a super long post, here are just some examples on offense of overrated talent here:
- WR’S and TE’s one of the best groups in the NFL? Let’s tap the brakes.
- Amari Cooper- he’s certainly a talented receiver. And he’s paid like it. But the last 9 games of the season he avg about 45 yds per game. Why do we think paying Cooper all that money “is worth it”? What did it translate to? He’s good but he’s not consistent to pay him top dollar IMO.
- Cedee Lamb had a statistically good year last year, but his drops are nearly league leading. He gets lazy at times and had several lapses in focus in the playoff game against the niners that cost us dearly. He needs to improve a lot to be called “great”.
- Michael Gallup missed most of the season with an injury and was re-injured at the end of the season. I love Gallup, but he wasn’t there for most of the season. Probably gone anyway.
- Dalton Schultz- a good but not great TE who will probably command more in FA than we can pay. Blake Jarwin? Unless we’re playing the giants, he’s a spare.
- OL- too many TV people and PFF people act like this is a top 5 OL. It isn’t.
- Tyron Smith- the once greatest player on this team has turned into a constant injury waiting to happen. He’s missed a whopping 32 games the last 5 seasons, and hasn’t played a full season since 2015. We need to stop pretending this is working.
- Tyler Biadz- gets manhandled on a regular basis. Thankfully, Connor “Holding” Williams will be gone next year. But Biadz either needs more help if he’s going stay at C.
- La’El Collins- like Smith has missed a ton of games- some to injury some to his own stupidity. But he’s not been that great at RT. Maybe he could play LG again as he did back in 2016. But he either needs to get better or we say adios.
- Zack Martin is still great. But he alone doesn’t make this a great OL.
- RB and QB-
- Zeke Elliott- the highest paid RB in the league is killing the cap, barely producing any kind of reliable yardage and just looks old and slow. Tony Pollard should have had more snaps last year but the Jones family sees him as a family member not a football player on their team. He needs to be released.
- Dak- I’m not a Dak “hater”. I still think he’s capable of leading this team to a SB. Lots of QBs with less talent have already done it. But he’s never going to be a “carry the team on his back” kind of QB.
Bottom line Cowboys fans:
This offense’s talent is seriously overrated. We need to seriously upgrade the OL, shave some cap space off the WR and RB positions and draft some guys that can help immediately. Dak’s contract will be restructured.
Great post bullet have to agree this offense is many times overvalued.
I also believe that in these unprecedented times certain games within our division against weakened teams made our offense look much better than it really was and gave the illusion that we were more talented than we really are.
That said it's tough to judge how talented we are because we are coached and managed so poorly.
I think Dak appeared less talented at times this year because his offensive line is a shadow of its former self committing penalties that made it difficult for him to overcome. Zeke's injury and lack of production along with managements failure to use Pollard created poor down and distance situations for Dak to try and overcome.
IMO. All this led to a lack of confidence and a tentative attitude that made him hold the ball too long and fail to run when he had open ground in front of him.
I am hopeful that a good off-season working on his craft rather than rehabbing an injury will give him his eye of the tiger back.
I feel we have enough talent at wide receiver we could use somebody that could block at tight end.
I think we have enough talent at running back if it's used properly.
The fly and the ointment is the offensive line no offense is going to operate properly having to overcome all those penalties and having your center thrown into your quarterback's lap continually in short we need to fix the o line big time.
All that said winning one playoff game is about all we can expect from any team being run by Jerry Jones That is the ceiling
That is because we will always have a coach that's more interested in Jerry's comfort then getting the most out of the talent we have