What must happen to contend for the Super Bowl Championship

[Swagger]

Need a better QB.

Quite. It's a waiting game until the team move on from Prescott even if that's another 6 years.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

This team is NOT going past the first round of playoffs with Dak and Zeke.
Zeke is over the hill and Dak is waaay over his head and strictly 2nd tier.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

All you critical fans out there.....how many have coached a team? NFL? College? High School? Pee Wee? But you know better than these coaches/owners? Just asking.

So I got to star in a movie before I can be critical of a movie? What makes a director or an actors opinion of a movie better than mine? Just asking.

 

[Cowpolk]

13-4

 

[Cowpolk]

3. Stats are for losers........

Yep that pesky final score stat sucks

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

All you critical fans out there.....how many have coached a team? NFL? College? High School? Pee Wee? But you know better than these coaches/owners? Just asking.

You've been jacked up for 26 seasons but this season will be diff?
Right you are, guvnor, right you are.

So because we never coached we should not have opinions?
...
Putin wants you to return his call ...

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

That's why all teams spend a fortune keeping up with them...

How much do they spend?
$10,000 a year? $10 million a year?
Tell us Sisi, ow much.
Or are you just babbling and speaking out your ear?

 

[Cowpolk]

How much do they spend?
$10,000 a year? $10 million a year?
Tell us Sisi, ow much.
Or are you just babbling and speaking out your ear?

I have become fairly advanced at doing that

 

[john van brocklin]

Tired of reading all the doom and gloom posts that this forum is inundated with. You know the usual cast of characters that are Chicken Littles and Negative Nancies and gleefully post about the futility of the Dallas Cowboys. If anyone writes anything positive about the team, they quickly move to douse any enthusiasm via sarcasm or belittlement of the OP.
Well, first of all, I would like to say that the Dallas Cowboys really could win the whole thing. This year. Not five or ten years down the road. This year. We all watched the Iggles win it in 2017 when they had no business winning it with so many starters out. We all watched numerous second tier teams eke into the playoffs by a thread, catch fire and go on to hoist the Lombardi.
So I want to talk about what has to happen for our Boys to get to the promised land and bring us home number six. And I know that the doom and gloomers will say things like' if my aunt has balls she'd be my uncle' and 'I'll have whatever he's smoking' but I am gonna lay it out anyway. And the list is short. That's the important thing. We have the ability to win the whole thing. Again, despite the knuckleheads on this board that say otherwise. So here goes:
1.) Our offensive line becomes formidable. Terence Steele continues to improve. Tyler Smith balls out and becomes the lineman we hope he will be. Badass continues to improve at center. All of Mcgovern's hard work in the off-season shows on the field. Tyron Smith stays relatively healthy. This would open up the running game and make us less reliant of the passing game, keep the defense off balance and help to kill the clock. All of this being said, this is the hardest one to come to fruition because of all the moving parts and the health of Tyron. But it could happen.
2.) The defense takes another step forward from last year. This would require Micah to be just as good or better, Lawrence to stay healthy, Jabril Cox to become a playmaking LB, at least one of our DTs; Gallimore, Osi, Bohanna, Hill or Ridgeway to become a real force in the middle. We have to stop the run. If one of these guys emerges than that will go a long way toward that goal. And, lastly, we will need someone at right defensive end to both stop the run and be able to get pressure on the QB. This could be an individual or by committee. I am hoping Sam Williams will be that guy by the end of the season but Gholston showed flashes and Armstrong has been steadily improving. Fowler is a wild card that has the ability so I will not rule him out.
3.) Dak Prescott becomes a top 5 quarterback. In my mind, he is already that if you just look at stats. He completed almost 69% of his passes last year. 37 TDs. 104 QB rating. This coming off a gruesome injury the previous season that limited his mobility and probably helped to cause the injuries to he accumulated last year. This year he has to become more of a threat to run. He has definitely slimmed down so that should help. If the defense thinks he's a threat to run, it will open up the field for his throws on the run which he is already one of the best in the game at. He also must be more clutch. In his first two years in the league, he was one of the best at winning games in the fourth quarter. Lately, not so much though the New England game comes to mind and when they won last year, they led most of the way. But he needs to show the team that, even when they are down in a game, that they can come back and win at the end. They need that confidence.
Will all of this happen? I don't know. But what I do know that it is not as bleak as the aforementioned knuckleheads would have you believe it is. I believe in Micah. I believe in Dan Quinn. I believe in Ceedee. I believe in Dak. I believe in building a team through the draft, especially when I believe we have a guy who knows how to draft. Lastly, I believe we have as much of a chance of winning the whole thing as any other team out there. And I like those odds.

Hire a skilled, professional, experienced GM.
Keep Jerry and Stephen away from the team and media.
That would be a great start.

 

[john van brocklin]

What must happen to contend for the Super Bowl Championship?

1) Team stays relatively healthy.
2) McCarthy helps with play calling.
3) Zeke has a monstrous year.
4) Defense stops the run, consistently.

Great list!

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

I have become fairly advanced at doing that

SiSi talks out of his ear better than you, you scalowag!

 

[Cowboy4evr]

So I got to star in a movie before I can be critical of a movie? What makes a director or an actors opinion of a movie better than mine? Just asking.

I think you mean "so I have to star in a movie"

 

[Cowboy4evr]

You've been jacked up for 26 seasons but this season will be diff?
Right you are, guvnor, right you are.

So because we never coached we should not have opinions?
...
Putin wants you to return his call ...

I love all you couch coaches.....always entertaining

 

[kskboys]

I think you mean "so I have to star in a movie"

Unless it's a western!!!!!

 

[Cowpolk]

SiSi talks out of his ear better than you, you scalowag!

I like to be called scalodawg

 

[kskboys]

All you critical fans out there.....how many have coached a team? NFL? College? High School? Pee Wee? But you know better than these coaches/owners? Just asking.

At one time, I thought that way, but then mountains of evidence started piling up. So, yes, I know better than the owner. Coaches? Which coach? I knew beyond any doubt that Escobar was too slow to be an NFL TE.

 

[Cowboy4evr]

At one time, I thought that way, but then mountains of evidence started piling up. So, yes, I know better than the owner. Coaches? Which coach? I knew beyond any doubt that Escobar was too slow to be an NFL TE.

No doubt.....but we have the luxury of a single minded approach. They may have been looking for a blocking tight end and not a speedy tight end. Jason Witten was not fast, but he was great. Arm chair and Monday morning quarterbacks are easy to come by, try preparing for a NFL game. It's easy to sit here and criticize the current coaching/owners (I have done it) and not realize the reality of the game.

 

[kskboys]

No doubt.....but we have the luxury of a single minded approach. They may have been looking for a blocking tight end and not a speedy tight end. Jason Witten was not fast, but he was great. Arm chair and Monday morning quarterbacks are easy to come by, try preparing for a NFL game. It's easy to sit here and criticize the current coaching/owners (I have done it) and not realize the reality of the game.

Absolutely. However, they are supposed to be the best at what they do. The best don't take a TE who can't get open, an injured LB who would most likely never be the same, a LB w/ no instincts, a dumb druggie w/ attitude issues, all in the 2nd round. There are so many moves they made that were just horrible, and that's using foresight, not hindsight. Explain the 09 draft. Explain paying a #2 CB top money in FA. Stupid move after stupid move after stupid move. Explain trying to fill the DT and S position w/ JAGs.

Before you start clamouring that we don't know anything, explain the horrific bad moves.

 

[Cowboy4evr]

Absolutely. However, they are supposed to be the best at what they do. The best don't take a TE who can't get open, an injured LB who would most likely never be the same, a LB w/ no instincts, a dumb druggie w/ attitude issues, all in the 2nd round. There are so many moves they made that were just horrible, and that's using foresight, not hindsight. Explain the 09 draft. Explain paying a #2 CB top money in FA. Stupid move after stupid move after stupid move. Explain trying to fill the DT and S position w/ JAGs.

Before you start clamouring that we don't know anything, explain the horrific bad moves.

I never said you didn't know anything. And if you took it that way.... well it is solely on you. I merely stated that having a hind sight is a really easy way to coach a team.

 

[Cowboy4evr]

I never said you didn't know anything. And if you took it that way.... well it is solely on you. I merely stated that having a hind sight is a really easy way to coach a team.

I'm your Huckleberry