I mean, not what you want. Use your theory of mind. What is their vision?
Every year teams start with a vision of how they want to be and every year they make adjustments attempting to account for their vision of their team.
I think they envision having a line that can dominate so much in the run game, it almost doesn't matter who the back is. That said, that's just a way to cover their arses if injuries at RB happen. I also think they see Jaydon Blue as an NFL ready back, who can contribute this year. If he does anything, work on those fumbles.
Pickens will stretch the field and make teams pay for doubling Lamb. Our TEs will be more involved in the running game this year as I expect quite a few 12 sets from Shottenheimer. That, along with the additional threat or Pickens also opens more opportunities for TE passing production. This will be a better year for our TEs.
Overall, I think the Cowboys think they'll have an electric offense for the 2025 season, and I like their optimism even if they are gambling in some areas. Those are good bets, and may lay off.
I think they expect this to be a good year for special teams and consistent with the previous few years.
As far as defense, I think they believe Eberflus can take an underachieving defense from last year and make them competitive this year. To be honest, I think they may be right.
Eberflus emphasizes takeaways and pressure, and he's done it with lessor players, I'd say, in Indianapolis.
If guys like Revel and Overshown can play by week 8 or 9, I think they think this team has a fighting chance down the stretch using Eberflus' rather vanilla scheme. They may be right. But I think the Cowboys also envision Odhigizuwa having a larger role in this new scheme, which is based on pressures probably moreso than sacks. Given the strategy, mostly zone coverages with a 4-5 man rush, they probably think they'll have a shot at being a team ranked in the top 5 in takeaways if this group can generate pressure.
Im not sure what what they're envisioning at safety, but hopefully they work that out.
Here's my philosophy,
I have zero expectations or visions,
I literally will watch game to game and hope for success this year ,meaning it may take 17 games for this to shake out and that is what sports are it's about the whole season, not part of it..
Will not be one of those to overreact if we say we go 2 and 2 in the first four games or we look bad in one area or another early..
I remember this team in 2018 starting out 3 and 5 and making it to the second round of the playoffs.. it's never over and it's never uncorrectable because of the 17-game season there's always a shot, because of parity in this league, there's always a shot.. Especially with the addition of a second wild card you never know..
So I prefer to look at football as a year to year and a week-to-week league,
meaning everything changes from year to year there is no expectations...
I don't care about the rankings from the year before they do power rankings and what they believe somebody's going to do in the next year but there's so much change over it doesn't matter and for week to week other teams are going to meet may be injured they might be missing players just like we are missing most of our team last year...
it happened every week we are losing players ,but other teams could go through this, so I prefer not to have any expectations whatsoever....
I just hope to be happily surprised, and that we do well this year I just can't see us winning less than eight games if we won seven games last year and they over under is 7.5 which I think is ridiculous because they're going by last year we've never won less than nine games with Prescott starting and finished the season healthy that alone should get us to 9-10 games..
In my opinion we have the core to win double digits if healthy we have to have some luck last year was just attrition too many injuries at key positions so this should be a bounce back gear look at 2020 and look at 2021 and I believe we're going to have the same type of jump because it's a very familiar looking year in twenty twenty as it was in twenty twenty four..
The Cowboys were Able to come back and win 12 games and they said they didn't think Prescott would ever be the same and he had one of his best seasons, so I believe we're in a similar situation and that we'll get close to that type of improvement..