Which is it?

[Stash]

A.

I think they’ve shown us for years now that they’re willing to ignore failure and poor results in order to excuse their mistakes.

Rather than admitting failure, they double down and dig in deeper hoping to ultimately be proven right. Ultimately the opposite happens and they again talk about accountability and change that seldom happens, certainly not at the top.

 

[Risen Star]

Put me down for B, Robert. They don't have a clue of what they're doing.

I think that's why you see the extremes in free agency. They used to be all in on adding players but when they got burned doing it they now have gone the opposite extreme. Never sign any. It's easier for them to understand free agency good or free agency bad than it is to actually operate like a real front office and evaluate each player and their value. That takes skill. That takes actually knowing how to build a winning roster.

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

A.

They have determined that this is the best strategy, and they are sticking with it.

 

[Coogiguy03]

"not even attempt", its march 13ths the league year hasnt started, again a whine fest of constant negativity, prematurely as usual. Sorry i will stick to E
getting into the playoffs as top 3 seed is the goal umm 4 of 6 years add no losing seasons, then you have to hope you are healthy and make run in the playoffs, they are doing that but the health part like the OL, nope , run game pollard, nope.. Losing Lewis and Brown effected the team late, losing all those OL at times and not having Steele or pollard in the 9er game had an effect.

bad luck happens sometimes like with 9ers and that NFCCG all those injuries at qb, cant plan for that..

yet another WHINE FEST COMMENTING FAN In here, I guess you're happy with our current success, you must be a part of the jones family, no maybe you're just a part of the problem! We've earned the right to WHINE, look at what this team is doing, we make BILLIONS of dollars, yet when it's time to spend, we get cold feet! They say they want to win, but what are we doing to get over the hump, look at the teams that are winning, and see what they're doing to get over the hump!!!!

 

[Coogiguy03]

Put me down for B, Robert. They don't have a clue of what they're doing.

I think that's why you see the extremes in free agency. They used to be all in on adding players but when they got burned doing it they now have gone the opposite extreme. Never sign any. It's easier for them to understand free agency good or free agency bad than it is to actually operate like a real front office and evaluate each player and their value. That takes skill. That takes actually knowing how to build a winning roster.

Sad that other teams are getting burned too!!!!! Can't live life being scared!!

 

[Flamma]

If once again the Cowboys front office chooses this off-season to go the bargain basement route in free agency to enhance their roster, what does it say about their thinking? What is their logic? Which of these phrases is most true?

• A. They honestly believe “their way” (despite all the evidence of the last three decades to the contrary) is going to somehow win a championship.
• B. They really don’t know how to build a roster that can compete for a championship and know it, but don’t care enough to change or just hope they get lucky.
• C. They are completely delusional and believe their own PR.
• D. All of the above.

At this point, I believe it’s either B or C.
You?

It's just B. Jerry tried this after the salary cap and made very bad moves. They don't even want to get into playing that game anymore. He's a brow beaten bookkeeper that signs his own players and builds through the draft. It's worked ok for them. I just think they are more worried about that time when they were 5-11 3 years in a row, and don't want to revisit that. Maybe they'll pick someone up if the opportunity presents itself, but they're usually not even looking.

 

[Bobhaze]

Put me down for B, Robert. They don't have a clue of what they're doing.

I think that's why you see the extremes in free agency. They used to be all in on adding players but when they got burned doing it they now have gone the opposite extreme. Never sign any. It's easier for them to understand free agency good or free agency bad than it is to actually operate like a real front office and evaluate each player and their value. That takes skill. That takes actually knowing how to build a winning roster.

Complete truth.

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

I think it is going to be related to all three of the OP choices but directly related to the 2 main cogs in the front office (with the last name "Jones"). The correct answer would be arrogance/pride. Not to get Biblical here but there are some unmistaken truths Biblically speaking and one is found in the wisdom book of Proverbs (16:18):

" Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall."
Translated into todays language and specifically related to Cowboy leadership I think this tidbit of wisdom could be more aptly read as : "People who are too overconfident or too arrogant are likely to fail."

Is that the Jones boys description?

I like confidence in all things and in my med profession it is a good thing until I get to the qualifier of "too". Not being open to other options and even stepping out and trying other options is a recipe for failure.

In this case an infusion of quality talent at a couple of positions takes a load off of our draft selection tasks. IMO it lets us focus on building the trenches and enhancing the defense in a couple of key areas.

It's more important to say "I did it my way". That's the reason (one of them) that Jimmy was run off!

 

[StarOfGlory]

If once again the Cowboys front office chooses this off-season to go the bargain basement route in free agency to enhance their roster, what does it say about their thinking? What is their logic? Which of these phrases is most true?

• A. They honestly believe “their way” (despite all the evidence of the last three decades to the contrary) is going to somehow win a championship.
• B. They really don’t know how to build a roster that can compete for a championship and know it, but don’t care enough to change or just hope they get lucky.
• C. They are completely delusional and believe their own PR.
• D. All of the above.

At this point, I believe it’s either B or C.
You?

I believe it's a combination of A, B, and C, with the emphasis on A.

 

[fivetwos]

The ‘draft only’ approach actually would be fine, except that it ends up blown by their own hand.

Sure they have found later round players here and there, like both Wilsons, but those types are ready for FA by near the time they develop, and they simply can’t afford the early round busts that they have had.

Day two players like Hill, Gallimore, Golston, Joseph, Wright, Tolbert…aren’t giving them enough.

Now, it’s fully understandable to miss on certain picks…ones you expected to be starters…but if you do, you need to fill those holes via a different method than street free agents mid season if you expect to win.

There’s the real disconnect. Their plan’s fatal flaw kicks in when they miss on the day two picks, which happens to every team and should be expected, but they allow it to remain their downfall….over and over….

That all aside….the hiring of ‘yes men’ that constantly tell you what a great job you are doing doesn’t exactly feed the need for change.

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

 

[Sydla]

"not even attempt", its march 13ths the league year hasnt started, again a whine fest of constant negativity, prematurely as usual. Sorry i will stick to E
getting into the playoffs as top 3 seed is the goal umm 4 of 6 years add no losing seasons, then you have to hope you are healthy and make run in the playoffs, they are doing that but the health part like the OL, nope , run game pollard, nope.. Losing Lewis and Brown effected the team late, losing all those OL at times and not having Steele or pollard in the 9er game had an effect.

bad luck happens sometimes like with 9ers and that NFCCG all those injuries at qb, cant plan for that..

The 49ers were on their 3rd QB and had injuries as well. So trying the "woe is us, bad luck" BS is just that........... BS.

At the end of the day, Jerry and Stephen simply do not want to take risks that could cost them a season. They'd largely prefer to be "good" and maybe get lucky than try to "great".

I have 27 years of proof. You just have your feelings and homerism.

PS - 30 teams not winning last year doesn't change anything. There is only 6 teams in the NFL that haven't played in a conference champ game in the last 2+ decades. We are one of them. 24 teams have been to at least two conference champ games. Trying to write this off as "oh well a bunch of teams dont make the conference title game every year" is a laughable defense.

 

[Bobhaze]

The ‘draft only’ approach actually would be fine, except that it ends up blown by their own hand.

Sure they have found later round players here and there, like both Wilsons, but those types are ready for FA by near the time they develop, and they simply can’t afford the early round busts that they have had.

Day two players like Hill, Gallimore, Golston, Joseph, Wright, Tolbert…aren’t giving them enough.

Now, it’s fully understandable to miss on certain picks…ones you expected to be starters…but if you do, you need to fill those holes via a different method than street free agents mid season if you expect to win.

There’s the real disconnect. Their plan’s fatal flaw kicks in when they miss on the day two picks, which happens to every team and should be expected, but they allow it to remain their downfall….over and over….

That all aside….the hiring of ‘yes men’ that constantly tell you what a great job you are doing doesn’t exactly feed the need for change.

As someone said earlier in here, by neglecting free agency as a key ingredient to building a great roster, they put tremendous pressure on their drafts. And their tendency to over-value their own players makes them look delusional as talent evaluators.

Case in point- imagine if Randy Gregory had been drafted by another organization. Do any of us believe we would have offered him a 5 year, $70 million dollar deal as we had done last year? No way. But because he was THEIR pick, he’s worth it. Zeke’s big contract is another example. We set the market bar on a RB but in the 7 seasons we’ve had Zeke, we’ve won two wild card games.

 

[JonesBoys]

If once again the Cowboys front office chooses this off-season to go the bargain basement route in free agency to enhance their roster, what does it say about their thinking? What is their logic? Which of these phrases is most true?

• A. They honestly believe “their way” (despite all the evidence of the last three decades to the contrary) is going to somehow win a championship.
• B. They really don’t know how to build a roster that can compete for a championship and know it, but don’t care enough to change or just hope they get lucky.
• C. They are completely delusional and believe their own PR.
• D. All of the above.

At this point, I believe it’s either B or C.
You?

B and C, can't be dumb enough to think their way is working when 27 years is staring you in the face.

 

[CowboyoWales]

If once again the Cowboys front office chooses this off-season to go the bargain basement route in free agency to enhance their roster, what does it say about their thinking? What is their logic? Which of these phrases is most true?

• A. They honestly believe “their way” (despite all the evidence of the last three decades to the contrary) is going to somehow win a championship.
• B. They really don’t know how to build a roster that can compete for a championship and know it, but don’t care enough to change or just hope they get lucky.
• C. They are completely delusional and believe their own PR.
• D. All of the above.

At this point, I believe it’s either B or C.
You?

Could I add, too risk averse to make the moves to finalise the roster....prefer the strategy of 'Hoping the Roster is perpetually good enough and one year we'll be lucky'.

 

[The Fonz]

A coat of paint won't fix a rotten foundation of a house
the Cowboys of today is just a circus with a big PR. the 2 buffoons running the show are stubborn to admit mistakes

 

[MikeT22]

$$$$ > winning

 

[Jarntt]

Jerry is incredibly sensitive to criticism when it relates to his ability to being a GM and building a successful team. Therefore, he will be spending big this offseason. I just hope they are smart moves and not just splash moves

 

[jterrell]

You can be Pro what they are doing or anti what they are doing.

But you cannot argue no matter how hard you debate, kick, scream anything with what @Sydla said.

“…they won’t sacrifice being good to try and be great.”

So “building” this roster the way they do, gives them their 10-12 wins and maybe a playoff win here and there. But they continually expect to strike lighting in a bottle just to prove they are the smartest guys in the room and they did it their way.

The fans here aren’t grumbling that we aren’t after Orlando Brown or Odell Beckham. But to sit there and be content that “Kelvin Joseph and Nashon Wright will be your starter!” Same with Damone Clark and not even attempt to bring in competition is what frustrates the fans.

This is the largest issue with fans.

“Kelvin Joseph and Nashon Wright will be your starter!”

KJ was CB4 and Wright CB5 last year.

This very second they are CB4 and CB5
Diggs, Bland, Lewis, KJ, Wright

You can make valid points about Dallas not doing enough without posting myopic nonsense.
Sydla's point is correct. They are not risking free fall to shoot for greatness.
That's not NECESSARILY a bad thing.
If so feel free to take your mortgage money to Vegas and be great my dude.

Dallas made a tough call on Amari and then fell flat on their face in the recovery with Tolbert and Washington falling short of NFL caliber WR much less starter.
They were smart (and/or lucky) with Gregory.
They made great moves with Peters and Fowler to add cheap NFL level depth.

The misses on KJ and Wright bit them when injuries hit hard at CB.

With Zeke injuries and TP then going down hard not finding a true 3rd RB hurt them.
Lots of stuff happened that they could control and they fell short.
But this team has never planned ot start KJ and Wright outside of pre-season or due to injury.

 

[Carson]

"not even attempt", its march 13ths the league year hasnt started, again a whine fest of constant negativity, prematurely as usual. Sorry i will stick to E
getting into the playoffs as top 3 seed is the goal umm 4 of 6 years add no losing seasons, then you have to hope you are healthy and make run in the playoffs, they are doing that but the health part like the OL, nope , run game pollard, nope.. Losing Lewis and Brown effected the team late, losing all those OL at times and not having Steele or pollard in the 9er game had an effect.

bad luck happens sometimes like with 9ers and that NFCCG all those injuries at qb, cant plan for that..

Archer tweeted don’t expect anything.

Gehlken tweeted don’t expect anything

I’m once again not saying break the bank day one. But at least sign a few starters at WR, CB, LB. But we know they won’t