Why isn’t Stephen Jones doing his job?

[rnr_honeybadger]

probably half and if I'm not mistaken Dakko has never beaten him....

Dak will never beat a half way competent defense. His only skill is whooping on bad teams which was the NFC East until this season when Philly improved their defense and the Giants have gotten better.

 

[links18]

He is doing his job. He's keeping you interested without breaking the bank.

 

[Dak_Attack_09]

Because he doesnt need to worry about job security.

He is not working for anything, is it more of a hobby to him?

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Trade deadline not until November 1st. So give them time.
However the best move is to make no move at times. GM 101. Just like trading stocks. Sometimes the best time is to sit on the sidelines and do nothing.

All these wild trades some fans want just are not possible. Then you want to rag on the FO for not making them.
Don't make moves just to make moves, especially to satisfy some armchair GM's.

I hear you...BUT if you are trying to win a Super Bowl....you have to go for it. If the Eagles are the best thing the NFC has to offer...this is a perfect season to GO FOR IT. I do not trust this WR corps to win 3 playoff games and the Super Bowl. I simply think the moments will be too big for them. We have not been on the NFC Title game stage in a long time....and when I reflect on that era...we had a Michael Irvin, Jay Novacek, Alvin Harper (1st round pick) and a much better head coach. My point? That culture and a REAL #88 was built for those moments. I don't trust this culture or the guys we got....BUT.....BUT....I trust a guy like OBJ...who has been on that stage and has the confidence to show up on a stage that size. And I am not trying to say OBJ is Michael Irvin...but a guy like Micheal Irvin creates an environment for a guy like Alvin Harper to seize the moment. I remember Troy saying he was not sure if Alvin was going to get across the face of the defender...but that culture was a culture of GOING FOR IT...and that is what Troy and Alvin did on that play. Who do you trust in our WR/TE room to show up?

 

[jazzcat22]

I hear you...BUT if you are trying to win a Super Bowl....you have to go for it. If the Eagles are the best thing the NFC has to offer...this is a perfect season to GO FOR IT. I do not trust this WR corps to win 3 playoff games and the Super Bowl. I simply think the moments will be too big for them. We have not been on the NFC Title game stage in a long time....and when I reflect on that era...we had a Michael Irvin, Jay Novacek, Alvin Harper (1st round pick) and a much better head coach. My point? That culture and a REAL #88 was built for those moments. I don't trust this culture or the guys we got....BUT.....BUT....I trust a guy like OBJ...who has been on that stage and has the confidence to show up on a stage that size. And I am not trying to say OBJ is Michael Irvin...but a guy like Micheal Irvin creates an environment for a guy like Alvin Harper to seize the moment. I remember Troy saying he was not sure if Alvin was going to get across the face of the defender...but that culture was a culture of GOING FOR IT...and that is what Troy and Alvin did on that play. Who do you trust in our WR/TE room to show up?

Good points.
However, those teams were built through the draft, and some plan B free agents such as Novacek was. And NO cap to worry about.
So they could bring in players such as Tony Casillas, from a trade as they had a crap load of draft capital to do so.
They could make the trade for Charles Haley. And pay the contract.

Would I trust our WR and TE group as back then. No. Also, however. We have not seen them with Dak at QB other than the 1st game without Gallup. Washington can have a good impact when he returns as well. And the running game is getting going, such as those players had Emmitt. Not comparing any RB to Emmitt. Just saying a strong running game helps tremendously.

I will give them a few games, as well see how they are coming out of the bye week. They may surprise us.

 

[kskboys]

The 49ers, Rams, Chiefs, Patriots, Seattle, Broncos all teams that went to multiple SBs alwasy make moves before trade deadline to improve their teams while our lazy spoon fed CAP guy is busy partying on yacht.

Our leaders are not football people. They don't understand NFL football.

 

[kevm3]

It's no surprise that we never get past the 2nd round of the playoffs. We ONLY try to win through the draft while other great teams are actively making moves in all avenues to improve. Philadelphia won a superbowl, fell off and rebuilt and we're just cruising in mediocrity. Doesn't Philly have like 2 or 3 first rounders next year as well? The FO is why we are perpetually stuck in mediocrity. Everyone wants to blame this or that coach, coordinator, quarterback, etc., but all of those roles have been switched out NUMEROUS times all to the same mediocre result.

 

[CowboyRoy]

The 49ers, Rams, Chiefs, Patriots, Seattle, Broncos all teams that went to multiple SBs alwasy make moves before trade deadline to improve their teams while our lazy spoon fed CAP guy is busy partying on yacht.

How many of those teams currently have a better record than the Cowboys?

Trolls like you complained about all the big FA's and WR's we didnt bring in this offseason. You complained that we had gotten much worse and all the players we lost.

Some of us tried to talk some sense into you. You didnt listen and now you look like a child that cant admit he was wrong.

 

[kevm3]

Imagine how dangerous we'd be this year if we didn't trade away Amari Cooper and actually tried to bring in a great defender in free agency... but we literally traded our no 1 receiver for a FIFTH rounder.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Our leaders are not football people. They don't understand NFL football.

At this point those that didnt like the youth movement and cried that we didnt do enough and lost to much have egg on their face.

 

[LittleD]

The only guy worth trading is Dak.... But, which idiot team would take on his bloated contract. They would never trade Micah.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Imagine how dangerous we'd be this year if we didn't trade away Amari Cooper and actually tried to bring in a great defender in free agency... but we literally traded our no 1 receiver for a FIFTH rounder.

Guys like you that cried about it got it all wrong. Here we sit at 4-2 with our backup QB and the toughest stretch of our schedule in the rear mirror.

Crying about Cooper and the other veterans we let go was dead wrong. We would look great with Randy Moss and Jerry Rice too, but someone has to actually run the organization.

 

[TheHerd]

Imagine how dangerous we'd be this year if we didn't trade away Amari Cooper and actually tried to bring in a great defender in free agency... but we literally traded our no 1 receiver for a FIFTH rounder.

And we let him go to the Washington team, so we basically got nothing but cap space.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Good points.
However, those teams were built through the draft, and some plan B free agents such as Novacek was. And NO cap to worry about.
So they could bring in players such as Tony Casillas, from a trade as they had a crap load of draft capital to do so.
They could make the trade for Charles Haley. And pay the contract.

Would I trust our WR and TE group as back then. No. Also, however. We have not seen them with Dak at QB other than the 1st game without Gallup. Washington can have a good impact when he returns as well. And the running game is getting going, such as those players had Emmitt. Not comparing any RB to Emmitt. Just saying a strong running game helps tremendously.

I will give them a few games, as well see how they are coming out of the bye week. They may surprise us.

how they perform in the coming weeks against teams that are not going to be in the postseason does not move with me. I am also done evaluating Dak against terrible teams. This organization has shown it can dominate terrible teams. We are something like 10 - 21 against playoff teams since Dak's rookie year. So that is where I am at in my evaluation. How do we play against good teams/coaches/cultures. And the results suggest that we have not been good enough

I think I heard Von Miller....a guy Buffalo added this offseason...is saying OBJ is coming to them...that would be a move of fortifying their roster to make a Super Bowl run. That is the kind of move I would like to see us make. The 49ers added McCaffery...that is evidence of a team preparing to make a run. We have 27 years of evidence that we have not been good enough. There are no guarantees that a move would result in a Super Bowl...but you cannot sit back and do NOTHING.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Imagine how dangerous we'd be this year if we didn't trade away Amari Cooper and actually tried to bring in a great defender in free agency... but we literally traded our no 1 receiver for a FIFTH rounder.

I was about as big of an Amari Cooper fan as you would find, but it's time to move on. The pick coming back was pretty negligent to be honest, that move was about creating cap space. The Browns are on the hook for $24MM each of the next two years for Cooper plus they've pushed money into his voidable years after that too. The Cowboys would be a better team with him on the roster today, but I think it was the right move to be honest. Looking at this team preseason I'm not sure anyone here honestly thought this team would have been as good as it's been and very few would have supported an all-in on 2022 mindset.

Plus what great defender did you want? Von Miller would have been nice, but do you want his contract? Also keep in mind more Von Miller = less Dorrance Armstrong. Bobby Wagner would have made sense, but I'm perfectly fine with the Cowboys not giving a 32 year old linebacker a 5+ year deal.

 

[CowboyRoy]

And we let him go to the Washington team, so we basically got nothing but cap space.

Yep which went to signing guys like Kearse, Hooker, Gallup. Take your pick.

And that money will be saved over the following 2 years as well which will be used to sign other players.

How difficult is it really to replace 1000 yards and 7 TD's? That was about what Cooper averaged here. Gallup should do that all by himself. Brown could probably replace a lot of that himself.

 

[john van brocklin]

The 49ers, Rams, Chiefs, Patriots, Seattle, Broncos all teams that went to multiple SBs alwasy make moves before trade deadline to improve their teams while our lazy spoon fed CAP guy is busy partying on yacht.

He has the job just because of who his father is and not that he is the most qualified.
His father is not qualified to be GM either.
The above is why we have not been to a NFCC game in 27 years.

 

[TheHerd]

Yep which went to signing guys like Kearse, Hooker, Gallup. Take your pick.

And that money will be saved over the following 2 years as well which will be used to sign other players.

How difficult is it really to replace 1000 yards and 7 TD's? That was about what Cooper averaged here. Gallup should do that all by himself. Brown could probably replace a lot of that himself.

C'mom. I know you know better than that. Cooper's stats weren't the sum of his value. And I'm not even claiming they should have kept him, though I would have rather than just cut him, which is basically what they did.

 

[kevm3]

Guys like you that cried about it got it all wrong. Here we sit at 4-2 with our backup QB and the toughest stretch of our schedule in the rear mirror.

Crying about Cooper and the other veterans we let go was dead wrong. We would look great with Randy Moss and Jerry Rice too, but someone has to actually run the organization.

Regular season doesn't matter. We went 12 and 5 last year and we all know how it ended in the playoffs. 25 years of not getting out of the 2nd round of the playoffs tells us all we need to know.

 

[kevm3]

I was about as big of an Amari Cooper fan as you would find, but it's time to move on. The pick coming back was pretty negligent to be honest, that move was about creating cap space. The Browns are on the hook for $24MM each of the next two years for Cooper plus they've pushed money into his voidable years after that too. The Cowboys would be a better team with him on the roster today, but I think it was the right move to be honest. Looking at this team preseason I'm not sure anyone here honestly thought this team would have been as good as it's been and very few would have supported an all-in on 2022 mindset.

Plus what great defender did you want? Von Miller would have been nice, but do you want his contract? Also keep in mind more Von Miller = less Dorrance Armstrong. Bobby Wagner would have made sense, but I'm perfectly fine with the Cowboys not giving a 32 year old linebacker a 5+ year deal.

The issue is that this is all about cap savings, but we do NOTHING with those cap savings. What did we do when Dak was on that cheap 4th rounder contract? Nothing. We cut Amari and did what with those savings? Nothing. In the meanwhile, other teams are actively loading up their rosters. Sure, we can win some regular season games, but when the play-offs come around, actively working to improve the roster will pay dividends.