Why Zeke suspension is good long term

[Wood]

In a way the worst thing that happened last year was Zeke dominance. Some consequences of that:

1. Cowboys became completely reliant on unreliable person.
2. It hid fact that Dak can't throw open WRs yet.
3. Made Garrett/Linehan game time decisions look better than it warranted.

In a way, it would have been healthier for Cowboys if Zeke was just kind of good and not all world. The good news is the suspension peels back all those false layers of infallibility and likely forces them to acknowledge their over-valuation of their roster and coaching ability. There is silver lining to Zeke suspension.

 

[robjay04]

No way is it good.

I think part of everyone’s problem—-Dak, Garrett, Linehan etc. is that they didn’t really prepare themselves. I felt awkward before the Chiefs game when Dez was supposedly hooting and hollering in the hallway that Zeke is playing...imagine the letdown when he was suspended? Couple that with the Falcons loss put this team in a dark spot.

I get your point, the team may be able to learn from this but Zeke is now facing a lifelong ban if he messes up again for something that may have never happened before he took a NFL snap.

 

[bodi]

it may help Dak might make him work harder

 

[birdwells1]

In a way the worst thing that happened last year was Zeke dominance. Some consequences of that:

1. Cowboys became completely reliant on unreliable person.
2. It hid fact that Dak can't throw open WRs yet.
3. Made Garrett/Linehan game time decisions look better than it warranted.

In a way, it would have been healthier for Cowboys if Zeke was just kind of good and not all world. The good news is the suspension peels back all those false layers of infallibility and likely forces them to acknowledge their over-valuation of their roster and coaching ability. There is silver lining to Zeke suspension.

I agree, I remember back in 1991 when they lost in the playoffs to the Lions, Erik Kramer killed them that day (29-38 for 341 and 3 tds).......Erik Kramer. That game showed Jimmy that if he was going to win championships that he would need to shore up the passing D. The next offseason he got Charles Haley, Thomas Everett, and Kevin Smith and went on to win the super bowl. IMO if Kramer doesn't expose our pass D then we think that we are set on D and don't make the necessary changes that needed to be made.

 

[baltcowboy]

No way is it good.

I think part of everyone’s problem—-Dak, Garrett, Linehan etc. is that they didn’t really prepare themselves. I felt awkward before the Chiefs game when Dez was supposedly hooting and hollering in the hallway that Zeke is playing...imagine the letdown when he was suspended? Couple that with the Falcons loss put this team in a dark spot.

I get your point, the team may be able to learn from this but Zeke is now facing a lifelong ban if he messes up again for something that may have never happened before he took a NFL snap.

Yeah, imagine if Zeke runs into a situation like Jamis Winston with the Uber driver.

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

It allowed people not so patiently waiting for the team to perform poorly to get an early Christmas present. So much so that they would argue an unfair and ridiculous suspension to the team's best player was good.

 

[Kaiser]

Yeah, imagine if Zeke runs into a situation like Jamis Winston with the Uber driver.

And imagine how many girls at the club will think they can extort him for 100K just for making an accusation.

 

[Alexander]

Sometimes people try too hard to look for a silver lining.

Not having the best player on your team because of a trumped up suspension is never good.

As for the idea it pulled back the curtain, it does not matter. It is not going to suddenly make them change how they self evaluate. This is simply not embarrassing enough. In fact, I wonder if we are even capable of getting down on ourselves to cause a radical change in organizational philosophy.

All Jones has been doing the last few weeks has been squinting his eyes shut and plugging his ears and going lalalalalala.

He does not think for one second that Garrett's flaws have been exposed. He still likes the staff. He feels good about Bryant. Even Prescott's failures are not going to make anyone get alarmed.

 

[baltcowboy]

And imagine how many girls at the club will think they can extort him for 100K just for making an accusation.

Zeke is f**"''! He left the country for a 6 game suspension. What is he going to do in the off season???

 

[visionary]

No way is it good.

I think part of everyone’s problem—-Dak, Garrett, Linehan etc. is that they didn’t really prepare themselves. I felt awkward before the Chiefs game when Dez was supposedly hooting and hollering in the hallway that Zeke is playing...imagine the letdown when he was suspended? Couple that with the Falcons loss put this team in a dark spot.

I get your point, the team may be able to learn from this but Zeke is now facing a lifelong ban if he messes up again for something that may have never happened before he took a NFL snap.

Dark spot?
Way to try and excuse the incompetence of the coaches

 

[Kaiser]

Zeke is f**"''! He left the country for a 6 game suspension. What is he going to do in the off season???

Jerry is have Zeke do all his commuting and entertaining in an RV.

And by RV, I mean a Stryker Armored Fighting Vehicle:

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[Ranched]

It allowed people not so patiently waiting for the team to perform poorly to get an early Christmas present. So much so that they would argue an unfair and ridiculous suspension to the team's best player was good.

 

[robjay04]

Zeke is f**"''! He left the country for a 6 game suspension. What is he going to do in the off season???

Maybe being labeled a woman beater by 90 percent of uninformed non-Cowboys fans and essentially losing a season—-watching your best friend(Dak) struggle and your team missing the playoffs while you can do nothing but blame yourself can change him?

If anything can change a man, I’m sure these last few months put everything in prospective. He doesn’t have to change much, just be cautious of the situations he puts himself in and the people that he hangs out with.

Maybe he has already taken steps—-this accusation was before he even took a snap or even had a full practice.

 

[robjay04]

Dark spot?
Way to try and excuse the incompetence of the coaches

Believe me...that wasn’t my intention. I want them all fired...it’s their job to not let the team get this way but I do think the whole suspension BS weighed down the season, that’s on the staff for letting it.

 

[Alexander]

Believe me...that wasn’t my intention. I want them all fired...it’s their job to not let the team get this way but I do think the whole suspension BS weighed down the season, that’s on the staff for letting it.

All in all, I think when the hammer finally dropped, it put everyone into a state of shock, especially after rattling off three straight to make the season look like it had a chance. Hey we will always have Kansas City.

 

[yimyammer]

All Jones has been doing the last few weeks 20+ years has been squinting his eyes shut and plugging his ears and going lalalalalala.

FYP

 

[Asklesko]

it shows that garrett is dependent on a great player for wins and can't scheme a win to save his life.

 

[percyhoward]

it may help Dak might make him work harder

It will definitely come up when Dak is seeking a 2nd contract.

 

[Alexander]

it shows that garrett is dependent on a great player for wins and can't scheme a win to save his life.

Jerry Jones subscribes to the "talent wins" hypothesis. This is a man who never appreciated what Jimmy Johnson did, then winning with a talented pre-free agency roster with a dolt like Switzer only affirmed that belief.

He will never acknowledge a coaching failure until it is too late. He only reacts when something he holds dear is threatened.

The Cowboys losing under Switzer was a fall from grace. Then the Gailey regime was too boring. Campo ran it into the ground to the point nobody cared anymore and he needed his stadium. Parcells got it for him and then he hired Phillips as a placeholder for his anointed Golden Child from the glory days.

There is going to have to be something catastrophic that has to happen for Garrett to go this year.

 

[cowboyblue22]

it shows that garrett is dependent on a great player for wins and can't scheme a win to save his life.[/QU
2015 showed that already that garrett is a fraud so is his staff