Word of Muth: Hope For Dallas?

[fortdick]

I like Garrett as the HC, but he seems to get attached to certain players.

(Insert Golden Cock joke)

 

[MichaelValentino]

Leary was really good last year. And Free was very good in the run game and solid in pass protection.

I hold Leary to that standard because he's young and played at such a high level last season. Even in the season prior, he was stout in pass protection. This year he is noticeably slow off the ball and with his footwork and loses his leverage too easily.

Free seems to lack endurance. And the fact is that he needs to have some help in order to be productive...usually from Witten or Hanna.

I think we are seeing the same issue that Cleveland has had despite having a top notch O-Line. If you don't have playmakers then you're not going to be effective even if you had an O-Line consisting of Anthony Munoz, John Hannah, Dwight Stephenson, Larry Allen and Art Shell.




YR

YR,

You have my all-time O-line except I would replace Shell with Erik Williams.

 

[TheDude]

(Insert Golden Cock joke)

good thing that parenthetical included the word "joke"

 

[rockj7]

Yeah the big three on the line looked good. Problem was Free and Leary were liabilities yet again. Collins will be an upgrade. Not much we can do about Free right now though.

DMC any word on Chaz Green?

 

[jobberone]

Yeah the big three on the line looked good. Problem was Free and Leary were liabilities yet again. Collins will be an upgrade. Not much we can do about Free right now though.

Free wasn't a liability although not great on one second level block. Didn't look at Leary.

 

[fortdick]

good thing that parenthetical included the word "joke"

Ouch!

 

[Picksix]

The main point is that I don't think they made him any type of offer because they were dead set on retaining Free. I think Garrett was the main person "standing on the table" to retain Free. I like Garrett as the HC, but he seems to get attached to certain players. He went on and on defending Weed after they made the announcement that Cassel was going to be the starter.

Anything you hear Garrett say in public has to be taken with a grain of salt. He almost never says anything negative about a player publicly. Privately, I imagine he takes a much different stance. He may have been the driving force behind resigning Free, but it also may just have been the organization preferring him over Parnell. I would have been fine had they let Free go and kept Parnell, especially with Free's injury. Haven't watched much of Jax. How's Parnell doing?

 

[xwalker]

Anything you hear Garrett say in public has to be taken with a grain of salt. He almost never says anything negative about a player publicly. Privately, I imagine he takes a much different stance. He may have been the driving force behind resigning Free, but it also may just have been the organization preferring him over Parnell. I would have been fine had they let Free go and kept Parnell, especially with Free's injury. Haven't watched much of Jax. How's Parnell doing?

The Free/Parnell issue goes back to the power struggle between Garrett and Callahan. Jerry forced the issue of Callahan as the OC in 2013 putting Garrett and Callahan at odds; however, one of if not the initial issue in the tension between Callahan and Garrett was that in 2012 Callahan wanted to start Parnell over Free but Garrett refused. Once Parnell replaced Tyron for 2 games and proved himself, Callahan went over Garrett's head directly to Jerry and the compromise was a rotation between Free and Parnell. Later was when Callahan once again went directly to Jerry and convinced Jerry that he would be a better OC than Garrett. Once Callahan departed after the 2014 season, Garrett was able to retain his guy Free in part because Callahan was not here to make the case for Parnell.

Just like with fans/media, individuals within a team organization have their own pet cats. When the Head Coach has pet cats, some of them are inevitably going to be retained.

In regards to public statements it was a funny situation last season. Jerry, Stephen and especially Callahan raved about Parnell; however, Garrett never acknowledged how well he was playing and only pointed to his faults.

I watched 2 of Jacksonville's games. Parnell played better than their Left Tackle who was the #2 overall pick in 2013. I actually expected him to struggle at the beginning of the season because he only had 8 career starts and had never played OT for any other team at any level. He did give up some pressure but overall he was good in the games I watched. They had him block down on Suh as few times and he was able to get movement on him. If Free ever tried to block Suh that would be a comedy of epic proportions.