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You Are Jerry The GM, how are You Changing This Team For The Better?
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Hawkeye19
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I said this was a 9 or 10 win team at best this season, and that is what they are on pace for.
I imagine we get some guys back and they tweak some things over the bye, and they come out playing for their lives against SF. They may even surprise and win that game— if they do, it would be a jolt— if they don’t the wheels probably come off.
All of that to say, the reality is that JJ made his bed as soon as he decided to run it back bc he believes this team is “around the rim”.
If I became GM today, I would immediately fire Solari and the OC. Promote Lunda Wells and place MM 100% in charge of the offense. The guy putting together the gameplan should be the guy calling the plays. The way this team constructs its coaching staff is unnecessarily complicated.
Then I wait until the offseason to make macro changes. We need a young, innovative offensive coach that can get the most out of Dak and this offense because that is where our cap money sits.
On D— I focus on drafting front 7 and trying to get a young, hungry, and fundamentally sound unit that can play with some fire and pop. We won’t have a lot of superstars over there— but maybe we can get some team first guys that the sum ends up greater than the parts.
Definitely changing DCs and will let the new HC set his staff.
Parsons? I am entertaining trade offers. He is a generational talent, but we need to reload and committing more cap to another market setting deal is too much. Get some draft capital and move on from him.
2025 becomes a transition year. Clear the cap from Martin, Zeke, D Law and older vets. Load up in the draft on some young talent, and circle 2026 as a year where (theoretically) you can start to contend.
Drat a young QB to develop and part ways with Prescott as soon as the cap allows for it
I imagine we get some guys back and they tweak some things over the bye, and they come out playing for their lives against SF. They may even surprise and win that game— if they do, it would be a jolt— if they don’t the wheels probably come off.
All of that to say, the reality is that JJ made his bed as soon as he decided to run it back bc he believes this team is “around the rim”.
If I became GM today, I would immediately fire Solari and the OC. Promote Lunda Wells and place MM 100% in charge of the offense. The guy putting together the gameplan should be the guy calling the plays. The way this team constructs its coaching staff is unnecessarily complicated.
Then I wait until the offseason to make macro changes. We need a young, innovative offensive coach that can get the most out of Dak and this offense because that is where our cap money sits.
On D— I focus on drafting front 7 and trying to get a young, hungry, and fundamentally sound unit that can play with some fire and pop. We won’t have a lot of superstars over there— but maybe we can get some team first guys that the sum ends up greater than the parts.
Definitely changing DCs and will let the new HC set his staff.
Parsons? I am entertaining trade offers. He is a generational talent, but we need to reload and committing more cap to another market setting deal is too much. Get some draft capital and move on from him.
2025 becomes a transition year. Clear the cap from Martin, Zeke, D Law and older vets. Load up in the draft on some young talent, and circle 2026 as a year where (theoretically) you can start to contend.
Drat a young QB to develop and part ways with Prescott as soon as the cap allows for it
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I'm hiring someone that knows what the hell they are doing asap and retiring to the owners box.
Mk2_Cowboys
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This
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Simple answer is as The Rock would say - it doesn't matter!
Dak Prescott is the starting quarterback with a no trade clause earning $60 million a season.
As many posters tried to warn others, this will and is already starting to knee cap the team.
It's a hopeless situation.
The best option would be to tank, draft a QB in the first 10 in 2025 and cut Prescott as soon as is reasonably practicable.
What would be Prescott's dead cap hit if cut post June 2025 or post June 2026?
That's the best case scenario but no way JJ admits he made a mistake so it will be rinse and repeat for at least another 4 years.
As a fan all we can do is try continue to enjoy the clown show that is Dak Prescott attempting to play the quarterback position.
Dak Prescott is the starting quarterback with a no trade clause earning $60 million a season.
As many posters tried to warn others, this will and is already starting to knee cap the team.
It's a hopeless situation.
The best option would be to tank, draft a QB in the first 10 in 2025 and cut Prescott as soon as is reasonably practicable.
What would be Prescott's dead cap hit if cut post June 2025 or post June 2026?
That's the best case scenario but no way JJ admits he made a mistake so it will be rinse and repeat for at least another 4 years.
As a fan all we can do is try continue to enjoy the clown show that is Dak Prescott attempting to play the quarterback position.
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Let this thing ride it out. Even if the wheels fall off. Try to fix some things in the off-season. Absolutely zero trading of the team’s future draft assets. Good grief guys-the team is not good enough for cherry on top types of additions.
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Yes-after the train wreck season finishes. That was actually a Jones plan. If the team failed to achieve a conference championship game, they would fire Mike. He was scapegoated before the season began with his contract status. They should have followed that approach to players up for big extensions too.
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This is the only answer
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"Run the ball more"? Yeah right and then it's 3rd and 7 and you think that Dak is going to consistently throw for first downs? Seriously?
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Yep sure.
That’s like being diagnosed with cancer that’s curable but deciding that a facelift and tummy tuck instead of chemo or similar is the way to go.
Not sure why so many think that Jerry picking yet another puppet will make much of a difference.
The place is rotten. Rotten. The only hope I have is that the circus act looks even more ridiculous as the blowouts mount and they finally get a clue that they need someone else to run football.
Unfortunately we are quite a ways away from that point.
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They lost because the sun was in their eyes. Lol, this game it wasn’t a factor.
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Stop going for the flashy player, draft of men in the pits on both sides of the ball
Whirlwin
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We have three or four good players on defense, maybe three on offense. If we don’t fix the line, I don’t care what else they do. It’s not going to work. I would probably keep Lukey and get rid of everybody else lol. Louis Wilson bland on defense.