You Are Jerry The GM, how are You Changing This Team For The Better?

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The bad decision-making and overpaying for mediocre players, most specifically this past off-season, as Jerry’s mental abilities continue to deteriorate, unfortunately, has set the path for this team for at least the next 4 to 5 seasons were looking at the same version of what we’re seeing now. Whether you want to accept it or not, the Cowboys are in a rebuilding phase. Probably haven’t recognized themselves, but I think Jerry has just enough brain cells left maybe start to realize that at this point. I know what his age he wanted one more Super Bowl before he checks out, but unfortunately, his own bad decisions probably have prevented that from happening in his lifetime.
 

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I’d pat Zeke on the back and say “sorry bud, we’re all done here”
.....but I'd ask Dalvin Cook 2 questions.......1. Aren't you getting paid? and 2. Do you really want to run behind our OL?
 

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There is no quick fix and I hope more fans realize this.

Hire proven GM

Hire innovative HC, not a relic

Get the hell out the way of everything but marketing.
100% hire a GM with a plan hold him to it, let him hire a coaching staff with a plan and get him the players needed to work his plan, hold him to it....you know like every other successsfull business in the world..
 

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Yes, not beating anybody good with one legit weapon on offense. Makes it too easy for opposing DCs to stop that.
Kicking FGs instead of getting TDs not going to take you anywhere
So Ferguson isn't good now. Dak can't go through his route tree. Dak is Sam Howell on the Commanders without a stacked roster... Hell, Sam Howell may be better than him, at least if he gets 9 years of practice...
 

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Imagine how bad this team would be if they were the best drafters in the league........lol
 

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Well I wouldn't have signed Prescott, first things first. But now that I'm stuck with him -

Every coach goes in the offseason, besides Al Harris probably.

Ben Johnson is the new HC and he hires whoever he wants as his assistants.

If Ben thinks he can work with Prescott, we'll keep him. If not, we're looking for some way to offload him, get him to waive his no-trade clause (not going to happen).

The draft goes BPA. There are too many holes to fill on this team to force picks. If it's a QB, we're taking the QB.

Then I let the coaches do their thing.
 

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I am benching Dak for the rest of the season and informing him that he will not be the starting quarterback on this team again. If he wants to ride the bench he can or if he wants to waive his no trade clause he can also do that and we'll send him to a team where he can start.

Micah is being shipped out. Trevon Diggs is being shipped out. This is the last year for Lawrence and Martin as well as they're getting released. Steele has one more training camp or he's also gone before the start of the 2025 season.

I'm taking a quarterback with our top five pick in 2025 and a running back in the second or third round. I'm adding defensive tackles capable of creating pressure and stopping the run.

And of course I'm getting rid of the entire coaching staff and letting a head coach come in here and run the team the way he sees fit. I'm staying out of his way. I'm also enacting a closed door policy. If you have a problem with how much playing time you're getting, take it up with your head coach. Don't come to my office crying. If you do I'm releasing you.

And oh yeah, Elliot is getting released immediately.
 

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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.
Sure the ultimate answer is to get a new owner. But even when Palpatine finally succumbs to the will of the force his apprentice is already in line.
 

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If I'm Jerry and I want to improve the team? I draft. Then fill in the gaps with whatever is left over after free agency has been picked clean. If pressed, I might trade for Zach Wilson or Jadeveon Clowney next year. Maybe even Derrick Henry after about 3 more years.
 

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Sure the ultimate answer is to get a new owner. But even when Palpatine finally succumbs to the will of the force his apprentice is already in line.
He said he would take less risk than Jerry. I don't even know what that means.
 

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If I'm Jerry and I want to improve the team? I draft. Then fill in the gaps with whatever is left over after free agency has been picked clean. If pressed, I might trade for Zach Wilson or Jadeveon Clowney next year. Maybe even Derrick Henry after about 3 more years.
Henry might be cheap enough for Stephen in three years lol.

I mean really…and I said this weeks ago…if they can’t supplement the current group because they claim to be maxed on cap dollars, how exactly do they improve from here?
 

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Well I wouldn't have signed Prescott, first things first. But now that I'm stuck with him -

Every coach goes in the offseason, besides Al Harris probably.

Ben Johnson is the new HC and he hires whoever he wants as his assistants.

If Ben thinks he can work with Prescott, we'll keep him. If not, we're looking for some way to offload him, get him to waive his no-trade clause (not going to happen).

The draft goes BPA. There are too many holes to fill on this team to force picks. If it's a QB, we're taking the QB.

Then I let the coaches do their thing.
This is the way to go.

But we all know Jerry is not bringing some young coach in here to run the show. He wants a yes man. The only reason Garrett was coaching here is because of the history he had playing in Dallas. And the longest leash ever. Otherwise, next year, I assume we get another retread coach just like we did bringing Zimmer in here, another guy who had ties here. Never ends.
 

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Henry might be cheap enough for Stephen in three years lol.

I mean really…and I said this weeks ago…if they can’t supplement the current group because they claim to be maxed on cap dollars, how exactly do they improve from here?
The Cowboys have only done one thing since 2013 to actively get better, trading for cooper. They believe in their process of building through the draft. That's it. WR Cooks and CB Gilmore were great trades. If it was 2017. Their 2015 offseason was no different than 2016. They believe their process will get them what they need without spending a ridiculous amount of money. They have some success, just not ultimate success. Look at the Eagles. Look at all of the moves they made, and moving up in the draft, it looks like genius. They don't look much better than us. But no, we don't do anything to try to put a better product on the field from the previous year. We don't do, get over the hump moves.
 
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