Sydla
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The season is certainly not lost after 5 games but the slope is a lot harder to climb at this point with the schedule ahead of us. So while the playoffs isn't impossible, it's looking improbable at this point barring a major shift in how this team is playing on both sides of the ball.
Regardless, as Cowboys fans, we need to hope that the front office it taking a long hard look at how they operate and why we seem to be on this endless rollercoaster that doesn't result in any great success season after season.
The coaching issues have been hashed out over and over so there's no need to do it again. But the front office really has to stop making excuses for Garrett. 8 years will be a wide sample and if the Cowboys cannot make the playoffs this year, how they could justify bringing him back from a coaching perspective would be puzzling. You have to hope that emotion and loyalty aren't the overriding factors.
More importantly, they better look at how they construct teams, specifically through FA. I applauded them when they seemed to say, "Gee, this spending wads of cash and blowing all our cap space on high priced vets isn't working, so we will be more prudent in FA". I saw that and hoped that they, while being judicious, would also be willing to spend a little extra for that one FA who made sense.
But the pendulum swung the entire other direction. Now they just sift through the crap bin and "hope" that their scouting can uncover young gems trashed by other teams and give crud veterans a rebirth. You look at the last few years and we've had very little success in FA, largely because they simply think they are smarter than anyone else and can turn other people's crap into gold. They clearly aren't Midas, that's obvious considering Thornton and Carroll and even Mayowa (granted, he's not been terrible), etc. To be fair, I really liked the Thornton signing but even I had some reservations that he might not be a 1 tech when he was a 3-4 DE in Philly. So who made the decision that Thornton could be a 1 tech? Who made the decision that despite sucking, Carroll would be a solid zone CB here?
In the end, I don't know who makes the end decisions on FA personnel. Is it Jones? Is it McClay? How much say does Marinelli, Garrett and Linehan have? But at some point, whoever is making the decisions has to do a better job. This team cannot simply rely on the draft alone, at some point, they have to have some success in FA.
Regardless, as Cowboys fans, we need to hope that the front office it taking a long hard look at how they operate and why we seem to be on this endless rollercoaster that doesn't result in any great success season after season.
The coaching issues have been hashed out over and over so there's no need to do it again. But the front office really has to stop making excuses for Garrett. 8 years will be a wide sample and if the Cowboys cannot make the playoffs this year, how they could justify bringing him back from a coaching perspective would be puzzling. You have to hope that emotion and loyalty aren't the overriding factors.
More importantly, they better look at how they construct teams, specifically through FA. I applauded them when they seemed to say, "Gee, this spending wads of cash and blowing all our cap space on high priced vets isn't working, so we will be more prudent in FA". I saw that and hoped that they, while being judicious, would also be willing to spend a little extra for that one FA who made sense.
But the pendulum swung the entire other direction. Now they just sift through the crap bin and "hope" that their scouting can uncover young gems trashed by other teams and give crud veterans a rebirth. You look at the last few years and we've had very little success in FA, largely because they simply think they are smarter than anyone else and can turn other people's crap into gold. They clearly aren't Midas, that's obvious considering Thornton and Carroll and even Mayowa (granted, he's not been terrible), etc. To be fair, I really liked the Thornton signing but even I had some reservations that he might not be a 1 tech when he was a 3-4 DE in Philly. So who made the decision that Thornton could be a 1 tech? Who made the decision that despite sucking, Carroll would be a solid zone CB here?
In the end, I don't know who makes the end decisions on FA personnel. Is it Jones? Is it McClay? How much say does Marinelli, Garrett and Linehan have? But at some point, whoever is making the decisions has to do a better job. This team cannot simply rely on the draft alone, at some point, they have to have some success in FA.
