You're The GM. What Do You Do?

[zerofill]

Rename the team to the Cowg-irls like opponents call us. Tell the players they are now that until they start winning.

Doubt they would care though.

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Fire anyone i can , try to tank the season and start over .

 

[diamonddelts]

Talking this season and next, Bring Tom Brady and Terrell Owens out of retirement. If Dak can't win any important games this season, bench him for Brady. Use Owens as a 3rd or 4th option receiver. If he looks good at the bottom, begin to move him up next to CeeDee.

Brady will take low money to try to bring Dallas back to glory. It's not entirely about money for Brady at this point anyways. Owens is an extraordinarily hard worker, who, in my opinion, can still play in the NFL at 51.

After making the NFC Championship/possibly win a Super Bowl with Brady, try at another and then eventually try to tank for Arch Manning.

Good thing I'm not a GM, lol.

Put down the Jack Daniels.

 

[garyo1954]

I just fired myself.
Now I sit back and laugh at the problems the next guy has to solve

 

[CowboysSpursandAstros]

Put down the Jack Daniels.

Lol, trust me I get it. But on the flipside, I'll give you the T.O. pipe dream, but cmon, between, Dak and 47 year old Brady, you're telling me you'd take Dak?

Cmon, even Brady right now would probably take us to the NFC Championship game. Dak has shown he can't play football in anything more than a Wild Card game.

 

[Bob-Lillys-War]

Lol, trust me I get it. But on the flipside, I'll give you the T.O. pipe dream, but cmon, between, Dak and 47 year old Brady, you're telling me you'd take Dak?

Cmon, even Brady right now would probably take us to the NFC Championship game. Dak has shown he can't even play football in anything more than a Wild Card game.

i'd wait 3 years and take brady at 50 .

 

[CowboysSpursandAstros]

Put down the Jack Daniels.

And also, 51 year old T.O. is better than a few receivers half his age in the NFL RIGHT NOW. Insane work ethic, genes, and skill, STILL TODAY. He's good enough to be a 3rd or 4th option.

 

[CowboysSpursandAstros]

i'd wait 3 years and take brady at 50 .

Lol, it's a better option than other players we know.

 

[Jumbo075]

I know we are critical of the FO and players after a loss, but I think this is an interesting time to ask what you would do if you were Jerry (or at least a protected GM). Let’s see what our community GMs would actually do at 3-3.
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I’ll be cannon fodder first.

I’m selling…hard.
I just realized the SB window is fully closed, and my QB makes FA unaffordable for 4 years. That means Im getting rid of any player that will likely have lost their value in 4 years for whatever draft capital I can get.

Martin, DLaw, anyone older but with value, gone. Heck even Micah because he will be pulp in 4 years. I’m hoping this frustrates my QB into demanding a trade, and I’ll even pay his bonus on the way out if it nets me better picks.

Over the next 4 years, I’m drafting positions with longer lifespans. QB, TE, OL, IDL, S, and building a solid foundation while tanking (the Lions did this exact thing). Then I go all in skill positions, and begin the next window.

I’d rather do something radical now than hope we magically rebound into a new window with less talent than ever.

What would you do at 3-3 with major players injured and the team playing like this?

By the time the first game of the season rolls around, the team and coaches are pretty much set. There are some possible trades to make if there are only a couple of glaring weaknesses that need to be addressed. When you have systemic failure, the better long term choice is to ride out the year, while identifying how you want to change in a year, what coach and coaching staff you want to target, and also which players you intend to keep. Bite the bullet, suffer through the season, then apply extreme measures at season’s end.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

Like it or not, this team is married to Dak('s contract) probably until 2027.

You guys can be mad at Dak all you want. That bad contract lies solely at the feet of the nepo chemical engineer and Applebees grill master pretending to be football guys. I'll say it every post until people realize just how awful and unqualified Stephen Jones and Adam Prasifika are at their jobs.

I've seen you mention this before, but was Prasifka managing an Applebee's in the early 2000s that Stephen used to frequent or something?

So on brand, if so.

 

[CowboysSpursandAstros]

And some people forget how many calls we would finally get to go our way if Tom Brady was our quarterback. Some of us would have to knock ourselves over the head to make sure we aren't back in 1994.

TOM BRADY.....

On the DALLAS COWBOYS....

The Cowboys would go from the team Roger Goodell absolutely loathes and despises the most, to his absolute favorite team in the league, OVERNIGHT.

 

[GMO415]

I would land my helicopter in the middle of practice.

Don't forget to drop your pants and squat on the field. Tell the Custodians to leave it until the end of the week.

 

[ShortRound]

Don't forget to drop your pants and squat on the field. Tell the Custodians to leave it until the end of the week.

 

[diamonddelts]

Lol, trust me I get it. But on the flipside, I'll give you the T.O. pipe dream, but cmon, between, Dak and 47 year old Brady, you're telling me you'd take Dak?

Cmon, even Brady right now would probably take us to the NFC Championship game. Dak has shown he can't play football in anything more than a Wild Card game.

I understand your sentiment. But Brady could not get anywhere near a NFC championship game with this team. Fans need to take off their blinders and see Dallas for what it is.

The Cowboys roster is TRASH. They are not a QB away from a title game. Let that marinate for a bit. And no one like Brady is gonna risk life and limb to come to a dumpster fire of a team.

Guys somehow think that it is some elite honor for some star QB or elite coach to come and uplift Dallas out of it's own excrement.

Dallas is a below average team with a bottom of the basement front office. It is not a destination franchise. Time to accept reality.

 

[diamonddelts]

And also, 51 year old T.O. is better than a few receivers half his age in the NFL RIGHT NOW. Insane work ethic, genes, and skill, STILL TODAY. He's good enough to be a 3rd or 4th option.

Agreed. But father time is undefeated. We all lose bone density as we age. A fifty one year old's body will not stand up to repeated hits over a seventeen game season.

 

[CowboysSpursandAstros]

Agreed. But father time is undefeated. We all lose bone density as we age. A fifty one year old's body will not stand up to repeated hits over a seventeen game season.

And you're right here. That's honestly one thing I'd be worried about with 51 yr old T.O. How would he hold up, durability-wise.

 

[CowboysSpursandAstros]

I understand your sentiment. But Brady could not get anywhere near a NFC championship game with this team. Fans need to take off their blinders and see Dallas for what it is.

The Cowboys roster is TRASH. They are not a QB away from a title game. Let that marinate for a bit. And no one like Brady is gonna risk life and limb to come to a dumpster fire of a team.

Guys somehow think that it is some elite honor for some star QB or elite coach to come and uplift Dallas out of it's own excrement.

Dallas is a below average team with a bottom of the basement front office. It is not a destination franchise. Time to accept reality.

Good point, as well.

 

[cald0d30s0]

Blue Label….

No seriously, I’m not football expert nor professional, but here is my take.

1. Think and plan with an actual philosophical foundation. How do I want this organization to behave? Are we a defensive team? Offensive? Where our strengths are going to be?

2. That being established, next move is to get the right coaches. The coach has to have the same philosophy as the plan and follow it. He has to know the strengths and exploit them. Control the locker room and be there for the players.

3. Get the right players on draft and free agency little by little that can play like we want. No scheme can work without having the proper players to do so. GM has to know that and coach has to know that.

4. Accountability, professionalism, responsibility and discipline. As part of our gameplan philosophy. That starts from the top with the GM all the way down to the players. You have to set the example.

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Like I said, team is rotten to the core. Trade important players and rebuild with those steps. Thats what i would do.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

These replies are all for naught, remember Jerry proclaiming in August that no one could come in here and be a better GM than he.

 

[diamonddelts]

These replies are all for naught, remember Jerry proclaiming in August that no one could come in here and be a better GM than he.

Exactly