Week 4 Discussion Thread

[MetSox17]

The biggest problem with THIS team is the arrogance that we had going into FA that we could sign these mediocre players and have our coaching staff turn them into a cohesive unit. Our coaching has been mediocre at best and the talent we acquired has been very well below average. That's my biggest concern right now, our offensive line is straight garbage.

[D-Unit]

Originally Posted by MetSox17

The biggest problem with THIS team is the arrogance that we had going into FA that we could sign these mediocre players and have our coaching staff turn them into a cohesive unit. Our coaching has been mediocre at best and the talent we acquired has been very well below average. That's my biggest concern right now, our offensive line is straight garbage.

YES. We F'd up FA by ignoring to sign better FAs on the OL.

We signed Livings and my Bengals coworker laughed at my ass while my forum friends said, give him a chance. When I mentioned that we also signed Bernadeau at the lunch table, everyone said... WHO???? hahahahah. That's the harsh reality of it. We dreamt of a lot of FA O-Linemen during all our fancy mock offseasons, but NONE OF US saw those weakass signings coming.

I thought for sure, they were signed for depth considering how cheap they were. So we continued the mock drafts with all kinds of OL talent throughout the rounds. Here we were in our little Cowboys discussion thread talking up all these wonderful scenarios...Kevin Zeitler! Phillip Blake! Brandon Books!... only to see the Cowboys muff it up on draft day. They cashed in on Claiborne and called it a day... basically threw the rest of the draft away.

This is an expected mess.

[Ness]

[niel89]

That box is short 1 turnover.

[FUNBUNCHER]

Originally Posted by J-Spot

Plenty of other coaches could have done the same had they been in that situation, so there is nothing inherently special about Jimmy, but he happened to, again, be in the right place at the right time and he was competent enough to make it happen.

You don't luck into building a team that wins 3 SBs in five(?) years. Hitting on Aikman was fortuitous, but selecting Emmitt Smith in the mid first when many talent evaluators thought he lacked the tools to dominate in the NFL was brilliance on Jimmy Johnson's part.

JJ built that team piece by piece, switching college LBs to safety, mining lower level college football conferences for elite talent, putting together the best coaching staff in the game,etc.

The Walker trade was a pure poker move, many in Dallas at the time were upset that Jimmy was willing to trade their BEST player and leave the franchise lacking a top RB.

I don't like Dallas but you have to get the history right.

Jimmy brought a philosophy from college that was innovative at the time in the NFL; always choose athleticism and speed over just size when building a defense. Jimmy Johnson had LBs and Dlineman many NFL experts thought were too small to be effective in the pros. They were wrong.

Plenty of other coaches would NOT have been successful in the situation handed to JJ, because what JJ did was unique to the experience and talent he himself had as a coach and talent evaluator.

[niel89]

Apparently that message on Rob Ryans sheet was wishing Pagano well.

Edit: Here is a better sized one then



unnecessarily huge picture apparently.

[Bengals78]

niel, I cant read it. Could you post a larger version or enhance the image?