Quick Fix - what's your plan

[GloryDaysRBack]

There really isn't anything else to talk about. How would you fix this mess?

Obviously we need new coaches AND new players. Which coaches would you bring in? What players would you get rid of and who would you replace them with?

I'm the kind of guy that just likes to just start from scratch...but that Romo contract prohibits us from doing that.

So what's your plan?

 

[UVAwahoos]

Problem list (GM aside):

Ginger
Ginger
Ginger
Offensive line
Wade Wilson
Half the secondary
Ginger
Hanna
Callahan
Carter
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Romo

 

[Midswat]

Not to be a debbie downer, but the only fix would be Jerry dying.

This team has done everything. Change coaches, change schemes, change players etc. Same old mediocracy year in year out.

Bottom line is we are just a fundamentally flawed organization who's leadership cares more about marketing the brand and letting everyone know he's the face of the team than he does delivering a structured, organized, consistant winner.

 

[Jon88]

Well put, Mid.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

I'm not sure Jerry has to die. I really think if this team failed spectacularly again, he might actually give up on the Great Ginger Experiment. The one thing he loves more than family portrait boy is his money, and if he saw ratings dropping and his palace less full, he might do something.

Problem is, it would have to be fail on a pretty big scale. If we scrape along and stay in the hunt -- even if only because of this terrible division and not because we're actually a good team -- that will be enough to keep fan interest and his own optimism up and nothing will change.

That's pretty much my worst nightmare, but I think there's a real chance of that happening.

 

[Sheik]

Fuck it.

 

[Jon88]

I'm to the point where I'm just going to stop caring.

 

[cockstrong]

Root for another team

 

[peplaw06]

The "plan" begins and ends with get a new GM. Until he's gone/dead/institutionalized, he's going to continue thinking he knows best. That means he's going to be bringing in the coaches. That means he's bringing in Yes Men who have little to no autonomy, who will be unable to motivate and discipline the team the way he sees fit. Coaches who can't hire the other coaches they want to work with. Coaches who can't draft the players they want to run their system.

The Parcells experiment aside, that's exactly what he's done since he forced Jimmy out. And the Parcells he brought in wasn't a young Parcells who was fired up to challenge Jerry at every turn.

 

[UVAwahoos]

Those Parcells years were exciting and, old or not, he clearly had the team on the rise. I miss that the most. There's nothing too mind-numbing about these losses anymore. It's clear that we have a coach in over his head. He's not building a damn thing here.

 

[Midswat]

Those Parcells years were exciting and, old or not, he clearly had the team on the rise.

10-6
6-10
9-7
9-7

Parcells improved the talent significantly. But he lacked the ability to coach them over the top.

 

[UVAwahoos]

15-33 to 10-6 in one season with a borderline retarded QB.

He left us with a franchise QB, two first ballot HOFers and a team that promptly went 13-3.

Just how he was raised.

 

[Jon88]

His parents did a good job.

 

[Midswat]

15-33 to 10-6 in one season with a borderline retarded QB.

You see that fairly regularly in todays NFL. New coaches come in and have fairly drastic turnarounds their first years. Happens all the time.

He left us with a franchise QB, two first ballot HOFers and a team that promptly went 13-3.

Just how he was raised.

I acknowledged that he increased the talent base significantly.

Still, he left a lot... a fucking lot to be desired as an actual game day coach.

But man, those press conferences were fun to watch.

 

[Jon88]

He was a good man. Some people called him "The Tuna."

 

[JBond]

The Chiefs are 4-0 after a 2-14 season. Unfortunately JJ is not mentally capable of making the necessary changes like the Chiefs did. We are stuck with Romo until he is 42. We are stuck with JJ and the countless other bad deals he will make until he dies. Then mini JJ will take over and nothing will change.

Unless the Jones's plane goes down with the entire family on board in the Bermuda triangle nothing will change. Jerry sold his soul to the devil for the 90's.

 

[Jon88]

So really there's no point in caring anymore.

 

[UVAwahoos]

You see that fairly regularly in todays NFL. New coaches come in and have fairly drastic turnarounds their first years. Happens all the time.

Oh for seriously? Cleveland, Jax, Oakland, buffalo, Carolina, Arizona, Philly and Tampa would all like to speak with you about this magical theory.

 

[Midswat]

Oh for seriously? Cleveland, Jax, Oakland, buffalo, Carolina, Arizona, Philly and Tampa would all like to speak with you about this magical theory.

It's not a magical theory. Pay attention to the league.

Chiefs look pretty good at 4-0. Were' 2-14 last year.
Colts went 11-5 last year with a new coach, after 2-14 the year before.
Falcons went 11-5 in Mike Smiths first year, after 4-12 the previous season.
Saints went 10-6 in Paytons first year after a 3-13 season.
9'ers went 13-3 in Harbaughs first year after a 6-10 season

Welcome to todays NFL.

 

[cmd34]

Jon Gruden, with Parcells-like back the fuck off Jerry clause.

Gruden brings in hand-picked GM (like Pete Carroll did). Call him whatever you want so Jerry can keep his cool title, but for all intents and purposes, the new guy runs the personnel.

Lovie Smith as DC. Same basic concept as Monte's defense but unlike Monte, the ability to make in-game adjustments.

Release Jay Ratliff, Mackenzy Bernadeau, and possibly Miles Austin (maybe get him to agree to reduced contract like Doug Free). Let free agents Anthony Spencer, Jason Hatcher, Will Allen, and Brian Waters walk (must get younger).

In free agency, sign one Guard, (at least) one Defensive Lineman, and one true Free Safety.

In draft, look for one maybe two Defensive Linemen, a Wide Receiver, preferably a slot guy who can also return kicks, a QB of the future, and Doug Free's eventual replacement.