Right Kind of Guys....

[Midswat]

For years, we were fed lines by Garrett apologists and excuse makers that Garretts lack of success was because he needed to reshape the roster with his kind of players. Right kind of guys, or "RKG's" as many have taken to mocking them as.

What is a RKG? Let's here it from the idiot horses mouth himself:

“We’re looking for the right kind of guy,” he said. “The right kind of guy, to us, is someone who loves to play football, who is very passionate about it, willing to work hard at it, willing to be part of a team, willing to be part of something that is maybe greater than himself.

“We want a guy who has an ego. Egos are important. But ego in the context of what we’re trying to accomplish as a team. Guys who are willing to work, are great teammates – there’s always going to be a place for those guys.”

Sounds good, right?

Can anyone explain these players? And surely I'll forget some...

- Rolondo McClain - retired already before signing here. Rarely participated in off season activities. History of assault and an arson investigation. History of drug use. Resigned. Then suspended 10 games. Still not released.

- CJ Spiller - Raped a girl in the team hotel. Was allowed by the team to remain on the roster and play while being investigated.

- Demarcus Lawrence - Drug user.

- Orlando Scandrick - Drug user.

- Randy Gregory - Known drug user.

- Dez Bryant - Suspended in college. Numerous run ins with the law. Multiple lawsuits.

- Greg Hardy - Known woman beater yet still signed. Disrespected coaches. Skipped practices/meetings. Assaulted a coach during a game. Still allowed to play all season.

 

[cmd34]

Jerry Jones.

That is all.

 

[Midswat]

Jerry Jones said when Garrett was hired that there wouldn't be a player on this roster than Garrett didn't want.

What does it say about Garrett when, after being the head coach for 6 years, his team is full of so many troubled individuals and drug users?

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

More of these headcases than under any other coach since at least Campo, and maybe Switzer.

 

[NoMoRedJ]

Garrett is so full of ****

He read some coaching books and visited some successful coaches and picked up some lines to parrot to make it seem like he's got some idea about being a successful coach. But anybody paying attention knows its just hot air. Jerry is more impressed with hot air than anyone on this planet and has bought into Garrett's BS as if its how own. 31 other teams would have canned his arse long ago but Jerry is getting snookered by Red and its almost karma like when you consider all of Jerry's BS snookering to Cowboy fans over the years.

RKG is just more Garrett BS, nothing more.

 

[peplaw06]

Jerry Jones said when Garrett was hired that there wouldn't be a player on this roster than Garrett didn't want.

He's full of shit. That or he's doing the wink wink thing and telling Garrett if you don't "want" him here, you don't have to work here.

 

[Sheik]

Dallas signed CJ Spiller?

 

[Omegasupreme]

Nice guys finish last. And so they take drugs so that they can keep up.

 

[Hoofbite]

The product of preaching accountability and never practicing it.

 

[Rynie]

Dez is a fucking ******. I don't care what anyone says.

 

[Midswat]

Bad thing is there's more names you could add to that list.

Josh Brent was out until 2am before game day, drinking and driving with a team mate who he killed.

We tried everything in our power to keep him on the team. Now he works as a scout for the organization.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

Sure you can ultimately pin it on Jerry, because he's the boss of it all and he's the one who hired Garrett.

But a coach who had some stones and/or some charisma to persuade Jerry would make a big difference. Someone with some skins on the wall who didn't come in completely beholden to Jerry would be in a different position, too. A Gruden or even a Zimmer wouldn't let themselves be pushed around like a punk the way Garrett does.

 

[Omegasupreme]

Doesn't it all seem disjointed? The majority of the suspensions and issues are on the defense. Not because of Marinelli but it seems that the personnel decisions for the defense lack a real knowledge of player types and athletic puzzle pieces. I remember DeMarcus Lawrence was not the top choice or even the second but he was really all that was left in the pool of upper round picks. JJ Wilcox was kind of that sort of pick too. Randy Gregory was passed up by most teams but Dallas needed a pass rusher and had not really tried to upgrade in the offseason. Hardy and Rolando were both not pursued by most of the league.

But my point is that the pro-active building of the defense is not there. And so Jerry has tended to pursue the only guys left like Lawrence, Hardy, Gregory, and McClain. Even Carr was not a highly pursued athlete but rather a player who had some prominent stats. He's really not big or fast or anything just acclaimed. I still don't understand the Tyrone Crawford pick, or acquiring Jeremy Mincey or Terrell McClain when the team needed playmakers. Damien Wilson did almost nothing of value in college but worse had no desirable NFL athletic features which would show that he can make plays at the next level.

Then there is the injured LB player gambles with Sean Lee, Bruce Carter, and now Jaylon Smith. Mark Nzeocha really didn't make sense to draft but acquire after the draft because he really didn't have a lot of football history or college prominence: he was just German who played safety and LB. It's like "let's see if we found our Dirk".

The secondary is still kind of odd from the Matt Johnson parole program, to Heath and Wilcox, to slow Church and despite Byron Jones being a freak athlete, the reasoning from Garrett about why they picked him had to do with his character.

Dez was entirely Jerry's.

Williams, Streets, Kellen Moore, Cassel, Weeden, Escobar and Swaim were entirely Garrett.

Hanna, Lucky, Beasley, and even Murray all seemed to be randomly acquired but have a necessary skillset.

The history of the offensive line is completely disjointed. Garrett did not build the line. Frederick was not the primary pick but was just next on the list in the round. Zack Martin and Collins fell into their laps. But how the O-line came to prominence was through Callahan building a running game that is not associated with the Garrett style scheme because the man-blocking playaction that is supposed to happen gets compromised when the zone blocking running game doesn't fit well with play action.

The Murray thing is still so strange. Romo had his best year when a RB had a record breaking year. Does that mean that in order for Romo to really have another good year, the running back has to be almost the top in the league? But how is it that Romo had Murray's record breaking year and still was sacked 29 times - knowing that the O-line is very good and the running game was almost lights out?

And then you have the true success stories of Romo and Witten who were not Garrett's at all but play parts of Garrett's mind guard for the rest of the team.

It's really a lot of fragmented leadership and ill-equipped scouting and coaching which is holding the team in a "building" mode while the head coach waits for the little portions of the team to randomly fall into place.

This draft had some puzzlers like Maliek, Jaylon, Prescott and Gathers but it also had some players who make sense to me like Zeke, Tapper, Brown, Frazier and Jackson. The problem is that the Garrett player development is so non-existent that the only way any of these players make the team is by Jeff Heathing a fumble or interception or random success. Otherwise, the DE, DBs and RBs could be seen as not needing any upgrades by the head coach.