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yimyammer
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gawd damn it, I'm getting sucked in and I'm sure I'll get it rammed up my ass but I don't think the season is over and feel it might turn out pleasantly surprising.
If all I do this year is watch Dak prove to the world he is a franchise QB, then its been a great year
this is saying a lot coming from my negative ass
If all I do this year is watch Dak prove to the world he is a franchise QB, then its been a great year
this is saying a lot coming from my negative ass
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I'm optimistic. There will be ups and downs and they're chances of winning the NFC are definitely not where they were but I'm excited to see what Dak and the rest of the offense can do. I don't expect them to go deep into the playoffs or anything like that but this year will be a building block for future.
If Dak looks good and continues to progress but they end up with a losing record (mostly because of the defense) then the season is not a total loss. They could go into the next draft with no need to go after a QB and with a decent pick. Next draft may finally be that defensive draft this team has needed for years.
If Dak looks good and continues to progress but they end up with a losing record (mostly because of the defense) then the season is not a total loss. They could go into the next draft with no need to go after a QB and with a decent pick. Next draft may finally be that defensive draft this team has needed for years.
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I guess I am neutral. I hope we do well, as I always do, but we are still coached by the Red Headed Idiot. It has always taken Romo to overcome Garrett's idiocy(and even he couldn't always do it as we saw in the 8-8 nightmares). I guess we will find out if Dak can do the same. I hope he can because that is our only chance of winning. If we fall flat on our faces like last year, at least it will hopefully be another nail in Garrett's coffin.
Not sure if you mean in a literal sense, but if so the answer is no because we still have to play the season. Can you imagine how much money the team and NFL would lose if they just cancelled seasons because star players got hurt?
But if you mean figuratively over, then I'd say I'm optimistic about the run game and that's about it. Not optimistic to think we'll win much. Also optimistic that Garrett might get shit canned. Unlikely because of how this team employs like 17 Garretts, but theres always a chance.
But if you mean figuratively over, then I'd say I'm optimistic about the run game and that's about it. Not optimistic to think we'll win much. Also optimistic that Garrett might get shit canned. Unlikely because of how this team employs like 17 Garretts, but theres always a chance.
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As always I'm left hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
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I'm looking forward to watching the Cowboys' offense this year. I enjoy a good power running game and there's a very good chance we'll see one. So that's a highlight. I don't think Prescott will be asked to do too much, to somehow carry the team on his shoulders. As long as he performs well in a bus driver role, this team has a good chance at the playoffs. And if they were to get hot at the right time, maybe they do some damage.
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What I expected: Romo goes down. What I didnt expect: To possibly contend for more than the division. No matter what I thought in the NFC alone Carolina, GB, Minn, Ari and Sea were clearly better and better coached. So like every season the last 20 it was just entertainment for three hours with zero hope of escaping a poor organization and occasionally making the playoffs.
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I took the sure answer and went with #4......
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I don't think our season is over and I think Dak can win some games in this league. I'm just not sure the coaching staff can put a game plan together to take advantage of his skill set. In any event, I don't think his pre-season performance was a fluke. I think the kid has something and has a shot to be a real solid QB if he can put it all together.
kI don't think our season is over and I think Dak can win some games in this league. I'm just not sure the coaching staff can put a game plan together to take advantage of his skill set. In any event, I don't think his pre-season performance was a fluke. I think the kid has something and has a shot to be a real solid QB if he can put it all together.
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In Prescott we trust is more about my theory that, whether by The Jones decisions or by the embarrassment of 2015, that it's Linehans playbook and not the "only Romo validated" Garrett playbook. The fact that only Romo can "run" the Garrett offense I think really opened the eyes of Jerry and Stephen with their "we had failure top to bottom" that the plays themselves that they allowed Garrett to mandate as the offense were not working; when Romo has them, he organizes the personnel and the routes based on the defense. So Weeden and Cassel came in and tried to run plays by themselves which, even with Dez, would be virtually a general and perplexing failure because they are not successful plays to begin with - it's a hackneyed and threadbare Coryell playbook that most DCs could defend.
However, I think the Jones gave Linehan leeway to run his plays with his playbook with Kellen Moore and that's why the curious clinging to such an inept athlete: "he knows the offense". At first I was annoyed at such a stupid resolve for why they were promoting a player who could be upgraded with any QB in the draft or basically playing on any HS team in Texas. Unless...the Kellen Moore advantage was that he was the only player on the offense who knew Linehans offense and his playbook. Now, keeping Romo running Romos plays is fine but teaching Dak an offense would have to be teaching him Linehans offense.
The reason is that the look of Daks first game was not as much Daks talent or innovation but the players were open quickly and he got the ball to them. Garretts playbook is "wait and see" based on coverage and who should be open but what I saw in that first and second game was much more orchestrated: the passes were spread out; intentionally targeting the immediately open Beasley so that the defense would have to bring coverage to him; then crossing patterns to TEs and then launching long passes to Butler and Williams. It wasn't wait and see, it was that the previously successful pass plays were dictating where the defense needed to defend better and opened, by way of the element of surprise (quite possibly the most telling evidence that these plays are not Jason's), other parts of the field. Dak did not have to think much. It looked orchestrated and rehearsed like the scripted 20 plays that Bill Walsh used to do.
It's just my theory but something smells different this year and if it's better strategy from an actual coach who is using an actual playbook, we don't need a superman at QB, just need a hungry and astute student who wants to win...and I think that sums up Dak (who still throws the ball like a paper airplane.)
Think about this though: how many times a game can we really throw the high distance stuff to TWilly and trust that he is going to catch it?
However, I think the Jones gave Linehan leeway to run his plays with his playbook with Kellen Moore and that's why the curious clinging to such an inept athlete: "he knows the offense". At first I was annoyed at such a stupid resolve for why they were promoting a player who could be upgraded with any QB in the draft or basically playing on any HS team in Texas. Unless...the Kellen Moore advantage was that he was the only player on the offense who knew Linehans offense and his playbook. Now, keeping Romo running Romos plays is fine but teaching Dak an offense would have to be teaching him Linehans offense.
The reason is that the look of Daks first game was not as much Daks talent or innovation but the players were open quickly and he got the ball to them. Garretts playbook is "wait and see" based on coverage and who should be open but what I saw in that first and second game was much more orchestrated: the passes were spread out; intentionally targeting the immediately open Beasley so that the defense would have to bring coverage to him; then crossing patterns to TEs and then launching long passes to Butler and Williams. It wasn't wait and see, it was that the previously successful pass plays were dictating where the defense needed to defend better and opened, by way of the element of surprise (quite possibly the most telling evidence that these plays are not Jason's), other parts of the field. Dak did not have to think much. It looked orchestrated and rehearsed like the scripted 20 plays that Bill Walsh used to do.
It's just my theory but something smells different this year and if it's better strategy from an actual coach who is using an actual playbook, we don't need a superman at QB, just need a hungry and astute student who wants to win...and I think that sums up Dak (who still throws the ball like a paper airplane.)
Think about this though: how many times a game can we really throw the high distance stuff to TWilly and trust that he is going to catch it?