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i am married with children, but if jerry ever gave aikman the keys to the organization, it would be the happiest day of my life
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I hear you Cup but why? What does Aikman have that would quality him for that job? I know Lynch has done a good job in SF but that's an outlier IMO.
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honestly if jerry appointed anyone outside of his family as GM, i would be thrilled
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i dont think 1 evaluation should make or break his career
pro scouts have pounded the table for certain players and completely whiffed, it happens
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I don't know what he would bring to the table in terms of personnel scouting and talent acquisition, but I do think he knows better than most what a true football/winning culture looks and feels like and I bet he would implement that type of philosophy throughout. I do think he'd also hire high end football people to coach the team.
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This isnt true, Troy never "preferred" LaFleur over Gonzalez. He worked them both out and said there was a lot to like about LaFleur.
The dude was a stud at LSU and nearly everyone had him rated as a top-10 or top15 pick in that draft. Aikman had no idea his back would fail him.
It also didn't help his career that he ended up playing for Chan Gailey, who runs a system that the TE is basically non-existent in for the passing game. (LaFleur was drafted the prior yr to Gailey coming on)
Lastly, we never had a chance to draft Gonzalez anyway. The Chiefs were already well ahead of us in the draft and then traded up further to ensure they got him. We drafted LaFleur at 22 that yr.
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OK. I see where you're coming from now.
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in a bizarro world where he would be truly allowed to be the GM in Dallas with final authority and jeri no longer vying for every microphone and/or tv camera, I think he would improve the culture almost immediately and not stop until he did. He seems to have a great work ethic and hates losing so those 3 alone would be a massive improvement over the current drunken GM
on the flip side, I see no reason to believe he's a special or even good evaluator of talent, especially considering the example you gave and saying just the other day he believed in Dak and expected him/them to make it to the championship game this year
its all moot as jeri would never have it
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been saying this since 1995
posted that exact video to my YouTube page to make the point here or at the Zone 7 years ago
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The Cowboys seem to have an initial path for money outlined
ESPN’s Todd Archer discussed the Dak Prescott situation as well and he astutely laid out the options that we know to be the ones staring the Cowboys in the face. Restructure or extend. Doing nothing is not a probable option.In discussing the subject though, Archer laid out some other details concerning the Cowboys’ finances and specifically said that they already plan to restructure the deals for both Zack Martin and Trevon Diggs.
We all know that a Dak decision is incredibly important but getting this also laid out is equally valuable. At present time, Over The Cap has Dallas near $20M in the red in terms of salary cap space so any kind of flexibility is welcome. The Martin and Diggs restructures seem like they will get Dallas to ground zero so to speak.
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This year's Cards game?
They ran for 222 yards that day and averaged almost 7.5 yds per carry.