This team just doesn't have the horses-period

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Don't want to nitpick but, jake long is gonna shake loose? He's their best and 4th best player.

And the reality is they won't admit a $32M mistake with that weird haired derp on the right side of the line.

They're clearly setting up Mackenzie to be the scapegoat. With the center position being better due to the fierce competition. And livings will have to compete with a 4th round pick from south potato st.

I agree. There is a huge chance that Miami franchises Long. I'm banking on that owner continuing to show he won't spend.

Costa vs Cook is only a worthy competition in Jerry's eyes. Livings might stick another year for cap reasons alone. I still can't think of a single reason why the staff thought Bernadeau was worth several million dollars? Arrogance? Wanting to outsmart everyone? Total mystery. Free's performance plus his salary cap hit escalation pretty much guarantees he is playing his last year here.

They will literally play ANYONE in a real game before Arkin. I think Jerry just wants Parnell to be good. He's a college basketball player who played one year as a Defensive Lineman. "He must be athletic!" There is a serious flaw with the way we are evaluating O Linemen. Asking the guys who just guessed wrong on Bernadeau, Livings, Arkin to fix the problem next year is the definition of insanity.

 

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I can't figure out if he's balding or just has a close crewcut.

He looks like wooly willy

 

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I agree. There is a huge chance that Miami franchises Long. I'm banking on that owner continuing to show he won't spend.

Costa vs Cook is only a worthy competition in Jerry's eyes. Livings might stick another year for cap reasons alone. I still can't think of a single reason why the staff thought Bernadeau was worth several million dollars? Arrogance? Wanting to outsmart everyone? Total mystery. Free's performance plus his salary cap hit escalation pretty much guarantees he is playing his last year here.

They will literally play ANYONE in a real game before Arkin. I think Jerry just wants Parnell to be good. He's a college basketball player who played one year as a Defensive Lineman. "He must be athletic!" There is a serious flaw with the way we are evaluating O Linemen. Asking the guys who just guessed wrong on Bernadeau, Livings, Arkin to fix the problem next year is the definition of insanity.

But you have to factor in the cost to replace Doug Free with someone , in picks or free agency, and how that affects other holes.
They're gonna say something like he was being flipped back and forth from left to right and now he's got some stability over there. Plus there was a lockout 2 years ago and he missed time with Wiocick.

I don't think the public really knows RT is a glaring hole yet. They can get by(blame-wise) playing him another year there IMO. The new guys on the interior are gonna be thrown under the bus. they're gonna talk about the miles Austin cap penalty and the claireborne trade up and how they had to skimp on guards. I don't think they'll cut Free. Probably renegotiate though

 

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Stole this from a DMN article's comment section. Not sure if it's from a Cowboys fan, but it sums up Gingerella perfectly:

I think Jason Garrett is a very intelligent guy who loves the ‘strategy’ and ‘X’s and O’s’ of the game. When he was a backup to Troy Aikman he was constantly ‘inventing’ offensive plays and asking ‘8-Ball’ what he thought about them. But with all his intelligence, and all his ‘football knowledge’ he never became anything except a backup. As a head coach you can almost see a replay of his playing career. He has a lot of knowledge, he loves game plans, but when he gets to the critical moments of a game, he often chokes. His infamous gaff of icing his own kicker because he wanted to rethink the play was one of the more glaring examples of that.

There is also some sort of wall that separates him from his players and coaches that I really can’t figure out. Just as an example, when he interviewed candidates for the defensive coordinator position, after meeting with him none of them were interested in working for him. His move to bring in Rob Ryan was done out of desperation, and Ryan jumped at the job because he was staring at unemployment. As far as his relationship to his players goes, I don’t think ANYONE can imagine guys standing up in a ‘players only’ meeting and giving emotional “Let’s win one for Jason…” speeches.

Every head coach has his flaws, but in Garrett’s case it really seems as though he is just plain in over his head. He clings to his position of ‘play-caller’ even though Bill Callahan is, on paper at least, the offensive coordinator. He’s wedded to his ‘Air Coryell’ offensive philosophy and can’t move beyond it. He’s ‘political’ to a fault, and runs like a puppy when Jerry Jones waves his finger at him. He became head coach by undercutting his supposed boss Wade Phillips, and has never shown any real personal loyalty to either his players or his staff.

And while he came into the job of head coach being billed as the ‘Red-headed Genius’ his performance has been completely mediocre. IF the Cowboys stumble again this season, and IF he’s replaced by Jones after it’s over, there will be very few tears for him among his players and that is probably the saddest thing of all about Jason Garrett.