2020 Random Cowboys Stuff Thread...

[Cowboysrock55]

After 25 years, I will gladly take a championship with an asterisk.

Yeah this season is setting up to be potentially an outlier season. One that you can't really use to judge the status of teams for future or past seasons. But I'll take a win regardless. I tend to agree that whatever team figures out how to deal with this virus best is going to have one of the best shots to make a splash this season. Even if they aren't the most talented team.

 

[Stasheroo]

Yeah this season is setting up to be potentially an outlier season. One that you can't really use to judge the status of teams for future or past seasons. But I'll take a win regardless. I tend to agree that whatever team figures out how to deal with this virus best is going to have one of the best shots to make a splash this season. Even if they aren't the most talented team.

I have this terrible feeling that if just oneteam starts getting significant numbers, the league pulls the plug on the whole thing anyway.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I have this terrible feeling that if just oneteam starts getting significant numbers, the league pulls the plug on the whole thing anyway.

And they very well may. It sort of makes me wonder if they just treated players with symptoms if it would even be viewed as a problem in the NFL vs. testing everyone heavily and quarantining everyone with a positive test regardless of symptoms of illness. We will never find out because they are going to test the shit out of everyone and when 6 guys come back as positive on a team without showing symptoms games will be canceled or postponed. And yet if we just tested the symptomatic players, would it really even result in the need for mass cancellations. Would we end the season wondering if only a handful of players were really sick.

 

[ravidubey]

Yeah this season is setting up to be potentially an outlier season. One that you can't really use to judge the status of teams for future or past seasons. But I'll take a win regardless. I tend to agree that whatever team figures out how to deal with this virus best is going to have one of the best shots to make a splash this season. Even if they aren't the most talented team.

There have been many such years, 1982, 1987, 1991, 2003 I can recall off the top where strikes or unusual circumstances limited or prevented dominant teams from emerging normally.

Organized teams had the upper hand in those years and the resulting Lombardis are as much or even more of a testament to those strong coaches and front offices as they were to the players themselves.

I had jealously put asterisks by those seasons since Washington capitalized three times in that stretch under Gibbs, but frankly they earned each one.

The 82 strike really hurt both Pittsburgh and Dallas, for example. Danny White had never been the strongest leader, but his anti-labor stance lost a lot of the locker room for him and hurt the team as a result.

 

[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

Are you fuckin' serious?

This is exactly what Goof Son says every time he is asked about talent acquisition.

I don't know why they even bother to ask the pointless question.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Are you fuckin' serious?

This is exactly what Goof Son says every time he is asked about talent acquisition.

I don't know why they even bother to ask the pointless question.

This aged well.

 

[NoDak]

This aged well.

Maybe instead, he should have said "Well, we're interested in signing Everson Griffen right now. In case anybody is, ya know, interested in bidding against us and driving up the price"

Right @boozeman ?

 

[boozeman]

Maybe instead, he should have said "Well, we're interested in signing Everson Griffen right now. In case anybody is, ya know, interested in bidding against us and driving up the price"

Right @boozeman ?

Hey...shocked. That is all fine and dandy.

You can't tell me there is something different since Garrett got done.

 

[Simpleton]

McCarthy identified that the DL is a sore point and instead of half-assing it with a passive strategy by just addressing it through the draft we signed guys who are slightly out of their prime but still very talented, while still addressing it through the draft to some extent.

Had Lamb not miraculously dropped to 17 we'd probably be looking at Chaisson/Gallimore as the future of our DL, while also having addressed the short-term with McCoy, Poe, Smith and maybe even Griffen as well.

Under Garrett the strategy was mostly to just bank on the draft and hope it worked out.

It's not a coincidence that our best seasons under Garret coincided with strong, immediate impact drafts (Martin/Hitchens in 2014, Elliott/Collins/Dak/Brown in 2016 and LVE/Gallup in 2018) while we floundered in 2017 and 2019 with mediocre to poor classes.

 

[p1_]

Comparing Jason Garrett and Mike McCarthy's coaching styles

 

[Cotton]

 

[Shiningstar]

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[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

 

[Stasheroo]

 

[Foobio]

 

[chevycowboys]

And now Gerald McCoy is feared to have torn his ACL.. Fucking Great!

 

[boozeman]

And now Gerald McCoy is feared to have torn his ACL.. Fucking Great!

Relax. It was a ruptured quad.

 

[p1_]

Relax. It was a ruptured quad.

still season ending