2024 Season | Week 3 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Ravens @ Cowboys | 9/22/2024

[Cotton]

Jerry is about to scapegoat McCarthy.

 

[UncleMilti]

Jerry is about to scapegoat McCarthy.

McCarthy certainly doesn’t bring a lot of confidence looking in at game time. His offense is predictable, and on Sundays where other coaches are winning with less talent it looks even worse.
For a guy without a contract he sure seems to be toeing the company line. I’dbe bitching about something, most likely the shit I got stuck with at RB.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I mean this is a total surprise.

No way any of us could have seen this coming.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Jerry is right that until the Dak and Lamb extensions, they couldn’t have afforded Henry.

The idiotic problem is, the reason they had no cap space was because of the ongoing negotiations. Negotiations that they eventually caved in, saving absolutely no money, and thus could have been finished with six months earlier, and then they COULD have had the money for Henry and more.

Clown show over here. They wasted all that time fighting with Prescott and didn’t even gain anything. They lost time in which they could have actually improved their team.

If they were gonna take a hard line they should have just traded him.

I totally agree with the rest of your post, but you can ~always~ afford $8 million in today's NFL.

That type of money should not hold them up just because they were trying (but not really trying) to negotiate with Dak.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Jerry needs to sell the fucking team if he doesn't want to pay the cost of doing business in today's NFL.

 

[Rev]

Jerry needs to sell the fucking team if he doesn't want to pay the cost of doing business in today's NFL.

He won't do that on his own. Too much of a cash cow.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Nobody can fucking GM this motherfucker like GM fucking Jerry can. I'll fucking promise you that.

Sorry, Mcnuttz wasn't available.

 

[Genghis Khan]

McCarthy certainly doesn’t bring a lot of confidence looking in at game time. His offense is predictable, and on Sundays where other coaches are winning with less talent it looks even worse.
For a guy without a contract he sure seems to be toeing the company line. I’dbe bitching about something, most likely the shit I got stuck with at RB.

I think McCarthy is a good coach but they've looked uncoached the past two weeks on both sides of the ball.

But in McCarthy's defense, part of that is probably because they are relying on so many young players all over the roster.

It's untenable to have that many young players in key roles.

 

[Texas Ace]

I think McCarthy is a good coach but they've looked uncoached the past two weeks on both sides of the bal

Sometimes making a coach "coach for his job" by leaving him in the last year of his contract doesn't work out the way you think it does.

He's probably mentally checked out but hasn't quit because, why would he? He's got money coming to him so there's no way I'd quit and leave that money on the table if I were him.

So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if he's just over working under the circus tent that is the Dallas Cowboys and is just playing out the string so he can get paid and move on.

 

[Bipo]

Jerry is right that until the Dak and Lamb extensions, they couldn’t have afforded Henry.

The idiotic problem is, the reason they had no cap space was because of the ongoing negotiations. Negotiations that they eventually caved in, saving absolutely no money, and thus could have been finished with six months earlier, and then they COULD have had the money for Henry and more.

Clown show over here. They wasted all that time fighting with Prescott and didn’t even gain anything. They lost time in which they could have actually improved their team.

If they were gonna take a hard line they should have just traded him.

Greeny just basically said the same thing on Get up

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I think McCarthy is a good coach but they've looked uncoached the past two weeks on both sides of the ball.

But in McCarthy's defense, part of that is probably because they are relying on so many young players all over the roster.

It's untenable to have that many young players in key roles.

I wonder how much of it is the inevitable Jerry factor: the farther we get into a coach's tenure, the more he inserts himself. I noticed even in the training camp PCs, Jerry took over. In the first one, he talked about 90% of the time, Stephen about 7% of the time, and McCarthy about 3% of the time. PCs of the last few years haven't been like that.

Not that the PC itself is so important, but I think it's an indicator. The players all notice the same things we notice about how the HC is a lame duck given almost nothing in free agency. They know he'll get the blame if and when things go south. That's how it always goes around here.

 

[Bipo]

So Jerry in his never ending quest to keep his garbage pail franchise in the news cycle by putting off contracts that should have been done way earlier, fucked the team from getting anyone of any value in free agency.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Off the top of my head...

Carson
Guyton
Beebe
Tyler Smith
Luepke
Dowdle
Spann Ford
Schoonmaker
Tolbert
Brooks
Kneeland
Overshown
Luafua
Clarke
Mazi

That's a lot of young players in very key roles.

 

[Genghis Khan]

The players all notice the same things we notice about how the HC is a lame duck given almost nothing in free agency.

Excellent point.

It really isn't a great idea to have a lame duck head coach.

 

[Genghis Khan]

So Jerry in his never ending quest to keep his garbage pail franchise in the news cycle by putting off contracts that should have been done way earlier, fucked the team from getting anyone of any value in free agency.

I don't even think it's that, I just think he doesn't want to spend any money.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Simpleton]

We have several high profile players saying the same thing. They are not professional. That means the players have tuned out the coaching.

BTW this is what the MVP actually did.

Completely comical stuff, an NFL defense should never allow 28 points with the other team attempting ONE pass that travels 10+ yards, especially when the offense didn't turn it over inside their own territory.

The team is bad enough overall but the defense is so bad it's warping everything with the offense from the run game to pass protection.

The offense has basically been immediately put in 10-20 points holes each of the last two weeks.

 

[boozeman]

Jerry is about to scapegoat McCarthy.

The last two weeks look a lot like when it fell apart for Fat Wade. Thing is, if you can Fat Mike, who is the red headed grinning backstabber who becomes interim?

 

[Genghis Khan]

Excellent points.

I guess their waiters were too in the weeds with the Saturday dinner rush to account for these things.

 

[Simpleton]

Off the top of my head...

Carson
Guyton
Beebe
Tyler Smith
Luepke
Dowdle
Spann Ford
Schoonmaker
Tolbert
Brooks
Kneeland
Overshown
Luafua
Clarke
Mazi

That's a lot of young players in very key roles.

Instead of firing McCarthy last year like a normal organization they chose to punish him by resetting the roster with an eye on 2025 and beyond.

In their minds if they surprise in 2024 and make a NFCC, great, if not nobody will blink at letting McCarthy walk and Jerry won't have to pay a coach for a year to sit at home.