2026 Season | Week 9 | Gameday Chatter Thread | Cowboys @ Colts | 11/08/2026

Tampa Bay’s white boy db has as many interceptions tonight as we have all season
 
Simpleton said:
I'll say this about WR, there are ways around replacing Pickens that doesn't include a first round pick or spending 20-25/year on a guy like Parker Washington.

The WR class is pretty deep and you could easily get a round 2 guy who could push Flournoy to be the WR2 as a rookie.

The issue is that you can't just roll with Lamb, Flournoy, Williams, Ferguson, Spann-Ford, and whatever slop spare RB2 you pluck off the scrap heap as your skill position players, plus a 2nd round rookie. If you want to do that you're basically going to have to earmark your 1st rounder for WR if you want any sort of serious skill position talent around Dak in his last 2-3 years.

To avoid doing that you'd need to sign a starter-level RB alongside Williams to make the running game more dynamic, and then off that cobble together production in the passing game opposite of Lamb with Flournoy and a 2nd rounder.

The issue of course is that Steele is still a piece of shit at RT and the defense is obviously in need of talent basically everywhere, so I'm not overly thrilled with the idea of having to take a WR in the 1st/2nd come hell or high water.
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Now lets prepare for what our front office will do.
 
Simpleton said:
re-sign Mingo for 1 year/5 million
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Smitty said:
We have seen Dak and Tony offenses without quality 2s and it’s been ugly pretty uniformly. It would be the same with Flournoy as a 2.
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It's not about the number 2 to me as much as you need more weapons if you go that route. You need a 3 that is really good (Or you need a new #2) You can't run fucking Mingo or Turpin out there. You need kind of a badass third receiver who is basically as good as Flo.

Or you need an actual dynamic TE. Not a Ferg type. But a TE who can bust some plays after the catch.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
It's not about the number 2 to me as much as you need more weapons if you go that route. You need a 3 that is really good (Or you need a new #2) You can't run fucking Mingo or Turpin out there. You need kind of a badass third receiver who is basically as good as Flo.

Or you need an actual dynamic TE. Not a Ferg type. But a TE who can bust some plays after the catch.
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We need a much better RB2 in this situation as well.
 
One of the bright spots is I think Downs is starting to become the player we expected him to be coming into the season.

The 4th down stop on the goal line last week against Arizona, another sack today, the INT to end the game, a few pass deflections. For the season he has 2 sacks, an INT, a FF and a handful of pass deflections.

And this is on a completely half-assed defense where he's kind of being misused just due to how dysfunctional things are.

I'd be surprised if he isn't a 4+ time Pro Bowler.
 
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