Random Commanders Thoughts

Scuttlebutt, deal for Kirk 'is going nicely'

Heard on espn980 relaying info from tweet by someone who I didn't recognize.

FWIW


It wouldn't surprise me given the deal with Reed getting inked and the deadline being a month away. I'm sure Kirk and his agent see that we've got the room to pay him, and that we're getting serious about putting pieces in place to win more football games..... fingers crossed.
 
The Dallas Hype Machine is already in high gear.

Gonna be fun watching it crash and burn in late December....again.

I don't think it will take that long. I'm going to enjoy watching the media struggle to explain Dallas sucking this year.
 
Says here Dallas will contend in the NFCE until Romo goes down again ... which I'm putting at 8 games or less.
 
Says here Dallas will contend in the NFCE until Romo goes down again ... which I'm putting at 8 games or less.

Perhaps. I'm not sold on them overall. Romo's not the only guy getting older. Their secondary is garbage, heck their D as a whole is not great. Romo got a lot of attention last year, but his departure wasn't the only reason they sucked.

But by all means, let's keep the media attention on them. I love watching Dallas fans cry.
 
Winning the division is not the goal, it's a step. It was great fun last year, but over all meaningless when you aren't truly competitive in the upper echelon of teams. If you're building this team, with it's depleted talent level from decades of mismanagement, you lay out a plan for X many years. At X years, you expect to field a team that can compete for it all. Fans see what they perceive to be the biggest needs and want them filled immediately. A competent GM see's the need as well, but his goal is to fill all the needs by X years. If the available talent level at certain needs is not up to his standards, he has patience and fills other needs. Was WR a needed this year? Not particularly, but by the time X year arrives, it's very likely Garcon and/or DJax are not in the mix. So to me, viewing an individual draft under McL isn't at all about how any current position of need is filled. At least until the overall talent is such that we are only a critical piece away. We ain't close to that yet.
 
Says here Dallas will contend in the NFCE until Romo goes down again ... which I'm putting at 8 games or less.

I'll take the under. I think Vegas has the over/under at 5 games.
 
Greenberg is an idiot. Just look at his Super Bowl predictions every year - embarrassing.


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Winning the division is not the goal, it's a step. It was great fun last year, but over all meaningless when you aren't truly competitive in the upper echelon of teams. If you're building this team, with it's depleted talent level from decades of mismanagement, you lay out a plan for X many years. At X years, you expect to field a team that can compete for it all. Fans see what they perceive to be the biggest needs and want them filled immediately. A competent GM see's the need as well, but his goal is to fill all the needs by X years. If the available talent level at certain needs is not up to his standards, he has patience and fills other needs. Was WR a needed this year? Not particularly, but by the time X year arrives, it's very likely Garcon and/or DJax are not in the mix. So to me, viewing an individual draft under McL isn't at all about how any current position of need is filled. At least until the overall talent is such that we are only a critical piece away. We ain't close to that yet.

Sounds about right. Frankly, last year, with no running game and an ok defense, we really should have been about 7-9 ... which would have been a nice jump from the previous year. Something to be pleased about and build on. Things fell our way and we went 9-7 and won the division and that's awesome, but I'm not sure we're ready to move up from 9 to 11 or 12 or whatever just yet. We may just progress from a very shaky 9-7 on an easy schedule to a very solid 9-7, or even 8-8, on a tough schedule. It might be tough to swallow, and I hope the team in patient.

We'll see.
 
Yeah, but I think I heard Mike Greenberg say he was predicting that Ezekiel will lead the league in rushing next year.

So there's that.


Well, I'll tell you this. Tony Romo by himself isn't worth 8 games. They didn't drop from 12 wins to four just because Romo wasn't there. They didn't have a running game either. If Elliot is a bonafide 3-down back he probably will get a ton of yards and the Cowboys will be significantly better. I don't know about 12-4 better. That took a career year from Murray that they probably won't see again, and Romo isn't getting any younger. But 8+ wins? Sure. And Elliot will get a lot of yards in the process.

If he's the real deal. If he's Trent Richardson, I'd be shocked if the Cowboys break .500.
 
Bite your tongue. Tony Romo is Jesus Christ in the flesh.

You telling me Jesus Christ isn't worth 8 wins by himself?
 
Do you all remember when Dalass was selling Super Bowl on their season tickets? Wasn't that fun?
 
We may just progress from a very shaky 9-7 on an easy schedule to a very solid 9-7, or even 8-8, on a tough schedule. It might be tough to swallow, and I hope the team in patient.

We'll see.

That's how I see it as well. I hope to be surprised, but going into the McL tenure, I expected it to take 3 drafts to get the talent level headed in the right direction. Add to that some time for the pieces to fit. Patience is the key.
 
That, and whether Kirk Cousins really is the guy we saw emerging down the stretch last year. If he is, the climb up the mountain will accelerate dramatically.
 
I think this is what Tr1 is worried about: Redskins' defensive line faces questions after quiet offseason

And I know all the counter arguments (as does he, I'm sure). But the fact remains that we lost two contributors from last season's horrendous run D and have replaced them with castaways and low round rookies. As Keim says, IF lots of things break right, we could be in good shape. But there are a lot of "ifs" in that article.
 
Lowering expectations leads to mediocrity. I doubt McGloo would accept it from anyone on his roster.

And, at least for me, personally, I don't lower my expectations as a fan either.

I expect improvement from every coach, and returning player.
Add that to some FA hopefuls, and some pups who look good on paper, and I expect another NFC East crown. And at least one playoff win.
The only acceptable excuse would be injury.
 

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