A Look At The Impact Of The Cowboys Recent Roster Moves

welcome to the team!

We want them to be feeling all good about themselves when we get up there so we can stomp them and wave our fingers in their faces and say, “ah, ah, ah, not so fast beeches, hope you enjoy the move to LA!”

really it doesnt matter because Brees will succumb to the Madden Curse and Favre will get hurt there is no way he does another year like last year.

I just want a good game where each team beats each other up and it comes down to a 31-28 victory.

After the stupid running up of the score, I’ll be rooting for Favre to run out of bounds and straight into Childress’ alien-shaped egghead, taking them both out for the season.

McCray is a lights-out special teams gunner, but really has no chance of ever starting at safety in this league.
Church handled one of the toughest assignments a strong safety can draw in having to cover Antonio Gates and handled it as well as any rookie possibly could. In the same game, he performed as the most reliable run-stopper on the field. But his special teams play is nothing to write home about.

They’re not interchangeable, in fact, they’re really on quite opposite trajectories right now.

During passing downs, Spears and Olshansky go out and Bowen and Hatcher come in. Last season, Bowen and Hatcher played nearly as many snaps as Spears and Olshansky.

5 of our 7 D-linemen are bascially starters. And the team has stated they want a nose tackle that can allow Ratliff to rest more.

Another goal of this team was to rest Spencer and Ware more often which is a place we are the deepest at with Victor Butler and Brandon Williams.

TE and WR do rotate a lot, you’re right. But they rotate for eachother. You don’t need a 3rd TE to spell Marty B. When Dez Bryant steps on the field, Marty B steps off. Marty B will probobly never get more snaps in this offense than he got last year and didn’t show any signs of fatigue.

Backup CBs and safeties don’t see the field much… at least we all HOPE they don’t see the field much.

I can’t remember a time where rotational depth was less an issue than right now.

We were all screaming post-draft about OT depth…Cowboys kept lots to provide the patchwork necessary this year and build for future years. A small sacrifice at CB/S is worth it.

Besides, all these “surprising” cuts had to be made, right? Would there have been any cuts that didn’t hurt?

Holland is not very athletic and struggles to move in space. Colombo & Kosier will be fine as long as they’re healthy. But as they’re not, there is a question mark hovering over both of them. Gurode and Davis are both good offensive lineman. However, they can be inconsistent. And last year in a few games — against the Vikings, Packers, Broncos — they looked terrible. Earlier this offseason, both players admitted they didn’t have their best seasons in 2009. Gurode looked rather good in training camp and preseason games. Davis, on the other hand, is never going to be an ultra-athletic guard, and that will always be his weakness. This offensive line — while not perfect — should be effective for at least one more season. But, yes, new blood is needed.

I’m sorry, Scott, I just don’t understand math problems. I tried dividing by the 4, but that didn’t help, so then I subtracted 2 As from each side. What does it all mean? OCC

does he fit into the class of the veteran player who if he’s on the roster on week 1 he’s guaranteed his full season salary, so does the fact that despite being projected by almost everyone to make the Cowboys’ 53 he still hasn’t signed with another team mean that perhaps they’ll bring him back after week 1, so they can have him on the roster but not owe him for the full season in case they need to make room for someone else later?

That he’d be the fourth corner, but would still be focusing on making the transition to free safety. The rookie is going to have a lot on his plate.

and they ARE spewing their burgundy and gold venom here at ground zero

as much as he is to the fans. All accounts have Roy as a great teammate and person. He still has the ability to be explosive and opposing defensive coordinators have to gameplan against him and every minute they focus on him is a minute they can’t plan against Miles, Witten and Dez

Curtis Johnson went to the Rams:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/players/playerpage/1599759/curtis-johnson

That would have gone for 20 yards.

I didn’t want Crayton to go, but I understand it. They have young talent they want on the field and PC was too expensive to be a 4th WR. Please don’t ask me why RW is still on the roster except that they hope he’ll come around.

it sounds like Campo wanted to keep Gordon:

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4671762/akwasi-owusu-ansah-is-the-fourth-corner

The release of Gordon stunned many.

“We thought he did fine, but I don’t make the final decision,” secondary coach Dave Campo said of Gordon. “We felt it was best for the team.”

One or two injuries to the CB position won’t just affect the CB position; it will affect the safety postion as well. Ball will have to move back to CB, which means an unproven safety, in Mike Hamlin, will have to step in.
Yet, if the Cowboys had kept McCann or Gordon, there would be no need for this re-shuffle. Ball could remain at FS and McCann, Gordon and/or AOA could fill in.

Wouldn’t you feel pretty bad if the Cowboys only carried three WRs. so if one went down, Witten had to permanently split out wide? It would be a hit to WR position, as Witten while a great receiving tight end, isn’t a Miles Austin or Dez Bryant in terms of being dynamic. Also, it takes Witten away from the TE position, thus weaking not one but two positions.
It isn’t about the injuries, per se, but the consequences of those injuries, and how profound they may be to the defense as a whole and not just isolated to one position.