Have The Dallas Cowboys Gone All In On The Offensive Line?

Human being overwhelmingly learn by seeing…JG has to be a product of coaching philosophies learned from his father, Johnson in the 90’s, Giants, Tampa, and Sabin’s Miami. He’s been on teams that reached the pinnacle of the sport Dallas & NY and at the bottom…Tampa. The guys has to have a good feeling of what works and what doesn’t. He’s got a plan…

At the foundation of his plan is to clearly set expectations, and be consistent in enforcing those expectations.

This “well run” team has 20 million plus in dead money next year. I KNOW it’s solely a business decision, and that’s why I hate it. The guy has been hurt most of the preseason, and by all reports played very well in the one game he played. To say he’s had a huge dropoff based on him coming back from injury and that game is rather far fetched.

We are keeping young guys without upside, as well. That’s the issue. When the business decisions override the football decisions.

I really like the NBC one idk they did that

Who knows. On one hand, if Romo never bobbled that snap, Parcells stays a little longer and there’s no Wade. They also let Payton get away. He could have been head coach. That would have changed a lot.

I guess you never know what COULD HAVE BEEN. Me, I’m happy with what I got cuz I think its pretty good.

There’s no doubt he’s the RKG. I love Ratliff’s attitude is perhaps the best in that locker room. When Jenkins and Sensabaugh we’re quitting in the Green Bay game, Ratliff was trying his hardest every down and was caught by the media with tears in his eyes in the locker room.

That said, last year’s down performance and an uninspiring pre-season make me a bit concerned that he’s nearing the end of his time as a high-impact player. Just as we saw with Marion Barber, when you’re a guy who plays with extreme physicality beyond the yours physical gifts, it shortens your life-span.

Flozell Adams – Completely done as a left tackle, had to find work as a backup RT. After only 1 year at the easier RT spot he was cut and is currently without a team.
Leonard Davis – Not one team has even brought him in to kick the tires
Marc Colombo – A quick news search for Marc Colombo brought up these local headlines:
- Sun-Sentinal: “Does Marc Colombo have a future with Dolphins past 2011?”
- Jason Cole: “Marc Colombo likely to struggle this year”
- and a quote from yesterday’s Palm Beach Post, “Colombo, cut by the Cowboys before the start of training camp and signed by Miami on Aug. 1, was beaten badly twice by Bucs defensive end Michael Bennett – for a sack on the first play of the game, and two running plays that resulted in a 3-yard loss for Reggie Bush.”

this has been obvious for a while, because they went from Bledsoe, the living statue, to Romo. The sacks didn’t decrease because the OL suddenly learned to block!

Barber his first 2 years also made up for a lot of missed blocks and made them look better than they were.

What makes you say they have improved? They haven’t even played an actual game yet.

I don’t blame them for the pick. The 6th round is what it is.

To unsderatand young u gotta kno what he is.. a RT nothing less nothing more..he is not a "swing tackle "..he’s an old fashion marc columbo right tackle..

How about first round talents Phillip Rivers or Aaron Rodgers? Or the Mannings? Compared to say, dozens of UDFAs in camps this year and over the past few years? There’s a reason that guys like Romo and Kurt Warner are special; they rarely make it through the process without someone drafting them. Far more often than not, guys are undrafted for a reason.

Last year’s top 12 rated QBs: 8 first rounders, 1 second, 1 third, 1 sixth, 1 seventh.

First, it’s been announced Garrett isn’t the interim coach. He’s the head coach. Second, it was announced and then reiterated that Garrett had final say on personnel. Not sure how you missed these two points.

Second, of course there are no business decisions in the NFL that don’t have a football impact and no football decisions without business impact. So neither Jones nor Garrett is ever going to make a decision that is 100% business or football. The only question is whether the decision has mnore footbll content or business content. Davis and Colombo were more football decisions. They happened early and the draft day decisions tipped that hand. Gurode may have more business content, but it’s ridiculous to think that football considerations didn’t play a role. Clearly they saw enough in their youngsters to believe that Gurode’s salary wasn’t warranted. That’s how this and any other business actually works. Cost-benefit analysis. It remains to be seen whether their personnel evaluations are correct, but this isn’t something they did without thinking.

And BTW, the three guys the team dumped/may dump are the same three football analysts have been calling out for deteriorating performance. So you’re in a very small minority of people who think those guys were keepers.

if he was drafted where Felix was, late first round that would be fine

because Bush is a big time weapon in an offense and he causes so much attention from the defense

Just less hyped.

I seriously laughed when I read that

Another weapon to add to our amazing arsenal

RB, slot, WR, TE, and FB.

Like they want to make more money hoping people will want to watch them on espn ocho

Top 10 plays of the week always contains some lame soccer thing, i even saw a lax highlight… like umm what?!

I had respect for you, so I’m disappointed that you are this way.

I read all of KD’s write ups. Let’s see, he said the starting OL in the Chargers game looked great. Awesome news! Who was the starting Center for that game?

He said Arkin was having growing pains. He has already been moved behind Nagy by the coaching staff, so sorry if that doesn’t inspire confidence.

He wrote up Nagy’s play by play, and in my opinion, graded favorably. Even with that, Nagy had 6 of 20 negative plays by his count. That’s 30%. Again, not exactly boosting my confidence.

Yes, they opened one huge hole. Gurode was in for that play. Kosier, the 2 TEs, and the FB seal the LDE and LBs and DBs on the left, while Free, Gurode, and Nagy seal the other 2 DL. Smith swallows a DB. Great play design and execution. I’m not real sure what that one play has to do with what I’m saying, because it’s not like Nagy dominated a guy one on one in it.

keep it civil. Disputes such as these are best defused with a timely piece of humor. As a German, humor is not something I was born with, but here goes anyway

“Ahem, … Waiter, there is a fly in my soup…”

He’s clearly had the better team in several NFC Championship games and managed to lose. He’s blown countless games in the last two minutes due to poor clock management and it’s not like he’s ever had a lack of talent on his teams. Mike Vick is a good QB, probably better than Romo. He’s easily a much more dynamic threat and he’s got a much stronger arm. The Cowboys may be able to take him, but that doesn’t make him a bad QB.