Everything posted by Patrick Bateman
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Agreed. Nowhere near the draft capital which means they'll have to go into free agency to address at leasts 3 spots and the Cowboys brainless trust has shown no effectiveness nor understanding of the free agent market so they'll either select bad players or overpay for mediocre ones. Guyton's issue isn't his progress, he was getting better. His issue is he's always hurt and can't continue the momentum he's making. Still, it's only 2 years and he had gotten much better with his base and not overreaching as much. I wouldn't have an issue if he came back at LT or RT, but he's put so much time trying to learn LT, if he can show he's healthy and continues his ascension, then you have a good, not great LT. The major issue is RT, where Steels is just terrible. He's been a sieve for a few years but even his run blocking became inconsistent. At his price, he needs to be let go or demoted to swing. So yea, they do another OT, but IMO, it's because of Steele and Guyton's inability to stay healthy, not his play this year. If you're trying to rebuild the team, you probably need (not want) these positions: Defense: Edge rusher (we couldn't get any pressure in crunch time) 3 LBs 3 CBs (and that's assuming Brand is coming back and healthy which is probably a bad assumption) 3 safeties All of this is based on assumption you bring back a guy like Houston to be a situational pass rusher and hopefully Clowney to be a strongside rotational DE along with re-negotiating with Kenny Clark to bring his cap number down. Then you have Overshown and Revel, who I wouldn't count on and are just question marks at this point. Bland comes back, but frankly I wouldn't consider him anything but a CB3 and that's because you paid him and Jerrah hates looking like an asshole on these contracts. Offense: OT. Pick. Ty Smith had told you he doesn't want to be an OT and doesn't want to play the position. Martin said the same thing so they probably have to roll with Guyton as a starter and hope he can remain healthy. Which side are you going to put him on? It's probably easier to get a RT rather than a LT, so I probably go there, but the strength of this coaching staff is Klayton Adams and crew, so I'll defer to them. WR. If the re-sign Pickens, then the strength of the team is probably the first 3 WRs, but questions abound after. Quit with the fucking Turpin experiment as anything but a situational player. He's not a WR, he's a gadget guy. Get a 4th WR. They're all over the place and not that hard to find. Probably want a true speed guy to. I think you need 2 WRs but you can probably get away with just getting 1. TE. Need another one. Ferg is looking like Witten at 35 and Schoonmaker is a never was. You can probably get by with Ferg and BSF and then a FA TE. Be great to get someone who can truly test safeties with their speed but probably just get another blocking surface who can catch in a pinch. RB. Today proved to me I don't want to overpay Javonte Williams. He was great this year but so was Rico Dowdle the year before/this year and today, we really didn't miss a beat with Mafah and Blue. If he wants to come back on a multi-year for under 5m with a few bonuses to get it to 5ish/year then cool, but otherwise, I let him go and get a UFA guy and rid with the young guys in Davis, Mafah, and Dim Blue plus Luebke as the FB. I think Williams, Blue, Davis/Mafah + FB would be great. We need to start carrying 4 RBs, which means Turpin is probably squeezed. iOL - Have to figure out how to keep our depth at this position. Might have to give up 1 to get depth at OT. It's a ton of work, even with 2 firsts, this team is so talentless especially on defense. Go back and look at the last 10 first two day draft picks on defense. Other than Micah, who they decided not to pay, it's fucking embarrassing. All of that written, if Jerrah goes away this offseason, then there is hope. Maybe. If he's back at the trigger, then it's another year and season of pain and delusion.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Probably 7. And that's being kind with Overshown, who looked like he was recovering from injury. All the rest of them are on the DL and we still desperately need an alpha edge rusher. The back 7, they probably need to replace the entire 2 deep. There's not a guy in the secondary I would care if they cut. I'd like to see Revel in TC a full year and removed from injury, but his biggest problem is he can't tackle.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Schotty is fucking awful at game management and short yardage/4th down play calling. Makes for a potent cocktail of pussiness and ineptitude.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Schotty may have some splaining to do if Blue continues to play like this...... And don't fall for the, tough love made him better. I'm sure it did but not having him active was ludicrous and only reason he's active today is both RBs got hurt.
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Agree about the knee. From what I've been told and can decipher, it appears Diggs was used to McCarthy's style of coaching. Schotty has tried to be a tough guy and it appears that he found a target on defense to make an example of all year. The funny thing is, all these pseudo tough guy coaches (and that's what Schotty is, a fake tough guy), are the worst when it comes to playing favorites, not creating a culture of objectivity and equity. Now, if you're going to play games like this, choose your victims well and Diggs was chosen well, because he was a failing player who was ruined by injury. There is a very small chance Diggs is anything but a jag the rest of his career on larger sample sizes, and he can really only play one style - mostly man and press -- which further erodes any value - not physical enough to play safety. I don't think there was much of a market for him. The Packers picking him off waivers has widely been crushed. I think if he can hand around another year or two and collect a paycheck, that may be his upside. BUT, I do have to be consistent and say that next year was always going to be his best opportunity to prove his health. His injury generally needs a couple of years to come back from. I'll say, Clowney has been a real nice guy to add. He'll never be the player he was expected to be coming out of HS and SC, but he's turned into a pro's pro. He comes in, understands the assignment, prepares hard and plays his ass off. I wouldn't mind adding him next year but he's probably at the hired gun portion of his career and is ring hunting. But, if he liked his time, I would sign him to another cheap contract. He's been one transaction which has really panned out.
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