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Patrick Bateman

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  1. Awful job of playing the sticks on 3rd down there. You have to know where the stick are. Just a quick slant for 10 on 3rd and 10 is terrible defense.
  2. Praise the lord!!!!! Finally!!!! I would now like to complain about Rico Dowdle not breaking any long runs..... Let's see if we can get the same reaction!
  3. You know who still sucks? Terrence Steele. Fuck that dude. He needs to be replaced.
  4. This fucking team is still so poorly coached sometimes. Another long field because of punt return. We'd do better most of the time just fair catching. Just turn it up and get what you can..... and yes, I know the return was called for the left side, the wide side.
  5. Okay..... He continues to make some questionable discussions around punt returns. He drops passes. Really gotta wonder if we're not wasting a roster spot on Turpin. Is there a more versatile player who can make plays???
  6. I absolutely love the dude, but Colt was blood from the ears inducing yesterday. No emotion, no real insight, his high voice and aw shucks attitude doesn't really translate to interesting TV. I'm afraid he's going to be like the Jason Witten experiment. Hopefully he can figure it out. He's very green, but yesterday was really tough to get through.
  7. More and more lately, as he has gained job stability.... but he's still pretty vanilla. Nothing wrong with it, it's how you stick around.
  8. Less than ideal start. Zack Martin almost got Dak killed on a one on one block. That's not good. Should we start a game thread?
  9. So, what are folk's expectations for record this year? 40 wins? 35? How are we thinking about what steps to take to get better? Any in-season trades you'd like to see or just try and get our core -- Vassell, Wemby, and Castle (maybe Sochan) minutes, experience and to improve? I'm sure we want Atlanta to burst at the seams a lose 70 games..... probably not.
  10. Much of that will go to keeping Mitchell, who was a top 2 pick several years ago. Playing with Clark has broken her code and now she's going off. She was always a talented player, but not like this.....
  11. This front office will not use that high of a pick on a QB. The last time they drafted one in the top rounds was Quincy Carter 2 decades ago. They don't value the QB for whatever reason. We won't have a high pick if Dak is healthy. We'll be in the middle of the pack worst case. See, this is a minimum of a 2 year, probably 3 year process...... and that's just to acquire one, then you have to coach em' up and develop them unless you get a rarity. Additionally, next year's QB class is pretty shitty. There will always be a guy or two but for the most part, it's not very good. Other positions are pretty stout including WR and defensively. You want to get rid of Dak, you best have a better alternative then, we'll see what Lance has or we'll get a journeyman and then see what the draft gets us because that's set up for failure and a cycle of real pain unless they can strike the lottery 3 times in a row. A week to see if this has been solved...
  12. And...... that should be all we need to know for ROY. It also makes ESPN's morons who cover basketball look like the mouth breathers they are.
  13. Click bait.... And engagement farming..... Silliness.
  14. 7 players have no trade clauses..... all QBs. The presumed benefit is cap space. There is no market for a guy on his last year who is hitting free agency with a not trade clause UNLESS you allowed him to negotiate with the team first and that team would probably just want to wait until he's officially a free agent instead of giving up a draft pick which as stated earlier would have to be better than a 3rd. It would be a really hard needle to thread and we're in the season already so I doubt Dak wants the hassle. SF lucked into their situation with Purdy, just like Dallas did with Dak and Romo before him. SF drafted current draft bust Trey Lane (which they gave up a ton of draft capital) and actively tried to trade for Aaron Rodgers and Kurt Cousins. They're not really some franchise with the magic game plan. They like every other fucking organization are trying to find a franchise QB all the time and when Purdy comes due..... they'll pay him, probably some obscene amount which half their fanbase will say is tragic because they don't understand modern economics of professional football nor the complexities of the salary cap; which is no criticism to them, our team has a self made billionaire and son who's entire life has been spent in pro football and they still don't know what they're doing with the cap.
  15. A few items as we get ready for game week, next week..... He's going against maybe the best pure pass rusher in the league in week 1, so I'm expecting a rough outing with multiple pre-snap penalties, a couple of holds and giving up some pressures, but if he can get through it without losing his confidence, then he's gonna have a chance to settle in and be a pretty good tackle for us this season and into the future. This is on Carson, the OP wasn't linking. I like him, I think the has a shot at being valuable one day, but he ain't ready for this. He's going to get beat..... a lot the first year and it's not his fault. He should be a CB4 or 5, not a boundary starter. Let's hope he learns on the job quickly. Solid bench player..... He ended up in Washington with Quinn. There's a little more to this like losing Dorance Armstrong and Fowler in Free Agency and then having Sam Williams blow out his knee for the year so despite adding a rookie who looks like he can stop the run, we're way worse at DE and generating pass rush. Or technically, Joseph replaces Hankins. So it's exact direct replacements, but how do you think the Cowboys braintrust fared in the end on the roster? You get Overshawn and Diggs back too but there will be more injuries, probably at least 1 early. I can't say the roster is better, but maybe not worst. Meh, it's always about replacing and not improving it seems. With a first place schedule and a couple of brutal stretches, I think most folks think we won't get to 12 wins again and it's easy to understand why.
  16. That's not really it. Nobody cares about "spending too much", it's the misallocation of resources. Jerrah used to misidentify talent and therefore misallocate on contracts. Over the past decade they have gotten fairly good at drafting. Like all teams they have misses *cough* Taco and Mazi *cough*, but overall they draft way better than they did when Jerrah was making most of the decisions. But they've still been bad at negotiation, going back to the Emmit days. He still goes cheap, gets called out and then gets bent over until he pays a bit over market. Additionally, Stephen is much more cost conscious so now, they're better at talent identification, but still bad at negotiation within much more constrained economic principles. The Eagles and others have proven that Salary Cap Hell, while it can exist, if you have a deep understanding of the salary cap, it can be quick and not nearly as painful as though. Within two years, you can be back competing for the playoffs if you're good at talent acquisiton. Is that last game a tie or something? They just decide not to play it? It's a great question. I thought about it yesterday. It's hard to see, maybe he's a really stout blocker in practice, because without that, yea, he's just another midwestern stiff who probably should have been a 5th round pick. Have to think his 2nd round investment is keeping him on the roster or at least giving him the tie breakers.
  17. Read back through the thread, there are plenty of articles and statistics to show you that since Stephen took over the purse strings, the Cowboys have been one of the cheapest organizations in the NFL in cash outlay, or money actually spent. They hide behind the salary cap and most fans ignorance of how the economics of football, but they live behind marketing and hoopla to drive net worth rather than actual pour money back into the final product. They are really bad at the salary cap too and negotiation, which leads to some bad contracts, but at the heart of it..... Stephen is cheap and Jerrah is now too.
  18. I agree there were some good things and he did get better and better throughout this preseason, but too many mental mistakes and as you and others have said, he really needs reps and he won't be getting them anymore. It's what happens when you draft a kid who barely played in FCS who's mentally not ahead of the curve. He would have needed to come along slowly and get monster reps to be ready to play by year 3, but instead..... Frankly, he should have stayed in school, but can't really criticize the decision, he went top 5. But in reality, he needed more reps at the collegiate level. Also injuries early his his career really hurt him. If Dallas really wants to develop him, then tonight was sort of good. Enough positives to build on but enough obvious mental mistakes and accuracy issues which means he won't get a big offer from another team. I do wonder what his upside is? Really good backup? Bottom 1/3 starter? Maybe top 20 starter? He doesn't look like he'll ever be as good as Dak, but he is only 24. I don't know, tough decision probably dictated by what happens with Dak and others. I think most will look to what RB could they have gotten right around where Dallas could have picked. So this probably means guys like Bucky Irving, Ray Davis, Braelon Allen, Audric Estime, or even Jaylen Wright. Any of those guys pop, and all have looked good early, and the decision will be criticized fairly heavily, fair or not. Has he? He'll be the 3rd QB. Rush will be the guy who will fill in for Dak if he's out 3-4 weeks. If Dak misses the season for some reason and it goes south pretty quickly, I could see Lance getting the 2nd half of the season to himself to get real reps. He's definitely not a RB or run with those type of skills. Yes, he's fast but he's not ultra elusive and he's not the guy who will lower his shoulder like Allen or a Taysom Hill, who is much much larger. I don't think Lance is a better runner than most of our outside weapons. Maybe a trick play or something, but definitely not a consistent part of the sweep game. The biggest takeaway with Lance is replacing Dak, if he chooses to move on, could be really really hard and maybe a multi-year challenge. Dak may prove Jerrah's last chance at a deep playoff run before he dies, and he's chosen to fuck around and go cheap.... Sort of shows where is priorities are. He'll talk the game of being "all in", but he's totally full of shit.
  19. Another big dude who is probably past his prime but we're just asking him to be a rotational piece. He's cheap, which Stephen likes, but looks like Zimmer won out on getting some girth for the middle. So Mazi, Osa, and now Lindal at the 1 tech and Carl Lawson at the 3 tech who was signed last week for our IDL rotation.
  20. Or maybe the Cowboys are just bad at contract negotiations......
  21. Chuma sucks so it could be a blessing in disguise. Let's see what Richards can do with all the swing snaps and reps. If he can handle it, you can IR Chuma and possibly he can be ready if someone goes down mid-season. If not, you PS him and move on. Hopefully Richards can improve and at least play a functional RT, he had been playing guard and improving.
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