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DougO

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  1. CeeDee is even better than his stats. When you see detailed analysis about his tiny catch windows and difficulty compared to others it's pretty amazing got got anywhere close to his actual catches and yards.
  2. Added another 'Flus guy. What is it, like five dudes now? Dallcago Bearboys. That part makes me a bit nervous.
  3. Waco - Temple - Bryan, looks good. Hopefully won't get preempted by fake doctor informercials for boner pills and wrinkle cream or some shit.
  4. Oddsmakers just know how stupid typical betting fans are, doesn't really have anything to do with likelihood. Ain't happening.
  5. I hope the OTA network spreads out this way. Can't pick up any DFW stations, I could pick up a lot of Austin stations if I point an antenna out that way.
  6. DougO

    Grammys

    I hear the Beatles actually won a grammy. For the worst single they ever released. Does that speak to the quality of today's biggest hits?
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    Grammys

    I never watch that shit. Do the cameras keep showing football players up in some VIP booth? It would seem fitting.
  8. I tried those, and I like them...for a while. But they start falling apart in a few weeks, very frustrating.
  9. Not sure how trivial, but it pisses me off that I have such a hard time finding belts with acceptable spacing. The holes on almost every belt I look at are way too far apart, so you go up a notch or down a notch and it is fn' worthless. There are times when you need a slight adjustment, even during the same day. I keep buying the same two belts, and they aren't that great. But I can find no others that have correct spacing.
  10. Their problem with drafting is that they used too much draft capital on OL which ended up being part of the huge cap issues. They just don't manage it well. They end up being forced to draft for immediate need way too much when they fail to manage the OL ahead of the curve, and also extend questionable players because they lack other options. The better managed teams mine for OL later in the draft and are able to develop them. When you look around the league it's mostly the LT's that are top heavy in high round picks. Then you have to have OL types that fit your scheme and what you do. That's one of the ways they underutilize their talent, high draft rankings but not good unit fits. It's both coaching and drafting. But the better teams always seem to be able to cobble together solid OL units with far less spent on players other than the LT.
  11. OK, cool, thanks. I guess the Cuban is holding the new guy's beer.
  12. The way the Cowboys have tried to value OL talent has been a major flaw for a long time. They needed to value the unit and their overall depth more, adapt the OL to their schemes, not just plug and play and wonder why it isn't working right. Draft rankings and underwear Olympics don't make a great OL. They just end up with the most expensive OL that breaks down easily.
  13. Did they move April Fools to Groundhog Day? I'm glad I stopped giving AF about the Mavs and NBA 20 years ago. Cuban has been a shitty owner forever. He got lucky a time or two, but he sucks royally.
  14. The staff was always the biggest deal. Get more modern, a bit younger, more innovative. Paleostaff is not a great way to go, especially when the head coach isn't particularly brilliant.
  15. Seems like a very Eberflus driven staff. I guess he's the the next man up for cheap head coach with experience. Heavy OL coaching influence and developing modern run game concepts seems like it has been a major need.
  16. Not gonna win a major award, but it's what I got.
  17. Glad I won't have to ditch DirecTV for a couple of years. Can't get decently fast affordable internets here yet.
  18. I think the Cowboys are better off without Mike, and it was always a 50/50 thing with Jerry hiring McCarthy back. If he had agreed to a couple of years at a similar deal he'd still be there. Mike should have taken it, but he thought way to much of his desirability to other teams looking for head coaches. He seems to have forgotten the league wasn't exactly begging Mike to be their head coach before he joined the Cowboys. He was off in his re-tread think-tank trying to learn modern football. At this point, though it would have been nice to hit a home run hire somehow, I think the Cowboys are better off going with Schottenheimer and some new blood on the staff, as underwhelming as it may seem. It is probably a small step in the right direction. I'm interested in seeing the terms of Shott's deal. I wouldn't bet on it being 5 years or at much better than average salary for a head coach. Probably has maybe three years to prove something that wouldn't be that tough for the Cowboys to get out of.
  19. Well, yeah, that's the only way I would have considered hiring him for another tour, only a short extension. The Witten stuff was just blogger fluff, nothing to it. I'm sure he would be welcome as an entry-level assistant, but I don't see any reality behind making that a requirement. I'm sure that wouldn't even have been a stumbling point for Mike. He wasn't going to be named head coach in waiting by any means. Don't believe all the crapola you read on the internets.
  20. Shilo might do a bit better as a safety, except he probably tackles like his old man. Seems like a classic Cowboys second round pick right now.
  21. Buffalo center Connor McGovern was tabbed as a replacement for the Pro Bowl games. So chalk up one more pro bowl player drafted by Jerry, after they couldn't get much out of him for four years in Dallas.
  22. Mike has punted on getting a head coaching job this year and says he is focusing on the 2026 hiring cycle. Seems likely that he wasn't drawing as much enthusiasm as he had though, which isn't really surprising. Maybe another sub-NFL pro league? It appears obvious that he made the wrong choice in not taking a short term deal to return to Dallas.
  23. I may have miscounted by one or two, but by this source I count 14 head coaches that were calling the plays going into 2024. Offensive coordinators called plays for 18 teams. It's not unusual. Whether it's a good idea or not is debatable. But some very good head coaches that are good at it seem to get their teams in the playoffs fairly regularly. For some teams the head coach is the real OC with a proxy up in the booth that they call the OC, which is basically what Schott is, and several others. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41018846/nfl-playcallers-32-teams-mike-mcdaniel-sean-mcvay-nathaniel-hackett So if we want to find any room for hope in all that, my stance has been that Mike not calling plays next year may not be a bad thing, and we will find out if Brian is better at not only calling the plays, but with his own version of the scheme. Fans often bitched bout McCarthy's play calling. For me it was mostly how bland it was with not enough wrinkles to get receivers more open, give the qb better checkdown options, and open things up for the running game as well. Mike's game management wasn't great, either. Some new blood on the staff might bring a few ideas that Brian may be more open to using. We'll just have to see.
  24. The little know-it-all punk on the NFL app commercial. Also applies to punchable faces.
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