Dallas Cowboys 2017 - The Road to Super Bowl LII

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Underdog

@RapSheet: As frustration grows with the #Cowboys, changes are on the way. RB Darren McFadden is getting waived, CB Anthony Brown is getting demoted, and pass-rusher Datone Jones will be signed, sources say.

@toddarcher: With Dan Bailey (groin) coming out of Thursday’s game against the Chargers well, the Cowboys will release kicker Mike Nugent and call up running back Trey Williams from the practice squad, according to a source. The addition of Williams would give the Cowboys three tailbacks with Darren McFadden set to be released Monday.

[Underdog]

With Cowboys offense suffering from historically bad funk, no coaching job should feel safe
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dal...-staffs-future

[Underdog]

[Underdog]

Jerry Jones won his fight with NFL commish Roger Goodell
https://sports.yahoo.com/jerry-jones...045522023.html

[Jack.Kerr]

Originally Posted by Underdog

Jerry Jones won his fight with NFL commish Roger Goodell
https://sports.yahoo.com/jerry-jones...045522023.html

Maybe, maybe not.

Alternative perspective: In the N.F.L., Stability Comes With a $200 Million Price Tag

If Goodell walks away in 7 years with $200M, I'd say he won HIS fight against Jones (if Jones is even still alive by then).

Jones' broader dispute is more with the league's bureaucracy, and how the league investigates its players. Jones may be able to degrade the ability of the league to discipline its players, but does that really enhance the league's brand, or just cover up its ugly cosmetic flaws?

There may be even deeper undercurrents at work, and as more is learned and understood about CTE (cf Tom Savage, #fencingresponse), where will the league's popularity be in 10-15 years?

[Bryan_Wilson]

I agree with the consensus of the comments. Can't say for sure who won but the real loser is the fans.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

I agree with the consensus of the comments. Can't say for sure who won but the real loser is the fans.

Isn't that almost always the case with labor disputes?

[Scoobay]

The NFL has to fix this stupid catch rule. What a joke.
Got no love for the Steelers but they got jobbed

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by Scoobay

The NFL has to fix this stupid catch rule. What a joke.
Got no love for the Steelers but they got jobbed

Doesn't help that roflburger is an idiot... God I swear the pats luck into half their wins.

[Scoobay]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

Doesn't help that roflburger is an idiot... God I swear the pats luck into half their wins.

yeah should have thrown a fade to Brown or something and not throw into traffic.

I'll admit that they were consistent in their lousy rule from the Dez play a few years back
that being said it's a stupid rule.

In college or HS that's a catch. Was an amazing play and turn around after the pats just scored and it's BS to take that away. hated the ruling on the Dez play and hated this call too.

[Jack.Kerr]

NFL to take over investigation of Panthers owner Richardson, who paid four (4) ex-employees to settle claims of inappropriate workplace behavior.

Gosh. I wonder if this makes Jerry antsy.

Update: Okay, Richardson is selling the team at the end of the season. Sterling-lite. Crisis averted.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by Scoobay

yeah should have thrown a fade to Brown or something and not throw into traffic.

I'll admit that they were consistent in their lousy rule from the Dez play a few years back
that being said it's a stupid rule.

In college or HS that's a catch. Was an amazing play and turn around after the pats just scored and it's BS to take that away. hated the ruling on the Dez play and hated this call too.

Yeah anytime a player catches the ball and turns upfield like Dez did that is the very definition of a football maneuver. Since when is stretching for extra yards not a football maneuver? Oh right, since the NFL decided to change the definition of a "catch" to something completely unnecessary.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Jack.Kerr

NFL to take over investigation of Panthers owner Richardson, who paid four (4) ex-employees to settle claims of inappropriate workplace behavior.

Gosh. I wonder if this makes Jerry antsy.

Update: Okay, Richardson is selling the team at the end of the season. Sterling-lite. Crisis averted.

"Sterling-lite" is exactly what I thought too.

[Underdog]

@toddarcher: Gene Steratore overturned Dez Bryant’s fourth-down catch in the playoff game against the Green Bay Packers in 2014. With 14:29 left in the fourth quarter against Oakland, Steratore said Seth Roberts’ 26-yard catch stands. Oh what the Cowboys would have given for that ruling in 2014.

[Bryan_Wilson]

[Bryan_Wilson]

I'm kinda in shock. Aren't we usually on the other end of these games? The Raiders out Cowboy'd us?

[Underdog]

@AdamSchefter: After serving a six-game suspension, Zeke Elliott due back at Cowboys’ training complex this morning.

[DirkFTW]

Originally Posted by Underdog

@AdamSchefter: After serving a six-game suspension, Zeke Elliott due back at Cowboys’ training complex this morning.

6 weeks and Zeke looks like that... Randy Gregory must look like Mr. Universe now!

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by Underdog

@AdamSchefter: After serving a six-game suspension, Zeke Elliott due back at Cowboys’ training complex this morning.

Can't believe it's been six games already.

[Bryan_Wilson]

We deserve to lose. Start the game off and every run play Dez is off the field, that's not tipping your hand at all or anything. Then he throws a fit for a while and talks to anyone around him. Finally catches a ball and fumbles it. Then he catches another pass and basically talks trash for a minute to 5 seattle defenders. And so of course Dak makes a poor throw but Dez gets 2 hands on a ball and it flies up and gets picked. Then we have the ball at the 2 and we outsmart ourselves and don't give it to the best player on the team. This team....... Good grief I wish we would clean house with the staff. Sick of seeing Garrett clapping on the sidelines like a little league coach.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

We deserve to lose. Start the game off and every run play Dez is off the field, that's not tipping your hand at all or anything. Then he throws a fit for a while and talks to anyone around him. Finally catches a ball and fumbles it. Then he catches another pass and basically talks trash for a minute to 5 seattle defenders. And so of course Dak makes a poor throw but Dez gets 2 hands on a ball and it flies up and gets picked. Then we have the ball at the 2 and we outsmart ourselves and don't give it to the best player on the team. This team....... Good grief I wish we would clean house with the staff. Sick of seeing Garrett clapping on the sidelines like a little league coach.

Glad we lost, just makes our pick that much better... I doubt Garrett gets the boot, but it's time to draft a WR1 and send Dez packing.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by Underdog

Glad we lost, just makes our pick that much better... I doubt Garrett gets the boot, but it's time to draft a WR1 and send Dez packing.

Calvin Ridley. Please. I'm a homer but I absolutely want Christian Kirk also. Give me both.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Dez and Garrett gots to go.

[Underdog]

@jonmachota: Jerry Jones talking about Jason Garrett on @1053thefan: "It's not in the Cowboys' best interest right now to be considering a coaching change."

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by Underdog

@jonmachota: Jerry Jones talking about Jason Garrett on @1053thefan: "It's not in the Cowboys' best interest right now to be considering a coaching change."

He just has some biased, unwarranted love affair with Garrett. Shame because I never understood the choice from the beginning.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Jerry won't fire him anytime soon. Cowboys will remain competitive enough to keep him around and Jerry wants it that way because Jason is a yes man, a company man. Jerry gets to do whatever he wants with Jason there. If He did fire Jason he'd just hire the next yes man.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

Jerry won't fire him anytime soon. Cowboys will remain competitive enough to keep him around and Jerry wants it that way because Jason is a yes man, a company man. Jerry gets to do whatever he wants with Jason there. If He did fire Jason he'd just hire the next yes man.

The Cowboys will be mediocre until Jerry dies.

[Underdog]

@toddarcher: With their 6-0 win against the Eagles, the Cowboys posted their first shutout since the 2009 season finale against Philadelphia. Those Cowboys finished 11-5 and won a playoff game. These Cowboys finished 9-7 and will miss the playoffs. With the win Jason Garrett avoided his fourth 8-8 finish in seven seasons as Cowboys coach.

@toddarcher: With the season complete, what have the 9-7 Cowboys learned? “If you don’t win close games, if you don’t make plays, all of a sudden you can become an average football team,” linebacker Sean lee said. “Winning can be fragile. And you have to have great offseasons. We have to have all of our guys and we’ve got to play the right way through the entire season. if we do that, we are a team that can compete for a championship.”

[Bryan_Wilson]

Lawrence is gonna cost so much to keep.... not sure he's here next year tbh.

[Underdog]

Change likely coming to Cowboys coaching staff, but how much?
http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas-cowb...f-but-how-high

Short answer: not enough.

[Underdog]

[Luke]

The Browns could be a very interesting team the next few years if they could develop a QB.

[Underdog]

@toddarcher: Quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson will not return to the team in 2018. His contract is set to expire soon. He had been with the Cowboys since 2007 and helped in the development of Tony Romo and Dak Prescott.

@toddarcher: Multiple sources say Rich Bisaccia will be allowed to leave the Cowboys, most likely to join Jon Gruden in Oakland. In addition to Wade Wilson not returning, secondary coach Joe Baker also will not be back. There is also questions about the future of offensive line coach Frank Pollack with the team.

[Underdog]

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[EricaLubarsky]

Man, not the cowboys but man.

Vikings

And some guys that woulda looked nice in silver and blue

[Underdog]

@SportsSturm: Lots of new coaches coming and going for the Cowboys - except the Big 3. Which are the only 3 spots that bring a significant change.

[Underdog]

@terrellowens: Same issue I had with Garrett when he felt I threw him under the bus after we went 13-3 the year before & we needed to change our plays, teams game planned Dak after his 1st year but Garrett doesn’t know how to make adjustments. Can’t keep running same plays over & over & overTerrell Owens added,

[DirkFTW]

Whelp, I am done with football for the season.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by DirkFTW

Whelp, I am done with football for the season.

Never cared much for soccer anyway.

[Underdog]

NFL Playoff Wins since 1997:

2 - Nick Foles
2 - Case Keenum
2 - Blake Bortles
2 - Dallas Cowboys