23 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

The more I look at these NFL Rivalry uniforms and read all the stupid Nike speak about them, I'm leaning towards them making some sort of stone colored uniforms based off the art museum. They will create some stupid story about Philly grit.

Nike knows that Gotham isn't actually NY. AND that the Jets actually play in NJ.

2 hours ago, Wentz_Era said:

On paper for sure, they’re a very young team but have a giant ? at the most important position. They’re stuck with Love for a few more years, so i guess the splash makes sense. It’s very ‘un-Packer’ like though. They hardly ever take stabs even in the FA (unless it’s White or Woodson).

It is their approach to "pushing” for a Lombardi.

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Love's biggest thing is his inconsistency. He can go high and go low. If the Eagles catch him on a high, they are in trouble. And if he figures out how to cut out the lows... everyone is.

Even when he is on, his WRs drop passes consistently. That team just isnt good enough.

20 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Bill Barnwell: Over the last four years, the Cowboys are the league's best defense with Micah Parsons on the field by EPA per play.

Across a 1,039-play sample, they're the league's second-worst defense over that same stretch by EPA per play when Parsons isn't on the field.

I feel like this is when analytics get a bit silly. On a micro level, I feel like Parsons was mostly a non factor every time we played them. He’d have a nice play or two but it never felt like he was a problem or the Cowboys D was great, generally speaking.

On a macro level, he played more than 80% of the snaps every single year in his career and the Cowboys were never considered a great defense so what the hell are we talking about?

Any attempt to spin the trade as a win for Dallas is completely overthinking things.

You don’t trade generational football players at key positions that are entering their prime. Period.

Cincinnati vs Nebraska is on. Cincy has a CB with the last name McDoom.

9 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

Any attempt to spin the trade as a win for Dallas is completely overthinking things.

You don’t trade generational football players at key positions that are entering their prime. Period.

Or underthinking.

6 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I feel like this is when analytics get a bit silly. On a micro level, I feel like Parsons was mostly a non factor every time we played them. He’d have a nice play or two but it never felt like he was a problem or the Cowboys D was great, generally speaking.

On a macro level, he played more than 80% of the snaps every single year in his career and the Cowboys were never considered a great defense so what the hell are we talking about?

How is it silly? We blocked him well, better than most. We devoted a lot of energy to blocking him. We had a great OL. Teams with Lesser OLs got wrecked. You have to watch more games before you blow him off. He’s a great player.

37 minutes ago, jamiller said:

A team with a great line and a good blocking TE really would be something. Especially with an all-world RB and solid RBs behind him. If you could get a QB that runs pretty good and has shown he can make good calls at the LOS, then you would really have something against teams that are light up front. Hmn...

Nah. Silly thought.

Just now, just relax said:

How is it silly? We blocked him well, better than most. We devoted a lot of energy to blocking him. We had a great OL. Teams with Lesser OLs got wrecked. You have to watch more games before you blow him off. He’s a great player.

I never said he wasn’t a great player. The silly part is using one metric to say they were "the best defense in the league” with him on the field. How many years from 2021 to 2024 would you say the Cowboys had the best defense in the league when he was predominately on the field every play? My comment was much more about the totality of the statement than the individual player.

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He’s been doing that every time he spoke in the last month. I genuinely can’t tell if he’s doing it out of spite, he’s senile, or it’s southern drawl.

From my time in Dallas (89 through 96) my suspicion is it is the drawl.

40 minutes ago, mattwill said:

It is their approach to "pushing” for a Lombardi.

No, that was their trade for a 3 time Super Bowl champion. This is just a little side show.

YoutubeTV and Fox reached a deal. Nothing to worry about.

As usual, probably a cost increase coming soon.

1 hour ago, just relax said:

Parsons is a liability in nothing. He’s the closest thing to Lawrence Taylor

He sucks defending the run. It's well documented. Teams ran right at him on purpose. And LT? Are you nuts? He's not even the best defensive player in the game RIGHT NOW. Right off the top of my head Myles Garrett and TJ Watt are superior.

1 hour ago, just relax said:

Parsons is a liability in nothing. He’s the closest thing to Lawrence Taylor since, well, Lawrence Taylor. Teams run at him and get nothing and running away from him is a waste of effort. Kenny Clarke is a very good DT but Parsons is an order of magnitude better. He transforms a defense. Basically I think dallas screwed themselves. And isn’t that too bad?🥲

I've seen Taylor and I've seen Parsons. Taylor was better.

And yes, you can run at Parsons, what you can't do is leave him uncovered when you run away from him because he's so fast in pursuit.

I think using Parsons as a 4-3 DE (though it'll probably be a 4-3 under with Parsons split wide) negates some of his talent, because he's more of a space than power athlete.

Not sure why he never really developed in coverage, though we're talking Dallas.

9 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

Any attempt to spin the trade as a win for Dallas is completely overthinking things.

You don’t trade generational football players at key positions that are entering their prime. Period.

I don't disagree but the players have to want to be competitive and you cannot be competitive as a team when your salary is 17% of the entire cap. They paid the wrong guy (Dak) too much money. If they ended up paying Micah 47m on top of Dak's 60m, and Lamb's 35m AAV that is 141m for three players...leaving 139m (279m 2025 cap) for the rest of the roster...just not sustainable. I realize you can structure it in different ways and it would count differently over the years but at the end of the day you are still eating half your cap space at some point for three freaking players. I believe in players getting paid, but at what cost to the success of the team as a whole?

He is worth more than Dak, but he is not worth 47m a year. A tough decision but it was the right decision for a change, too bad they made the wrong move on signing Dak to his ridiculous contract...should have paid Micah instead of Dak but you can't go back in time.

1 hour ago, just relax said:

Clearly we don’t see the same player. There is no book on him. Not physical? That’s just silly to the point of absurdity. Here’s what the book on him is: double team him, track him everywhere, run away from him but drop an OL to block his pursuit.

IMHO, he’s the best defensive player in the league.

Second best IMO. Garrett is the best.

18 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

It has been a long, long time since the Cowboys have been America’s team in anything but name only.

29 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

Any attempt to spin the trade as a win for Dallas is completely overthinking things.

You don’t trade generational football players at key positions that are entering their prime. Period.

It’s not a win for Dallas. They have an aging QB and a defense that had one elite player. Any window to compete for a championship with Dak is likely closed. 2 late 1st round picks are not the pathway to replacing elite talent.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a win for the Packers. It’s a good move to fill their biggest need on defense. I don’t think he fixes their wide receiver depth.

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I guess if Howie was trying to pull something with Keegan and McCollum, it didn’t work.

Just now, BigEFly said:

I guess if Howie was trying to pull something with Keegan and McCollum, it didn’t work.

If that's the case Vegas and Dallas saved him from himself. McCollum is constant burnt toast and Keegan had every opportunity to show just about anything (especially this camp with Dickerson out) and failed to do so. Safety is better just by not having McCollum any longer but adding Epps and having a better developmental guy on the PS in Andre Sam is a big upgrade.

4 hours ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Each player can be called up from the PS and activated for games a total of three times. After that, they must be placed on the active 53 man roster in order to play in games. I believe (not 100%) that there are no restrictions in the postseason and that you can be called up as many times as needed. Think Khari Blasingame.

I’m gonna assume Covey and Sam will be the activations for the next three games and they’ll figure it out from there. Also a roster spot will be available when Lampkin gets placed on IR.

Thanks. I"m guessing Covey is the next guy up on the roster and will be the PR this year so long as he's healthy. As for Safety I would think Epps will be remain on the PS and be the one to get activated for games until they figure things out but maybe it will be Sam. I have no idea where Epps is after the ACL injury but it was early last season and if he's even close to 100% of what he used to be I don't think it's long before he is the 3rd S and Brown is relegated to special teams and very limited snaps on defense.

4 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

It’s not a win for Dallas. They have an aging QB and a defense that had one elite player. Any window to compete for a championship with Dak is likely closed. 2 late 1st round picks are not the pathway to replacing elite talent.

I don’t think it’s necessarily a win for the Packers. It’s a good move to fill their biggest need on defense. I don’t think he fixes their wide receiver depth.

For starters, Dallas put themselves in this position making their aging QB the highest paid player in the NFL. Also by dragging their feet with Lamb and overpaying him in the process.

Secondly, I’m not buying the Packers hype. They are likely playing in the best NFC division the next two years so I don’t think it’s a sure thing both picks are going to be late 1sts.

How many people thought Dallas was a legitimate SB contender or even a threat to win the NFCE after this years draft when they had Parsons? I can understand the statement "not a win” for Dallas but they dug their own stupid hole and I don’t think paying Parsons almost $50M a year would change anything. They basically cornered themselves into a lose lose predicament.