It’s Deja Vu All Over Again: Your 2021 Dallas Cowboys Preview

OK, I was about halfway through a detailed, position-by-position breakdown of the 2021 Cowboys season, with additional commentary on the draft and free agency. And then Hurricane Henri decided to hook left and take the eye pretty much over my house, so I don’t think we’re going to have power much longer. Let’s do this.

Jerry Jones cried at his press conference and said that he’d do anything humanly possible to get back to the Super Bowl, but apparently that doesn’t include firing himself as the GM, so the Cowboys won’t be seeing the Super Bowl on anything but TV for some time to come. Dak Prescott is coming off a dislocated ankle and compound fracture of his lower leg, and while he’s recently incredibly wealthy, (4 years, $160 million), questions remain about how well he’ll recover. And he also may have something wrong with his shoulder, too. Shoulders and legs aren’t important to QBs, are they?

Dallas did nothing to address their increasingly aged and infirm offensive line, other than draft a guy in the 4th round who left Florida State after being accused of dating violence. Yay. The line has gone from a strength to a problem, and with Zeke Elliott in his 6th year, (the average NFL RB has a career between 3 and 4 years), and coming off his worst year in terms of production, (less than 1,000 yards and 6 TDs), that’s not a great combination. The WR/TE corps is, at least on paper, maybe the best in the league, (Cooper, Lamb, Gallup, Jarwin, some guy out of Stanford that everyone seems to thinks was a good draft pick), but if Prescott doesn’t get any time, and/or opposing defenses don’t credit the run and play 6 guys in coverage, that won’t matter.

The defense was ass last year, setting records from most point and yards given up. Micah Parsons has potential to be a monster LB, but if he has no help it’s not going to matter. The Cowboys desperately needed CB help, then watched helplessly in the 10th position as the Panthers and Broncos took the top 2 at 8 and 9. They did pick up a kid out of Kentucky in the second round who seems at least as interested in a rap career, (check out YKDV Bossman Fat!), as he does in football, so there’s that.

The biggest thing the Cowboys did on defense was fire Mike Nolan. They brought in Dan Quinn, which seems ominous at best given his assoication with the number 28 and 3. Quinn did, however, lead a great Seahawks defense as a coordinator, (although he had the Legion of Boom to help him, and he does not have that, at all, in Dallas), so if he can just get the D from “historically awful”, (thanks si.com), to “sort of mediocre”, it would be a vast improvement.

Mike McCarthy remains the head coach, and that will likely remain a problem. He has a history of playing not to lose, not adapting well to in game situations, and allegations for liking naps more than game prep. Fortunately he also alienates his players to the point where they’ll say things like this about him, (just ask potential Jeopardy! host Aaron Rodgers), in public. And in private in Dallas, where those same sorts of things were said, (albeit off the record), in his very first year.

I still don’t give a shit about the kicker or punter.

The Cowboys are still in the NFC East, and it’s still a dumpster fire. The Eagles don’t have a QB and are probably a good year away from achieving their rebuilding goals. The Giants are getting into preseason brawls within their own team that leave their starting QB on the bottom of the pile, (although Jones is a turnover machine anyway, so that might have been deliberate), and seem to have more questions than answers for the umpteenth year running. Washington slowly built a monster front-7 and also brought in Ryan Fitzpatrick, (he went to Harvard; I don’t know if you know that), to stabilize the QB position. It pains me to say this, but Washington is probably the class of the division, even if that is a bar low enough for a snake to hurdle. Everyone else plays for second, and none of them will be getting a wild card.

While the Cowboys have, apparently, the second-easiest, schedule in the league, I still don’t see them going more than 8-9, 9-8, maybe 10-7. Another year without a Super Bowl. Jerry, you know what you have to do.

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Recovery Whiskey

Dallas seems intent on following Chicago and Washington into the sunset of NFC irrelevancy and worshiping ancient glory.

Gumbygirl

We just dropped off our ballots for the recall election. It was a big hell no from us!

Viva La Tabula Raza

My only reservation about Newsom’s decision-making abilities involves his spouse-choosing history. I can’t believe he was married to that horrifying harpy who is now fucking the failson of that guy that used to be president. Maybe she has a “gripper” from excessive kegeling or something similar that made him lose his mind.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy
Viva La Tabula Raza

Next excuse: “The dog ate our audit work.”

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Mmmmm, delightful

Gumbygirl

It’s nice to see a poor kid catch a break

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LemonJello

He has risen, indeed!

blaxabbath

RISE UP!
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Viva La Tabula Raza

I wonder why my Ron Perlman avatar is there. Not that it matters.

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Viva La Tabula Raza

And then it’s gone. Hm.

King Hippo

oh, Fronk gon’ have afternoon relations. BUHLEE DAT!

litre_cola

Stretch that neck 1st Fronky!

blaxabbath

I always enjoy when the Cowboys are so bad that losing to them could cost a coach his job.
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Anthony In TX

I have 3 friends who are Arsenal fans who have given me shit for years for being a Fulham fan.

Now you know how it feels, dicks.

blaxabbath

Dak will do well behind ANY offensive line.
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King Hippo

Gooners fallout on NBCSN right now. Handsome Mikel apparently has 5 MOAR matches before the axe might fall.

Recovery Whiskey

And he’ll never sell. Plus his idiot inbred kid will take over once he’s gone. RIP Arsenal.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I don’t see what the problem is. I, too, find I prefer naps to just about any other activity.

I got a new computer last week, and it looks like I will be able to visit this site now even while hooked to the DoD VPN. Remains to be seen about embedding youtubes and images; please bear with me as I explore my new freedom!

ballsofsteelandfury

WhooHoo!!!

Viva La Tabula Raza

So, it never occurred to me: how are the medical soaps dealing with the covid? Everybody masked? Anti-masker and anti-vaxxer chiefs of surgery duking it out with staff?

LemonJello

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Please hurry dear, I think I am about to asphyxiate.

King Hippo

I know that I am targeting (the injury-questions discounted) Canned Ham Product, in my two leagues.

So…yeah. Y’all is totally boned (in the most gender-free way possible obvs).

Game Time Decision

gotta find me some draft cheat sheets. Any suggestions?

Sharkbait

I too, need to do some rudimentary draft prep

blaxabbath

My team was auto-drafted last year.

I won the championship.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I bet you just get the Pick Six option when you buy a lotto ticket. It’d be cool to win that way.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It was interesting. Although I’m sure I’d disagree vehemently with Tracey on a lot of things, he makes some very solid points.

Dunstan

Has he recovered from the vicious beating Maxine Waters inflicted upon him?

LemonJello

Well done, indeed.

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blaxabbath

It true.
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Sharkbait

This is one of my favorite images this site has given the world
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Gumbygirl

Is everything ok at the Cornblower estate? Do you need any paper towels? Thoughts, and/or prayers?

Gumbygirl

I’m tryna remember my Catholic school prayers. All I can remember is when we got on the bus, we did a Hail Mary, Our Father, and then we said “guardian angels protect us on the way home.” And then we waited until Sister Virginia got off the bus, and we made vicious fun of her.
Anyway, guardian angels protect you on the way home!

BeefReeferLives

Hilarious pic and one that is turning out to be eerily prescient, as his leg & now his shoulder, apparently, have been reduced to chopped ham.

ballsofsteelandfury

What’s the Over Under on which Week Dak finally breaks down in?

Warthog

Which three letter quartered back lasts longer: Dak or Tua?

King Hippo

Nil?

Warthog

And I suppose if you turned Mac inside out you’d have Cam.

Viva La Tabula Raza

AND TAWMMY WAS TOM FOR SHORT.

King Hippo

Surely his deal with Old Scratch is almost past due??

Dunstan

“Popular misconception. My deal was actually with Belichek, and it ran out a year ago. I just gave Brady a Super Bowl in Tampa as a fuck-you to Bill. Looking forward to seeing how loud I can make that guy grumble for all eternity.” — Satan

blaxabbath

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