Mailbag: Change coming in FA philosophy?

Did the Cowboys miss an opportunity by passing on Kellen Moore to be their next head coach? Is this Sean Payton all over again?

How big is the gap right now between the Cowboys and Eagles? Is there any hope of competing against them next season?

Can a team succeed in today's NFL without a dual-threat quarterback? A guy who is dangerous both passing and running? And what does that mean for the Cowboys and Dak Prescott, who I think we can all safely say is no longer really a threat to run?

Do you still look at the Cowboys as a "Super Bowl or Bust" team? I wonder if myself and other fans have developed a jaded outlook as to the Cowboys' expectations in terms of making deep playoff runs.

Did Tyler Guyton and Cooper Beebe show you enough to say that we have our left tackle and center of the future? Personally, I thought Guyton would struggle, especially since he didn't have a ton of experience at left tackle, but Beebe seemed to get exponentially better game after game.

What concerns me about Schotty installing more motion and play-action, though, is will that only increase the likelihood of even more false starts from the offensive line, tight ends and receivers? Pre-snap penalties were a persistent problem last year. Will there be similar accountability?

Jerry Jones said during Brian Schottenheimer's press conference, "We want to improve significantly how we are doing the cap." What do they need to do different? Can they have so much money tied up in a handful of players and still be successful?

There has been a lot of talk about the risk in hiring Brian Schottenheimer, but how is this any riskier than, say, the Bears hiring Ben Johnson, who also doesn't have any head coaching experience? If anything, this seems like the safe, comfortable pick for the Cowboys, which, to be honest, I'm not sure is such a good thing. Could they have used more of a shakeup?

With the team searching for a new defensive coordinator, I saw Nick Eatman's suggestion of switching to a 3-4 defense because Micah Parsons would excel. But while I agree that Parsons would excel, do we have the right players at other front-line positions to switch to or emphasize a 3-4 scheme? The Cowboys already struggle at defensive tackle, so I wonder if we have the bodies.

We all have heard the term a "Dak-friendly offense," so how big a factor was that in the hiring of Brian Schottenheimer? Could Prescott have thrived in a new system that wasn't similar to Mike McCarthy's or Kellen Moore's offensive schemes?

If Witten surrounds himself with an experienced staff, do you feel he'd be the right guy for the job like Dan Campbell was able to do in Detroit?