Zeke is by a mile. Name 10 guys better than BJ and Jaylon at their respective positions....case closed
Sorry, but that opening comment is a head scratcher. "Shouldn't even be considered"??? 3 Huge players for us last year and reasons we won the division. You don't win in the NFL by losing your best players and there is no guarantee you replace your best players in the draft and certainly not when you don't have a first round pick. What is your plan for the $100M we are under the cap for next year? Save it? Me, I'm trying to win a championship and resigning D Law to that HUGE contract would be asinine if you aren't even considering keeping Jones and Smith after this year (Zeke we have more time) because then you are kind of starting over. My goal is to keep as many of our top players as possible and I think we only lose one or two of them at most. I'm letting guys like Collins, Crawford, etc go first.
First off Smith's instincts are nowhere near as poor as Bradie James. I agree that they aren't what I expected after seeing him in College and do cost us from time to time but he makes up for it with his blazing speed at times and his strengths in other areas. There are no perfect players in the NFL. That play at the goal line where he beat Watson to the angle wasn't just a big play, it was a play that maybe one or two other ILBs in the NFL could have made. I also read the other day where he was one of the highest ranked pass rushing ILB and his coverage last year was much better and I think he keeps improving there too. So good with the bad, no?
Totally agree. Can you imagine where this team is if we let go of Zeke, Jaylon and BJ...How did we fair without Zeke a couple of years ago?
Last year both were top 5. We will find out this year if they can do it again. Jaylon with only his second healthy year and Jones with his second year back at CB and in a new system and hopefully the hip surgery was the reason for the decline at the end of last year. A CB with a hip problem is about as bad as it gets, no? Guy was over the top fantastic for most of last year. I'm not a PFF guy as any more than a general guide but he was the top CB in the NFL for most of the year according to their ranking system. It was mind boggling how well he played. He could regress a little and still be worth a huge contract.
Jaylon is closer to a young Junior Seau than a young Bradie James
Yep. I like Dak and want to resign him, he is a very good young player. But I can name 10 QB's that are without question better just off the top of my head. The three guys Earl named are top 5 guys or better at their positions. To me, they are just as big a priority
Like I said, rare athleticism for a LB, but not the greatest football instincts.
I just explained why they shouldn't be considered. Zeke would have had 400 touches last year if he played all 16. He's gonna be near 400 touches again this year. No reason to pay an RB that's gonna have his amount of wear and tear big money. Not sold on Byron Jones and Smith. If you want to win a championship, you need to be willing to learn how to let go of players like the Pats do and replace them.
If you can name 10 unequivocally better, then you'd be 100% wrong. Dak was statistically the 6th most accurate QB last year and has been top 10 in accuracy for 3 straight seasons, but yeah, 10 QBs are better.
Can you imagine where this team would be if we lost Romo, DeMarco Murray, DeMarcus Ware, Dez Bryant, Jason Witten, or Sean Lee? Oh yeah, they won a playoff game without them.
Dak has been top 10 at QB for three straight years in terms of accuracy, was rookie of the year, has led Dallas to two division titles in three years, but you can easily name 10 QBs better than him, but BJ and Jaylon have one great season, and they are without question top 10 at their positions? Your logic is seriously flawed. You are probably one of those kneejerk people that think Pat Mahomes is unquestionably better than Dak after one year starting when he had a way better offensive coordinator in a much more QB friendly offense and way better weapons around him.
The fact that you would argue Dak vs Mahomes speaks to how biased you are towards Dak. Who is more delusional Earl, the guy who says he would cut Dak off at $28 million or the guy comparing him to Mahomes
There's no bias. I just don't overreact to one season like you people do. Even though there is plenty of data that suggests Dak is a top 10 QB, you still think 10 are better than him, yet I'm the one that's biased.
Again, I like Dak, saying Tony Romo wasn't as good as Tom Brady isn't bashing, it's being honest.
Most terrible QB evaluation list and explanation I've ever seen posted.
I'm not here to troll!
On the contrary, I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass....
