Yea. Can't root against him.
Totally agree when it comes to this year. To me the issue shouldn't be picking which we can afford between Dak, Cooper, Jones, Collins, etc. The issue is are those particular players worth signing over other options, so it's between Dak and another QB; Cooper and Jones and other top players; Quinn and another pass rusher; Collins and another DT, Cobb and another receiving option. Down the road money may get tighter but this year we can sign anyone we want. I'd be fine with them going in a different direction and let's say signing a Clowney type and another player and letting Cooper/Jones/Quinn, whoever go. BUT, they need to use those $'s to improve the team in some way. Stars win Football games. As long as they have a plan I'm good with it, but I don't want to hear we had to let Cooper or Jones go because of the cap and NOT having a corresponding big $ FA brought in.
It's crazy how much people focus on the interceptions as if it is the most important thing. Give me a guy that covers, give up very few completions and doesn't get beat deep over a pretty good CB that picks off a couple of passes a year but gives up way more receptions any day of the week. Often times the difference between an Interception and a incomplete is 20 yards of field position (int vs punt). I'm fine with them letting Jones go because he will get big $'s, but if they do, they need to sign another CB. It's questionable if any of our guys other than Jones are even starting caliber at this point and it will be questionable for a draft pick too regardless of how people talk about draft picks filling holes day 1. You just can't go into a season with Lewis/Awuzie/Brown (also a FA) and a draft pick or two (even if early picks) and expect to not have big problems and especially when you don't have good safety play to act as a crutch. I'd love to see us bring back Quinn, add another pass rusher and also a CB (a good CB) and think that would be better than giving Jones $15M or so per. Lawrence needs other pass rushers around him or he will continue to be neutralized by blocking schemes. We may find that with a better pass rush and scheme that our CBs are better than we thought. Draft a CB early too and add an aggressive scheme and I think that would be a great start to turning this defense around. I'm worried Jaylon will just not ever be the player he was two years ago, but think last year's issue with LVE was health related (or at least I'm hoping)
The NFL moved the last day to vote on the CBA to the 14th. This is big for the Cowboys, as they can apply the franchise tag to Dak and Transition to Amari instead of one or the other
A big benefit to tagging Cooper is we get another season to see if Gallup looks like he can be a #1 or not (I think he may be). Tagging Cooper and drafting a WR early if anyone we love is sitting there sets us up nicely for the future. I like Cobb a lot and always have, but in this scenario I let him go and if you hit on the draft pick and Gallup keeps improving then next year I let Cooper go too. I think tagging Cooper instead of handing him a huge deal also allows us to sign a big FA on defense too and that is a better way to sure up the defense than a draft pick that may not contribute early, if ever. Could be one of our FAs or a FA from another team but if we don't give a huge LT deal to Cooper I think we use that $ on defense.
I'd love it if we were able to get Michael Pittman's boy (same name). To me he looks effortless on the field. His game compares to a Mike Evans.
Austin is a waste of money time to move on.
I think tagging cooper is a good idea. He may be more motivated. His performance against the Eagles in the win or go home game was terrible.
Gallop and the others, really need to work on not dropping the ball. Too many drops last year. They had "Dez" hands.
