I agree we needed to address the safety position in FA, but not we with the deal ET got.
I wanted ET badly, but not at that price or really not even close to it. I'm glad we passed if matching that contract was needed to get him.
Exactly. It didn't have to be Earl, but sign someone. Anyone. It's like this team and the idiot writers that follow it see a different Jeff Heath than...ANYONE else, anywhere. He just cannot be starting for an NFL team. It amazes me when I read some of the writers defend him. I think God these guys are idiots and Broaddus is the biggest offender...
That is one of the problems with the Cowboys IMO. We always seem to overvalue our own. I'm not saying we should have zero loyalty or that we should have signed ET after seeing his contract but let's use him as an example. Heath has a $3M cap hit. Witten is getting somewhere between $2M and $5M (still unclear). We kept Hurns for like $6M. So, obviously those are one year deals and Earl would have taken at least 3, but who are we better off with Earl or those 3? Still need more, throw in Lee or Crawford or someone else too. The point is you need to be willing to tell your guys good bye and bring in new guys and Jerry gets too buddy buddy with everyone to do this. I love Dak, but if you told me I could sign Mahomes (obviously not happening) for the same money I don't even consider not cutting him to do it. I root for the uniform not the name on the back of it
Yes, but they have known they had to sign DLaw since last year when they tagged him. Why not come in and hammer out a deal when they met a couple of weeks back? If the plan was to stick to a low number and force him to sign the tag..after he probably holds out till the day before week 1..why didn't they just trade him...because if that happens, this guy is gonna walk next year when he hits FA, I guarantee it
That's 100% right. We pass on Earl Thomas for $13 million per, are in a standoff with DLaw, but can commit up to nearly $30 million in cap space(after incentives) to Witten, Lee, Hurns, Heath and Crawford? How about cutting those guys, sign the studs, and draft accordingly. On the Dak deal, that's exactly what I am saying too. We are totally bidding against ourselves when Jerry is babbling about not trading him for two #1's and him being a Franchise guy. We may be stupid enough to give him $30 million, but market should have been set with the Foles signing. Foles signs for $22 million in Jax, and by all accounts no one else was even close to that number. So Dak is worth $30 million? Put it this way, if we had signed Foles for $22 million to QB this team, and Jax had signed Dak $30 million, who got the better end of that stick? They are about the same guy
I would argue that a good rookie class would give us more than the 5 guys we are paying $30 million, and at a lot less cost. I do agree about trading Dak, Zeke or anyone else. They were great bargains on rookie deals, diminishing returns at 8 figures
Cowboys need to get the Dlaw situation solved. He earned his money. We need him or QBs are going to pick apart the secondary. I think Armstrong will be better than Taco which is sad.
I really like Dak,but I could see the cowboys franchising him. The same with zeke. RB have short careers. I just remember how the offense did in the second giants game without zeke. I do believe games are won by having a good QB and investing heavily in the trenches.
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