compensatory picks?

[Verdict]

Will Dallas be getting any compensatory picks this year, and if so ....how many and where?

[Duane]

Will Dallas be getting any compensatory picks this year, and if so ....how many and where?
I doubt it, we signed too many free agents last year.

[AdamJT13]

We didn't lose a single free agent who qualified, so we won't be getting any comp picks this year.

[Anguillidae]

We didn't lose a single free agent who qualified, so we won't be getting any comp picks this year.
Will you be projecting compensatory picks this year, too?

[bfelt]

Wouldn't Testaverde qualify? We lost him to unrestricted free agency, he was a former first round pick, and he started 4 games for the Jets. I realize that the signings of Henry, Rivera, and Ferguson more than make up for Vinny, but I'm curious.

[AdamJT13]

Will you be projecting compensatory picks this year, too?

Yes, I will.

[AdamJT13]

Wouldn't Testaverde qualify? We lost him to unrestricted free agency, he was a former first round pick, and he started 4 games for the Jets. I realize that the signings of Henry, Rivera, and Ferguson more than make up for Vinny, but I'm curious.

Testaverde didn't sign anywhere until after the season started. He would have had to have signed during the FA period, at least. (And we would have had to have given him a June 1 tender, if he signed after June 1.)

[AbeBeta]

Not getting any compensatory picks reflects somewhat on our horrible drafting.

[CoCo]

Not getting any compensatory picks reflects somewhat on our horrible drafting.

From when? Last year? 5 years ago? Every year?

Sorry, perhaps your comment is innocent enough. But I am getting tired of far-reaching Cowboy draft bashing.

You'll get no argument from me about the post-Jimmy pre-Bill draft record. Most of those drafts were poor. Some downright putrid.

And while I don't have data to back this up (who does?) I seriously doubt that Dallas draft record under Parcells is collectively below average even with the Jacob Rogers busts and Al Johnson underachieving as examples.

Just trying to keep it real IMO. :D

[montgod]

I guess Coakley or that bum the Boys signed from the Chargers last year (DE - forgot his name) wouldn't qualify huh? :(

[BigDFan5]

I guess Coakley or that bum the Boys signed from the Chargers last year (DE - forgot his name) wouldn't qualify huh? :(


both were cut not lost as FA

[AbeBeta]

From when? Last year? 5 years ago? Every year?

Sorry, perhaps your comment is innocent enough. But I am getting tired of far-reaching Cowboy draft bashing.


You don't understand where these picks come from do you? This isn't some random far-reaching comment -- (and for the record I never make "inoccent" comments) -- it is a statement of cause and effect.

A draft 5 years ago would have involved many players who became UFAs last year. If any of them were on our roster at the end of the '04 season -- i.e., were good enough to be in the league for 4 years and i.e. not cut -- AND they signed elsewhere that would count in the equation for our compensatory picks -- Losing your own drafted players reflects a major part of the pick calculations in the league (or more precisely, most of the players who qualify their ex-teams for those picks were drafted by that team).

[AbeBeta]

I guess Coakley or that bum the Boys signed from the Chargers last year (DE - forgot his name) wouldn't qualify huh? :(

we cut them both so neither would apply. neither does matt lehr as we cut him before the end of the season

[AdamJT13]

Not getting any compensatory picks reflects somewhat on our horrible drafting.

Either that, or our good cap management that allows us to sign more quality players than we lose (or keep our own good players).

Or both.

[CactusCowboy]

The picks were awarded already I believe and I remember the Boys had none.

[AbeBeta]

Either that, or our good cap management that allows us to sign more quality players than we lose (or keep our own good players).

Or both.

of course, the only draft picks we have re-signed to considerable contracts since 1999 -- leaving out guys like Mario Edwards and Michael Myers who came back after the market didn't pan out for them-- were Nguyen, Ellis, and Adams. In this case it really isn't about good cap management so much. we aren't talking about needing to manage the cap in order to dole out new deals to 3 or 4 guys from a draft class.

[hipfake08]

Either that, or our good cap management that allows us to sign more quality players than we lose (or keep our own good players).

Or both.

Are we shifting to the Philly style of management.

Minus the keep 20 back just in case.

[RCowboyFan]

The picks were awarded already I believe and I remember the Boys had none.

No, they don't do it this early. I think they do that somewhere in Feb-March time fram I think. AdamJT would probably know the timings.

[AbeBeta]

Irregardless (yes I know that isn't a word) -- we aren't getting any.

[RCowboyFan]

Irregardless (yes I know that isn't a word) -- we aren't getting any.

Much to my chagrin, I believe that has been added to list of words couple of years ago :D

[vicjagger]

Much to my chagrin, I believe that has been added to list of words couple of years ago :D

A little too illogical, eh?

[Roysman31]

dont we get something for pete hunter

[AbeBeta]

dont we get something for pete hunter

we traded him. I think it is a 6th in 2007.

amazing that we got anything