Jerry/Stephen And Schotty's FA list

[Coogiguy03]

LET'S try to have some hope guys, let's sign someone other than these players the OP listed let's make some moves. It sucks that Jerry has already said we won't be doing much, how do you feel as a new coach hearing this????

 

[CWR]

- Williams is going to make more than Osa. No chance
- They won’t cut Diggs and admit they were wrong
- Murphy, like Williams is going to cash in big.
- I am ok with Rico at RB2 at a certain price. Harris doesn’t do much that Rico doesn’t already do.

I understand invest heavy in the trenches. But they have drafted plenty here.

OL - Smith, Guyton (1st round), Beebe (3rd), Richards, Waletzko, Thomas are all day 3 picks. Ball was a 4th but went to the Saints.

DL - Mazi (1st), Kneeland, Williams (2nd), Rogers (7th). Osa and Golston (3rd) are FAs but one likely returns.

They need these investments to start to pan out. They have proven you cannot just draft trenches and it changes anything.

This team bargain bin shops. Greenlaw? Maybe because he was injured. But teams will be interested in his services.

Higgins? You think Ol Cap boy is dropping $30+ million on a Wr2?

I agree on all, but Najee is a more reliable work horse. I like Rico, but with the exception of last years injuries have always been an issue. I think we could have a solid run game with the two of them, but i would also like a speed dimension.

 

[Bobhaze]

$75 million available with new contracts with Prescott, Lamb, and Parsons. Other wise Dallas is looking at a $2 M deficit as it all plays out here and now.

It is finally much smarter for Jerry to clear a sum up and use it this off season!


The delayed Lamb and Prescott’s extensions freed up $9.251 million and $10,516,867 of 2024 salary cap room respectively. The Cowboys could gain $12.3 million in 2025 cap space with this type of Parsons extension where he receives a $52.5 million signing bonus that’s prorated at $10.5 million annually from 2025 through 2029 and his $24.007 million option year salary is lowered to a $1.207 million 2025 base salary to make his 2025 cap number $11.707 million. Parsons would be getting a non-quarterback record signing bonus eclipsing Bosa’s $50 million, which is the current benchmark.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...-riley-micah-parsons-matt-eberflus-salary-cap

This info does not take into account what the new cap numbers will be. The league announced this week they expect an increase of somewhere between $26-28 million for 2025. And the Cowboys have a ton of options on how to restructure several contracts as well as release some players for cap savings.

In short, the Cowboys will have zero…nada, no excuses regarding the cap not allowing them to make moves. If JJ or SJ come out this spring with another “we can’t do anything because of the cap”, they are not only lying, they might as well also say, “We are cap incompetent.”

 

[rambo2]

So Jerry has said they are not going to do alot different in this years FA. BUT Stevie wonder boy said they are re-evaluating and will be making changes. So im hitting somewhere in the middle. This team is decimated on the DL, Needs another playmaker at WR and RB and we have 0 backup QB. So with all that said. Who are some mid to low level FA you would like to see brought on.

DT: (Draft 2 Somewhere)

• Byron Cowart another rotation DT has played for Eberfuse in IND / CHI 3m a season
  • https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3916922/byron-cowart
• Leki Fotu Played for our new DL coach 3m a season
  • https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4035666/leki-fotu

RB: (Draft 2)

• resign Dowdel OR Javonte Williams 5m a season

WR: (Draft 1 somewhere)

• you know its going to be DIGGS opposite Lamb Diggs 10m a season

QB:

• Resign Cooper 5m a season

Total Spent per year 26M for new starters NOT including Resigning our own guys like Goldston or anyone else.


What would you do?

Nick Bolton needs to be a priority.

 

[CCBoy]

This info does not take into account what the new cap numbers will be. The league announced this week they expect an increase of somewhere between $26-28 million for 2025. And the Cowboys have a ton of options on how to restructure several contracts as well as release some players for cap savings.

In short, the Cowboys will have zero…nada, no excuses regarding the cap not allowing them to make moves. If JJ or SJ come out this spring with another “we can’t do anything because of the cap”, they are not only lying, they might as well also say, “We are cap incompetent.”

The new numbers were included with what generated the new changes..recheck.

What you added was already addressed as to available money. Rebuilding or continued growth...(coughing)










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#Cowboys As of February 19, 2025, the Dallas Cowboys are approximately $2.47 million under the salary cap, with total cap liabilities of $298.55 million. Implementing these moves could potentially create an additional $96.4 million in cap space, bringing the Cowboys’ total available cap space to approximately $98.87 million. This would provide the flexibility needed to address roster needs and pursue free agents in the 2025 offseason.

 

[TexasBacon]

I'd consider signing Hollywood Brown and bringing Amari Cooper back on a 1 year deal. He'll be cheap and has good rapport with Dak. I think McCarthy was the primary driver behind letting him walk, so that's something feasible the Cowboys would actually do. Spend the rest of the $ and capital in the trenches on both sides. Injuries are going to kill us. Not having Diggs and Overshown is huge, especially Overshown.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I'd consider signing Hollywood Brown and bringing Amari Cooper back on a 1 year deal. I think McCarthy was the primary driver behind letting him walk

Amari Cooper???

And McCarthy didn't have anything to do with Cooper getting traded (not walk).

 

[blueblood70]

- Williams is going to make more than Osa. No chance
- They won’t cut Diggs and admit they were wrong
- Murphy, like Williams is going to cash in big.
- I am ok with Rico at RB2 at a certain price. Harris doesn’t do much that Rico doesn’t already do.

I understand invest heavy in the trenches. But they have drafted plenty here.

OL - Smith, Guyton (1st round), Beebe (3rd), Richards, Waletzko, Thomas are all day 3 picks. Ball was a 4th but went to the Saints.

DL - Mazi (1st), Kneeland, Williams (2nd), Rogers (7th). Osa and Golston (3rd) are FAs but one likely returns.

They need these investments to start to pan out. They have proven you cannot just draft trenches and it changes anything.

This team bargain bin shops. Greenlaw? Maybe because he was injured. But teams will be interested in his services.

Higgins? You think Ol Cap boy is dropping $30+ million on a Wr2?

Believe the proper responses most teams are not paying the same position that kind of money you can't have two that high a priced players at the same position that's most teams in the NFL do not do that why do you think jamar chasing T Higgins haven't been signed guys like Higgins the only way he's gonna get his money is to go to a team that needs a number one then it would make sense you usually fill in with a young wide receiver group behind your number one that's getting high money like they did in Minnesota the Cowboys need to pick in the top three rounds a dynamic wide receiver one that can play outside but with speed you know someone like A.J. Brown with speed I'll take it Dez Bryant type they need something to compliment lamb and it's not a $30 million number 2 it's just not very cat friendly for any team to do it and it's very rare you don't usually see a team have two defensive ends both making 30 plus it just doesn't happen sure you can probably point out one instance but typically it doesn't happen... That's why there's a salary cap and a roster limit it does make it difficult to have that kind of money tied up in the same position..

Before you blame Jones why don't we just look at the rest of the NFL in the team he's on right now I mean why is it that Chase/ Higgins are still not signed. I mean isn't this one of those things where you say it's just Jerry should have got ahead of it you got to pay your players early to get the best deal and they got two of them sitting there with their hands out at the same time.

So either bring back Brandon cooks or someone that's a little bit better as a #2A veteran you know like people have mentioned who knows there's a lot of them out there that you can pay 10 to 15,000,000 and just get them on the opposite side and draft one in the top three rounds and here we go that's the best way to handle it I know fans think you could just gobble up every free agent out there that's just not the reality...

 

[jazzcat22]

I saw Dallas' free agent list that an employee leaked on the deep dark web. Hope I don't get into any trouble showing this.

Where is that pic of Jerry's scribbling on a legal pad.

 

[blueblood70]

Amari Cooper???

And McCarthy didn't have anything to do with Cooper getting traded (not walk).

No, it might not have been the primary, but he was part of it the head coach didn't like the practice habits of his $22 million wide receiver, who rather have been in the locker room playing chess, and missed a lot of practices allegedly because he was hurt the foot thing PF, or because of COVID.. there was a lot of stories out there but the main reason he was trading because he was making $22 million and no longer fit as the number one and they didn't see a good reason to pay a number $22M especially one that was very inconsistent if you want to see inconsistencies go look what he did this year he didn't do anything this year he had his worst year as a pro when he's not motivated, he doesn't play very well, apparently he didn't like playing in Cleveland but when he got the Buffalo who was starved for a great #1 wide receiver he disappeared he was a flat out ghost..

People still complained about this trade as if it was the worst ever in the NFL to only get a fifth but they keep forgetting the details of this story,

other teams offered a better draft pick but they wouldn't pay his entire salary, this was the only team that was willing to take on his full salary and 5 was all they would offer..​

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you do realize around the NFL we see guys like DeAndre Hopkins flat out cut, they don't even get a 5th 6th or 7th for him because it made more sense to cut him than to trade him or keep him this is happening around the league more often than you want to see because you want to blame Jerry for bad trades,​

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but there's a rumor now that deebo Samuels is going to be cut, because it would cost too much to trade him as far as they're getting more savings by cutting him.​

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I believe he has to be cut it's not a June first thing I believe it's a March new league year thing to avoid guaranteed bonus escalator, ,and they're just going to let him go I mean they're not even getting the 5th so you know why because he makes too much money and he's not producing as well as he used to..​

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this is what happened with Amari Cooper it's flat out that simple and yet it's still a narrative around here that Jerry got robbed he doesn't know how to get value for trade and this is not true in this instance there was a good reason why they moved on from him for only a fifth it was very clear and yet everyone around here made a big deal out of it but we see guys like Hopkins and Samuels just get caught they don't get anything for him except cap savings...​

 

[CowboyFrog]

I'd consider signing Hollywood Brown and bringing Amari Cooper back on a 1 year deal. He'll be cheap and has good rapport with Dak. I think McCarthy was the primary driver behind letting him walk, so that's something feasible the Cowboys would actually do. Spend the rest of the $ and capital in the trenches on both sides. Injuries are going to kill us. Not having Diggs and Overshown is huge, especially Overshown.

Amari made the one guy in this franchise mad that gets you shipped to Cleveland, and that aint McCarthy....

 

[Chuck 54]

Bring back Kendrick’s and Lewis if possible. Both are still playing at a high level. So unless you can upgrade, bring them back.
Retool the DT position in FA and the draft. I’m not bringing Osa back unless it’s a reasonable deal.

Draft RB and WR early; draft depth and competition at edge, CB, and OG 3-7.

 

[Chuck 54]

Sticker shock season is about to start. I expect Rico to garner something between $6-8 million. We must always remember that the market is what dictates the cost of signing players. It’s never what we think a player is worth.

I always come back to how much we paid Trey Lance last year - a $5.1 million total cap hit - to be our emergency QB most weeks. Yikes. The egirls structured Saquon’s contract last year to be a $3.8 mil cap hit. They will will pay a lot more this next year but unfortunately our FO has not been very good at managing cap hits.

Personally, I’ll be surprised if Rico garners much interest by anyone unless it’s a team that wants a cheap backup prior to the draft to protect themselves. Rico is a decent RB, but he is neither a creator nor a big play threat. I think fans overvalue him. It’s time to give Malik Davis a chance as a depth/rotational piece on the active roster. Draft a RB; maybe sign a FA cheaply. We need RBs who can run, receive, and make plays, not just get what’s blocked for them. Rico had a decent year for a terrible team, but he is the very definition of a JAG.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

Where is that pic of Jerry's scribbling on a legal pad.

They took away sharp objects from JJ

 

[Gambit]

I like the aggressive thinking you make. Unfortunately I think several of those FAs are going to garner much higher market deals than you have listed. The cap is going up by as much as $25-28 million which will certainly drive up the costs for free agents.

Take Rico Dowdle for example. He will definitely get more than $5 mil a season. It will be more like $6-8 mil. Spotrac projects a RB like Rico’s market value to be a minimum of $6.2 million. And that projection was done before Roger Goodell announced yesterday the cap was going up.

I’m not saying this means the Cowboys won’t try to get Rico and other FAs you have listed but it will almost certainly require a higher price tag. Whether our FO is willing to spend remains to be seen.

I wonder if the Draft will alter market on RBs this year. At one point OTC had Rico playing at a 9 Mil a year evaluation. I'm not paying him that.

 

[tomokawan]

Pirate Milton Williams from the EAGLES
Cut diggs he's a no tackling punk
Get Byron Murphy
Resign Rico get Harris from Pittsburgh
Draft a quarterback with the first pick use the rest on offensive and defensive line.
And a running back

I'm not against trading Micah for draft picks along with any combination of Dre greenlaw or t Higgins

Glade you are not GM. Draft a QB with first pick?? LOL and trading Micah.

 

[Teague31]

It’s cute that folks think they have a list. They will do what they always do. Get on the yacht for the first few weeks of free agency and then circle back and pick up the scraps no other team wanted

 

[cmoney23]

BUT Stevie wonder boy said they are re-evaluating and will be making changes.

Stephen Jones claimed the 'Dallas Cowboys were going to evaluate their free agency approach and change some things if they needed to.'

This is corporate talk for "we aren't changing a thing... we looked at it and we're fine"

 

[Gambit]

So Jerry has said they are not going to do alot different in this years FA. BUT Stevie wonder boy said they are re-evaluating and will be making changes. So im hitting somewhere in the middle. This team is decimated on the DL, Needs another playmaker at WR and RB and we have 0 backup QB. So with all that said. Who are some mid to low level FA you would like to see brought on.

DT: (Draft 2 Somewhere)

• Byron Cowart another rotation DT has played for Eberfuse in IND / CHI 3m a season
  • https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3916922/byron-cowart
• Leki Fotu Played for our new DL coach 3m a season
  • https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4035666/leki-fotu

RB: (Draft 2)

• resign Dowdel OR Javonte Williams 5m a season

WR: (Draft 1 somewhere)

• you know its going to be DIGGS opposite Lamb Diggs 10m a season

QB:

• Resign Cooper 5m a season

Total Spent per year 26M for new starters NOT including Resigning our own guys like Goldston or anyone else.


What would you do?

May I ask where you're getting your figures from?

We are in tough spot in terms of roster construction and team building. With injuries, long term injuries at key Defensive spots the pressure of adding players is just heavier.

Couple that with we have had no long term plan as it relates to identity on either side of the ball. Teams like the Steelers and Ravens enter each off season with a fairly straight forward plan because their system and identity is set in stone.

BobHaze had suggested a 2 year plan of adding one high quality FA on each side of ball each season coupled with draft and targeted mid to low level guys. I'm not sure we can approach it that way.

Id spend on Defense this year in FA. Bring in a good 1T another 3T LB and CB. Still draft these as well as board allows, especially on DL. DL typically is the slowest position to develop, just so much those guys have to learn in NFL game. Makes sense to attack biggest area of need with vested vets.

We can draft the RB and sign an UDFA RB, draft a #2 WR. Draft OL late and develop. We must draft CB too. So that leaves WR CB as 2 top 1st 3 round needs. Probably try to get 5th year option at WR.

This draft is heavy at DL, particular 1T, RB, and Guards (and not terrific guards just quality) and to an extent Edge players. Not deep at CB, Safety, WR, OT. Gotta get those in 1st 3 rounds. I love Parsons and think he's a guy you build your Defense around. Minus trading him to Giants to take Carter you're not finding his replacement. Having said that, if a Hershel Walker type trade comes up, you take it. Problem is Garrett is asking to be traded too.

What will Dallas do? Opposite spend on Offense, it sells tickets. Can't blame them in a time where we likely will be middle of road team sign the guys who will sell tickets. But Id fix D first.

 

[CowboyFanInLexKy]

Yes we need skill players.... But more importantly, if the Superbowl didn't show you anything, we need an upgrade on both lines. And I mean badly.. If the OL gets upgraded, you can stay with the RB(s) who are on the team already. You'll see a huge difference in their productivity. If you upgrade the DL, the opposing RB's and TE's will be stopped because the secondary doesn't have to worry about the other teams' OL blocking our secondary...