Does depth at wr in this year’s draft make Amari Cooper expendable?

[Silverz1972]

Would we end up signing Byron jones and letting Amari walk and draft wr?

 

[cowboyec]

I'd be ok if we signed both and STILL got a WR.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Would we end up signing Byron jones and letting Amari walk and draft wr?

NO!

 

[Tangle_Foot]

I seriously hope not, a first-round draft pick for a year-and-a-half rental, that's definitely a black eye on the front office if that happens.

 

[cowboy_ron]

Overpaying Me-Dak will make him expendable.

 

[ItzKelz]

 

[conner01]

No rookie will be comparable
But Cobb is getting older and the talent at some point will be too good to pass up
That said we can’t let cooper walk then use our first to replace him with all the defensive needs we have

 

[Corso]

Overpaying Me-Dak will make him expendable.

My poor friend... you have been so butt-hurt over business negotiations!
I'm glad you don't work for me.
Not an insult.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Overpaying Me-Dak will make him expendable.

Per Sportrac the Cowboys have nearly $74,000,000 in cap space.
Quit the hand wrining, the Cowboys can pay Dak whatever he wants and still pay Cooper and Jones, plus others. There are many players on the team who don't, and can't, demand huge salaries (NFL-wise, of course).

Jerry (or Stephen) learned their cap lessons several years ago, no team can pay everybody they want what the player demands, but the lower-echelon players aren't hard to replace.

Paying Dak isn't the problem with this team....

 

[StarBoyz83]

I dont think so

 

[mattjames2010]

He'd be expendable any year. He's not the next Jerry Rice.

 

[MCMetal69]

Per Sportrac the Cowboys have nearly $74,000,000 in cap space.
Quit the hand wrining, the Cowboys can pay Dak whatever he wants and still pay Cooper and Jones, plus others. There are many players on the team who don't, and can't, demand huge salaries (NFL-wise, of course).

Jerry (or Stephen) learned their cap lessons several years ago, no team can pay everybody they want what the player demands, but the lower-echelon players aren't hard to replace.

Paying Dak isn't the problem with this team....

That number would go up a lot more by getting rid of T Crawford's ridiculous contract...........................

 

[mattjames2010]

Per Sportrac the Cowboys have nearly $74,000,000 in cap space.
Quit the hand wrining, the Cowboys can pay Dak whatever he wants and still pay Cooper and Jones, plus others. There are many players on the team who don't, and can't, demand huge salaries (NFL-wise, of course).

Jerry (or Stephen) learned their cap lessons several years ago, no team can pay everybody they want what the player demands, but the lower-echelon players aren't hard to replace.

Paying Dak isn't the problem with this team....

Why do you guys always only ever focus on starters and not future depth? A good chunk of that $74 will be going to Dak. Heck, it's one of the main reasons we even have good cap space right now because Dak was on a rookie contract that already came cheap due to being a 4th rounder.

We can't justify paying all of them.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

To me, the dept at WR in the draft kind of makes Cooper expendable. So I'd tag him, draft his replacement and see if he or his potential replacement can be a true number one. Gallup is pulling his own weight and that makes me comfortable with testing the waters at our outside WR position. So Gallup and the new guy, Cooper and the new guy, or just keep all three.

 

[Ranched]

Absolutely not. Jones is walking. Coop is staying. Dallas has plenty of talent at WR. Dallas is drafting to help it's much needed D.

 

[Stash]

Would we end up signing Byron jones and letting Amari walk and draft wr?

So 2019 and 2020's 1st rounders with one WR to show for both of them?

And then overpaying Byron Jones to get us 0 interceptions?

Nightmare scenario.

 

[FaSho]

That would be consecutive first rounders used on WR. Who are we, the Lions?!?

 

[thunderpimp91]

I seriously hope not, a first-round draft pick for a year-and-a-half rental, that's definitely a black eye on the front office if that happens.

I'm not saying get rid of cooper, but this really shouldnt even factor into the decision. You already gave up the pick, dont compound the problem if there are better moves to make this football team better. The "well we've invested so we need to see this through" attitude is how you end up with a decade of jason garrett.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Per Sportrac the Cowboys have nearly $74,000,000 in cap space.
Quit the hand wrining, the Cowboys can pay Dak whatever he wants and still pay Cooper and Jones, plus others. There are many players on the team who don't, and can't, demand huge salaries (NFL-wise, of course).

Jerry (or Stephen) learned their cap lessons several years ago, no team can pay everybody they want what the player demands, but the lower-echelon players aren't hard to replace.

Paying Dak isn't the problem with this team....

This team has been trying to replace lower echelon players at DT, S, TE for years now. Often easier said than done.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

This team has been trying to replace lower echelon players at DT, S, TE for years now. Often easier said than done.

The problem is they are trying to replace ALL the DTs, S's and TE's with lower echelon players. They have paid big bucks to LB and DE. Nobody is saying they shouldn't have one top DT, S and/or TE, no team has superstars at every position, you have to bulk up your team with lower echelon players, the cap won't allow you to pay top dollar at every position. They have kept players like Church, Heath, Collins, T. Crawford (and paying him big bucks as well!), T. McClain, Nick Hayden and so forth. Has Dallas had one top notch DT in the last 10 years?

The Cowboys have loaded up on the o-line, etc. for years, with no SBs, time to try something different...