Twitter: Dallas Still Has $28.56M in Cap space

[Daillest88]

Its not about NOT affording Jones. Its a conscious decision that he simply wasn't worth the money he was asking.
Which was the right decision.

Only time will tell. Hopefully awuzie takes the next step.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Only time will tell. Hopefully awuzie takes the next step.

I see no way they don't take a CB with the first pick in the draft.

 

[Kwyn]

And they can probably create almost twice that much if they want to.

Right. Dak signing on its own could probably free up 10m.

 

[gimmesix]

Its not about NOT affording Jones. Its a conscious decision that he simply wasn't worth the money he was asking.
Which was the right decision.

Yes, but some don't understand that. They think that Dallas just couldn't afford to pay everyone, which is easy to see was not and has not been true. Cap manipulation is an art form that the Joneses finally learned to master while a lot of fans still are having PTSD from when they didn't know what they were doing and we really were in cap hell.

 

[Bowdown27]

Post draft trade is very possible this year IMO

I was thinking that seeing the cap space. Who would you think is worthy of a trade up and how high

 

[Ranching]

Cut Dak and bring back Romo! We can outbid CBS!!!!

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

These numbers are inaccurate and are likely due to several signings being delayed in becoming “official”. The Cowboys actually have just under $22 million in cap space.

Isn’t Crawford taking a pay cut? Might actually be accurate

 

[ksg811]

Isn’t Crawford taking a pay cut? Might actually be accurate

Nope, not as of yet at least. And these numbers are not accurate. "Official" offseason numbers are always delayed due to needing physicals, etc before becoming official. This is even more so the case this year.

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

Nope, not as of yet at least. And these numbers are not accurate. "Official" offseason numbers are always delayed due to needing physicals, etc before becoming official. This is even more so the case this year.

Actually you are right. First reported he was open to it, then reported they said something along the lines of he doesn’t need to.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

What will they do with it and still have enough to pay their draft class?

woohoo, lets waste on a couple of more aging almost over the hill players.....

 

[freemanjc19]

I think Rookies normally take up $10M-$15M cap space.
The last CBA agreement and present did away with crazy $$ rookie guarantees

Cap for Rookies is 7.2 Million.

 

[KingintheNorth]

Stephen wears $28.5M of cap space like a badge of honor.

"Look Daddy, I'm saving us money."

 

[ksg811]

Cap for Rookies is 7.2 Million.

And then accounting for the offseason rule of 51, it's only about $2.5 million.

 

[ultron]

Trade for Jamal Adams

This may be the logical thing to do with the 17th pick because there is speculation that CJ Henderson, Kinlaw, Brown, Lamb, Ruggs III will probably be drafted before we make our selection. If you can get arguably the best safety in football & you are prepared to pay him accordingly (this is the last year of his rookie deal), you gotta go all in and make the trade.

If I told you a month ago that we acquired Jamal Adams, HaHa Clinton Dix, Dontari Poe, Gerald McCoy, Greg the Leg, with LVE and Randy Gregory returning this offseason - would you consider that a success heading into the draft (with picks in the 2nd-7th rounds)?

I just don’t know if they want to pay Adams what he’ll be asking for (the most ever for a safety- I’m assuming)

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

We got 28 million in cap space WITH Dak's 31 million and Travis Fredericks on our payroll. That whole "Cap hell" from fans is just a excuse they use to pay Dak.

This isn't true.

 

[ultron]

They also have the ability to cut Crawford and free up another $8 million EZ.

 

[HungryLion]

Exactly. If we wanted to, we could enter the Clowney sweepstakes. And we certainly could bring in a Griffen or a Golden on a short term deal.

Exactly. Plus Frederick comes off the books next year entirely. That changes the modeling for cap space that they gave been operating under, or at least it
Should. They now have one all pro level player with an all pro level contract coming off the books. They need to use that money replace the spot with another high end player going forward.

 

[HungryLion]

This isn't true.

I mean the cowboys still aren’t in cap hell or anywhere close to it. Even if the 28 total space is off a bit.

 

[doomsday9084]

I'm confused.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

That doesn't look good since it doesn't include several signings. What is it missing?

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

This isn't true.

Here you go again........now what's not true?