Twitter: Cowboys Signing Aldon Smith to 1-yr/$4M Deal (must be reinstated first)

[beware_d-ware]

Nooooo way.

 

[Verdict]

So the anti-Dezzers were saying Dez was too old, but now they are ecstatic about the 30+ year olds McCarthy has been bringing in lately?

The problem isn’t Dez’ age. He just can’t play a lick.

 

[MikeB80]

You do realize there’s 31 other teams to support. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Nah I'm done with the league essentially, someday i may take an interest in rooting for a team again but for now I just want to watch stephen and jerry fail miserably.

 

[UpNorth]

So protesting police brutality is a hard line no

But beating women and having a super villian-esque rap sheet is fine

This team is so gross sometimes

 

[Bobhaze]

After this. No one should have a problem giving Dez another shot.

I have a problem with both. Dez isn’t a bad dude but he’s finished. ASmith? I can deal with second chances alcohol or drug problems- but not domestic violence. Besides this is his 4th chance. This FO never ceases to amaze me at the circus they foster.

 

[Kaiser]

The problem with this guy isn’t talent. It’s his off field stuff. I’m all for second chances but I think this is his 4th- two with SF and one with the raiders. And his last arrest was domestic violence. I have a much bigger problem with that than alcohol or drug problems. This looks like a Jerry move.

Same here but they can cut him tomorrow if he becomes an issue. I haven't read the details of the DV in his past but I'm assuming it was part and parcel of his substance abuse problems. Dallas hasn't signed any real thugs, but they have stuck with guys like Randy Gregory that tried to work through it.

And Rolondo McClain kept his act together and played well for one year, then was OK for another year. When he was too much trouble he was gone and I'm sure that will be the case with Smith if they structured his contract this way.

 

[quickccc]

Wasting money on a player who hasn’t played in years. I like the other FA moves they made, but I don’t like this one. There are still some other players left in free agency that could help us.

its not set in stone yet.
He still has to be reinstated by Goodell and the NFL.

if reinstated, it's only a waste if Alden eventually makes it a waste.. with a setback, If he acts up and suffers a serious distraughting setback,. ..so be it.
Its basically minimal wage, so how it is a waste of money ?
Doesnt cost us high dollars, doesnt shake the cap structure at all. .doesnt cost us draft picks at all. .Ultimate low risk/high reward type manuever.

But yes, it does depend if Alden is totally over the knuckle head approach and clean slated. But it has been 2015, since he's played big part in the NFL
ironically that was same year we drafted Gregory.

if it was not Jay Glazer or Ian Rapport tweet, i would have thought it was april fool joke put up.

 

[eromeopolk]

No April fools here. Wow.

Unreliable. If the NFL does not completely changes its stance on Mary Jane. Aldon Smith was Randy Gregory before Gregory.

I am just tired of unreliable or unavailable players on defense.

The Cowboys are officially the 1970's Raiders with an idiot as Owner and GM.

 

[Bobhaze]

You do realize there’s 31 other teams to support. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Come on man. Don’t play opinion police. You can be a huge fan of this team and have a different opinion.

 

[Kaiser]

The problem with this guy isn’t talent. It’s his off field stuff. I’m all for second chances but I think this is his 4th- two with SF and one with the raiders. And his last arrest was domestic violence. I have a much bigger problem with that than alcohol or drug problems. This looks like a Jerry move.

I'm guess the "two bottles of tequila" here were a big part of the problem:

The SFPD had said Smith’s fiancee called 911 Saturday evening, claiming that he “threw her around the room,” bit her on the wrists and drank two bottles of tequila. She told police that he climbed out of a window and fled before officers arrived, and she was said to have suffered “non-life-threatening injuries.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...elf-into-police-on-domestic-violence-charges/

 

[Silverstar]

Goodell can't block Gregory AND Smith from playing with the Cowboys this year so they just double down by making this move.

 

[KingintheNorth]

I like it.

Low risk/high reward.

Now, stop sitting on cap room, go sign a veteran CB and a slot WR candidate, and go onto this draft without any obvious, glaring needs.

 

[speedkilz88]

The problem with this guy isn’t talent. It’s his off field stuff. I’m all for second chances but I think this is his 4th- two with SF and one with the raiders. And his last arrest was domestic violence. I have a much bigger problem with that than alcohol or drug problems. This looks like a Jerry move.

Except it's a Jim Tomsula move.

 

[Wood]

All I can say is Smith must have looked good in his private workout to get chance at $4 mill contract after being out of football 5 years. Dallas is really only on hook for 2 million as rest is incentives. If Gregory & Smith truly have healed themselves and are all about football that could be interesting tandem to watch this year. I am optimistic one of them puts up good sack numbers.

 

[quickccc]

* He reunites with Jim Tomsula, his former position coach with the 49ers

This had to be was easily one of the leading keys to this signing- Tomsula past familiarity workings with Alden.

 

[gimmesix]

Same here but they can cut him tomorrow if he becomes an issue. I haven't read the details of the DV in his past but I'm assuming it was part and parcel of his substance abuse problems. Dallas hasn't signed any real thugs, but they have stuck with guys like Randy Gregory that tried to work through it.

And Rolondo McClain kept his act together and played well for one year, then was OK for another year. When he was too much trouble he was gone and I'm sure that will be the case with Smith if they structured his contract this way.

I may be a sucker, but I do believe people can turn their lives around. I don't have a single problem with the team giving someone the chance to do that as long as the risk to the team isn't bad. In this case, there isn't much of one at all.

If some of the same problems Smith had surface, then he's likely gone for good. If he really is changed, then I'm glad he's getting a chance to show it.

 

[Bobhaze]

Same here but they can cut him tomorrow if he becomes an issue. I haven't read the details of the DV in his past but I'm assuming it was part and parcel of his substance abuse problems. Dallas hasn't signed any real thugs, but they have stuck with guys like Randy Gregory that tried to work through it.

And Rolondo McClain kept his act together and played well for one year, then was OK for another year. When he was too much trouble he was gone and I'm sure that will be the case with Smith if they structured his contract this way.

I have no problem with Gregory’s being kept. He’s mainly struggled with bi-polar depression and uses weed to treat it although that’s not altogether the best way to retreat it either. But Gregory isn’t a DV guy like Smith.

I have zero tolerance for men who beat women- whether drugs or alcohol were involved or not. If a tape existed of Smith beating that woman in 2018 this transaction would never happen.

 

[speedkilz88]

All I can say is Smith must have looked good in his private workout to get chance at $4 mill contract after being out of football 5 years. Dallas is really only on hook for 2 million as rest is incentives. If Gregory & Smith truly have healed themselves and are all about football that could be interesting tandem to watch this year. I am optimistic one of them puts up good sack numbers.

Your second statement pretty much wipes out your first statement. 2 million is barely over vet minimum. He only sees the incentives if he balls out and then he would be worth every penny.

 

[Bobhaze]

Except it's a Jim Tomsula move.

Doesn’t make it a good one.

 

[speedkilz88]

Doesn’t make it a good one.

As if you would know.