Why do we suck so bad in free agency?

[TheMarathonContinues]

Safety was a flop and so was Poe. I liked McCoy, but he got hurt. McCoy was the biggest FA pickup and it got washed by injury. Not sure that has anything to do with being bad in FA. Poorly managing FA to me is spending huge money on bad contracts that dont work out.

And lets not forget that Aldon Smith was a success. They resigned Gregory and that worked out real nice.

It does get tiring that they never sign anyone of consequence, no doubt.

They also spent 32 of their free agency money on Dak.....had they signed him to a long term deal that would've been much more less.

 

[fivetwos]

this Cowboys team goes more through son Stephen Jones and Wil McClay (although he's not even on Cowboys web site) ..than it is Jerry nowadays. Jerry is becoming more the figure head image
than ever as in past years. But many want to keep all fingers at him only. .....Go figure.

He hires the crappy coaches and refuses to fix the way out of line chain of command he created.

My finger points to him and only him.

If Dallas was ever in the upcoming game he would be on every show that existed taking all the credit.

So again....finger at him

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

One reason we haven’t had success in free agency is we go after low to mid tier free agents who are either no good or washed up. The best chance of hitting on a free agent is going after a top-tier free agent who’s playing at the top of their game. Problem is they get a lot of guaranteed money and some choose to shut it down once they get paid. A lot of these players play for big contracts.

Yeah but what team is letting a top tier guy go? Free agency for the most part is full of low to mid tier guys.....Just look at free agency this year? Dak, Chido and Woods made a top 50 free agent list I saw.

 

[kskboys]

THat's not entirely true. Its not "easy" to hit on RB, OG and LB...teams miss on them every year....

The huge majority of misses had/have quite obvious warning signs that teams for some reason ignore.

 

[CowboyRoy]

They also spent 32 of their free agency money on Dak.....had they signed him to a long term deal that would've been much more less.

True. Personally I would like to see them make a splash. But Dallas had something like 20-25 million that they never spent last year. It carries over to THIS years cap savings. So its not like they didnt have any money.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

The huge majority of misses had/have quite obvious warning signs that teams for some reason ignore.

That's true.

 

[kskboys]

Yeah but what team is letting a top tier guy go? Free agency for the most part is full of low to mid tier guys.....Just look at free agency this year? Dak, Chido and Woods made a top 50 free agent list I saw.

And a lot of the top tier guys command such a huge salary that they're not worth it.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

True. Personally I would like to see them make a splash. But Dallas had something like 20-25 million that they never spent last year. It carries over to THIS years cap savings. So its not like they didnt have any money.

They had money...but I always felt like they were doing that to prepare for a potential low salary cap....not sure though.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

And a lot of the top tier guys command such a huge salary that they're not worth it.

Yep and there's that....if you ask me the best moves they made was trading late round picks for veterans like Quinn and Michael Bennett. That's how I'd use my salary cap personally. I thought they had it right.

 

[CowboyRoy]

They had money...but I always felt like they were doing that to prepare for a potential low salary cap....not sure though.

I actually think the Cowboys do a great job now with the cap. They just do stupid things like resign a RB for 15 million.

 

[jblaze2004]

Drafting is all fine and dandy, we don’t even do that well....

But we are flat out terrible in free agency...get cheap scrubs of whom many don’t even make the team or get cut after a few games

We resorted to shopping in the bargain bin and over paying for our own guys.

 

[kskboys]

That's true.

There are few, Trent Richardson for example, where all the signs point toward success but it doesn't happen. Oddly, the best I can figure out is that he was simply too wide. Big RB's must have an ability to "get skinny" to get through the holes. No RB is going to make a living for long plowing people over.

 

[cern]

we use free agency for stop gap measures to establish a path to our drafting. it hasn't worked too well. on occasion, we need to make a splash in free agency, not just putty for the leaks in the dike. i couldn't help but notice the number of coverage sacks the chiefs put on buffalo. allen had nowhere to throw.

 

[Tussinman]

I mean when you don't invest 1st rounders this is what you get. You get 2nd and 3rd round talent. Anthony Hitchens was a good 4th round pick. If Jaylon and LVE can get back to where they were a few years ago I'd say those were solid. I'd say Gregory. Ultimately you need to use 1st rounders on this defense.

I don't think investment is an issue more so just bad picks. Just in the last 5 years you have 3 first rounder on defense (Byron, Taco, and LVE) and Diggs wouldn't of been a reach at #17 in this last draft and they still got him in the 2nd.

All 3 of there recent 1st round defensive picks are either not on the team or never on the field and there top defensive pick in 18 was a project instead of a day 1 starter. That's a difference of 4 starters on todays roster which is hard to over-come (investment has been okay just bad picks)

 

[kskboys]

We resorted to shopping in the bargain bin and over paying for our own guys.

We used to sign big name FA's, and the only time they worked out was when Tuna was here to evaluate. BIGG, for example.

 

[kskboys]

we use free agency for stop gap measures to establish a path to our drafting. it hasn't worked too well. on occasion, we need to make a splash in free agency, not just putty for the leaks in the dike. i couldn't help but notice the number of coverage sacks the chiefs put on buffalo. allen had nowhere to throw.

Those were scheme sacks, not coverage sacks.

 

[cern]

There are few, Trent Richardson for example, where all the signs point toward success but it doesn't happen. Oddly, the best I can figure out is that he was simply too wide. Big RB's must have an ability to "get skinny" to get through the holes. No RB is going to make a living for long plowing people over.

emmitt hit the line with shoulders squared. worked for 13 years. but he was the exception, not the rule.

 

[KJJ]

Yeah but what team is letting a top tier guy go? Free agency for the most part is full of low to mid tier guys.....Just look at free agency this year? Dak, Chido and Woods made a top 50 free agent list I saw.

Teams don’t let go of their best players but they can’t afford to keep everyone. The best of the players they can’t afford to keep are top-tier free agents. Byron Jones was one of our best players but he became a top-tier free agent because we couldn’t afford to keep him. Teams sometimes get up against the cap and have no choice but to let one of their best players go. Losing Byron Jones helped destroy our secondary in 2020. A lot of teams usually spend their free agency money on signing their own free agents. Our biggest free agent signing will be Dak assuming we get him signed.

 

[cern]

Those were scheme sacks, not coverage sacks.

potato, potahto. whatever they were, it was brilliant to see. everyone was covered.

 

[quickccc]

He hires the crappy coaches and refuses to fix the way out of line chain of command he created.

My finger points to him and only him.

If Dallas was ever in the upcoming game he would be on every show that existed taking all the credit.

So again....finger at him

Jerry's been there with both praise and criticism pre and-post games. Television or Radio.