More backpedaling on "All In"

MoistMayonnaise

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Jerry Jones goes from “all-in” to needing to “win with less.”


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I checked my Jerry Jones decoder ring for insights to the "win with less" meaning. Possible interpretations include:

  1. The comment is a direct jab at Dak that the FO isn't opening the vault for an extension.
  2. A veiled threat to the rest of the team that the JAGs have to lift their game to afford a Dak extension.
  3. Wmdnf j3kssfngl a gldjrjnc
Personally, option three is probably the correct interpretation as it is a direct quote from JJ.

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Talking about 5 years down the road and the decisions today having impact on the cap in 5 years after it’s been 3 decades of nothing is just so ridiculous.
That’s what cracks me about the fans who buy into this nonsense.
What, we’re going to get in “cap hell” in the future and not be able to make it out of the 2nd round of the playoffs? Can you imagine how horrible that would be??

Fact of the matter is that this ownership hasn’t put in an honest effort to win a superbowl in over a decade and make every excuse in the book to deflect. And somehow people just eat it right up.
 

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If we all don’t go to the pre season games to boycott maybe would help ,but every one would half to do it ,which would be hard !
 

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I checked my Jerry Jones decoder ring for insights to the "win with less" meaning. Possible interpretations include:

  1. The comment is a direct jab at Dak that the FO isn't opening the vault for an extension.
  2. A veiled threat to the rest of the team that the JAGs have to lift their game to afford a Dak extension.
  3. Wmdnf j3kssfngl a gldjrjnc
Personally, option three is probably the correct interpretation as it is a direct quote from JJ.
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Revenue means nothing when your talking spending on FA.

It is all about the set cap, and how you manage that .
They are saving their cap money for future contracts, for guys already on the team and some jags to fill holes later on.
But the future is the FUTURE. You don't have to tie up future money to spend now. And this is why this front office is so stupid. They never took advantage of Dak's contract because they were too busy worried about future contracts. It's just stupid and a dumb way to run a franchise.

What's the point of caring about future contracts? So you can keep the same guys who you lose in the first round with? They do not use the cap smart.
 

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I'm no Jerry defender and very much look forward to having a new GM.

I will say this about the "cheap" comments. Every team spends the same amount of money over the long term. No one in the NFL is cheap or a big spender when it comes to the roster. Dallas, for whatever reason, is prioritizing spending in future years versus spending this year. That's the quiet part that only a few people are saying out loud.

Just in general, I get the impression that the Jones want to be "good" every year and are willing to sacrifice being "great" from time to time to do it. It sucks as a fan but to be honest, its still better than the 8-8 Garrett decade.
 

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Tired of the all-in talk at this point. I thought it meant one thing at once too. After finally seeing the full context of his comments, it was pretty clear (as clear as you can be deciphering Jerry speak), that it was not all-in in the way everyone has tried to present it. He was more talking about going all-in on certain players/people already with the team.
fans heard all in and didn’t pay attention to what he truly meant. not once did he say we are going all in w FAs.

Theyre all in on dak (maybe) lamb, Parsons, TJ Bass, Hoffman, Sam Williams, Overshown, Jr Fehoko etc
 

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“By any definition and I have more all-in to make a run back to the line of scrimmage then I’ve been to run for 50 yards. It took more all-in to just get back to the line of scrimmage than it did to run for 50 yards. Sometimes that is a bigger challenge. That is really the gist of what we’re about this year. We’ve got to get it done.
What the heck is that bunch of nonsense?

Him saying we have a five year window with the current team really cuts the legs out from some of my already modest predictions and hopes about what the team was doing to attempt a rebuild
 

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Well for the LAC that kind of happened because they had to sign a so far overrated qb to a massive contract....AHEMMM, UMMM...UMMM
 
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