Greg Hardy: "If Cowboys Offer, I'd Love to Stay Here"

Galian Beast said:
My guess is that it'll be another one year deal, maybe with a team option in the 2nd year.
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This is what I think will happen. I do not believe that he will get any long term high end offers. He was solid, but not dominant and any new team that he goes to will have to put up with the media scrutiny.
 
Kolemmitt said:
He was solid, but not dominant and any new team that he goes to will have to put up with the media scrutiny.
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I think the media snitstorm has largely blown over, mostly because the ESPN types have the memory span of a fruit fly. By the time next season starts we will have had a dozen new controversies in the NFL, several in Dallas, and it will be old news. If Hardy is exactly the same off the field next year as he was this year, it will get a tenth of the press coverage.
 
cowboys1981 said:
5 year/55mil (30-35 guarantee). Just a bit richer than Crawford's contract. May want to see what JPP gets with 7/10s of his fingers in tact first.
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i'm not interested in the risk of a deal that lengthy and expensive for him.

2 years with an incentive-based option for a third? sure.
 
Kaiser said:
I think the media snitstorm has largely blown over, mostly because the ESPN types have the memory span of a fruit fly. By the time next season starts we will have had a dozen new controversies in the NFL, several in Dallas, and it will be old news. If Hardy is exactly the same off the field next year as he was this year, it will get a tenth of the press coverage.
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Only if he stays. If he signs for another team it will all be rehashed again. It's the NFL's new pet project that gets the attention off the serious medical issues in football.
 
Mountaineerfan said:
Only if he stays. If he signs for another team it will all be rehashed again. It's the NFL's new pet project that gets the attention off the serious medical issues in football.
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Yes and No, Hardy was only in the media this much because he was the next guy accused of DV after the NFL scandal with the Ray Rice video. IMO the degree of media focus on Hardy depends on where he signs.
 
Kaiser said:
Yes and No, Hardy was only in the media this much because he was the next guy accused of DV after the NFL scandal with the Ray Rice video. IMO the degree of media focus on Hardy depends on where he signs.
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For whatever reason, it does seem like arrests and especially DV problems are way down.

Rice and Hardy took the brunt and maybe it got the players' attention.
 
bkight13 said:
For whatever reason, it does seem like arrests and especially DV problems are way down.

Rice and Hardy took the brunt and maybe it got the players' attention.
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Exactly, the NFL needed to crucify someone after the Ray Rice scandal and Hardy was "next man up" so to speak.
 
Why are people wanting him back? His production was very very meh.
 
IMO Hardy did not show much. There was some potential sure but was not consistent. His attitude is what bothered me most so I'd rather he be on his way and take my chances with Gregory and Lawrence.
 
bkight13 said:
he makes the team better

we weathered the storm, now lets reap some rewards
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People don't understand 'production.' They just look at the stat sheet and look for sacks and don't see any and they think 'meh.' As well as Lawrence played down the stretch, Hardy was the better player as he was more consistent from play-to-play.

And I don't think he really took to playing DT in the nickel and dime as well as hoped. The effort was there, but he wasn't able to fend off the double teams. And he was banged up pretty good this season.

I want him back because:

1. He served more than his fair share of time.

2. I believe he's not the bad guy in his situation, it's a media narrative...particularly because he plays for the Cowboys. The DA expunged the arrest from his record for what he publicly admitted to having issues with Holder's testimony compared to what she told police and what the evidence showed. It's really hard for people to swallow that and look at what actually happened because they bought the media narrative hook, line and sinker and don't want to look like fools.

3. He's a great player.

We shouldn't pay him too much because we have leverage to not pay him a big contract. It's as simple as that.





YR
 
Yakuza Rich said:
People don't understand 'production.' They just look at the stat sheet and look for sacks and don't see any and they think 'meh.' As well as Lawrence played down the stretch, Hardy was the better player as he was more consistent from play-to-play.

And I don't think he really took to playing DT in the nickel and dime as well as hoped. The effort was there, but he wasn't able to fend off the double teams. And he was banged up pretty good this season.

I want him back because:

1. He served more than his fair share of time.

2. I believe he's not the bad guy in his situation, it's a media narrative...particularly because he plays for the Cowboys. The DA expunged the arrest from his record for what he publicly admitted to having issues with Holder's testimony compared to what she told police and what the evidence showed. It's really hard for people to swallow that and look at what actually happened because they bought the media narrative hook, line and sinker and don't want to look like fools.

3. He's a great player.

We shouldn't pay him too much because we have leverage to not pay him a big contract. It's as simple as that.





YR
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I agree.

He should be saluted for sliding inside and allowing snaps for Gregory. We would be better off with Hardy at RDE and someone a little bigger at Nickle DT with TCrawford.
 
dexternjack said:
Sign him, he just got his feet wet after a year off. The talent is there and another off-season to get his head right will do wonders.

It would be another hole to fill and there are too many to add another.
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I think that is the logic playing out here. If you let him walk and draft Bosa or Shaq Lawson....then your only spinning your wheels. I think they keep him...and then they draft the DT out of Ole Miss. Just keep stock piling talent...
 
DC Cowboy said:
I would also, with a cap friendly, incentive laden contract IF he will accept.
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That's where I'm at. With a deal that protects the team if he gets suspended but has incentives that makes it fair to him I'm in
But I would not throw a bunch of up front money at him
 
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