I’d say we’re a bit better off than you guys. You have to sign Martin on top of the $17 million you just spent on the tag. Next year you’re looking at losing Tank and Irvin and you have to start looking at Dak and Zeke the next two years. So you lose the heart of your defense and are now looking at paying out $22-25 million in n Dak and possibly $14-15 million on Zeke a year later. All that and what have you accomplished?
Remember Martin already counts for 9 mil on the cap this year. Any long term deal should bump that down, along with if they give Law a long term deal too. We have 13m in dead cap between Romo(9), Thornton(2) and Carroll(2) this year that will be off the books next year.
By the time Zeke(year 4 or 5) and Dak his FA, Dez is a free agent(if still here) along with Sean Lee and maybe Witten is finally retired.
Not to mention Tyron Smith and Crawfords dead cap has dropped considerably by that time, so if he can't stay healthy cutting him doesn't kill us $$ wise.
Now add in the restructures the FO loves to do, we aren't that bad cap wise to keep the good players we have.
Success is a different story but not really with the Jones boys post salary cap era.