News: ESPN: The Cowboys' salary-cap mismanagement is wasting Dak Prescott

[Awakened]

It's a weird time to write about Cowboy's cap mismanagement, considering that we will be in the best shape cap-wise that we've been in a long time starting next year. This offseason will be the time to see if the Cowboys decide to start obtaining some key free agents. Our history signing free agents is sketchy (we're always shopping at the bargain rack), but signing a couple of big free agents would send a big message to team and fans. Maybe a WR and DT?

 

[America's Cowboy]

Romo wanted to compete for the starting role in training camp last season. The Cowboys told him no. That's where the crater began.

Huh? Romo wanted to compete for the starting role in 2017? He was long gone before then. He lost his starting role permanently when his body broke down once again during the 2016 preseason and Dak proved he had what it took to take over. Game over. 2017 was no longer in Romo's future long before 2017 started.

 

[aikemirv]

The blame lies at whoevers decision it was to bench Romo! Romo would be playing and Dak - after his 1st 8 games -would have netted the Cowboys a 1st round draft choice if they chose! They then could have drafted one of the top QB's in the 2018 draft and be grooming him right now!

And Dak would be somebody else dissapointment!!!!

 

[America's Cowboy]

The blame lies at whoevers decision it was to bench Romo! Romo would be playing and Dak - after his 1st 8 games -would have netted the Cowboys a 1st round draft choice if they chose! They then could have drafted one of the top QB's in the 2018 draft and be grooming him right now!

And Dak would be somebody else dissapointment!!!!

 

[erod]

Huh? Romo wanted to compete for the starting role in 2017? He was long gone before then. He lost his starting role permanently when his body broke down once again during the 2016 preseason and Dak proved he had what it took to take over. Game over. 2017 was no longer in Romo's future long before 2017 started.

No, he wasn't.

His plan was to earn back the starting job in 2017, and the Cowboys declined to let him even try. They named Dak the starter, and released him. He then considered Denver and Houston before deciding to take a massive payday with CBS to call games.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

That remains to be seen. In Jerry’s eyes, Dak is a cross between Goff and Cam Newton.

Luckily Jerry's not making decisions anymore.

 

[Nightman]

Huh? Romo wanted to compete for the starting role in 2017? He was long gone before then. He lost his starting role permanently when his body broke down once again during the 2016 preseason and Dak proved he had what it took to take over. Game over. 2017 was no longer in Romo's future long before 2017 started.

With Romo the starting QB the last 2 years we probably go to the Super Bowl

He was that much better than Dak

Once QBs get to his level they can carry a whole team

Romo with Zeke< Witten and Dez would have been fun to watch

His contract was worth every penny...... he never got over 17m a year

 

[aria]

The Cowboys have taken a different approach to free agency primarily because, I believe, of Stephen Jones. McClay can only get what the Cowboys are willing to pay for in free agency, but that isn't much.

Although I agree with the Cowboys to some extent, you can't expect to win if you don't use free agency to provide the missing pieces. Each year, it seems we go into the season with at least one position that holds us back because we went with cheap, flawed free agents instead of paying for proven talent.

Yeah, by no means was I advocating an ET trade for what they wanted, I was against it but I thought going into this season with a lack of O line depth AGAIN and lack of WR and TE talent was dumb.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Let them get healthy before we state that absolutely.

When are they going to be healthy? It might not be this year.

 

[America's Cowboy]

No, he wasn't.

His plan was to earn back the starting job in 2017, and the Cowboys declined to let him even try. They named Dak the starter, and released him. He then considered Denver and Houston before deciding to take a massive payday with CBS to call games.

Yes, Romo was HIS-TO-RY after his last back injury. Very clear as to why they never even gave him a chance to compete for the starter's role once he was healthy around late October of 2016.

 

[America's Cowboy]

With Romo the starting QB the last 2 years we probably go to the Super Bowl

He was that much better than Dak

Once QBs get to his level they can carry a whole team

Romo with Zeke< Witten and Dez would have been fun to watch

His contract was worth every penny...... he never got over 17m a year

 

[erod]

Yes, Romo was HIS-TO-RY after his last back injury. Very clear as to why they never even gave him a chance to compete for the starter's role once he was healthy around late October of 2016.

His back injury was no big deal after it healed. Doctors said it would was not at any greater risk of being reinjured. Yes, we both know that Romo was injury prone by then.

But the only reason they didn't give him a chance was they KNEW he'd beat out Dak easily on performance. The previous year, he was torching the starting defense in practice with the Rico Gathers and the backup receivers. Scored on them at will.

He makes throws with ease that Dak will never make.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Yes, Romo was HIS-TO-RY after his last back injury. Very clear as to why they never even gave him a chance to compete for the starter's role once he was healthy around late October of 2016.

If Romo played he would have been knocked out the first couple of games. The defense knew how to beat him and that was to hit him.

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

Dak Prescott and his lack of ability/skills is wasting him.

He's a backup QB that lucked into a starting QB role.

 

[cmoney23]

This article is stupid, we are, unfortunately paying for a QB. He's just not on the team.
We are paying Romo and Dez 17 Mil to not play for us. So there goes a chunk of FA money.

 

[aria]

I know a large part of the article was about Romo but why does every thread after a bad game have to evolve into some delusional Romo fantasy thread?

If you want real talk, Romo would have never made it through the Atlanta game last year if he even survived the year before. He was fragile and broken. How many times does a guy have to get hurt before you realize he would never be able to make it through a season? Dak led this team to 13-3, it was rhe right decision to keep Romo on the sideline at the time and even most the Romolovers were so elated with Dak they didn’t start crying about Romo until midway through last season.

Ever since then, it’s back to how many championships we would have won with Romo. It’s ridiculous. It’s all hypothetical and he hasn’t played on this team for 3 years now nor will he. It’s over. He’s gone.

 

[America's Cowboy]

His back injury was no big deal after it healed. Doctors said it would was not at any greater risk of being reinjured. Yes, we both know that Romo was injury prone by then.

But the only reason they didn't give him a chance was they KNEW he'd beat out Dak easily on performance. The previous year, he was torching the starting defense in practice with the Rico Gathers and the backup receivers. Scored on them at will.

He makes throws with ease that Dak will never make.

It's a conspiracy!!! Get out the pitchforks!

 

[Bluedocd]

Yep, just read the article. That's why this team haven't made any moves in the FA market for the past 5 yrs. I WANT to believe that they have realized this is not the way to go in this league and have gotten to the 80 million under the salary cap to NOW do the right thing and make these contracts with some damn sense!
What pisses me off even more is that they can clearly see how Bellicheck does this. He doesn't believe in holding on to guys too long and gives them straight contracts with not a lot of dead money!

 

[erod]

It's a conspiracy!!! Get out the pitchforks!

It's quite obviously an enormous blunder committed by this franchise.

Everybody knows this, except apparently you.

 

[Nightman]

Truth trumps your Haterade