Cowboys a top 6 team in wins and cap space

northerncowboynation

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This is only meaningful if the Cowboys actually win something. I would rather have little cap space and actually make it to a super bowl.

So go out and buy a $5 million dollar home, strap yourself with a mortgage you can't afford for what? A year or two of living well then bank foreclosure? I have a stepson who bought a $58,000 Audi. Nice car, comfy, fast as **** but he can't afford the insurance and today he's looking for work after losing his job. Smart boy had no eye for the future. Live well today and eat dog food down the road? Daddy ain't bailing him out
 

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Makes me feel good about the future, at least for the next couple pf years. Hopefully we don't go down a road often travelled, over paying for aging players and guys like Brandon Carr in FA. Key is drafting well, keeping the average age and salary commitments lower. I think if you look at that same group of teams and their success in the draft over the past 3 years you would find the Cowboys near the top too. Keep finding guys like X Woods and Anthony Brown in late rounds and guys like Antuan Woods from other teams and you have your answer. Forget overpaying for high priced FA's.

Here is a stat I'd like to see. Top 5 teams that have payed the biggest $$ for FA over the past three years and their wins. I think many would tuck tail and get off the "have to sign big name FA's" bandwagon if someone wants to do some digging. Sure the Giants spent big on FA defensive players three years ago. Where are they now? The Squiggles did the same 2 years ago and missed the playoffs in 2018. Any lessons from that?

It paid off for recent Super Bowl winners in the Eagles and Broncos. They both spent heavily on adding free agents and it paid off in a championship. And the Rams loaded up for their run that came up one game short this year.

It can work, if you're willing to deal with the pains afterwards, as the Eagles are now.
 

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Here is a stat I'd like to see. Top 5 teams that have payed the biggest $$ for FA over the past three years and their wins. I think many would tuck tail and get off the "have to sign big name FA's" bandwagon if someone wants to do some digging. Sure the Giants spent big on FA defensive players three years ago. Where are they now? The Squiggles did the same 2 years ago and missed the playoffs in 2018. Any lessons from that?

First, the Eagles didn't miss the playoffs in 2018.

Second, I don't think they have many FA regrets because they only got one Lombardi in the past two years.
 

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So go out and buy a $5 million dollar home, strap yourself with a mortgage you can't afford for what? A year or two of living well then bank foreclosure? I have a stepson who bought a $58,000 Audi. Nice car, comfy, fast as **** but he can't afford the insurance and today he's looking for work after losing his job. Smart boy had no eye for the future. Live well today and eat dog food down the road? Daddy ain't bailing him out

Winning super bowls isn’t the same as buying a large house.

Your analogy is a really poor one. Based on your analogy, everything would be yet peachy keen, having a winning record and making the playoffs every season, but never making it to the Super Bowl.

It makes zero sense in the context of a football team trying to win a title.

I’m also not advocating for the team to blow cap space. What I’m saying is. Cap space, at the end of the day, is meaningless if you don’t attain the ultimate goal. A championship.

When a team wins a super bowl, nobody gives a crap how much cap space they do or don’t still have remaining.
 

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Of course you have to win in the regular season to have a chance, but after 20 + years you can’t be happy stalling out in the playoffs while smiling about having a lot of cap space. I’m certainly not one who thinks we’re should spend everything and kill financial flexibility by using up all the cap space, but the point of having the flexibility is to help do more than make the playoffs here and there.

Of course, I'd like to win more than one play off game too. Why? Gives me something to look forward to on Sunday and a longer football season. Maybe I should start going to church on Sunday and praying for more play off wins. That would give me something to do and possibly improve the chance of winning more playoff games. Problem is, once we started winning more playoff games I'd probably stop going to church because I'd be all on edge about winning another game. Decisions decisions :)
 

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Winning super bowls isn’t the same as buying a large house.

Your analogy is a really poor one. Based on your analogy, everything would be yet peachy keen, having a winning record and making the playoffs every season, but never making it to the Super Bowl.

It makes zero sense in the context of a football team trying to win a title.

I’m also not advocating for the team to blow cap space. What I’m saying is. Cap space, at the end of the day, is meaningless if you don’t attain the ultimate goal. A championship.

When a team wins a super bowl, nobody gives a crap how much cap space they do or don’t still have remaining.

My bad
 

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Of course, I'd like to win more than one play off game too. Why? Gives me something to look forward to on Sunday and a longer football season. Maybe I should start going to church on Sunday and praying for more play off wins. That would give me something to do and possibly improve the chance of winning more playoff games. Problem is, once we started winning more playoff games I'd probably stop going to church because I'd be all on edge about winning another game. Decisions decisions :)
Lol. Damn this football for making us all sinners for 6 months.
 

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First, the Eagles didn't miss the playoffs in 2018.

Second, I don't think they have many FA regrets because they only got one Lombardi in the past two years.

Do a little digging for me CP. List the top 5 teams in terms of $ spent on FA in the past 3 years. Then post their records and playoff success
 

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Seriously..we are celebrating this? Team sucks and hasn't won anything meaningful in a long time

Homers are celebrating this. Specifically the biggest Cowboys Homer on Blogging the Boys and the internet overall. The guy finds any angle to try to paint the Cowboys as winning and successful, and then hides when things go south.

But, his trash writing was posted here so we talk about it.
 

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Hey, you haven't won anything since Clinton was in office. Your team is now a laughing stock compared to what they used to be. You watch other franchises begin to catch up and even surpass what your once great team has done and you're stuck with the same failed front office for over two decades with no end in sight.

But don't these meaningless stats kind of make the offseason moaning pathetic?

Right?
 

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We need to resign our own so the space will go down over the next few years. Honestly not too many free agents out there I’d like to snag. Earl is a pipe dream. He’s gonna get paid from someone else. Likely niners join Sherman
 

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Well if we're only going to use SB wins as the measure of success then we suck. So I guess it's OK to bash any thread that mentions any possible upside to the team. It would be nice if you absolute purists would let us Homers have a little fun every now & then, though.
 

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Kind of makes the annual offseason moaning seem pathetic, right?
No! We have Cap space. Do we have divisional playoff wins? No. Do we have a HC capable of coaching us to a Super Bowl victory? No. After over paying our guys will we have any Cap space to sign Free Agents that are difference makers? Probably not.

Some of us have higher expectations than losing in the divisional round, WITH a team that is talented enough to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl!
 
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