Earl Thomas fuels Cowboys rumors

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stasheroo said:
The Cowboys can cut four underperforming contracts today and pay for the first two years of any Earl Thomas contract without impacting current cap room by one cent:

  1. Sean Lee - saves $7 million
  2. Tyrone Crawford - saves $6 million
  3. Allen Hurns - saves $5 million
  4. Terrance Williams - saves over $2 million
Two years of All-Pro safety play for "free".
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I'm not cutting Crawford for $6M, but the rest of them can go.
 
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I'm not cutting Crawford for $6M, but the rest of them can go.
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I am. He's not even a true starter. But a square peg the team continue to try to shift to whatever round hole they have to fill. With middling results, certainly not worthy of $9 million.

But I'm not expecting it, this team likes their guys too much, especially team guys, despite the fact that they're not worth it once the games start. See Crawford, Lee, and Heath.
 
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stasheroo said:
But would you at least admit that the move doesnt hurt the chances of it happening any?
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I think the move has nothing to do with anything football. I think him signing with SF is as good of a chance as Dallas. A move to the meteoplex would've made me say it will probably happen. A move to Austin does nothing for me. He's not going to drive home every day after practice to Austin. Lol he can see his family and spend as much time with them if they lived in sea or Austin if he signs with Dallas.

Again, players do this all the time. I'm not a fam of Austin and won't even visit much less live there . But a lot of people love it and it is a great place to live and raise a family , for those people. Lol I have friends, cousin and a brother who lives there and all love it. To me this a is a life decision, not a football decision. Especially when you consider his and his wife connections to Austin. If he moved to the meteoplex where he could see his family everyday and spend time with them, then I would see the connection. But Austin changes nothing about him seeing his family more during the season to make a connection between him signing with Dallas. The fact that he wants to be here, we was willing to give a pick for him is a connection, moving to Austin isn't.
 
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Streetwise said:
It's literally closer than every other franchise. So, it's not unrealistic to assume.
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Except Houston, but even so, it's not like he could commute to practice and games from Austin every day. If it takes flying anyway for his family to see him, they probably aren't going to be visiting every weekend during the season, especially since most of the weekend he wouldn't have time for them with practice and the game, so does it really mean much that it might take a 2-3 hour flight instead of a 1 hour flight between Austin and whatever city he plays in? Players often have homes in the city they prefer to live in and eventually retire in, plus an apartment in the city they play in. ET went to college in Austin, and Austin is a very desirable city to live for a lot of people due to the beauty of the region in Texas and all the cultural opportunities, so it very easily could just be that Austin is where ET prefers to live regardless of where he plays.
 
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Little Jr said:
I think the move has nothing to do with anything football. I think him signing with SF is as good of a chance as Dallas. A move to the meteoplex would've made me say it will probably happen. A move to Austin does nothing for me. He's not going to drive home every day after practice to Austin. Lol he can see his family and spend as much time with them if they lived in sea or Austin if he signs with Dallas.

Again, players do this all the time. I'm not a fam of Austin and won't even visit much less live there . But a lot of people love it and it is a great place to live and raise a family , for those people. Lol I have friends, cousin and a brother who lives there and all love it. To me this a is a life decision, not a football decision. Especially when you consider his and his wife connections to Austin. If he moved to the meteoplex where he could see his family everyday and spend time with them, then I would see the connection. But Austin changes nothing about him seeing his family more during the season to make a connection between him signing with Dallas. The fact that he wants to be here, we was willing to give a pick for him is a connection, moving to Austin isn't.
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I'd consider it a positive sign, no matter what. As incrementally important as one chooses to believe that it is, it's a positive, even if in the smallest of terms.
 
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OmerV said:
Except Houston, but even so, it's not like he could commute to practice and games from Austin every day. If it takes flying anyway for his family to see him, they probably aren't going to be visiting every weekend during the season, especially since most of the weekend he wouldn't have time for them with practice and the game, so does it really mean much that it might take a 2-3 hour flight instead of a 1 hour flight between Austin and whatever city he plays in? Players often have homes in the city they prefer to live in and eventually retire in, plus an apartment in the city they play in. ET went to college in Austin, and Austin is a very desirable city to live for a lot of people due to the beauty of the region in Texas and all the cultural opportunities, so it very easily could just be that Austin is where ET prefers to live regardless of where he plays.
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I've addressed my mistake above. My point was it's not unrealistic to suggest. Doesn't make it a fact.
 
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stasheroo said:
The Cowboys can cut four underperforming contracts today and pay for the first two years of any Earl Thomas contract without impacting current cap room by one cent:

  1. Sean Lee - saves $7 million
  2. Tyrone Crawford - saves $6 million
  3. Allen Hurns - saves $5 million
  4. Terrance Williams - saves over $2 million
Two years of All-Pro safety play for "free".
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It seems so simple.
 
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I'm sorry but am I the only one who is NOT on the ET train here? Are we seriously contemplating signing another Sean Lee type? A high motor player, who is hurt all the time? And at what cost to this team in $$? I'm sorry, at his age and injury history, if JJ wants him that bad, it has to be on a WAAAY reduced cost to this team. And we ALL know he is not going to do that. He wants to be HIGHLY compensated like say THE top S in salary. Nope, I am not on that wagon of get ET at whatever cost, just get him here. We can do much better saving the money and getting a young player and let Richard teach him the in's and out's of the position.
 
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KingintheNorth said:
He is greatly overpaid. Great guy, not worth that contract though.
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You're 100% right. Has been overpaid for years. And now the team has the leverage. Either give some back and sign an extension, or be gone. It's not that hard. I don't care how great of a "team guy" you are if you don't produce in a game, or make a difference in the all too few games in an NFL season.

Think about it, Crawford, Sean Lee, and Jeff Heath are all well-documented, "great team guys", where were any of them when this team needed them most against the Rams? Non-factors, all of them and in most cases, huge liabilities in fact.
 
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I'm sorry but am I the only one who is NOT on the ET train here? Are we seriously contemplating signing another Sean Lee type? A high motor player, who is hurt all the time? And at what cost to this team in $$? I'm sorry, at his age and injury history, if JJ wants him that bad, it has to be on a WAAAY reduced cost to this team. And we ALL know he is not going to do that. He wants to be HIGHLY compensated like say THE top S in salary. Nope, I am not on that wagon of get ET at whatever cost, just get him here. We can do much better saving the money and getting a young player and let Richard teach him the in's and out's of the position.
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The fact that he has a injury history brings the price down plus this is where he wants to be.
 
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Streetwise said:
I've addressed my mistake above. My point was it's not unrealistic to suggest. Doesn't make it a fact.
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It's not unrealistic to suggest there could be a connection, but it's not unrealistic to suggest there may be no connection at all. At the end of the day, we really don't know any more about the possibility of ET becoming a Cowboy than before he moved to Austin.
 
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acr731 said:
Moving his family to Austin has fueled rumors? How so? Austin isn't a hop and a skip away from the DFW area, its over 3 hours drive time just to get there from Fort Worth. Its not like he would be making a commute like that on a daily basis.
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Earl Thomas works out at Univ. of Texas in Austin in the off season every year.
 
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