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thanks NostradumasThat's pretty dumb.. Sign a player who will be on IR by the time camp comes to an end?
thanks NostradumasThat's pretty dumb.. Sign a player who will be on IR by the time camp comes to an end?
Sorry Stephen it’s not working. ET would of been a perfect addition to this team. He didn’t break the budget. He wanted to come here and he would of instantly made this team better. Sure we’re not one player away but we could of been one step closer. We’re just walking up the down escalator at this point.
This was actually a good article. I knew the bust rates were high but I didn't realize only 30-40% of high-end players reach their previous production even in their first year.
This team has made attempts to spend big money on key FA before, case and point the bullet they dodged last year when Watkins signed with the Chiefs instead of the Cowboys. The idea that they never attempt to sign high end FA is wrong, but they are much more cautious than they used to be.
No superbowls but I would say the overall talent level of the team has been consistently higher since we shifted to the more cautious approach.
To do what?
Did anybody commenting here read the article?
Funny hearing a guy who has never had to earn a living in his life use that phrase.
thanks Nostradumas
I'm all for getting FA I am not for breaking the bank as if it is the cure all it isn't. I for one would have loved to get Earl Thomas but not at the price tag Balt was willing to pay, to me that made no sense to get a player who is dealing with injuries over the last 3 years and is over 30. To me that is a foolish move and costly one at that. Seeing what NY spent for Tate? again foolish in my opinion. FA market tend to over price many players who are no more than names of past greatness not players who are currently great.
This was actually a good article. I knew the bust rates were high but I didn't realize only 30-40% of high-end players reach their previous production even in their first year.
This team has made attempts to spend big money on key FA before, case and point the bullet they dodged last year when Watkins signed with the Chiefs instead of the Cowboys. The idea that they never attempt to sign high end FA is wrong, but they are much more cautious than they used to be.
No superbowls but I would say the overall talent level of the team has been consistently higher since we shifted to the more cautious approach.
I read it after seeing your post. I thought Steven did a good job of defending his philosophy
Just the ones like yourself who do nothing BUT complain about everything the Cowboys do.You still patrolling a fan forum and asking why people complain about parts of the team?
If they’d given him an offer early on Balt wouldn’t have had a chance to overpay. He was on the verge of signing a one yr deal with kc
Why he was looking to be the highest paid safeties and Dallas was not going to do that. Thomas as he said was not giving a home town discount and got top 5 money. He did visit with Dallas before going to Baltimore, I'm sure they were not discussing the weather but there was no way Dallas was going to pay what Thomas was looking for.
Why 2018’s Power Teams Are Sitting Out 2019 Free Agency
The Cowboys—loaded with young talent that they want to be able to take care off down road—are an example of why last season’s playoff teams have mostly avoided making a free agency splash so far. Why spend big (read: overpay) in what’s seen as a weak year for free agents?
By Albert Breer
March 18, 2019
all the craziness.
It is, quite honestly, what the Jones family has learned, through success and failure, about running a team in the NFL’s salary cap era, now in its 26th year.
“The biggest thing is just that free agency, I just don’t think you can make a living there,” Dallas COO Stephen Jones said over the phone around lunchtime on Sunday. “That’s what we’ve always said. I think you’re overpaying in free agency most of the time. [Free agents] are overvalued, because you’re competing in a market where you’ve got teams that don’t have as many players they have to spend on, have to use cap space on.
“And the other thing is, I don’t think you’re ever one player away. It’s a building process. You’ve got to have some really good quarterbacking to win championships, but you’ve got to put a good team around him. That whole theory that you’re one player away, it’s one that we don’t buy into like you might’ve in the past.”
Here’s the genesis of my conversation with Jones and a handful of other teams over the weekend: I spent some time looking at which teams have and haven’t spent since the market opened in earnest last Monday (and earlier than that on street free agents). What I found was staggering. And it’s so simple that you can really explain it in five words.
Most good teams didn’t spend.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/18/f...l&utm_campaign=themmqb&utm_source=twitter.com
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My big question is why is this argument dumbed down to thinking if you don't go crazy in free agency that you are somehow smart?
There is a thing called a happy medium.
Once you have built the foundation, there can always be a roof added to the top to finish quickly.
People should not get upset that the Cowboys didn't get three or four expensive free agents.
But a well-placed precision strike is not the end of the world either.
The claim made in the article that good teams don't spend is not exactly true.
Teams like New England (Gilmore) and the Rams (Suh) added impact players that aided their cause.
Just call this what it is. Being cheap and thinking you are smarter than everyone else and you can just outwit everyone in April.
All I will say in response is
"How can anybody say Mr Jones doesn't want to win"?
He didn’t visit. They spoke to his agents at the combine. Again. He was preparing to take a one yr deal from the Chiefs and the Ravens offer came out of nowhere.
I'm sorry you are right
Thanks.
They wouldn’t have had an opportunity had Dallas signed him.
And there is a big difference in informally speaking to representatives in passing because you happen to be in the same location, and an actual player visit for working out / negotiation.