News: Zeke Won't Return without Deal

[TheGoat73]

I keep hearing this ....... But Ware and Dez both still had contracts and loved the Cowboys when Jerry and Stephen cut them.

Guess only the players should be expected to fulfill the contracts .......

That’s how it works and I’m fine with that. Guaranteed money is a thing. Huge signing bonuses are a thing.

 

[Stash]

Morris would be a real down grade

Most definitely. His signing is all about "comfort" and I hate when this team does things based on comfort, they always go badly.

 

[khiladi]

It's called "wishful thinking". And it's a failure. If Haskins is as good as you seem to think, he's a starter today, not anybody's "third string", much less that sorry team. The NFL doesn't have enough starters as it is, much less these "gems" that you seem to think sitting 3rd on the depth chart.Your attempted logic fails.



Only a bigger idiot anoints a third string rookie who has never thrown an NFL pass.



Oh brother, your Haskins love has taken you completely off the rails. To the point of ridiculousness. This tripe isn't even worthy of a counter. It's nonsense.

Plenty of organizations don’t throw their QBs into the fire. The Texans did it with Watson, despite the train wreck they had at QB. He was drafted 12th and Haskins 15th.

There is ‘no Haskins love’. It’s a comparison between Haskins and Dak. What’s delusional is the Dak love in comparison to Haskins, which is the comparison I made. What needs to be questioned is your infatuation with a guy that couldn’t even throw like more than 1 TD when Zeke was suspended for six games and we waffled around like buns against the bottom dwellers in the league, when they had nothing to play for and like the Eagles, started third string corner backs.

 

[Hook'em#11]

Bye Felicia... Hardly knew ya.

Good riddance.

And, yes, please make sure to bookmark this post. He's pulling this crap at the worst time. Dallas can't possibly sign Dak, Coop, Smith, Jones and POC RB? Can they? Damn, this just sucks. This team had a chance to be special too.

 

[gmoney112]

What a turd.

You can pretty much guarantee rookies sitting out with 2 years left, after having option picked up, will be addressed in the next CBA.

Start working out some FAs, and going through possible cuts in camp. If it were me, I'd be thanking Zeke for saving me the $$, and forcing me to get off my *** to put together a good run game on the cheap. I'd put his contract money towards a high quality DT to play with Hill.

 

[Stash]

Plenty of organizations don’t throw their QBs into the fire. The Texans did it with Watson, despite the train wreck they had at QB. He was drafted 12th and Haskins 15th.

But Haskins is the "best evers" man! "Running circles" around Dak, who has "run circles" around the two top quarterbacks drafted ahead of him. To the tune of two Pro Bowl nods and two division titles. But this rookie is "running circles" around him before he throws a pass! (see how utterly ridiculous that sounds?)

There is ‘no Haskins love’. It’s a comparison between Haskins and Dak. What’s delusional is the Dak love in comparison to Haskins, which is the comparison I made.

Which sounds utterly ridiculous!

What needs to be questioned is your infatuation with a guy that couldn’t even throw like more than 1 TD when Zeke was suspended for six games and we waffled around like buns against the bottom dwellers in the league, when they had nothing to play for and like the Eagles, started third string corner backs.

Check yourself, And "your infatuation" with a guy who hasn't thrown a pass yet. Get checked.

 

[khiladi]

But Haskins is the "best evers" man! "Running circles" around Dak, who has "run circles" around the two top quarterbacks drafted ahead of him. To the tune of two Pro Bowl nods and two division titles. But this rookie is "running circles" around him before he throws a pass! (see how utterly ridiculous that sounds?)



Which sounds utterly ridiculous!



Check yourself, And "your infatuation" with a guy who hasn't thrown a pass yet. Get checked.

First of all, Dak was the substitute for one pro bowl and half the season was setting records in futility that made Quincy Carter look like a legend here. Ten straight quarters without a TD. Even when Cooper came and a team decided to add a safety over the top of Cooper, Dak ‘the great’ was shut out by the Colts, another record of futility that Dak claimed, followed by another garbage performance against Tampa where even Winston looked better than Dak, who was bailed out by defensive TOs in scoring terroritory. And two, Dak didn’t do jack squat without Zeke.

 

[Cowfan75]

And here is excuse number one on the season for Garrett, before a single snap of preseason.

 

[noshame]

Jerry, I have praised the way you've run this team the last 5+ years, this is the final test, DO NOT FOLD.

 

[zrinkill]

That’s how it works and I’m fine with that. Guaranteed money is a thing. Huge signing bonuses are a thing.

Holdouts are a thing too ........ The only leverage a player has since their union leaders are all bought and paid for by the owners.

 

[Stash]

First of all, Dak was the substitute for one pro bowl. And two, Dak didn’t do jack squat without Zeke and Tyron Smith.

Corrected for accuracy.

 

[X550i]

There will be a total meltdown if Zeke is still holding out and the Cowboys lose to the Giants week 1

 

[khiladi]

Corrected for accuracy.

Smith played multiple games during that stretch, including at least three games without Zeke and Dak still looked trash. That’s another correction for your accuracy.

The reality is, even though we haven’t seen Haskins throw a single pass yet, we’ve seen Dak without Zeke in the NFL. And it’s not pretty at all.

 

[Jipper]

There will be a total meltdown if Zeke is still holding out and the Cowboys lose to the Giants week 1

even with him holding out we are going to win THAT game....

 

[BigD49]

Pretty disappointing that guys at (generally) more critical positions who are actually in contract years can come to play, but Zeke is pulling this with 2 full years left on his contract (one of which is at an attractive level for a RB). Think it's particularly crappy given how the team stood by him through his past issues. At this rate, should we expect every good player on a rookie deal to hold out the minute they become extension-eligible?

 

[Texas_Pete]

Bell chimes in

 

[InTheZone]

We'll win the first game without him, everyone will think we're contenders without him. Then we get hit hard in consecutive games and everyone's tune changes.

 

[TNCowboy]

There will be a total meltdown if Zeke is still holding out and the Cowboys lose to the Giants week 1

Just as there would be if he plays and the Cowboys lose.

 

[Proof]

Not for Zeke, when everybody pretty much nowadays says RB shelf life is 5 years before production drops off. Again Zeke faces more stacked boxes than any RB with the volume he carries and Dallas runs into them at a rate that dwarfs other teams. The only reason we are successful is because of the uncanny ability of Zeke to continue going forward even when getting hitting. He’s the best in the business in getting yards out of nothing.

He’s literally never missed time due to injury. I agree he’s taking a lot of punishment but he’s built for it and why he was drafted. If the concern is that he can’t hold up then we shouldn’t be re-signing him at all

 

[khiladi]

He’s literally never missed time due to injury. I agree he’s taking a lot of punishment but he’s built for it and why he was drafted. If the concern is that he can’t hold up then we shouldn’t be re-signing him at all

We’d resign him to 3-4 years, which gives him the five year shelf life. He’d be signing for guaranteed money up front. The other two years would be pudding on the cake as far as ELITE performance us concerned, though Zeke will probably still be good.