Jerry Jones doing his best to destroy this team's future. He has violated just about every rule for building a team capable of contending for an extensive period of time.
One of the most important rules is that you don't mortgage the teams future for the belief that you have to win it all during one particular season. I mean, you trade your top draft picks to "fill a need" and then your quarterback goes down. Not only is that season in jeopardy but you can't get better in the near future having traded away Those valuable picks.
At the very least, Jerry should be capable of learning from his mistakes but I guess the Joey Galloway and Roy Williams trades wasn't enough. Both times that was all he thought he needed to get back to a Super Bowl and all it did was stunt the future development of the team.
Stephen is failing miserably when it comes to restraining his father's delusional belief that he knows how to build a football team without a phenomenal HC doing it for him.
Ideology is fine and all but you would be trading for a young top talent at a position of need that comes in and plays now.
The notion of not mortgaging the future and letting things come to you doesn't mean so much in an interest free environment. Even in an interest bearing market you can make good loans.
Adams was drafted 6 and has been one of the best S in the league since being drafted having seen all pro honors all ready albeit second team.
He has used up 2.5 years of cost control. His salary is about $7m less than he would make on the open market.
Now we are projected to draft somewhere in the 20s. To get a talent like Adams in the draft and trade up into the top 10 would take two 1s or a 1 and multiple 2s on draft day. That is what they wanted. Essentially a do over with a top 10 pick.
We were not willing to do that.
Reports are that we were willing to go for a 1 and a 3 or a 1 and a next year 2. IOW, the equivalent of a pick in the mid teens.
Now you can quibble about the difference of a second round pick being worth 2.5 years of cost control but its close. It seems to me that we were willing to go up to what Adams was actually worth but no higher.
That is sound management IMO.