News: SDFW: Dallas Cowboys: WR Randall Cobb too costly to re-sign

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I think this is actually for once, a smart media take.

We know McCarthy knows Cobb and like him so it's pretty much been a given he'd resign.
But for that to happen Cobb has to want to stay here badly enough to take a reasonable deal.

AND with 2 WRs who make spectacular plays look easy but also drop easy ones at times, it is important that 3rd WR be straight up velcro.
Cobb dropped too many passes last year to be a regular 3rd down target.

This is a very deep WR class but you aren't replacing Cooper or the up and coming Gallup.
But you could rather pick your flavor of WR3.
Speed dude like local kid(and NFL legacy) Reagor?
Big Dez built local kid? Laviska Shenault Jr. from Desoto.
Latest in long line of really good LSU WR, Justin Jefferson.

Texas collegiate products like Duvernay or Mims.

It is as deep a class you'll see and the last deep WR class gave you Gallup at a tremendous draft value.

I'd hate to see Dallas not grab a WR in the top 90 but even if they don't you prolly run to round 5 with legit NFL WR contributors.
 

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agreed 100%. He is staying
That could be right BUT Cobb is likely staring at his last NFL contract.
Guys in that situation tend to let the agent get them as much guaranteed money as possible regardless of from where.

Cobb was a 10m a year guy in his prime for 3-4 years then bumped down to 5m in DAL last year.

I don't know if he would take anything short of 15M total guaranteed over 3-4 years to finish his NFL career.
He played in all 16 games and put up his best stat season in 3 or 4 years!!
 

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That could be right BUT Cobb is likely staring at his last NFL contract.
Guys in that situation tend to let the agent get them as much guaranteed money as possible regardless of from where.

Cobb was a 10m a year guy in his prime for 3-4 years then bumped down to 5m in DAL last year.

I don't know if he would take anything short of 15M total guaranteed over 3-4 years to finish his NFL career.
He played in all 16 games and put up his best stat season in 3 or 4 years!!

Recently had a baby and His wife is happy here and started her career recently.

plays into it lol
 

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I don't mind that, but I am opposed to spending any early draft picks on offense unless we address our defensive needs through free agency. The offense, minus tight end, has the pieces it needs to succeed (obviously, if we re-sign our own, which I think we will). The defense is still missing a few key ones, particularly at defensive tackle and safety.

If we let Prescott, Cooper or Jones walk, then those positions move up in priority, although we could try to mitigate the corner loss by re-signing Brown and making Lewis, Awuzie and Brown our top three. (I'm not 100 percent sold on that, but I could see it being an option.) I think if Quinn walks, it will mean Dallas is counting on Gregory to return and start, which I also am not 100 percent sold on.
If Quinn walks we got to get an edge rusher and I’m not sold on what looks like it will be there
We need first 2-3 picks on defense but this class is deep at WR and if we sign Cobb we got time to develope a later pick
 

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Why any team would give him $7m is beyond me.
I mean, guys who can give you 15 yards per catch have value.

We have two 1000 yard receivers ahead of him who averaged 15.1 and 16.8 yards per catch, so he's a straight-up luxury to us.

For teams who don't have such good WRs already, or who are lacking a receiver who poses that kind of threat downfield, he might be seen as a really valuable piece. Most teams' 2nd WR isn't as good. Some even have #1's who aren't as good.

If a WR-hungry team has money to burn, he's worth much more money to someone else than we can justify paying him.

Unless McCarthy has plans on giving him an even more prominent role, either because we aren't re-signing Amari or because we plan on beefing up the roles of our WRs now that we probably will no longer be forcing an insane number of targets to a bad TE anymore (burning 83 targets on Witten last year was a profound waste of those targets -- look at the disparity between what he and Cobb produced with equal targets). Or maybe McCarthy proves to be one of those coaches who attaches extra value to a former player just to help with the transition to a new team?
 

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I'd really like to keep Cobb. $7M sounds high. Might be time to see what Cedrick Wilson and Noah Brown can do.
Cobb is the most likely free agent to stay with McCarthy as the HC.

In fact I think McCarthy will insist on keeping Cobb.
 

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I’m sure our new coaching will develop our Receivers by Committee with our newly signed Franchise QB :)
 

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Ehhhh. We will see. His market was pretty dry last offseason. He did however, perform well to get interest.

Cobb is happy in Dallas, his family is happy in Dallas. His former coach is now in Dallas.

Question becomes, does he want to take 1-2 million less to stay here? Or chase that extra 1-2 million and play elsewhere.

I still see him coming back to play under McCarthy



I agree with you. If I’m Dallas, I do the following

Resign Cooper, resign Cobb, draft WR in round 3/4.

Cooper, Gallup, Cobb, Smith, Rookie WR

would you take 1-2 million less to stay at your job?
 

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..maybe Big Mike, will partake in the Cobb process. Get him to drop to 5-6 mill? Or rid of Coop and sign Cobb and 2 others for the price? I would go with the latter. Coop cant be trusted, the guy shows up only when the sun is out.

Yeah. I’m sure Cobb is willing to give away a few million to stay.

not.
 

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would you take 1-2 million less to stay at your job?

If I made what Cobb has made (48 million) and they tossed in incentives. Plus my wife and family were happy where I was? Why wouldn’t I?
 

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If I made what Cobb has made (48 million) and they tossed in incentives. Plus my wife and family were happy where I was? Why wouldn’t I?

take 1 million $ in cash outside, light it, and walk away.

same thing.

the players are not stupid.
 

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take 1 million $ in cash outside, light it, and walk away.

same thing.

the players are not stupid.

Lol you’re comparing a guy who makes 85 a year to a guy who has made 48 million not including bonuses and endorsements.

They give him a base salary of 6 million per. Easy incentives in the context. Games played, catches etc. Still makes literally the same money (7-8 million) and the cap number stays down.

I am not saying Cobb needs to take less money. I’m simply saying they can keep his cap number down and still pay him what he wants.
 

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Why do I keep seeing rumors and opinions posted as “news”?
 
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