News: BR: Cowboys Rumors: Dalton Schultz 'More Likely' to Get Franchise Tag over Randy Gregory

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If your franchise player is a TE who can't block, you officially have issues.
 

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If your franchise player is a TE who can't block, you officially have issues.
So nobody will pay for

Mike Gesicki (Only blocked 12% of the time)
Evan Engram
Jared Cook

Nobody will draft Jalen Wydermyer? Grades poorly against the run. Wydermyer earned a PFF run-blocking grade of 50.6 in 2021, ranking 203rd out of 261 qualified FBS tight ends

etc etc. Teams focus on different things. But to grade a TE solely on blocking is wrong
 

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TE salaries and yearly average. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/average/tight-end/

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arwin averages 5.5 million. McKeon averages 765,667. Ian Bunting on our practice squad averages 705,000. Dalton Schultz has been our starting TE for two years at an average salary of 728,060. He’s a young player still improving. When it comes to our offense, we say stats mean nothing if you aren’t scoring points.
  • 78 receptions - 8 TDs - 43 first downs (Dalton Shultz) 2021
  • 79 receptions - 6 TDs - 54 first downs (Ceedee Lamb) 2021
Sign him. Pay him. Don’t be stupid.
 

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That's not the justification to Tag either of them. Schultz is a Cowboys panic move and the reason we need Gregory is that we're set on freeing up D/Law's $19m and cant afford to look for 2 Edges.....Gregory comes cheaper and bonus spread.
I’m not advocating tagging Schultz
Just pointing out he’s a better option to tag than Gregory
If they want to keep Gregory they need to sign him because 18 mil is crazy money for a guy who’s never played a full season coming off 6 sack season
Gregory is more disruptive than stats show but he’s not even close to being worth 18 mil
 

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So nobody will pay for

Mike Gesicki (Only blocked 12% of the time)
Evan Engram
Jared Cook

Nobody will draft Jalen Wydermyer? Grades poorly against the run. Wydermyer earned a PFF run-blocking grade of 50.6 in 2021, ranking 203rd out of 261 qualified FBS tight ends

etc etc. Teams focus on different things. But to grade a TE solely on blocking is wrong

If TE doesn't block, he's just a big WR. That's fine, but right now we don't really have any TEs who are good blockers. If we are franchising Schultz, we still need a guy who can play in the run game. Then you risk telegraphing your plays with personnel.
 

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you think you know.. you dont.

Guys like Jerry.... they get a thrill out of the work. They didnt get all tat money by sitting around.
Sigh.

I'm a bad comparison for your argument. I work three jobs, one of which is 50 hours per week and the other is coaching football.

But for you to even assume Jerry works harder than you do at your job is part of the fantasy for Jerry Fan Boys. He's not feverishly putting in hours. He has people to do thatfor him.

Maybe 40 years ago. Maybe even when he first bought the team. He does not put in more hours than the average Joe.
 

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This sounds too reactionary. Jarwin's injury has this front office spooked. I like Schultz and the franchise tag for a TE like him is actually doable, but not at the expense of Gregory.

Also Schultz was a decent blocker until last season. Don't know what happened to him there.
 

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I’m not advocating tagging Schultz
Just pointing out he’s a better option to tag than Gregory
If they want to keep Gregory they need to sign him because 18 mil is crazy money for a guy who’s never played a full season coming off 6 sack season
Gregory is more disruptive than stats show but he’s not even close to being worth 18 mil

The take away isnt whether either of them will be Tagged or 'worth' it's that Gregory isnt going to be paid the TAG nor $18m in 2022 and that's part of the attraction.

If Schultz is tagged it's another travesty of the FO not being able to evaluate players utside of their roster
 

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everything that you just said about Gregory also applies to Schultz
That's not true. The franchise tag on a TE is about $7 million less than on a DE. Schultz would be expected to get a free agent contract in about the range of the tag. Gregory would not.
 

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I don't know why people are upset about this idea. The tag is only a 1 year commitment - no long term consequences - and it would allow the team to focus draft and free agent acquisitions on other positions (other than maybe a lower cost blocking TE).

Also keep in mind that the non-exclusive tag could be used where the team as a right to match other offers the player might get, and if they don't like the number they don't have to sign the player.
 
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So STUPUD, to waste 10 mil on him
4th in the NFL among TE's in TD's last year, and 6th in yardage. That aint bad. The tag is only a 1 year commitment, so we could draft or sign a blocking TE as a compliment, and the position would be in good shape for 2022, then decide if he is worth talking to about a longer term deal in a year.
 
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TE salaries and yearly average. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/average/tight-end/

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arwin averages 5.5 million. McKeon averages 765,667. Ian Bunting on our practice squad averages 705,000. Dalton Schultz has been our starting TE for two years at an average salary of 728,060. He’s a young player still improving. When it comes to our offense, we say stats mean nothing if you aren’t scoring points.
  • 78 receptions - 8 TDs - 43 first downs (Dalton Shultz) 2021
  • 79 receptions - 6 TDs - 54 first downs (Ceedee Lamb) 2021
Sign him. Pay him. Don’t be stupid.

- which suggests to me that the fear threat of these WRs and this 1st half offense system works well to set up what Schultz does best (sit -settle in soft zone spots) and hides/limits what he
he doesn't do well (separate from tight coverage, deep seam middle)

- Opposing teams were willing to risk and surrender underneath soft zone coverages vs WRs flying free through their deep patrol secondary.
The defense would much rather risk a blown coverage for the underneath TE, ..vs blown coverage further downfield by the WRs.

- To Schultz's credit, he is easily among the toughest, most durable player we have on the team period.
He's there every game, takes a wicked licking but still keeps on ticking, We could never say those things about Jarwin
Still Schultz is limited, both as a receiver and a blocker. and opposing teams seeing more film will counter scheme vs his zone spots/roll out catches next year.

- With this supposedly being a good year for TE class in the NFL draft, i think i would have sought my long term TE there instead of being committed to a limited TE
 

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I understand that a FT for a TE is lower. But Schultz ? OMFG!

This is the Joneses all the way.

Seriously i follows this guys only to learn how you make money out of no brainpower at all.
 

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The Jones Boys want to make sure they can sign Gregory to guaranteed money into his late 30s.
Well Jerry took a chance on Gregory all those years ago. And Gregory has done nothing but let the team down over and over. He played good last year in a contract year. Go figure
 
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