Cowboys have the 6th youngest roster in the NFL

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The cowboys consistently have one of the youngest rosters in the league.

sure. Being young is cool and all. But sooner or later that youth needs to turn into a team that can win a Super Bowl.

It’s the same story every year.
 
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HungryLion said:
The cowboys consistently have one of the youngest rosters in the league.

sure. Being young is cool and all. But sooner or later that youth needs to turn into a team that can win a Super Bowl.

It’s the same story every year.
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Well, if you try not to sign quality outside FAs while not retaining a lot of your expensive older vets, generally you are going to stay young because your roster spots go to late-round draft picks and UDFAs because you don't have better players to fill them.

Youth can be an advantage, but it's not if the youth isn't that good. A good example is Bohanna. Now, maybe he'll become a quality player, but he wasn't really good for much last year. If we had filled that spot with Dalvin Tomlinson, then we would have been older overall, but also better. Not saying we should have done that, just using it as an example.
 
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I think what most teams are looking for is to remain youthful and talented with just enough experience to steady the ship through rough Waters. With the cost of doing business today staying somewhat youthful is a must, second contracts can become quite expensive and bring about some difficult decisions.

Drafting well can keep you youthful, competitive and in cap control. The way things are now only franchise quarterbacks should receive a third contract. I'd rather cut a player a year or two too soon, than to pay him a year or two, too long.
 
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Tangle_Foot said:
I think what most teams are looking for is to remain youthful and talented with just enough experience to steady the ship through rough Waters. With the cost of doing business today staying somewhat youthful is a must, second contracts can become quite expensive and bring about some difficult decisions.

Drafting well can keep you youthful, competitive and in cap control. The way things are now only franchise quarterbacks should receive a third contract. I'd rather cut a player a year or two too soon, than to pay him a year or two, too long.
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Yep, it's not so much that we're young it's that there's potential to improve when younger.

Build the majority of the team through inexpensive young talent and THEN supplement with veterans....I would: predict/hope/plead (* delete as appropriate) that's what we're doing this year. The reasons we didnt spend in FA this year and maybe looking to carry-over .... a) we have too many holes to fill b) we want to see what we have, promote the recent draft picks into roles of more more responsibility.

Next year, i'm expecting the FO has a better knowledge of what we have and resources to start using free agency and/or trade market.
 
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CowboyoWales said:
Yep, it's not so much that we're young it's that there's potential to improve when younger.

Build the majority of the team through inexpensive young talent and THEN supplement with veterans....I would: predict/hope/plead (* delete as appropriate) that's what we're doing this year. The reasons we didnt spend in FA this year and maybe looking to carry-over .... a) we have too many holes to fill b) we want to see what we have, promote the recent draft picks into roles of more more responsibility.

Next year, i'm expecting the FO has a better knowledge of what we have and resources to start using free agency and/or trade market.
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Don't hold your breath......not with Diggs and Parsons coming down the pipe. Not to mention Dak in another couple of years.
 
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This is very immaterial (team age) other than players being on their rookie contracts and and how it affects overall team salary structure (and thus the salary cap). To a lesser extent youth probably has less injuries as their bodies haven't been subjected to as much of this violent sport.

Seems back in 2016 or so there was a lot of chest puffing about the Cowboys being the 3rd youngest team in the League. Did that win us any participation trophies?

Overall I'm not impressed much with this team age stat. There's a lot to be admired about the treachery/experience of an older player if they can maintain their health and have no diminishing skills.
 

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There's currently 25 top players who will still be under age 25 when the upcoming season begins.

Dallas appears to have a solid foundation on which to build their future. They have three players on the list. (Only Tampa Bay can say the same) The same players as the OP had mentioned. They will be paid what they deserve & set the stage for Dallas.

Lamb 23 Diggs 23 Parsons 22
 

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Dallas is always going to have one of the youngest rosters due to their financial philosophy. They don't sign players in the middle of their career. Instead, they re-sign their own guys to massive contracts, dump the ones they can't afford and backfill them by keeping their entire draft class every year.
 
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After the rookie contract it kind of become immaterial. All players drafted have had at least four years in the NFL system and have reached, or a close too, their potential.

What makes a difference are good long-term contracts and performance of guys on rookie deals. We have some really good performances on rookie contracts (Parsons, Diggs, Lamb, Pollard, Odigizuwa) but I’m not sure we have too many good veteran contracts. Martin, Tyron Smith (even with injuries) and then who?
 

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PFF has Diggs rated behind AJ Terrell and Patrick Surtain Jr. in their top 25 players under 25. As usual they have him giving up over 1,000 yards receiving. I found out recently that he gave up that garbage time 70 yard touchdown pass against the Saints. On that play it was zone coverage but he got to eat it because he was the closest player.:laugh::facepalm:
 
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