QuincyCarterEra
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But i bet you want to overpay our QB
Much better football decision than paying a RB 15+
But i bet you want to overpay our QB
It becomes an issue to many when people take speculation and guesses as fact. When social media drags a player through the mud when he might not even be planning a holdout.This is a Fan Forum not a verifiable news source. Speculative rumors rule the roost. As long as it’s not made up. Which Elliott’s potential hold out I didn’t make up. The rest is pure fun..
The price of celebrity.It becomes an issue to many when people take speculation and guesses as fact. When social media drags a player through the mud when he might not even be planning a holdout.
While attempting to recreate a higgs boson during my years at cern, many bunny huggers believed we would create a black hole that would swallow the earth. It made for interesting conversations despite the ridiculousness of the assertion. We made a boson. The planet is still here. And rumor mills are still rolling. Fiction is more interesting than reality. You're right again.But we don't have much to discuss so this does serve a purpose.
Posters complain about running with the rumors but hell, that's part of the mojo about being a Cowboys fan. None of these other fans get what we get. Who cares if it's the truth, it's a topic!
The price of celebrity.
This reminds me of when I was traveling and in Denver. They had a story in the newspaper that Elway was pissed that someone had counted the number of beers he had (3, I think it was) at dinner with his wife at a popular spot and reported that. There was an editorial response that basically told him to grow up. It read something like you get paid millions of dollars to play a game, you think there isn't another price for you to pay for that privilege? Drink at home.
It's just the way it is. Some try to avoid it but Elliott gets toasty and at 3am and wanders around where there are cameras.
I could care less whether he's thinking of holding out or holds out. Not going to make me think less or more of him than I do now, it's really a non-issue but fun to discuss. If he were my son, I'd advise him to hold the hell out because he doesn't know for sure where his next contract is coming from and that's the one he's playing for.
Well, that's better than being hooked on internet porn.These type of speculative Hot Topics are a blast. And Elliott served it up again. This might be as juicy as his suspension a couple years ago. Lol
I havent commented on anything else in over 24 hours.
I think you guys are just hiding a black hole there. Don’t want to admit you messed up.While attempting to recreate a higgs boson during my years at cern, many bunny huggers believed we would create a black hole that would swallow the earth. It made for interesting conversations despite the ridiculousness of the assertion. We made a boson. The planet is still here. And rumor mills are still rolling. Fiction is more interesting than reality. You're right again.
Zack and tank don't call him cheap. They're too busy counting their money.You think the Cheapskate Son will try to convince Big Daddy to go a RB by Committee again. Lol
After all he is running Cowboys Football
I can quit anytime I’d like.Well, that's better than being hooked on internet porn.
No trees were killed during the filming of the higgs boson movie.I think you guys are just hiding a black hole there. Don’t want to admit you messed up.
It’s probably how the aliens are visiting so often.
I also hope you didn’t kill a tree.
Much better football decision than paying a RB 15+
Couldn't agree more but that's the way of our world now.I hear ya.
At least Elway did drink the beers though. That was confirmed. And I agree about being in the public eye. If you’re famous... you’re going to be watched.
Also, Elliott being intoxicated in public is fair game as well. If you don’t want TMZ to film you drunk, then don’t be out in public drunk. I didn’t defend Zeke for that. He should know better.
But if Mike Florio says something (he’s been wrong plenty before), then the entire Internet shouldn’t take that as gospel and start persecuting Elliott before we even know if it is true. That’s all I’m saying.
I think all of them will overpay at least one, even Belichick does that, but the key is to not have too many. I think the Cowboys are going to get butt ugly with the cap again, I just hope they can capitalize this time.I don't think paying an above average QB like an elite QB a good football decision. I don't want to overpay any position.
I think all of them will overpay at least one, even Belichick does that, but the key is to not have too many. I think the Cowboys are going to get butt ugly with the cap again, I just hope they can capitalize this time.
Of course Bill wouldn’t ..but the Pats except for their QB haven’t really been as talent dependent as we are with Big Daddy, Cheapskate Son and the Clapper leading the way. LolYa know, I get that pet cat thing, I used to have my untouchables as well but I've spent a lot of time watching how that guy in NE does things and it all begins with one principle, no one isn't expendable. That includes the QB and if Kraft hadn't interceded and got Brady to go along with that contract, he would be playing somewhere else.
He doesn't get himself into situations where a player can hold him up and take him out of his formula because he doesn't get too dependent on one player. Flowers was right there with Lawrence except he actually showed up in crunch time and Belichick didn't blink, didn't even tag him and try to work something out. Just wished him well and will probably see him again after this contract like he did Jamie Collins.
There is this imaginary point where a good player crosses it and begins to hurt his team because he's taking too much of the cap. Example, Lawrence. If he's only as good as he was, he's a liability. He must step up and be, by far, the best player on that defense and he wasn't last season. He wasn't the best and he wasn't consistent, he's yet to show he's a crunch time asset. However, he's pulling 11% of this year's cap. But that's not really what he's doing.
Considering that the team isn't going to commit anymore than 45% of the total cap to the D side, and with the triplets pending they won't come close to that if they sign them they could take close to 35% of the total cap...just the 3 of them. So, let's assume 45% to the D side, Lawrence is taking 22% of that, 1 player accounting for almost a quarter of the available money with a CB and LB in the wings waiting for their payday. Don't know if you've seen the chart but 4 of that starting back 7 is up next year and 2 of the front 4. Half the defense is up and 22% going to one player already.
I am pretty sure Belichick would have loved to have kept Flowers. He played for my Hogs and stayed his senior season to help his HC out, he's as good a team guy as you'd ever want and a good player but Belichick knew he couldn't pull the trigger on that and stay true to his formula. That's why he's the best of this era, he has a formula and that takes priority over any player because it benefits all of his players.
Do you think Belichick would even be considering an extension for Elliott, even if he is the best RB in the league?
Ahhhh. I’m so heartbroken . You don’t like my nickname. Cheapskate Son.Zack and tank don't call him cheap. They're too busy counting their money.
That would make some happy but not all. That's the difference in Cowboys fans and Marlin fans. I know a group of Marlin fans and not one of them regrets selling out to get the ring and the whole thing coming undone afterwards, at least they got that ring.Me too, it's been a long 23 years!
Wow, that is a terrible plot. It comes from: https://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/123542/inside-slant-running-back-cliff-after-age-27I'm fine with giving him a 4 or even 5 year extension. RB peak at 27 typically and he is 24. His age 28 and even 29 years are still going to be similar to what we see now.
As the chart clearly shows the next 3 years should see him improve, 29 is similar to age 23, and the cliff is after 30. His best years are likely to be the next three. Cutting/trading him now is plain ignorant.
I can tell you after one Miracle on the Brazos in 50+ years and then when Briles restored Belief on the Brazos we’d of sold our souls and the neighbors girls for a Nat’l Championship. One Ring would have been worth another 50 years of mostly dormant football.That would make some happy but not all. That's the difference in Cowboys fans and Marlin fans. I know a group of Marlin fans and not one of them regrets selling out to get the ring and the whole thing coming undone afterwards, at least they got that ring.
I am not about the ring so I prefer to contend for longer so I care more about the cap but I understand the other as well and neither is right or wrong. Some like longer foreplay and some are "let's get'er done".