CouchCoach
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I've been thinking about this since I started really paying close attention to how Belichick does it in NE and I am convinced he has the formula that he doesn't share with many people and in it he has money or %'s assigned to each position category like DE's or he's mad scientist enough to have it down to DE 1, DE 2. he didn't even make an attempt to keep Flowers and wasn't willing to even tag him and allocate that much.
I wonder if the Cowboys have anything close to a real cap formula? It's a hard cap and takes a hard formula to stay true to in order not to find the team with too much to too few and having to cut back in too many areas.
That's been my only concern with the numbers thrown around for Lawrence, Prescott, Elliot and Cooper and soon to follow Byron Jones, Jaylon Smith and others.
There seems to be this feeling that they can sign everybody to what they want and still have enough to have good backups and if you've paid attention to NE, he's all about the 53, not the 22. He plans on injuries.
Think about this in just simple math. Lawrence gets 21M, Prescott 32M, Elliott 12M and Cooper 16M. On this year's cap of 188m, that is 43% of the cap. 4 players and only 57% of the cap left for 49 players and you know Jones and Smith are going to want close to top 5 money for their positions and deserver that, especially with what they're paying the others. That's what started PIT's problems, once that checkbook gets opened, they all want a piece.
Take a good look at that 2020 UFA list of Cowboys players before you start saying "pay the man".
I know this, a team that finds themselves in the position that it's about the pay before the player is in trouble.
I wonder if the Cowboys have anything close to a real cap formula? It's a hard cap and takes a hard formula to stay true to in order not to find the team with too much to too few and having to cut back in too many areas.
That's been my only concern with the numbers thrown around for Lawrence, Prescott, Elliot and Cooper and soon to follow Byron Jones, Jaylon Smith and others.
There seems to be this feeling that they can sign everybody to what they want and still have enough to have good backups and if you've paid attention to NE, he's all about the 53, not the 22. He plans on injuries.
Think about this in just simple math. Lawrence gets 21M, Prescott 32M, Elliott 12M and Cooper 16M. On this year's cap of 188m, that is 43% of the cap. 4 players and only 57% of the cap left for 49 players and you know Jones and Smith are going to want close to top 5 money for their positions and deserver that, especially with what they're paying the others. That's what started PIT's problems, once that checkbook gets opened, they all want a piece.
Take a good look at that 2020 UFA list of Cowboys players before you start saying "pay the man".
I know this, a team that finds themselves in the position that it's about the pay before the player is in trouble.
