Galian Beast
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Assuming that the Salary Cap is 140 million dollars next year, we are currently 29 million dollars under the salary cap. That is a decent position to be in. With that being said however, we're also facing our 2015 major unrestricted free agents:
Tyron Smith
Dez Bryant
DeMarco Murray
Bruce Carter
"Doug Free"
I put Doug Free in quotation marks because we're not going to be keeping him. He'll most likely have to be replaced in the draft either this year or next year.
Tyron Smith and Dez Bryant are going to demand 10+ million each, but that isn't to suggest that they need to have 10 million dollar cap hits in 2015.
It'll be an interesting question as to whether or not we keep DeMarco Murray. One of the only reason why I think we might draft a running back somewhat high this year, is because I don't think the Cowboys have any interest in signing him to what he will ask for, I'm not even sure he would want to re-sign.
Bruce Carter will depend entirely on whether or not he rebounds from a really poor year last year, but I think he has damaged any asking price even if he does rebound. I think he is probably looking at 5 or 6 million per year tops.
So the main issue with the 2015 cap isn't re-signing these guys, I think the biggest issue is whether or not we will be able to sign any free agents that we might need on defense. Romo's base salary is 17 million, and can certainly be moved around as needed though.
My suggestion as others have mentioned is to try to move Dez Bryant rather than pay him 14+ million dollars. I don't know many teams that invest so much in the WR position and turn out wins consistently. Look at the Patriots, they never pay for wide receivers.
What's important to realize is that we're also about 70 million under the cap (assuming it goes to 150 million) in 2016.
2016 would appear to be a much less demanding year.
Our major unrestricted free agents are:
Morris Claiborne
Mackenzy Bernadeau
Tyrone Crawford
In other words we don't have any major obligations that run out in 2016.
Which is why if we hold off any major free agent signings until 2016, we'll find ourselves in really good shape that year to fill whatever holes we have from the 2014 and 2015 draft with free agents in 2016 (not to mention the 2016 draft).
Outside of Henry Melton and some people we sign for 1 or 2 year deals, I'm fine with us not breaking the budget over players that usually don't end up working out well anyways. You almost always overpay for free agents in the beginning of the year. You get much better value deals after June.
Tyron Smith
Dez Bryant
DeMarco Murray
Bruce Carter
"Doug Free"
I put Doug Free in quotation marks because we're not going to be keeping him. He'll most likely have to be replaced in the draft either this year or next year.
Tyron Smith and Dez Bryant are going to demand 10+ million each, but that isn't to suggest that they need to have 10 million dollar cap hits in 2015.
It'll be an interesting question as to whether or not we keep DeMarco Murray. One of the only reason why I think we might draft a running back somewhat high this year, is because I don't think the Cowboys have any interest in signing him to what he will ask for, I'm not even sure he would want to re-sign.
Bruce Carter will depend entirely on whether or not he rebounds from a really poor year last year, but I think he has damaged any asking price even if he does rebound. I think he is probably looking at 5 or 6 million per year tops.
So the main issue with the 2015 cap isn't re-signing these guys, I think the biggest issue is whether or not we will be able to sign any free agents that we might need on defense. Romo's base salary is 17 million, and can certainly be moved around as needed though.
My suggestion as others have mentioned is to try to move Dez Bryant rather than pay him 14+ million dollars. I don't know many teams that invest so much in the WR position and turn out wins consistently. Look at the Patriots, they never pay for wide receivers.
What's important to realize is that we're also about 70 million under the cap (assuming it goes to 150 million) in 2016.
2016 would appear to be a much less demanding year.
Our major unrestricted free agents are:
Morris Claiborne
Mackenzy Bernadeau
Tyrone Crawford
In other words we don't have any major obligations that run out in 2016.
Which is why if we hold off any major free agent signings until 2016, we'll find ourselves in really good shape that year to fill whatever holes we have from the 2014 and 2015 draft with free agents in 2016 (not to mention the 2016 draft).
Outside of Henry Melton and some people we sign for 1 or 2 year deals, I'm fine with us not breaking the budget over players that usually don't end up working out well anyways. You almost always overpay for free agents in the beginning of the year. You get much better value deals after June.
