2021-2023 all over again

[shabazz]

......except that Washington is now the 2nd best team in the East and has only gotten BETTER because they utilize free agency in a meaningful way courtesy of an active GM and a rookie qb contract

No more beating up on the other 2 teams in the East

 

[JBS]

Dallas free agency model here isn't unknown and certainly not shocking.
They are filling the team with lower tier free agents and lower tier trade guys
They will say this allows them to draft BPA. But really it is just about filling out the bottom of the roster.

And it is annoying; but it also has a pretty good track record... in the regular season.
3 straight 12-win years.

Not going to excite anyone buy at least it isn't last year's non-existent plan of just waiting on CeeDee and Dak while doing absolutely nothing.

Hahahahahaha

Might be the dumbest post I’ve seen in here in quite some time

 

[JayFord]

......except that Washington is now the 2nd best team in the East and has only gotten BETTER because they utilize free agency in a meaningful way courtesy of an active GM and a rookie qb contract

No more beating up on the other 2 teams in the East

Washington almost got swept by Dallas 2nd and 3rd team

And the east is always unpredictable they could go 5-12 next year

Only constant here is Dallas losing in the playoffs first game

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I agree, it's not realistic to blow it up during the off-season but if they have a losing record close to the trade deadline during the season, I would make every non-rookie-contract player along with any rookie contract players not expected to return next season available for 2026 draft picks.

I get the impulse but it doesn't make sense. Dak is under contract and while he might not be a good playoff QB he is a very above average regular season QB.

We cannot cut Dak for 2 more years. If you want o get mad at Jerry for putting us in that position then okay but I just see that as wasted emotion. What is done is done and unless we remove property rights from law, the Joneses stay.

Instead of blowing it up try a different change than this most recent one and then reevaluate and improve and repeat. That is good change management.

It's like this blowing up the team is proxy for blowing up Jerry. It isn't going to happen.

 

[Reality]

I get the impulse but it doesn't make sense. Dak is under contract and while he might not be a good playoff QB he is a very above average regular season QB.

We cannot cut Dak for 2 more years. If you want o get mad at Jerry for putting us in that position then okay but I just see that as wasted emotion. What is done is done and unless we remove property rights from law, the Joneses stay.

Instead of blowing it up try a different change than this most recent one and then reevaluate and improve and repeat. That is good change management.

It's like this blowing up the team is proxy for blowing up Jerry. It isn't going to happen.

My post was not about Dak, but the team and salary cap situation in general.

Regarding Dak though, he is going to heavily impact the salary cap with dead money regardless of when he leaves the Cowboys even if even finishes out his current contract because they added voidable years on to the end to spred out the cap hit and those will accelerate.

I do not expect the Cowboys to release Dak until they have another franchise quarterback (interim or rookie) to replace him, so that will likely end up influencing when (or if) they ultimately release him (or trade him with his approval).

Because the following year's contract is guaranteed a few days after the start of a new NFL season (in March), at best they will absorb a full season of salary (plus remaining upfront money of course) hit if they release him before his contract ends.

On the bright side, if they are going to release him before his contract ends, we know it will most likely happen between the end of the season and March (depending on when the new NFL season starts) so they can avoid an extra season of dead money salary which becomes guaranteed.

At this point, the smart money move for the Cowboys is to start trying to find Dak's replacement and if they do at some point, then they bench Dak rather than release him since it will likely cost them more in salary cap space to release him (due to accelerated remaining upfront money) than keep him as insurance.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

My post was not about Dak, but the team and salary cap situation in general.

Regarding Dak though, he is going to heavily impact the salary cap with dead money regardless of when he leaves the Cowboys even if even finishes out his current contract because they added voidable years on to the end to spred out the cap hit and those will accelerate.

I do not expect the Cowboys to release Dak until they have another franchise quarterback (interim or rookie) to replace him, so that will likely end up influencing when (or if) they ultimately release him (or trade him with his approval).

Because the following year's contract is guaranteed a few days after the start of a new NFL season (in March), at best they will absorb a full season of salary (plus remaining upfront money of course) hit if they release him before his contract ends.

On the bright side, if they are going to release him before his contract ends, we know it will most likely happen between the end of the season and March (depending on when the new NFL season starts) so they can avoid an extra season of dead money salary which becomes guaranteed.

At this point, the smart money move for the Cowboys is to start trying to find Dak's replacement and if they do at some point, then they bench Dak rather than release him since it will likely cost them more in salary cap space to release him (due to accelerated remaining upfront money) than keep him as insurance.

I get that. I am just saying that Dak's contract dictates the salary cap situation. They cannot afford to make his 25% cap hit go up.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/19089/dak-prescott

Spotrac has it until after 2027 before it breaks even. We all know how Jerry is about sunk costs.

I know you are a multilevel thinker. I have seen it in your site design here alone. I know you are not likely to oversimplify to Dak is fault of all.

However his contract is a big hot mess for the cap situation.

 

[Reality]

I get that. I am just saying that Dak's contract dictates the salary cap situation. They cannot afford to make his 25% cap hit go up.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/19089/dak-prescott

Spotrac has it until after 2027 before it breaks even. We all know how Jerry is about sunk costs.

I know you are a multilevel thinker. I have seen it in your site design here alone. I know you are not likely to oversimplify to Dak is fault of all.

However his contract is a big hot mess for the cap situation.

Oh I agree.

I was not in favor of signing him to a new contract for the amount they gave him, but they did so they are stuck with it.

This is just the first year of his new contract so I don't see Jerry releasing him until 2027, especially with the huge salary cap hit in 2025 and 2026 as you pointed out.

Even if they find a great quarterback in the draft over the next couple of years, it would be better to keep Dak as a backup than it would to release him since they would be paying for him either way.