2023 NFL free agency team-by-team grades: Cowboys earn A-

[CowboyFrog]

We still need two running backs, a guard, a defensive tackle and a linebacker, and those aren’t in the draft maybe one of the running backs is .

Plenty of RB options, DT will be tough they for sure can find an OG in the draft but it will cost an early pick..LB will be the interesting spot to me. They signed LVE and have a couple "See them grow" LB's from previous drafts, do they swing at a Wagner or we going to actually see one of these "He grew up" LB's. I dont see the DT any of us want unless something crazy happens in the draft.

 

[stiletto]

I don't care what you agree with. I seek no confirmation from you. I'm telling you that you should never handle the draft incorrectly because of anything that's happened in free agency. A short sighted boob would do that.

This notion that if we can just sign this player and that player we can approach the draft properly is idiotic.

Agree/Disagree. Don't care.

Likewise, could careless what some "board" mouse-clicking happy-boy thinks of me either. You just log on here for kicks like the rest of us. We all hope it isn't your main life-goal to get likes on a 25 year old Internet technology? Right? Please tell us it isn't about the likes and that you'd actually like to contribute something useful? Hope so...

So, if you think you are so right all the time...why don't you own a NFL team bro? Face it buddy, you are just a guy like the rest of us. Congrats, you are king of LIKES on a 25 year old internet technology. If I am wrong, direct me to your "Influencer" page. Doubt it exists. LOL

 

[DallasEast]

Normally, I would bet on The Butcher. Close range fighter. Deadly with knives.

However, Boba Fett will flamethrower you to death at short distances. Blast you to bits with air-to-ground missiles from long distance. Then there is the blaster at any distance.

There Will Be Blood either way.

 

[CowboyFrog]

Normally, I would bet on The Butcher. Close range fighter. Deadly with knives.

However, Boba Fett will flamethrower you to death at short distances. Blast you to bits with air-to-ground missiles from long distance. Then there is the blaster at any distance.

There Will Be Blood either way.

It would be the exact meaning of "Bringing a knife to a blaster/rocket/flamethrower fight"..lol

 

[stiletto]

Normally, I would bet on The Butcher. Close range fighter. Deadly with knives.

However, Boba Fett will flamethrower you to death at short distances. Blast you to bits with air-to-ground missiles from long distance. Then there is the blaster at any distance.

There Will Be Blood either way.

It is the way.. LOL

 

[dlobell]

Best I can give you is Neville Gallimore. Here he’s going to have a “great camp” and the “lights will come on” or any typical mantra we hear about DTs every year lol

Frig that! We need a stud defensive tackle to plug the middle and get a surge up the middle. Would help the DE’s tremendously.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Still need a DT and some OL depth.

 

[CCBoy]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that sees through his act

Well over a decade...but a 'Cowboys' fan...just barely pretty, but a member.

 

[DallasEast]

It is the way.. LOL

Hey Hey Hey! The armor's Mandalorian. Fett does not walk The Path. Do not unleash my inner Star Wars nerd!

 

[buybuydandavis]

Elliott averaged 3.9 yards per touch in 2022, the lowest in the NFL among those with over 200 touches.

Production stopper.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

CBS really likes what Dallas has done so far since the start of the new league year:
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Key additions: CB Stephon Gilmore (Colts, via trade), WR Brandin Cooks (Texans, via trade). Key re-signings: S Donovan Wilson, LB Leighton Vander Esch, OT Tyron Smith, QB Cooper Rush

The Cowboys were relatively quiet on Day 1 of free agency but made some noise on Day 2 by re-signing two key defensive players and adding another via a trade with the Colts. They had previously put running back Tony Pollard on the non-exclusive franchise tag. Pollard is certainly a player Dallas needed to keep considering his 5.9 yards per touch led the entire NFL this season among players with 200 or more touches. Pollard's yards per touch figure was more than Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor'sleague-leading 5.8 yards per touch in 2021 when he was the NFL's rushing champ.

Tuesday was the day of the big acquisition, acquiring a former NFL Defensive Player of the Year in cornerback Stephon Gilmore by sending a fifth-round pick to the Indianapolis Colts. He'll be a rental at 33 years old, entering the last year of his contract, but Gilmore can be a strong CB2 opposite Trevon Diggs. That was a spot Dallas struggled to find continuity at between injuries and underperformance.

However, tying up nearly a quarter of their salary cap in their running back room between Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott isn't a winning formula, especially in 2023. Something Jerry Jones finally realized as he cut Zeke loose on Wednesday and freed up $10.9 million in cap space to address other roster needs. A shrewd move considering Elliott averaged 3.9 yards per touch in 2022, the lowest in the NFL among those with over 200 touches. Losing their second-most productive wide receiver after CeeDee Lamb, Noah Brown, to the Houston Texans on a one-year, $2.6 million deal hurts, but he could be replaced with a draft pick in April.
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Read about the rest of the teams below:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...ile-bears-eagles-seahawks-also-among-winners/

They also say Philly has done well. I really don't see it. They have lost their OC and DC, key pieces on defense in Hargrave and Gardner Johnson, and will have to rebuild the OL.

A few of the guys they resigned are on the downside, particularly Cox

 

[big dog cowboy]

We still need two running backs, a guard, a defensive tackle and a linebacker, and those aren’t in the draft

 

[gimmesix]

When you get a starting corner and wide receiver for two fifth rounders and a sixth, you're doing pretty good in the offseason.... I give them an B+, if they got a monster run stuffing defensive tackle, it would be an A+

It's almost funny how much we prefer to use trades over free agency to acquire high-value players. The Joneses seem to just think they are going to get robbed in free agency. I'm OK with what we paid for both of these players. I just find the Joneses' aversion to free agency peculiar.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

I'm with you. Guard or LB in first and second. RB in third or later. NT is the only trouble spot.

 

[CouchCoach]

We still need two running backs, a guard, a defensive tackle and a linebacker, and those aren’t in the draft maybe one of the running backs is .

Who took them out of the draft? I suspect that damned Goodell, trying to keep the Cowboys down. Bet he puts them right back in after the Cowboys pick.

 

[CowboyRoy]

You're trying. I'll give you that.

I know you won't understand this but I'll say it one time. Whenever there's a true BPA on the board you should draft that player regardless of need.

You don't have a clue of what you're talking about. You're a fan boy who wants to treat the NFL Draft as merely an extension to free agency. The only thing on your mind is 2023 because that's all you're capable of.

100% absolutely not. any GM that blindly takes bpa every time won’t be gm for long.

 

[MAZEREZAM]

We still need two running backs, a guard, a defensive tackle and a linebacker, and those aren’t in the draft maybe one of the running backs is .

Why do we need 2 RBs?

 

[CowboyRoy]

I don't care what you agree with. I seek no confirmation from you. I'm telling you that you should never handle the draft incorrectly because of anything that's happened in free agency. A short sighted boob would do that.

This notion that if we can just sign this player and that player we can approach the draft properly is idiotic.

Agree/Disagree. Don't care.

Lol……so what happens in fa has no affect on what we should do in the draft?


are you drunk? Lol

so basically you have no plan for the draft? Just blindly go in and take bpa every time?

sure buddy

 

[JayFord]

Eagles did better

theyre playing 4D chess right now watch out

 

[Ken]

Now we are handing out grades before FA actually starts lol?