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Adding A Little Perspective To Cowboys Free Agency: Learning From Last Year In The NFL
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...ttle-perspective-to-2015-2016-nfl-free-agency
It has become a yearly rite for fans of the Dallas Cowboys. Free agency opens with a rush of big name, big dollar moves, but the Cowboys remain true to their well-established policy of letting free agency come to them. It is especially agonizing when they see NFC East rivals garnering big headlines with major deals, like the one the New York Giants concluded with Olivier Vernon. There are often heated discussions about how Dallas is letting opportunity pass them by.
It may be hard, but first and foremost it is important to remember that we are in the first day of "real" free agency. It will be a week or more before we have anything like a good picture of who the Cowboys will wind up signing (or, as is the case with Rolando McClain, re-signing). And even then, we will not know how effective free agency was for Dallas or any other team. That will not be fully determined until January when we see who makes the playoffs. Even then, free agency is just part of the story, and the Cowboys have clearly adopted the view it is of secondary importance to the draft...
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...ttle-perspective-to-2015-2016-nfl-free-agency
It has become a yearly rite for fans of the Dallas Cowboys. Free agency opens with a rush of big name, big dollar moves, but the Cowboys remain true to their well-established policy of letting free agency come to them. It is especially agonizing when they see NFC East rivals garnering big headlines with major deals, like the one the New York Giants concluded with Olivier Vernon. There are often heated discussions about how Dallas is letting opportunity pass them by.
It may be hard, but first and foremost it is important to remember that we are in the first day of "real" free agency. It will be a week or more before we have anything like a good picture of who the Cowboys will wind up signing (or, as is the case with Rolando McClain, re-signing). And even then, we will not know how effective free agency was for Dallas or any other team. That will not be fully determined until January when we see who makes the playoffs. Even then, free agency is just part of the story, and the Cowboys have clearly adopted the view it is of secondary importance to the draft...