Bill Barnwell: Jerry's Broken Toy

[Eddie]

The apologists will simply say that we're doing fine. We'll just restructure a few contracts and voila, instant competitive team.

No other team is even remotely close to $31 over the cap for next year. I guess we're the only ones in on this secret of pushing money into the future. Jerry Jones has been doing it for years ... and has a single playoff win in 17 years to show for it.

Yes, we're doing great. Another 8-8 season looms ... great work.

 

[Common Sense]

You are projecting the finished product, not the starting point. The only important number until the 2014 season starts in Sept is the Top 51. To go from 45 to 51 only adds 2.4m to the 143m under contract right now. That's still 145-146m. Restructuring Romo and Ware HAS to happen and those 2 alone will get them under the cap. Everything after that is dependent on what they do with Hatcher and Waters and the Draft. But there are plenty of moves to make to keep those guys and even add a few FAs.

Really? $2.4 million is smaller than Morris Claiborne's rookie season cap hit. You're just making up numbers.

 

[windward]

No but he worked out of and officed at the stadium where they had their offices and had meetings with Jerry and the rest of the Jones' weekly. He got to see weekly the inner workings of the organization and he spent weekly time with ex-players who had an ear on how things were run. Not hearsay if he told me his direct observations. It wasn't like he was a box office guy. This was high level sales to some of the wealthiest people in DFW when the stadium needed to sell suites. Jerry was very involved. I guess private jetting to away games with the Jones' is just b.s. time. If you want to hide your head in the sand and wait for one year out of 8 that one day shows we can get above .500, go for it. I've been following since 1975 and am used to excellence, not mediocrity. The fact that you are buying into the same "process" that failed Saban, a protege, in the NFL, shows you have zero clue. It's amazing that the Chiefs are undefeated after being one of the worst teams in the league just because of a new coach. Where is the rebuild? But, but...

And what was the timeframe for this?

 

[windward]

And what was the timeframe for this?

Nvmind re read post.

 

[Nightman]

Really? $2.4 million is smaller than Morris Claiborne's rookie season cap hit. You're just making up numbers.

It's 6 guys at the league minimum futures contract at 400k each. Again we are talking about the roster in March, not the finished product in September. A lot of changes will occur between the start of the league year and the start of the regular season. Designating a guy like Austin a post June 1st cut creates more than enough room for the draft picks, the extra 2 roster spots to get to 53 and the practice squad.

Think of it in parts
1st part- Early March 2014, create enough space to get under the cap
2nd part-Mid March 2014, create enough space to sign some FAs and/or resign your own players
3rd part- June 2nd 2014, create enough space to sign draft picks and any remaining FA bargains
4th part- Sept 2014 Final Cuts, create space or use remaining space for the 2 guys added to the 53 man roster(1m), practice squad(800k) and leave enough for injury replacements
5th part- If there is still money left you can extend guys like Dez and TSmith, make trades or roll it over to the next year

 

[junk]

I guess Parcells has a lifetime pass for his failures with this organization.

Failed draft classes, millions wasted on subpar free agents doesn't matter to the masses. He won 2 SB w/ Giants!

Also made the playoffs twice in four years. Once with Quincy at QB.

Garrett hasn't even managed to get above 3rd in the East or into the playoffs and he started with a lot more than Parcells did. Garrett started with a legitimate Pro Bowl caliber QB, a HoF caliber TE and HoF caliber DE.

I know Parcells came up short overall in his time in Dallas, but he revamped the scouting department and built the foundation this team is still relying on today. Heck, people want to pretend RKG is something Garrett invented.

 

[junk]

Dallas has been and will continue to be cap constrained.

You can get compliant in 2014 fairly easily with restructures of Carr, Witten and Romo along with cuts of Bernadeau, Costa and Miles (I'd like to accelerate all his bonus in 2014 which would only save $400K, but ensure no dead money in 2015). That, along with rolling over like $2 million in unused cap from this year, should get you about $700K under the cap next year.

You could get more space if you decide to restructure Ware ($8.4 million) and cut Orton (about 1 million). You may very well have to do that to afford your rookies. I think their pool was like

The bigger problem is 2015 when the team would have about $120 million committed (w/out Ware restructure) and $123 million (w/ Ware restructure). Only problem is that is for only 26 people under contract and doesn't include Dez, Carter or Murray. It also includes about $100 million in cap charges for 8 players (Romo, Ware, Witten, Carr, Free, Scandrick, Claiborne, Lee)

 

[Gameover]

Also made the playoffs twice in four years. Once with Quincy at QB.

Garrett hasn't even managed to get above 3rd in the East or into the playoffs and he started with a lot more than Parcells did. Garrett started with a legitimate Pro Bowl caliber QB, a HoF caliber TE and HoF caliber DE.

I know Parcells came up short overall in his time in Dallas, but he revamped the scouting department and built the foundation this team is still relying on today. Heck, people want to pretend RKG is something Garrett invented.

He made countless personnel mistakes and flat out blew two drafts. Nobody is winning anything because they have a potential HOF TE. And the QB is an anchor that holds this team down.

 

[Nightman]

Dallas has been and will continue to be cap constrained.

You can get compliant in 2014 fairly easily with restructures of Carr, Witten and Romo along with cuts of Bernadeau, Costa and Miles (I'd like to accelerate all his bonus in 2014 which would only save $400K, but ensure no dead money in 2015). That, along with rolling over like $2 million in unused cap from this year, should get you about $700K under the cap next year.

You could get more space if you decide to restructure Ware ($8.4 million) and cut Orton (about 1 million). You may very well have to do that to afford your rookies. I think their pool was like

The bigger problem is 2015 when the team would have about $120 million committed (w/out Ware restructure) and $123 million (w/ Ware restructure). Only problem is that is for only 26 people under contract and doesn't include Dez, Carter or Murray. It also includes about $100 million in cap charges for 8 players (Romo, Ware, Witten, Carr, Free, Scandrick, Claiborne, Lee)

Right or wrong Dallas is committed to restructure shuffle as long as Romo is the QB. They can't really change course since they have already kicked the can down the road to try and win now. The post Romo era will probably include a pretty substantial rebuild and that would be the time to fix the cap "problem". Unless they can get a fair trade for Ware next offseason they will have to restructure him as well and probably again in 2015.

 

[Doomsay]

He made countless personnel mistakes and flat out blew two drafts. Nobody is winning anything because they have a potential HOF TE. And the QB is an anchor that holds this team down.

What?

 

[Gameover]

What?

Check the 2004 and 2006 drafts.

Anthony Henry
Broke back Marco Rivera
Coleman
The idiot kicker
Ryan young

Some of Parcells failed signings.

 

[Hoofbite]

He made countless personnel mistakes and flat out blew two drafts. Nobody is winning anything because they have a potential HOF TE. And the QB is an anchor that holds this team down.

This is obviously why the team has invested so much into the 2nd TE position.

 

[Blackspider214]

hopefully jerry finally wakes up from his brain dead state after this ratliff fiasco. but yeah that's a pretty damning article. it all starts with the draft. you don't draft well then you're forced to overpay for vets.

Exactly. Only recently has our drafting improved. It will take a couple more good drafts to replace the rest of the waste we have on this team. And he needs to figure out youth is the name of the game in this league. At least in most positions other than QB. It's ok to be a little older there. But giving these stupid contracts to older players has to stop.

I just fear by the time this mess is cleaned up, if it ever is, Romo will be gone. And we will have no one to replace him.

 

[Miller]

HE got us to mediocrity with bottom tier talent on the field. So yeah, I would want him back. Im amazed that weve been an 8-8 team, frankly. This type of complete rebuild normally involves several sub .500 years.

What do you think now Matts? Like I said....

 

[junk]

He made countless personnel mistakes and flat out blew two drafts. Nobody is winning anything because they have a potential HOF TE. And the QB is an anchor that holds this team down.

He took a perennial 5-11 team and returned them to somewhat relevance. Without him mining Romo, we're still floundering around with the Chad Hutchinsons and Ryan Leafs of the world. They're still using a lot of what he taught them when it comes to scouting.

 

[junk]

Right or wrong Dallas is committed to restructure shuffle as long as Romo is the QB. They can't really change course since they have already kicked the can down the road to try and win now. The post Romo era will probably include a pretty substantial rebuild and that would be the time to fix the cap "problem". Unless they can get a fair trade for Ware next offseason they will have to restructure him as well and probably again in 2015.

If you have a high end QB, you are always going to invest a fair amount in that QB. That isn't the problem right now. It is the contracts of Ratliff, Austin, Ware, Witten, Carr and Scandrick that are the problem.

It'll never happen, but moving Ware for a high round pick, if you can get it, would be a really smart move this offseason. Similar to NE moving Seymour.

 

[Gameover]

He took a perennial 5-11 team and returned them to somewhat relevance. Without him mining Romo, we're still floundering around with the Chad Hutchinsons and Ryan Leafs of the world. They're still using a lot of what he taught them when it comes to scouting.

Believe what you want. His time in dallas was much to do about nothing.

 

[mmohican29]

Check the 2004 and 2006 drafts.

Anthony Henry
Broke back Marco Rivera
Coleman
The idiot kicker
Ryan young

Some of Parcells failed signings.

let me add some:

Vinny "hot garbage" Testaverde
Drew "has been" Bledsloe
Richie "pamela" Anderson
Aaron "hasbeen" Glenn (he wasn't too bad actually)

 

[Gameover]

let me add some:

Vinny "hot garbage" Testaverde
Drew "has been" Bledsloe
Richie "pamela" Anderson
Aaron "hasbeen" Glenn (he wasn't too bad actually)

We got Bledslow when Kurt Warner was available. People in the Org. wanted to bring in Charles Woodson... guess who didn't?

 

[perrykemp]

We got Bledslow when Kurt Warner was available. People in the Org. wanted to bring in Charles Woodson... guess who didn't?

Was there any info ever shared on why Jerry didn't want Warner or Woodson?