This just isn't true.
The TE market is increasing rapidly.
Schultz market value is 12.6M per year according to Spotrac.
You are getting him for less than that with no future guarantee.
This draft class is reportedly awful at TE. None in R1 on most boards.
I am a fan of the ISU kid Charlie Kolar but he's generally regarded as a 125-175 area player. Not a day 1 starter.
And the FA class is definitely bad right now.
Gronk is retiring.
Evan Engram is always hurt.
Ertz is older and been demoted once.
So not a lot of good options there imo.
A guy like Njoku has been inconsistent yet has great upside.. but PFF suggests he gets 12.5M per year.
I mean you can generally never say never but if there is a great deal at TE it feels like you'd have to gamble on someone growing into the role or displaying better health.
It is true. Schultz is a mediocre tight end, who isn’t a very good blocker and he has inflated stats because he was the 4th or 5th passing option and defenses were more worried about the receivers.
he is mediocre. I don’t care what his “projected” contract numbers are. Just because other people may want to overpay him, doesn’t mean the cowboys should.
he is a dime a dozen TE. An easily replaceable player.
let’s stop talking about him like he is a stud. You mention the draft class. Well Schultz himself was a 4th rounder. You can get TE’a with his talent level in the 3rd/4th round.
he isn’t a top 5 TE and cutting a guy like Cooper to pay him top 5 money even for one season is insanity.
this front office doesn’t know what they’re doing.
Also. If you franchise tag him. To what end? He becomes a FA again the next year. Are the cowboys winning the Super Bowl this year? Cutting Cooper and/or tank but keeping Schultz helps attain that goal this year?
if not, they need to resign him or let him walk next year?
If they’re going to go for it. I would rather they keep everyone, restructure some deals and get aggressive and do it.
cutting Cooper and/or tank to help keep an inferior player like Schultz is my main issue. It makes no sense.