waving monkey
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The Cowboys, in no small part due to the fact that they had 23 impending free agents, went into this offseason with a lot of questions to answer. Nevertheless, they spent wisely, managing to get excellent value for their dollars as well as their draft picks. As a result, the 2015 iteration of your Beloved 'Boys reflects the priorities of its head coach: youth, depth, athleticism.
Back in mid-February, I offered up a series of posts in which I looked at the offseason task facing our fave team. My starting point was to imagine I was a member of the Dallas braintrust, tasked to address a pair of questions: first, what positions need to be filled and/or replaced? and second, how might we best address those roster spots: via free agency? the draft? a combination of the two? The first step was to take a long, hard look at the Cowboys roster. As we waved goodbye to the 2014 campaign and to the legion of Cowboys whose contracts expired as the season did, a gander at the Cowboys' depth chart offered myriad questions:
How would they proceed in free agency? How would they prioritize their 23 free agents, sixteen of whom were of the unrestricted type? If forced to choose, which of their two offensive superstars would they retain, Dez Bryant or DeMarco Murray? What would they do at right tackle, where both players who logged serious snaps in 2014 were UFAs? Would they try to keep any of the eight front-seven players who would be going on the open market? If so, who would they prioritize? If not, how could they afford to fill all those positions so that their hand wasn't forced in the draft?
See? A lot of questions. The Cowboys had seven draft picks and a decent but not exorbitant amount of free agent money with which to try to answer them. For the most part, they used these limited resources efficiently, engineering a roster overhaul that, for the second consecutive year, was particularly impressive on the defensive side of the ball.
linkhttp://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015/5/15/8548007/building-the-cowboys-roster-assessing-the-2015-offseason
Back in mid-February, I offered up a series of posts in which I looked at the offseason task facing our fave team. My starting point was to imagine I was a member of the Dallas braintrust, tasked to address a pair of questions: first, what positions need to be filled and/or replaced? and second, how might we best address those roster spots: via free agency? the draft? a combination of the two? The first step was to take a long, hard look at the Cowboys roster. As we waved goodbye to the 2014 campaign and to the legion of Cowboys whose contracts expired as the season did, a gander at the Cowboys' depth chart offered myriad questions:
How would they proceed in free agency? How would they prioritize their 23 free agents, sixteen of whom were of the unrestricted type? If forced to choose, which of their two offensive superstars would they retain, Dez Bryant or DeMarco Murray? What would they do at right tackle, where both players who logged serious snaps in 2014 were UFAs? Would they try to keep any of the eight front-seven players who would be going on the open market? If so, who would they prioritize? If not, how could they afford to fill all those positions so that their hand wasn't forced in the draft?
See? A lot of questions. The Cowboys had seven draft picks and a decent but not exorbitant amount of free agent money with which to try to answer them. For the most part, they used these limited resources efficiently, engineering a roster overhaul that, for the second consecutive year, was particularly impressive on the defensive side of the ball.
linkhttp://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015/5/15/8548007/building-the-cowboys-roster-assessing-the-2015-offseason
