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[Deep_Freeze]

Jerry bumbled it from the beginning. He either let the rumors persist or let it be known that he was going to cut Romo. Why would anyone try to trade for Romo if they knew he was going to be released anyway? But maybe Romo would have retired anyway. We will never know. Either way, if there was any chance of a trade, Jerry blew it right from the beginning.

I agree with this, although I don't think Jerry wanted Romo in another uniform from the get go.

To me, either Jerry was a mastermind by getting Romo to retirement or an idiot for not getting something for him.

Up to us to pick which side is true.

 

[Sydla]

I see nothing wrong with any of it. This ranking is based on what these teams did THIS year in the off season.

Cowboys did great in the draft, but I agree they completely whiffed in FA and floundered the Romo situation.

He said the Cowboys should have cut Romo earlier to help sign quality free agents for the defense. Problem is, cutting Romo early saved only $5MM in cap space, which gets you a nice B to C level FA.

In other words, he doesnt' seem to have a clue what he is talking about.

 

[Bullflop]

Our FO did fine and dandy in the draft but failed to secure a backup QB by any means whatsoever in the last two offseasons to make up for the eventual departure of Romo and the presence of the rag-armed Moore. Not attending to getting a backup RT both last year and this one probably didn't impress most outside observers as well. Despite their improvement, I'm afraid it takes more than good drafting to score kudos with those outside of Cowboys Nation. To their credit, however, the FO is positioning themselves to be more effective in veteram free agency in the future. There's still hope for them to do better in the future, all in all, if they continue manipulating their cap health to do that.

 

[Idgit]

I agree with this, although I don't think Jerry wanted Romo in another uniform from the get go.

To me, either Jerry was a mastermind by getting Romo to retirement or an idiot for not getting something for him.

Up to us to pick which side is true.

Dallas handled the Romo situation just fine. Clearly the CBS situation was percolating in the background the entire time, and Romo said publicly he had opportunities to play this year with other teams at the time he took the position. He was also very publicly appreciative of how Jerry handled things from the Cowboys' side.

Fans just didn't know what was going on because the CBS gig and how legitimate an option it was was not public knowledge, and the media was running with speculation and being stupid and sensational like they always do. There's very little else we could or should have done the way the situation worked out.

I still think HOU made a ridiculous series of blunders at the QB position the last two years. The Osweiler disaster, coughing up a high pick to mitigate it, passing on a QB who makes you a legit contender (if the opportunity to sign Romo was really there) for what would have amounted to peanuts, then mortgaging the future for a guy with some question marks, and, finally, heading into the season with what's otherwise a contending roster with Tom Savage as your starting QB. Somebody needs firing over there. Ridiculous.

 

[Deep_Freeze]

Dallas handled the Romo situation just fine. Clearly the CBS situation was percolating in the background the entire time, and Romo said publicly he had opportunities to play this year with other teams at the time he took the position. He was also very publicly appreciative of how Jerry handled things from the Cowboys' side.

Fans just didn't know what was going on because the CBS gig and how legitimate an option it was was not public knowledge, and the media was running with speculation and being stupid and sensational like they always do. There's very little else we could or should have done the way the situation worked out.

I still think HOU made a ridiculous series of blunders at the QB position the last two years. The Osweiler disaster, coughing up a high pick to mitigate it, passing on a QB who makes you a legit contender (if the opportunity to sign Romo was really there) for what would have amounted to peanuts, then mortgaging the future for a guy with some question marks, and, finally, heading into the season with what's otherwise a contending roster with Tom Savage as your starting QB. Somebody needs firing over there. Ridiculous.

I don't have a problem at all with how they handled the situation, we do have the advantage of hindsight of course.

All CBS really has to say to him is, hey you get to talk about football from now til you die......and we will get you on for a hole at the Masters.

As for Houston, anyone who ever even liked Romo couldn't see that happen. Him winning a SB in Houston would've just been horrible, Ware is just a DE, but Romo being the face of this franchise for so long would've pointed straight at Jerry as the reason he didn't have a ring before. So anyone who thinks Jerry would've been happy about that.....I still got that beach front property in Kansas....

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

Considering that we lost 75% of our starting secondary and 40% of our starting OL and are relying on a number of rookies and players coming off injuries as well as playing a 1st place schedule, predicting 9-7 might be spot on or even optimistic.

Both of your percentages are biased. Dallas returns 4 of their Top 7 players in the secondary by snaps. Collins was the starter on the OL before injury. They're not really reliant on rookies per se, although they'd obviously like them to contribute. Tapper and Taco are replacing Jack Crawford. Brown Scandrick and Carroll are likely starters as of today. Anything they get out of the rookies is value added. 1st place schedule but easiest schedule in their division. Every team has players coming off injury.

 

[RS12]

Writers are paid year round to create content. Sometimes it literally has to be created it where it doesnt exist during slow news days.

 

[TheHerd]

Considering that we lost 75% of our starting secondary and 40% of our starting OL and are relying on a number of rookies and players coming off injuries as well as playing a 1st place schedule, predicting 9-7 might be spot on or even optimistic.

Our starting secondary last year was Brown, Scandrick, Carr, Jones, and Church. So we lost Carr and Church (40%), and it's hard to imagine we didn't actually get better in the secondary with Brown not being a rookie, Scandrick being healthier from the start, Jones has a full year at FS, and the new young guys actually might be able to look back for a ball unlike Carr.

Losing Leary was a blow to me, but losing Free may help keep Dak upright. So while 40% is accurate, we lost unquestionably the 2 worst players on the line and one loss should be addition by subtraction at this point.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

Well I don't think they screwed it up. I would rather him not be in another uniform and not have to face him in a SB for Houston.

He got a top level job on CBS for the rest of his life instead.....if you think Jerry (and of course Nantz) had nothing to do with that, well I got some beach front property in Kansas for sale....

I don't know either way how much Jerry had to do with Romo getting the CBS gig, and I won't presume. It wouldn't shock me if Jerry started that conversation. I do know Romo entertained thoughts of retirement before the CBS gig even came together. Once he realized the market wasn't so hot after him, Romo realized he didn't want to play just to play and called it a career.

 

[Idgit]

I don't have a problem at all with how they handled the situation, we do have the advantage of hindsight of course.

All CBS really has to say to him is, hey you get to talk about football from now til you die......and we will get you on for a hole at the Masters.

As for Houston, anyone who ever even liked Romo couldn't see that happen. Him winning a SB in Houston would've just been horrible, Ware is just a DE, but Romo being the face of this franchise for so long would've pointed straight at Jerry as the reason he didn't have a ring before. So anyone who thinks Jerry would've been happy about that.....I still got that beach front property in Kansas....

I believe Romo probably was doing a lot of soul searching after the CBS offer came up. At first, not wanting his playing career to be over, but gradually coming around to the fact that it probably really was the best opportunity for him and his family. Jerry took some heat during that time, but he was probably just fielding calls and running interference.

I'm with you on being glad Tony's not playing elsewhere, especially someplace like HOU that has a claim to a rivalry of sorts with the Cowboys. I'd have liked the extra pick going into the draft, but now after the fact, I'm pretty happy with the way that all turned out.

 

[perrykemp]

The Niners ranked #2 with a new GM who has never been a GM.

49ers, Bucs, and Browns as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th best Front Offices in the NFL?

There are bad articles and then there are BAD articles....

 

[ksadler1]

Based on this past offseason.

Eagles #5. Giants #7. Cowboys #11.

Now moving beyond the silliness of the Eagles at #5, who can point out the absurdity in his Cowboys commentary?

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/n...s-buccaneers-challenge-patriots-for-top-spot/

When ranking FO's, it's hard to overlook the fact that Jerry has pretty much done nothing since Jimmy left. I know people get tired of hearing that, but if Jerry wants to crawl out of Jimmy's shadow, he needs start winning titles, and division titles don't cut it. This FO pretty much wasted Romo's career and I have a hard time forgiving them for that.....

 

[Idgit]

49ers, Bucs, and Browns as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th best Front Offices in the NFL?

There are bad articles and then there are BAD articles....

This reads like some editor tasked a junior employee to do a 'best front offices in football' piece for the long offseason, and he got back a 'best offseasons according to this one dude' piece instead. And then they were too lazy to fix it, so they just ran with it and tried to jam the content into the original assigned topic and it didn't quite work.

 

[Preoccupied]

This

Not really a front office power ranking. It's a ranking of how he thinks each team's offseason went. Also, he doesn't really understand how the salary cap works.

Plus

"Eagles #5. Giants #7. Cowboys #11"


Fantasy island......


Hey boss the plane, the plane.

 

[diefree666]

This article was truly a waste of time. Did not do what it claimed and showed stupidity and ignorance in equal proportions. All in all a typical article for this day and age.

If you are ranking FO's then only winning counts. Clearly #1 is and has been the Pats; after that you can get some arguments. Seattle, Pittsburgh, Denver, Green Bay would all be pushing for #2 if you look at the last 5 years. Probably could throw a blanket over all four of them. After that I see a gap to just about everyone else.

 

[IrishAnto]

Both of your percentages are biased. Dallas returns 4 of their Top 7 players in the secondary by snaps. Collins was the starter on the OL before injury. They're not really reliant on rookies per se, although they'd obviously like them to contribute. Tapper and Taco are replacing Jack Crawford. Brown Scandrick and Carroll are likely starters as of today. Anything they get out of the rookies is value added. 1st place schedule but easiest schedule in their division. Every team has players coming off injury.

Biased?

Collins started at left Guard not right tackle and if he's stays at guard then who you got at RT?

Chaz Green who hasn't shown the ability to stay healthy and a Carolina cast off whose best position is guard or any other JAG they can lay their hands on.

Tapper and Taco who's combined snaps = 0

Scandrick who wasn’t the same player after the injury and is now over 30 and Carroll who got beat more regularly that a punch bag.

Oh and let’s not forget team chemistry which in the secondary is gone west!

Boy there’s many around here who are potentially setting themselves up for a lot of disappointment next season.

 

[IrishAnto]

Our starting secondary last year was Brown, Scandrick, Carr, Jones, and Church. So we lost Carr and Church (40%), and it's hard to imagine we didn't actually get better in the secondary with Brown not being a rookie, Scandrick being healthier from the start, Jones has a full year at FS, and the new young guys actually might be able to look back for a ball unlike Carr.

Losing Leary was a blow to me, but losing Free may help keep Dak upright. So while 40% is accurate, we lost unquestionably the 2 worst players on the line and one loss should be addition by subtraction at this point.

I see you forgot to mention Wilcox or Claiborne so your 40% is pure BS.

I love this addition by subtraction BS.

That's right the new young guys will be better than Carr (after all our second round pick had a total of 3 interceptions for his whole career) and any Jag we throw out at RT will be better than Free.

It's a wonder we don't win the SB every year!

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Yeah I was gonna say no way you can rank front office like this but you can rank the offseason like this.

But someone help me out.....he says Cowboys should've released Romo sooner so they can have more money but wasn't Romo always going to be a June 1st cut because it hit our cap less?

 

[gimmesix]

Jerry bumbled it from the beginning. He either let the rumors persist or let it be known that he was going to cut Romo. Why would anyone try to trade for Romo if they knew he was going to be released anyway? But maybe Romo would have retired anyway. We will never know. Either way, if there was any chance of a trade, Jerry blew it right from the beginning.

It's silly to believe there is any GMs who thought that Romo would not be released, whether Jerry said it or not. There was no way Dallas was keeping him as a backup. The only question for GMs is when would he be released and would they have to bid for his services? Those were the only reasons to trade for him, not anything to do with Jerry letting it be known that he was going to cut Romo.

Ultimately, Jerry holding on to him longer than expected proved to be the best move because Romo retired rather than being released and signing with another team. When Romo decided to retire that ended any reason to hold on to him to try to draw a trade.

 

[gmoney112]

Wow, and I do NOT say this lightly, but


Sean Wagner is doo doo dumb.