Contracts next year ?

[Nightman]

From Carr, Austin, Ratliff, Spencer, Free, to Barber, Owens, Davis, even Sensabaugh. This team hands out bad contracts like candy. I'd bet the Cowboys are top 2 or 3 in the entire league in total dead money in the cap era.

It's just horrible mismanagement.

Those are a lot of stretches you are making there. Davis and TO were market value and they produced. Same with Carr so far. Austin has earned his contract and Free is earning his. Sensy was a calculated risk, but not much damage. Barber and Ratliff were bad re-signs, but hindsight makes it look worse. Letting home grown Pro Bowlers walk is never easy.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Don't worry about the scheme. It will change soon enough so investing money into it likely won't happen.

Yea, it kinda depends on how this season goes.

If we dont make the playoffs, there is a very high probability that Reball is on the next Greyhound out of big D and the new head coach might not want to keep the same scheme we are playing now.

Just something to keep in mind if the Ls start piling up over the rest of the season.

 

[riverside4]

Signed a proven DE? And given him a multi-year deal? Or do you think proven DE are just out there willing to pay for peanuts to put on the star? Heaven forbid that same guy goes down and Spencer doesn't. Could you imagine the outrage then?

I guess you missed some of the contracts DE got this year? sorry didn't know

Funny part is at least the guy we would have signed was a DE not a LB

 

[riverside4]

Don't worry about the scheme. It will change soon enough so investing money into it likely won't happen.

Yea that is gonna hurt if we switch again.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

I guess you missed some of the contracts DE got this year? sorry didn't know

Funny part is at least the guy we would have signed was a DE not a LB

The market surprised everyone. But it wasn't like guys were signing for 1 year deals either.

 

[riverside4]

The market surprised everyone. But it wasn't like guys were signing for 1 year deals either.

I know we could have got one to sign for 2 years cheaper than we paid No show Spencer for not showing up one year mind blowing isn't it.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

I know we could have got one to sign for 2 years cheaper than we paid No show Spencer for not showing up one year mind blowing isn't it.

None of the guys on the market were better than Spencer. And again, how can you predict injury?

What's mindblowing is that you think you have a legitimate point.

 

[riverside4]

None of the guys on the market were better than Spencer. And again, how can you predict injury?

What's mindblowing is that you think you have a legitimate point.

i think its you and your man crush on a LB

 

[Nightman]

i think its you and your man crush on a LB

They had to make the decision on Spencer in early March and he was coming off his best season at 29 years old. Letting him go for nothing would've been terrible. He got hurt, it happens.

 

[perrykemp]

1. Lock Dez up for FOREVER. (LOL but kinda serious)

My fear is that Dez will want a Calvin Johnson type of deal -- 7y/$132m ($18.8m/year) -- we could probably ask for with a reasonably straight face.

Its a ton of money to pay a WR.

 

[Risen Star]

Carr, Austin, Ratlif and Spencer were bad contracts?

Yes.

Owens was a bad contract (nevermind he did nothing but produce while here).

Resigning Owens months before releasing him? Yeah, that was kind of a bad contract.

Free was a bad contract?

Yes.

He didn't work out but he played a premium position and played it very well. Top tackle on the market that offseason.

He's a run of the mill mediocre starter you have to hide to get production out of. Hardly worth the numbers in his contract.

I've literally forgotten half of the bad contracts on this team the last 10 years. It's the reason why there's never any cap room. Despite being a bad team most years.

You confuses bad results from bad contracts. Not surprising. It's a particularly obtuse way of thinking about things. Little surpriseyou fall into that camp.

When you sign players to good money and get bad results, it becomes a bad contract.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

It points to poor logic when one conflates results with decision making.

 

[burmafrd]

It points to poor logic when one conflates results with decision making.

so bad results are never the fault of the decisions made. Really. Very interesting way to look at the world. And very wrong.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

so bad results are never the fault of the decisions made. Really. Very interesting way to look at the world. And very wrong.

How did I say that?