Cowboys are in the worst position financially and personnel wise I can remember

Our team, if healthy, is competitive. Five of our ten losses were by seven points or less. Yes, we are clearly outclassed by Philly and Detroit, and even a fully healthy squad gets trampled (I haven't forgotten that Philly beat us one game with Kenny Pickett). If--and this is a big if--our FO can for one year practice proper cap management and sign a few solid FA's in areas of weakness, we are at least back in the playoff hunt. Two years of proper FO management and team building is badly needed.
 
gtb1943 said:
what school did Walter Payton go to?
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Jackson State, a HBCU---not a Mountain West conference team!! In all fairness, he did change his commitment from Kansas State, so there were D1 schools that wanted him. And those southern HBCU's had a lot of good football players sent to the NFL.
 
StarOfGlory said:
Jackson State, a HBCU---not a Mountain West conference team!! In all fairness, he did change his commitment from Kansas State, so there were D1 schools that wanted him. And those southern HBCU's had a lot of good football players sent to the NFL.
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but what was the overall quality of the opposition?
 
Jkyle said:
The Cowboys are in a horrible state where they are and will be paying several players Top Pay but the team has not and will not achieved any success.
Currently we are paying the Top QB salary, $60 avg to Dak.
2nd highest WR to Cee Dee ($34).
We will be paying Micah the Top DE salary, $35-40 avg.
We will need to resign Aubree who will likely demand and deserve the Top Pay for Kicker, $7 avg.
Tyler Smith is eligible for an extension and will likely and derserve the Top Pay for OL, $21 avg.
It is hard to remember a team paying so many players the Top Pay of their positions and the team has not had any success.
Most teams that pay player like this because those players helped them achieve great success.
We have these "Top Players" but given the lack of depth on the team, all this money will be for naught because having such financial commitments will prevent the team from bringing in additional talent to give the team a chance at capitalizing on having these Top Players.
So we will pay all of them and like many other of our past Top Players since the late 90's, they will likely not achieve anything of significance.
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GM Jethro, likes where we are, he is surprised we are not playing tomorrow.
 
gtb1943 said:
but what was the overall quality of the opposition?
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Does it matter? Look at what he did in the NFL. He got his experience the first year, was AP1 the second year, and had one of the greatest RB seasons ever in his third year. About 10% of the NFL HoF players came from HBCU universities, including Jerry Rice, Jackie Slater, Shannon Sharpe, Michael Strahan, Richard Dent, Everson Walls, Aeneas Williams, Harold Carmichael...these are off the top of my head that I can remember. I'd say the quality of the opposition was damn good.
 
rambo2 said:
It's absolutely obvious that they will draft a running back. It doesn't matter what they did last year. Everybody knows they are drafting a running back. They brought Zeke back because they were stupid.
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well you admit they are stupid, so they may not draft a RB.
you can speculate that they will, but jones boys dont use normal logic.
There is no telling what they will do.

If they let shot do the drafting, then there is a real good chance he takes a RB, maybe even jeanty.
 
DandyDon52 said:
well you admit they are stupid, so they may not draft a RB.
you can speculate that they will, but jones boys dont use normal logic.
There is no telling what they will do.

If they let shot do the drafting, then there is a real good chance he takes a RB, maybe even jeanty.
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They will draft a running back. Trust me. They may draft 2 running backs.
 
StarOfGlory said:
Does it matter? Look at what he did in the NFL. He got his experience the first year, was AP1 the second year, and had one of the greatest RB seasons ever in his third year. About 10% of the NFL HoF players came from HBCU universities, including Jerry Rice, Jackie Slater, Shannon Sharpe, Michael Strahan, Richard Dent, Everson Walls, Aeneas Williams, Harold Carmichael...these are off the top of my head that I can remember. I'd say the quality of the opposition was damn good.
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yep. And he was great because he was great not because of what school and conference he was in. Now to be honest, clearly you were not up against the kind of opposition you would see in the SEC or BigTen but did not matter.
That is why the BS about Jeanty cannot be that good because he was Mountain West is beyond stupid.
I remember a very find QB named Ken Anderson that came from division 3 Augustana.
 
gtb1943 said:
yep. And he was great because he was great not because of what school and conference he was in. Now to be honest, clearly you were not up against the kind of opposition you would see in the SEC or BigTen but did not matter.
That is why the BS about Jeanty cannot be that good because he was Mountain West is beyond stupid.
I remember a very find QB named Ken Anderson that came from division 3 Augustana.
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Andre Reed, Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, London Fletcher, Sam Mills...all from D3 schools. And I believe Villanova was D3 in football when Brian Westbrook was drafted from there.
 
GINeric said:
Well like one poster stated before.... the salary cap is not our real problem. Our management is. What happened or what kind of success did we have when we had PLENTY of cap space???

We still didn't advance through the playoffs. So I don't understand why people are crying about what our top salaried players are making. When the cap space was plentiful, we did absolutely nothing with it.
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We don't have 'Plenty of Cap', with tge draft we're $7m over. What we have is capability to restructure money into forthcoming year's (WHICH ARE ALREADY IN A POSITION OF AMBER WARNING....IF WE CONTINUE TO ADD, WITHOUT SUBTRACTING).
We can create space, but for what, we're berefit in every department, and two of our better plays are convalescing from two serious injuries.
How far do we have to go to get a roster as good as we did in 2023....and that was found wanting vrs good opposition. This organisation needs tearing down from Jerry downwards, rather than this mythical belief that we can spend (or even attract, too FA's).
 
We have just over 100 mil in cap space if we need it. We are not hurting one bit if we want to go get a player or sign guys. ESPN and our 2 conmen named Jerrah and booger been spinning tall tales . Don't take the cheese.
 
CowboyoWales said:
We don't have 'Plenty of Cap', with tge draft we're $7m over. What we have is capability to restructure money into forthcoming year's (WHICH ARE ALREADY IN A POSITION OF AMBER WARNING....IF WE CONTINUE TO ADD, WITHOUT SUBTRACTING).
We can create space, but for what, we're berefit in every department, and two of our better plays are convalescing from two serious injuries.
How far do we have to go to get a roster as good as we did in 2023....and that was found wanting vrs good opposition. This organisation needs tearing down from Jerry downwards, rather than this mythical belief that we can spend (or even attract, too FA's).
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This is wrong. No offense. We have plenty of cap.
 
StarOfGlory said:
Our team, if healthy, is competitive. Five of our ten losses were by seven points or less. Yes, we are clearly outclassed by Philly and Detroit, and even a fully healthy squad gets trampled (I haven't forgotten that Philly beat us one game with Kenny Pickett). If--and this is a big if--our FO can for one year practice proper cap management and sign a few solid FA's in areas of weakness, we are at least back in the playoff hunt. Two years of proper FO management and team building is badly needed.
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We have the cap btw. We are not nearly as broke as the yarns I see being spun. We CAN go sign good players if we want.
 
Jipper said:
the cowboys can free up 100M of cap space if they want to, that doesnt sound like a bad financial position to me.

sure dak's contract sucks but thats just part of the overall
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Exactly correct. People are listening to the ESPNs of the world. They also need to stop taking the cheese from the Jones boys. Folks must do their own research.We have the ability to sign whomever we choose.
 
DasTex said:
There's cap money to be spent on new talent - the Jones boys just won't do it. That's the problem currently
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This is it 100%. We choose to be in this position where other successful organizations find a way to push the cap and get the best possible team on the field. The lack of this coupled with the complete bewilderment by the front office that we haven't won more in the post season is infuriating.
 
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