Cowboys are Lifting the Floor not Raising Their Ceiling

[Flamma]

I agree to some extent, but we're still scraping the supposed scum off the floor and hoping it's not scum. What we pay means we either get low-cost players who have not proven worthy of much compensation (Turner, Elam, Sanborn, Murray, Williams, Campbell, Jones) or players nearing the end of their career (Thomas, Sanders, Fowler).

It's understandable that you have to add some of those kind of FAs, but that doesn't mean you've improved the position. You may have just swapped one low-quality player for another and in some cases, you may have gotten worse (Lewis for Elam, Turner for Lawrence/Golston, for instance).

Now, we still have the draft to go, but we didn't use free agency to clearly improve the roster. Our pro scouts/coaches have to be proven to have been right about their evaluations of these low-cost FAs for that to happen. Of course, like you said, at least this time we seemed to be picking the low-cost FAs that we wanted from the start instead of waiting for them to be picked through and then choosing from what was left. We'll see if that changes anything.

I agree completely. I find the last part interesting. How much will that really matter? It's akin to me picking through my neighbor's garbage before the bears get to it. Upgraded pieces? I guess. But it's still garbage.

 

[kskboys]

Jerry isnt doing this lol, he doesnt even know any of the guys they signed, except fowler.
I think maybe jerry and or his boy laid out a budget, so mcclay and shot are working within that.

If you still think cowboys are a 9 win team after the draft , pm me and I might bet with you on that.

Unless Dak gets hurt, that is exactly what they are. Relevance, that's what all these signings are about.

 

[plasticman]

They are definitely in need of an historic draft.

Good luck with that.

They have great analytics, lousy decision makers.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You missed the point.

They just did what they always do. Every year they sign JAGs like we did this year and they are never more than depth pieces at best.

While other teams use FA for both depth and to try to fill some key needs, we just sign guys that largely end up as warm bodies to fill out a roster.

If your point is we just signed more JAGs than we did last year, I mean I guess you can be happy about it but at the end of the day it’s the same situation - a team with a ton of holes, ignored in FA and some misguided belief that the draft will solve our problems.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Oh I get that.

You just call every signing ever a JAG as if they are all exactly the same. Pretend they all failed. I reject your category categorically.

Last couple years were certainly piss poor FA performance. OTOH, Kearse, Hooker, and others started and contributed from the same source. Prima facie your category is trash.

Just make your sig, 'everything sucks' and stop pretending your inflammatory categorization is based on reality.

What you are doing is the opposite of detailed analysis.

That was not all you said though. You said that what they did had no value. You ignored that to go with this JAG dismissal.

Haiving injury replacements that are not street FA does help a team. Is it going to win a playoff game? No but it will help you get snakenit by injuries and wreck a season over a span of a few weeks.

You recall the LB performance when Kendricks and OVershown got injured last season?

Oh wait they are all JAGs and that is all the thought you will put into it.