TheMarathonContinues
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Players get overpaid but that doesn't mean Jerry should contribute to that.
Cowboys are not using the franchise tag
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TheMarathonContinues
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I don't get this complaint. Is the issue re-signing his own players? Because you have to pay market value. Guys aren't taking pay cuts.
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does it with his own players it seems
OmerV
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Use of the franchise tag is not unlimited. They only use one franchise tag per year, and it's not as if the rest of the team is on rookie contracts. Multiple contracts are negotiated every year.
Whether they are good at it is a different topic. What we as fans think about how well they do doesn't change the fact that the Cowboys accept that negotiating contracts is an annual necessity, and they don't get mad about it.
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Pretty simple complaint. Dont overrate your own players because you drafted them.
Look at Gallup.
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He has used the Franchise Tag on players that probably weren't "Franchise" players.
Anthony Spencer, Dalton Schultz, Tony Pollard.
You can keep coming up with excuses, but the reality is he has struggled in this aspect. The Dak contract is a disaster, he got embarrassed by Randy Gregory's agent, they overpad both Jaylon Smith and Ezekiel Elliott, and worse than that, they did it a year earlier than they had to. He's awful.
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Gallup issue is he got hurt. Wasn’t lack of ability. Who shouldn’t the Cowboys have paid? You have to build a team.
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Imagine giving Dak a no trade-clause coming off a broken leg…
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His situation is different because he got hurt. And we know he was rushed back too soon.
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Steele? Another one who comes to mind.
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The NFL needs a reverse Franchise tag .. they could call it the ... Disenfranchise Tag!
By using the "Disenfranchise Tag" it would allow any team to release a player and wipe their salary off the books for a one time cap hit based on the average salary of the top 5 paid players in the position over the last 5 years (the same as the franchise tag).
That way there would be a one-time cap hit, no future dead money and the player gets to leave and continue his career and the team gets to save some money and move on.
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Interesting idea! Opens up some possibilities.The NFL needs a reverse Franchise tag .. they could call it the ... Disenfranchise Tag!
By using the "Disenfranchise Tag" it would allow any team to release a player and wipe their salary off the books for a one time fee based on the average salary of the top 5 paid players in the position over the last 5 years (the same as the franchise tag).
That way there would be a one-time cap hit, no future dead money and the player gets to leave and continue his career and the team gets to save some money and move on.
But (you knew it was coming) I was told there would be no math.
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I agree there never been a fan but I was under the impression they can get from under that contract.
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As long as D is not paid by the Clampetts, I am good.
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They couldn’t WAIT to pay Steele.
They are proud of what they have made him out to be in their own minds.
The contract justifies that.
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I honestly don't care who stays or goes anymore when the end result is always the same. With this team, there's really no reason to use the tag when it's going on 30 years with no success and the so-called owners have no clue how to put a championship team on the field. There's too many "me" guys on this team and not enough "hungry blue collar" guys.
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There is no definition of the kind of player a franchise tag has to be used on. In some cases, like with Schultz, it's just ensuring the position is well covered one more year without making a long term commitment, and in doing so they get to see how younger players develop.
But that's irrelevant to the discussion anyway. One franchise tag doesn't mean they get to avoid negotiating contracts, or they get mad if they have to negotiate a contract. Again, they negotiate contracts every year, as do all NFL teams.
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It’s easy to hate on Steele.
That injury was freakish.
He had a slow start, but to be fair, he graded out really well. In fact, it was his best season, grade wise.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SteeTe01.htm
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Yup, it's more like surrendering than negotiating