shabazz
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And there's not a damn thing wrong with dat!You just described me. lol
And there's not a damn thing wrong with dat!You just described me. lol
But at the end of the day cash spent is cash spent. And the Cowboys are in the bottom third of the NFL over that ten year period which tells you they have invested less in their roster than other teams.Yes, I understand that. But my point is that the CAP is a reflection of money paid to players. Over 10 years, as this article claims to cover, the money spent per year, should be close to the CAP level spending for the team in question. The process does not create or destroy spending. If you are up against the CAP every year then you are spending the maximum allowed over time.
So, as I posted, we know Jerry has overpaid some players on his team in the past. Zeke, Dak, Michael Gallup etc. Where he has not spent $ is on tier 1 free agents. And yet, going into this year the Cowboys were sitting with very little money against the CAP. Dak's $59 million CAP number was not the result of Dak getting $59 million this year. It was from the money Jerry gave Dak up front back in 2021. Now they have about $28 million in CAP room which I am sure Jerry would like to carry over so he can afford to pay Dak, CeeDee and Micah in 2025. And on that point, when or if, Jerry extends Dak, CeeDee and Micah he will undoubtedly pay them huge bonuses up front which will be reflected in the cash spend for that year he pays them, probably 2025, while minimizing their CAP impact. It will look like Jerry outspent most other NFL teams, maybe all, without having spent a nickel on free agency.
Regardless, the issue is not that Jerry does not pay his own players. He has shown a willingness to overpay some of his own players at the expense of others. The lone exception may have been Amari Cooper. He could have restructured Cooper's deal to free CAP space but he chose instead to trade him for a 5th round pick.
But Jerrah said he would write a check for any amount.
The Cowboys lost key players in the offseason like LB Leighton Vander Esch, CB Stephon Gilmore, defensive ends Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler Jr., and DT Johnathan Hankins.Veterans being brought in by Jerry Jones but with a full staff:
Defensive Head Coach - Mike Zimmer
Ezekiel Elliott
Eric Kendricks
Jordan Phillips
Carl Lawson
Linval Joseph
Dalvin Cook coming in today for a real look.
Sorry folks, that is fully paying attention after CD Lamb's new contract.
Osa Odighizuwa, Mazi Smith, Linval Joseph, Jordan Phillips, Chauncey Golston, Justin RogersLol. You anti Jerry crybaby guys crack me up.
When your job is never on the line you get what we’ve witnessed for 25 years. You’re just not hungry enough to push for a little more. You live content in the status quo.The Jerry homers are what cracks me up.
It's all very simple.
Jerry has had full control/responsibility over all aspects of the team - the draft, FA, trades, scouting, front office, coaching hires and staff hires for over a quarter century. In that period where he's had complete control, the Cowboys have won 5 playoff games. Five. That's it. Haven't sniffed a NFCCG or a SB in that time frame. They are one of like 5 teams that hasn't played in a conference champ game over that 25 year period.
It takes a special kind of homerism to sit here and defend Jerry, or claim he's done a great job, or whine that people are too critical of Jerry.
31 teams (well maybe 30, the Bengals seem to be as silly as us), would have fired the guy in charge of the draft, FA, scouting, trades, front office staffing, coaching hires, etc. A LONG time ago with these results.
Jerry claiming he's the best or only guy who could run the football side of this franchise is so utterly laughable and stupid I have to assume he was a bottle deep in JW Blue when he said it.