Cowboys deciding what Miles Austin is worth?

[rafaelgreco]

Three o’clock came and went Thursday without the Cowboys placing the franchise tag on wide receiver Miles Austin, which was not a surprise. Had they done so, Austin would have been paid $9.5 million - the average of the top five wide receiver salaries. Without the tag, the Cowboys will put the first- and third-round tender on Austin, who will be a restricted free agent in a week. If a team makes an offer to Austin, the Cowboys would have a week to match or else receive first- and third-round picks. If Austin gets no offer, he will be paid $3.168 million in 2010. The Cowboys would like to sign Austin to a long-term contract, but because of the unstable labor talks between the NFL and the NFL Players Association finding common ground will be difficult. — Dallas Morning News

 

[Apollo Creed]

The sky is the limit for him, his agent doesn't have quite the leverage I initially thought he did but we still need to lock him up. Pay the man Jerry.

 

[Direwolf63]

The sky is the limit for him, his agent doesn't have quite the leverage I initially thought he did but we still need to lock him up. Pay the man Jerry.

Austin will get his coin. Jerry will pay him.

The only questions are how much and when. He may not get his extension until next year. Or until there is a nre CBA. Or they may sign him next week. Who knows?

I'm not worried about Austin at all.

 

[TheSkaven]

When I was driving through Baltimore on the way to a meeting last week, sports talk radio there was buzzing with rumors about the Ravens making a play for Miles. Jerry better get him signed long term, because I think there might just be a team willing to give away a first and a third for him.

 

[johnnyd]

Three o’clock came and went Thursday without the Cowboys placing the franchise tag on wide receiver Miles Austin, which was not a surprise. Had they done so, Austin would have been paid $9.5 million - the average of the top five wide receiver salaries. Without the tag, the Cowboys will put the first- and third-round tender on Austin, who will be a restricted free agent in a week. If a team makes an offer to Austin, the Cowboys would have a week to match or else receive first- and third-round picks. If Austin gets no offer, he will be paid $3.168 million in 2010. The Cowboys would like to sign Austin to a long-term contract, but because of the unstable labor talks between the NFL and the NFL Players Association finding common ground will be difficult. — Dallas Morning News

I know it's kinda overkill here but to be clear this should say something to the effect of if miles signs an offer sheet we would have a week to match.

Yeah nit picking i know but the with the way the media works now especially during free agency there are tons of "rumors" and "reports" of contract offerings that I'm sure will confuse some of us..

 

[DFWJC]

When I was driving through Baltimore on the way to a meeting last week, sports talk radio there was buzzing with rumors about the Ravens making a play for Miles. Jerry better get him signed long term, because I think there might just be a team willing to give away a first and a third for him.

Yeah, I heard talk radio here in Dallas freaking out (without reason) yesterday. I'm baffled at how some of these folks can get a job as a sports talk radio host but not understand how the local team operates.

If Jerry and his coach really want a restricted player currently on the roster, how often do they lose him?

IMO, they are exactly what we should have expected them to do under the current circumstance.

Don't worry, Jerry takes care of the really good young ones. He's not going to a pull a Mark Cuban-like Steve Nash mistake (though Nash was older).

Don't forget--being a star on a very good Dallas Cowboy team is worth more than being the same on the Ravens....even if the salary is the same, the chance for other $ is much, much higher. Plus Texas has no state tax. It's hard for us to lose them when all else is equal.

 

[Rampage]

Jerry really screwed up giving Roy that huge contract.

 

[johnnyd]

When I was driving through Baltimore on the way to a meeting last week, sports talk radio there was buzzing with rumors about the Ravens making a play for Miles. Jerry better get him signed long term, because I think there might just be a team willing to give away a first and a third for him.

agreed and as said before by many a 1st and a 3rd for miles? a absolute steal .

 

[Screw The Hall]

The only thing that scares me a little bit is that there might be a team that is willing to give up the 1st and 3rd and then offer Miles a contract that includes a poison pill which makes it either difficult or impossible for Dallas to match.

I think poison pills are dirty pool but it's not without precedent for teams to try this tactic as the Steve Hutchinson contract of a few years ago attests to. I don't think this will happen but the possibility remains.

 

[casmith07]

Hard to offer a poison pill in an uncapped year.

 

[jobberone]

Hard to offer a poison pill in an uncapped year.

You're right. But they could make an offer that he couldn't refuse. I'm not worried though. I think they are already in soft negotiations for Miles.

 

[Screw The Hall]

Hard to offer a poison pill in an uncapped year.

I suggest you review the Steve Hutchinson and Nate Burleson contracts. I don't see how an uncapped year would make it any more difficult to include a poison pill in the contract.

An example would be if a team offered Miles say a 7 year 60 million dollar contract with 15 million guaranteed. Then they could include a poison pill like the Burleson contract that stipulates if he played 5 or more games in Dallas during any single year of his contract the entire value of the contract becomes guaranteed. Unscrupulous but legal and possible.

 

[montgod]

Well either way, if Austin does sign a big deal elsewhere, Dallas still has a week to match. JJones won't let him walk and I don't see Austin looking for another team if they have already opened up negotiations. He knows the best place for success for him is in Dallas.

 

[DFWJC]

You're right. But they could make an offer that he couldn't refuse. I'm not worried though. I think they are already in soft negotiations for Miles.

An offer he can't refuse is not the issue is not the issue as long as we choose to match it.

Or if it is a beyond crazy, team-killing type offer...then we take the 1st and 3rd rounder, plus go get Brandon Marshall as well. Or if that 1st rounder is high enough, then take Dez Bryant and also sign another veteran WR to boot.
I don't see that having to happen though.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

You don't let guys who blossom in your system walk away... The real problem is the contract handed over to Roy Williams.