Cowboys | Doug Free receives highest tender

[SDogo]

Cowboys | Doug Free receives highest tender
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:41:52 -0800 The Dallas Cowboys have placed a first- and third-round tender on impending free-agent OT Doug Free, according to Rob Phillips, of DallasCowboys.com.
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[Hostile]

Now, if a top 15 team signs him I can get Tyron Smith and Patrick Peterson.


I kid.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Now, if a top 15 team signs him I can get Tyron Smith and Patrick Peterson.


I kid.

For a 1 and a 3, I let Free walk.

 

[CanuckCowboysFan]

For a 1 and a 3, I let Free walk.

And replace him w/ who?

Top 5 OT. No way bro

 

[burmafrd]

he is NOT a top 5 LT. Maybe top 10.

 

[DOUBLE WING]

And replace him w/ who?

Top 5 OT. No way bro

TOP 5?

I'll have two of whatever you're drinking.

 

[Primetime42]

he is NOT a top 5 LT. Maybe top 10.

I still don't let him walk.

He'll be here.

 

[baj1dallas]

he is NOT a top 5 LT. Maybe top 10.

In all likelihood he's a better LT than anybody coming out in the draft which is why he got the high tender. However I could see a team that needed a LT badly thinking it would be worth a middle to late round pick for him. Say, Indianapolis. Of course Dallas would likely match any offer they gave him.

 

[casmith07]

Nobody is going to pay a 1st and a 3rd for Free.

But the prospect of having the ammo to make the moves to get Peterson, Smith, and Carimi, with room leftover to draft Wisniewski is certainly enticing.

 

[SDogo]

Now, if a top 15 team signs him I can get Tyron Smith and Patrick Peterson.


I kid.

You said it but I'm not.......

 

[Hostile]

You said it but I'm not.......

I was kidding about kidding.

 

[SDogo]

I was kidding about kidding.

:laugh2:
nice

 

[big dog cowboy]

For a 1 and a 3, I let Free walk.

Our best OL? Did you see the rest play last year?

 

[TD-33]

If you are fortunate to find a young, high character left tackle you don't let him walk without getting serious compensation.

 

[dbair1967]

They did the right thing. He's the best OL on the team and has a great deal of upside. In his first full yr as a starter he graded out extremely well when compared to other tackles around the NFL.

He's also flexible, we know he can play both RT and LT very well.

It would be painfully stupid to take an already weak OL and allow the only good YOUNG OL leave. You dont improve your team that way.

 

[Bleu Star]

Cowboys | Doug Free receives highest tender
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:41:52 -0800 The Dallas Cowboys have placed a first- and third-round tender on impending free-agent OT Doug Free, according to Rob Phillips, of DallasCowboys.com.
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Thank goodness. This means it's higly probable that my favorite Cowboys lineman will remain entrenched protecting our QB next year. Great news! (for me)

 

[Beast_from_East]

Our best OL? Did you see the rest play last year?

For a 1st and 3rd, I can find a replacement. Especially if that 1st is in the top 20.


Free is not "top 5", if he was he would have been franchised.

 

[gimmesix]

For a 1st and 3rd, I can find a replacement.

Maybe you can, but the Cowboys have shown no ability to do that. They could spend every draft pick on the offensive line and possibly hit on none of them.

 

[UnoDallas]

Maybe you can, but the Cowboys have shown no ability to do that. They could spend every draft pick on the offensive line and possibly hit on none of them.

doubtful

 

[dbair1967]

For a 1st and 3rd, I can find a replacement. Especially if that 1st is in the top 20.


Free is not "top 5", if he was he would have been franchised.

What a dumb statement.

First off, ths OL is mediocre. Free is the only OL that is young, plays well and has upside. You dont make a mediocre unit better by letting him go and hoping to draft his replacement. You get better by keeping him and replacing others who are poor (ie, Colombo and Davis). Otherwise nothing changes.