Cowboys FA TE Dalton Schultz Turned Down 3-Year, $36M Contract 'At One Point'

[EenonyMoose]

The TE market is weird right now. I would draft two or three of them this year because the market will go crazy next year. This is the equivalent of putting a bandaid on a pressure valve.

To put it another way: you really want to tell me that blocking is valuable, and catching passes is valuable, but being able to do both isn’t? There’s a reason Greg Roman is obsessed with these guys, and it’s not because he doesn’t know how passing works or whatever.

 

[visionary]

He needs to fire his agent

And our GM who offered that contract to this middling TE

 

[big dog cowboy]

According to by Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated on Monday, Schultz rejected a three-year, $36 million contract “at one point”. Schultz opted to play on the $10.9 million franchise tag in 2022 and is currently a free agent.

 

[john van brocklin]

Now reduced to 7-9 mill likely unguaranteed on the freaking texans. Bad decisions by a ton of these players.

Talk about over Playing your hand!
He was a good, solid player.
But not elite and not worth what He was looking for.
Nothing like the NFL to slap you into reality!

 

[john van brocklin]

Cowboys dodged a bullet. Schultz is a good TE. But he’s not worth $12 mil a season as was proven out by his signing a one year deal with Hou.

We like our guys to the point of overvaluing them.

 

[JBS]

Lol agent trying save face. They wanted 15 million per year last summer and thought they’d get it in 2023. Boy were they wrong.

His agent can’t save face. His client knows the truth. No point in saying it’s fake news if it isn’t.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

His agent can’t save face. His client knows the truth. No point in saying it’s fake news if it isn’t.

Disagree. Agents try to sign new clients regularly.

 

[JBS]

Disagree. Agents try to sign new clients regularly.

Of course. Doesn’t take much homework to find out if he botched it or not. Not very hard. Doubling down and lying won’t work.

 

[links18]

See ya Schultzy!

 

[conner01]

TE market never really heated up this free agency period. Can't blame the man for trying, but obviously didnt work out. He'll get another chance next year.

You never know how much of that 3 yr deal was guaranteed
If he’s on the roster day one this is guaranteed even if it’s not already guaranteed

 

[Risen Star]

Yeah but now he gets to play for the Texans.

 

[Bullflop]

H-m-m, seems likely that the upcoming draft that's loaded with good talent at TE may have taken a toll on the vet TE market.

 

[TheFinisher]

You played yourself.

*Still making 9 mil for one season of football and more money than most will see in a lifetime.*

 

[ghst187]

His agent replied to that tweet and said that was fake news.

Or he’s covering up for his mistake

 

[Flamma]

Now reduced to 7-9 mill likely unguaranteed on the freaking texans. Bad decisions by a ton of these players.

In the other thread, I was going to mention that I seem to remember him being offered 12M a year. But I wasn't sure if it was him, or Barkley. Schultz got caught up in his market value. Once he turned it down, that money probably went somewhere else. So he couldn't even backtrack.

 

[AsthmaField]

Yeah, that offer was last year. The team has already decided they’re moving on.

Shultz is highly average anyway. Fergy would be better as starter, IMO.

 

[baltcowboy]

Yeah, that offer was last year. The team has already decided they’re moving on.

Shultz is highly average anyway. Fergy would be better as starter, IMO.

Shultz was clearly the better tight end of the four tight ends we had but Furgerson could to develop into a better player then. Shultz. Side note that last drive goof up against San Francisco must of turned the Cowboys off of him. The guy dominated the Bucs.

 

[Zekeats]

This team was dumb enough to offer him that

 

[nightrain]

Ouch, that one's going to sting or a while. Jerry got lucky.

 

[IslandCowboy]

They are lucky he didn't accept that, man this FO is incompetent.