Cowboys franchise Pollard next season?

[TheSport78]

Hell no!!

they blew it. 3.5 years wasted of pollard.

but you can’t bust the script. Never pay backs big money.

Didn't you hear the owner? This team goes as Zeke goes.

 

[rambo2]

Didn't you hear the owner? This team goes as Zeke goes.

Zeke is coming up on the end of the trail.

 

[KJJ]

I'm just talking about comparison to the demarco situation. I don't pretend to know what the front office is going to do. But Jerry falls in love with splashy plays, and pollard provides them.

Pollard has been making splash he plays for years. It’s going to come down to money and money has been a sticking point with Jerry, especially planning ahead for Parsons, Diggs, and CeeDee.

 

[rambo2]

Pollard has been making splash he plays for years. It’s going to come down to money and money has been a sticking point with Jerry, especially planning ahead for Parsons, Diggs, and CeeDee.

It will come down to what is the best thing that they can do to keep him. Just like it did with Schultz.

 

[KJJ]

No team goes full-time with any back. That is impossible.

There’s a few teams that go to the majority of the time with one back like the Giants and Tennessee. Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry have almost double the carries that Pollard has this season.

 

[KJJ]

It will come down to what is the best thing that they can do to keep him. Just like it did with Schultz.

I’ve already posted that Dalton Schultz situation was totally different. We had no choice but to franchise him. We couldn’t afford to lose him, Amari Cooper and Cedrick Wilson.

 

[Doomsday101]

Franchise tag at RB would be around 14 mill. Cowboys would be better off getting Pollard signed for a 3 to 4 year deal. Easier to manage the cap over the course of a contract as opposed to 1 big hit in 1 season.

 

[Retro88]

Pollard is an awesome player but so is 2022 4th rounder Damien Pierce and there's a couple of these guys in every draft

 

[Malhavoc]

It will come down to what is the best thing that they can do to keep him. Just like it did with Schultz.

There is 0 chance that Pollard is not with this team next year. They will absolutely franchise him. He is this team’s best offensive player and it ain’t close. Zeke will either take a pay cut or he’ll be gone.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Pollard is an awesome player but so is 2022 4th rounder Damien Pierce and there's a couple of these guys in every draft

Pollard is great but everyone is so blown away because of watching the slow zeke for 7 years.

you go out and sign mattison from the Vikings and Williams from the lions in FA and this run game will be even better.

 

[Proof]

It will come down to what is the best thing that they can do to keep him. Just like it did with Schultz.

we’ve seen them break the bank plenty of times, there’s also plenty of moves to facilitate it. your insistence of what will happen doesn’t make it so. we will see

 

[Proof]

You can pretty much bank on them taking advantage of the franchise tag to keep Pollard.

that’s my thought as well.

 

[Proof]

Pollard is an awesome player but so is 2022 4th rounder Damien Pierce and there's a couple of these guys in every draft

he is, but there are plenty of other non awesome guys. we’re all aware you CAN find great running backs later, but doing it is another story. tagging pollard gives you insurance while you look.

 

[rambo2]

Pollard is an awesome player but so is 2022 4th rounder Damien Pierce and there's a couple of these guys in every draft

Name one back that caught 2 td passes for over 90 yards in one game.

 

[Reid1boys]

Here are the current top 10 RBs statistically in the NFL and round they were drafted:

1. Derrick Henry- TN- 2nd round.
2. Saquon Barkley-NYG- 1st round
3. Josh Jacobs- LV- 1st round
4. Nick Chubb- Cle- 2nd round
5. Dalvin Cook- MIN- 2nd round
6. Dameon Pierce-HOU- 4th round
7. Aaron Jones- GB- 5th round
8. Miles Sanders- PHI- 2nd round
9. Travis Etienne- JAX- 1st round
10. Tony Pollard- DAL- 4th round

Only 3 of the top 10 were first round picks. Four were 2nd rounders and 3 were 4th or 5th rounders.

Somehow you left these out:
2018
rd 1 Rshaad Penny
Rd 1 Sony Michelle

so 66.7% of the Rbs taken in rd 1 were not exactly hits.

2018 2nd rd
Ronald Jones
Kerryon Johnson
Gerrius Guice


Rd 3
Royce Freeman

rd4
Nyhiem Hines
Mark Walton
Ito Smith
Kalen Ballage
Chase Edmonds

2019
RD3
Darrel Henderson
David Montgomery
Devin Singletary
Damien Harris
Alexander Mattison

Rd4
Bryce Love
Justice Hall
Benny Snell

Im not going to waste my time doing 2020 and 2021.

I hope you get my point here. For all of you saying how easy it is to replace Pollard by simply drafting him.... look at all of these RBs that were drafted between rd 1 and 4 that have been absolute BUSTS. Pollard has more big plays just this season than all of those RBs on my list COMBINED in their entire career.

IMO, they release Zeke or get him to take a massive pay cut and Id sign Pollard or tag him, but in no way do I let him walk. How come everyone is going to say you dont pay an RB, but yet if Pollard is allowed to walk, someone is going to pay the RB.

 

[Bobhaze]

Somehow you left these out:
2018
rd 1 Rshaad Penny
Rd 1 Sony Michelle

so 66.7% of the Rbs taken in rd 1 were not exactly hits.

2018 2nd rd
Ronald Jones
Kerryon Johnson
Gerrius Guice


Rd 3
Royce Freeman

rd4
Nyhiem Hines
Mark Walton
Ito Smith
Kalen Ballage
Chase Edmonds

2019
RD3
Darrel Henderson
David Montgomery
Devin Singletary
Damien Harris
Alexander Mattison

Rd4
Bryce Love
Justice Hall
Benny Snell

Im not going to waste my time doing 2020 and 2021.

I hope you get my point here. For all of you saying how easy it is to replace Pollard by simply drafting him.... look at all of these RBs that were drafted between rd 1 and 4 that have been absolute BUSTS. Pollard has more big plays just this season than all of those RBs on my list COMBINED in their entire career.

IMO, they release Zeke or get him to take a massive pay cut and Id sign Pollard or tag him, but in no way do I let him walk. How come everyone is going to say you dont pay an RB, but yet if Pollard is allowed to walk, someone is going to pay the RB.

Good work Reid. Btw we’re actually in agreement here. I was saying we should draft an excellent RB on day 2 or even 3 of the 2023 draft. The stuff you were responding to that I posted earlier was just evidence of the current top 10 RBs by yardage and what round they were drafted.

So here’s the process- this off-season it should be clear- we should cut Zeke at year’s end, tag Pollard in 2023, and draft a RB on day 2 or 3. (Somewhere in rounds 2-5) Then going into 2023 we have Pollard, a drafted RB and Malik Davis. Not a bad tandem.

 

[Reid1boys]

Good work Reid. Btw we’re actually in agreement here. I was saying we should draft an excellent RB on day 2 or even 3 of the 2023 draft. The stuff you were responding to that I posted earlier was just evidence of the current top 10 RBs by yardage and what round they were drafted.

So here’s the process- this off-season it should be clear- we should cut Zeke at year’s end, tag Pollard in 2023, and draft a RB on day 2 or 3. (Somewhere in rounds 2-5) Then going into 2023 we have Pollard, a drafted RB and Malik Davis. Not a bad tandem.

I dont disagree. But for those saying we simply cant pay Pollard we can just draft his replacement, I think they are sadly mistaken. I showed with my post that about 15 crappy backs are taken for each good 1.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

difference being you want a qb long term, you dont want an rb long term. also far easier to draft a rb's replacement so a one yr bridge vs losing him outright makes sense (to me)

He's hardly been used these four years.

Sign him to a four year deal with a reasonable off ramp after three years and be done

 

[Proof]

He's hardly been used these four years.

Sign him to a four year deal with a reasonable off ramp after three years and be done

sure if they can sign him to a reasonable deal that’s cool. if not, tag. just not a comparable situation to dak

 

[charron]

Transition tag with a 2nd round offer maybe a 1st. And then just draft a replacement if he leaves.