Cowboys Have Re-signed Anthony Spencer

[ufcrules1]

Even if he plays until he's 40 he's still past the halfway point of his career. Of course his days as the Cowboys QB are numbered.

When I talk about his days being numbered, I'm saying I feel it is imminent. Like within a year.. or 2 at most. We NEED to be on the lookout for our next QB before we get caught in a position where we don't have a solid option to draft and we just throw away a year or more with scrubby gap QB's. I just feel if a QB like JF fell to us at 16, it would be a good idea to take him.

Then WHEN Romo's career is over hopefully a very solid team on 23-29 year olds is in place for the next Cowboys QB giving him the best chance to succeed early in his career.

You don't wait until your QB's career is over to find his replacement, you look before his career is over and if you are in a position to get one when your team is in a rebuilding phase and one falls to you, you take him. It's not like we are competing for the super bowl this year or next.

 

[DanteEXT]

You don't wait until your QB's career is over to find his replacement, you look before his career is over and if you are in a position to get one when your team is in a rebuilding phase and one falls to you, you take him. It's not like we are competing for the super bowl this year or next.

There are more than one way to skin a cat. The Colts and Bengals have had success recently drafting a QB after they lost their previous franchise QB. I don't know that one way is any better or more successfuly in the long run than the other.

 

[ufcrules1]

There are more than one way to skin a cat. The Colts and Bengals have had success recently drafting a QB after they lost their previous franchise QB. I don't know that one way is any better or more successfuly in the long run than the other.

The odds are against you if you just sit back and wait until your QB is done IMO. You are then at the mercy of what is available in the draft that particular year. The Colts got extremely lucky (pun intended). They were in the suck for Luck sweepstakes.

 

[DanteEXT]

The odds are against you if you just sit back and wait until your QB is done IMO. You are then at the mercy of what is available in the draft that particular year. The Colts got extremely lucky (pun intended). They were in the suck for Luck sweepstakes.

And if you skip an immediate impact player this year for a QB to ride the pine for 2 years you are that much further behind in resetting the team, especially the defense.

 

[rwill784]

And if you skip an immediate impact player this year for a QB to ride the pine for 2 years you are that much further behind in resetting the team, especially the defense.

Green bay begs to differ......

 

[ufcrules1]

And if you skip an immediate impact player this year for a QB to ride the pine for 2 years you are that much further behind in resetting the team, especially the defense.

An immediate impact player this year? Is that going to suddenly make us super bowl contenders? I've been over this before.. we are SEVERAL players away from going anywhere. We have holes everywhere. When your team is in this position, you take BPA and you think long term... not "immediate impact". That immediate impact thinking is why our team has sucked for almost 2 decades.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Manziel talk on a Spencer thread. Never ends.

 

[ufcrules1]

Manziel talk on a Spencer thread. Never ends.

Yup, others keep bringing him up from other threads where we were having a discussion about him. Not sure why though.

 

[Hook'em#11]

Oh , yay.

 

[DanteEXT]

An immediate impact player this year? Is that going to suddenly make us super bowl contenders? I've been over this before.. we are SEVERAL players away from going anywhere. We have holes everywhere. When your team is in this position, you take BPA and you think long term... not "immediate impact". That immediate impact thinking is why our team has sucked for almost 2 decades.

There are holes, but I see few on the offense and pretty much all of them on the defense. A few good draft picks this year, some luck on the health front and the defense can easily be improved from what it was. I can see a move to near average in relation to the league. Even if the offense remains stagnant, you add a couple more wins just by a getting near average on defense. Average is not great I understand that. But a move from worst to first isn't realistic IMO. Possible? Yes. Likely? No.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Manziel talk on a Spencer thread. Never ends.

Exactly why Jerry would love to have him.

 

[Alexander]

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...act?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

IRVING, Texas -- How much protection do the Dallas Cowboys have in Anthony Spencer's one-year deal?

Spencer

According to the contract, if Spencer starts the year on the physically unable to perform list or is placed on injured reserve, then he would be paid a split salary of $423,000.

A split salary for a veteran of Spencer’s ilk is not common and shows even more how team-friendly the one-year deal is.

 

[DanteEXT]

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...act?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

IRVING, Texas -- How much protection do the Dallas Cowboys have in Anthony Spencer's one-year deal?

Spencer

According to the contract, if Spencer starts the year on the physically unable to perform list or is placed on injured reserve, then he would be paid a split salary of $423,000.

A split salary for a veteran of Spencer’s ilk is not common and shows even more how team-friendly the one-year deal is.

I like this signing more and more every day.

 

[Denim Chicken]

Green bay begs to differ......

Green bay, Aaron Rodgers...That is the only example people cling to where a top prospect sat behind a starter for any significant time.

Let's here about another team that did this.

 

[rwill784]

Green bay, Aaron Rodgers...That is the only example people cling to where a top prospect sat behind a starter for any significant time.

Let's here about another team that did this.

Rivers
Palmer
Kap if you wanna count a slider

Be real tho, if a team is drafting a top prospect then they are likely in dire need and will start him day one. But it still doesn't mean we have to suck just to find a replacement.

 

[DallasEast]

Green bay, Aaron Rodgers...That is the only example people cling to where a top prospect sat behind a starter for any significant time.

Let's here about another team that did this.

People do try using the Packers and Aaron Rodgers as some sort of precedent, but it's always stated incompletely. While it is true that Green Bay drafted Rodgers as Brett Favre successor back in 2005, it is also true that the franchise never intended for Rodgers to sit behind Favre. Rodgers held a clipboard for as long as he did because Favre refused to retire as he continually said he would year after year. It was only after general manager Ted Thompson decided enough was enough that he sent Favre packing to the Jets before the start of the 2008 season.

The Pack/Rodgers situation would be dissimilar to the Cowboys' if Dallas chose to draft a first-round quarterback as Romo's successor. Green Bay did not want to challenge Favre's legendary status with Packer fans. That's why Rodgers sat for as long as he did. The same would not happen in Dallas. If Jerry Jones drafted a franchise quarterback prospect, which first-round selections are labeled as, that player isn't going to sit behind Romo for long regardless of Romo's $100 million dollar contract. For some odd reason, people forget what Jones is capable of.

 

[ufcrules1]

Green bay, Aaron Rodgers...That is the only example people cling to where a top prospect sat behind a starter for any significant time.

Let's here about another team that did this.

Yeah, lets "here" it....

 

[Denim Chicken]

Yeah, lets "here" it....

Oh Lord, UFC. You are better than that...

 

[ufcrules1]

Oh Lord, UFC. You are better than that...

I "here" you... I am. Just wanted a quick laugh.. I know you know the difference between hear and here.

 

[rpntex]

I know the Cowboys aren't feeling good about Romo and his back right now either.

You don't "know" anything. In fact, I've read no less than a half-dozen articles stating the Romo is slightly ahead of where the Cowboys projected him to be at this point of his rehab. Now, if you want to say the Cowboys are "concerned", due to the sheer nature of back injuries, that's a different story, and a believable one.