Cowboys re-sign Free **merged**

[Avery]

That was less than I expected so I'm onboard with it.

Onto the defense.

 

[Yeagermeister]

:mchammer:

 

[YosemiteSam]

In other news:

@toddarcher
Cowboys also told '09 third rounder Robert Brewster he would b cut. Another high pick wasted on OL

http://twitter.com/#!/toddarcher/status/96208739547365376

The guy was straight up fat ***. Goodbye.

 

[Doomsday101]

Good move as the Cowboys OL continues to rebuild with younger guys.

 

[Eddie]

We blew another 3rd round pick on Brewster. Man, that 09 class is turning into the crapper. Total waste of an entire draft class.

We need to get seriously better at drafting OL. Let's hope things year's rookie class takes a step up.

 

[Hostile]

Yep, you're right.

Holy crap!

Time to buy a Lottery ticket. I'm on fire.

 

[newlander]

We blew another 3rd round pick on Brewster. Man, that 09 class is turning into the crapper. Total waste of an entire draft class.

We need to get seriously better at drafting OL. Let's hope things year's rookie class takes a step up.

.....I can't think of one worse than that...unreal.

 

[Hostile]

.....I can't think of one worse than that...unreal.

Then you are not trying hard enough or are just too angry to think back.

Or possibly too young to know about the Cowboys worst ever draft.

 

[Stash]

Kudos to the team for getting this deal done.

They said it was priority #1 and they were right.

A bit shorter in years than I expected, but right around the dollars per year.

Very happy this is out of the way!

 

[Stash]

Then you are not trying hard enough or are just too angry to think back.

Or possibly too young to know about the Cowboys worst ever draft.

'09 is getting dangerously close to the same stench of 1995.

 

[Hostile]

'09 is getting dangerously close to the same stench of 1995.

1995 isn't our worst either.

1971 holds that distinction...easily.

 

[Stash]

1995 isn't our worst either.

1971 holds that distinction...easily.

That is going back a ways. Before my time.

Just looked it up though and you're right, what a mess!

But '09 is surely in the Hall of Shame picture.

 

[AbeBeta]

I don't think the Tampa interest was ever very real. You don't go after LT's to play RT. I think Free's agent threw Tampa's name out there in the press to get Jerry to come up to their request of $8 million a year. Either way, I like the move. It's $1-1.5 million a year less than I thought they were going to have to play.

doubt that. team personnel talk. agents also won't get anywhere without reasonable credibility on issues like this

 

[Cowboys22]

doubt that. team personnel talk. agents also won't get anywhere without reasonable credibility on issues like this

The reporter from Dallas camp just said on NFL Network that her sources told her last night that the Tampa rumor from last night not was "not the case".

 

[CCBoy]

I was offered a football scholarship to Darmouth, but took an Appointment to the US Air Force Academy....back when occupational mobility was a realistic option.

I guess I have to start liking peplaw now.

 

[BigDinAZ]

Got it done!!

 

[Joe Realist]

AdamSchefter Adam Schefter
Dallas reached agreement on a four-year, $32 million deal that included $17 million in guaranteed money with OT Doug Free.

WHEW!

 

[Hostile]

That is going back a ways. Before my time.

Just looked it up though and you're right, what a mess!

But '09 is surely in the Hall of Shame picture.

From the 2009 class I would take Victor Butler, Brandon Williams, and David Buehler over Bill Gregory who was the only player in the 1971 class to do anything. I also think McGee and Phillips deserve more than the scorn that class gets.

17 picks in 1971.

 

[burmafrd]

1995 isn't our worst either.

1971 holds that distinction...easily.

I don't know if it is that clear. The drafts from 96-2001 stank it up pretty good. We got the Hotel, Dat, Coakley. Anyone else worth a thing from that entire era?

 

[Hostile]

I don't know if it is that clear. The drafts from 96-2001 stank it up pretty good. We got the Hotel, Dat, Coakley. Anyone else worth a thing from that entire era?

Please go look at the 17 picks from 1971 one by one at this site.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/

Here's the list. Scroll down to 1971.