RELEASED Cowboys Release DE Damontre Moore

[TwoCentPlain]

I disagree that it's serious money. 8 Mil is 6% of the effective cap (after accounting for dead money), and you get an impact player on the DL.

That said, it is a bit of hindsight to pine for Poe for that contract. I wanted him before the season, but at least on a 4 yr contract.

Poe has 7 tackles and 4 assists for the year so far in Atl. 0 Sacks. But, yeah, I'm sure he does so much else not showing up in the stat column which makes Atl such a beast on defense

 

[Stash]

If you couldn't follow along I apologize, but I never contradicted myself. You seem worried about the actual money paid, I worry about the cap hit.

Sure you did. As if the money wasted on Nolan Carroll, doesn't hit the cap?

 

[Stash]

I totally disagree. The big debacle is giving premium contracts to old players on the downside of their career.

With our willingness to turn the page w/youth we added talent and acquired 3 extra compensatory draft picks.

And missed on every player they brought in.

 

[T-RO]

This Cowboy franchise has--for the most part--finally got it sorted out: Screw free agency as a primary engine and add picks whenever possible. Draft. Draft. Draft.

Team is 16-6 over past two years and will IMO make the playoffs this year again. Critics can go pound sand.

We also managed to keep all our own picks and--I just checked--four projected extra 4th/5th round picks.

 

[KingintheNorth]

The big debacle is giving premium contracts to old players

You are allowed to sign players that are not old. Players enter free agency after 4 years in most cases, putting them at 25/26 years old.

I don't understand why people just tow the company line? 22 years and counting of not competing for championships, yet people here like this team is nailing it and smarter than everyone else.

We signed 4 veteran free agents this off-season to help replace 5 departed starters on an already poor defense. All 4 free agents are no longer on the roster as of October 24th. Something is clearly wrong.

 

[GhostOfPelluer]

Sure you did. As if the money wasted on Nolan Carroll, doesn't hit the cap?

Any other arguments you want to assign to me that I didn't make?

 

[dogunwo]

He and Mayowa definitely broke some team rules for both of them to have been inactive vs Niners

I think they are just awful against the run. We have been getting gashed with them.

 

[John813]

Not a shocker. He just isn't that good. He had potential from college. So do a lot of other players that can't stick around

 

[Zman5]

Exactly.

Denver - Ware, Talib, etc. FAs.

NE - Bennett, Hogan, Long, Sheard. FAs.

We can do this all day.

Three of the four Seattle DLinemen were FA.

 

[T-RO]

And missed on every player they brought in.

- Carroll was an insurance player in case draft kids weren't ready. He became expendable as the youth looks good.

-Gach is just a journeyman JAG. Not paid anything really...so what. He's one notch above a camp body.

-Moore? We've got depth and don't need him. Neal is probably better.

- Paea was a low-risk, high upside deal. Oh well... Since he retired I don't think the Cowboys owe him anything more than pro-rated contract.

Team is headed in the right direction by avoiding throwing big money at has-been types.

 

[Stash]

Any other arguments you want to assign to me that I didn't make?

What argument are you making then? You somehow want to sugarcoat this epic failure in personnel evaluation by suggesting that $4 million split over two years somehow doesn't add up to $4 million?

Have at it.

 

[cej757]

Except that's what people are saying............ mid tier FAs. That's what Dallas should be doing. Finding one or two mid tiered guys that plug big holes.

Sheard was a mid-tiered FA signing. So was Bennett.

Why are you constantly trying to make it out like people are suggesting the Cowboys blow all their cap space on the top tier, over priced FAs? No one has suggested that. Stop. What people have said is that the Cowboys miss an entire wide chasm of mid level FAs because the front office is too busy shopping the bargain bin thinking they are outsmarting everyone in the process.

Exactly. And then you have the Todd Archer's saying how smart the Cowboys are by letting the market come to them every free agency. This approach is clearly not working.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The only signing that hurt the team's performance due to the failure was Paea's and I think it was a good gamble that blew up.

The only signing that hurt financially was Carrol's. That was not a good signing that Lewis made look even worse.

The Moore signing? A scrap-heap player on a low contract. Not hardly a big deal.

Blanton was the same thing. Meh.

Only one guy they gave a decent contract too and that was Carrol and even his contract 4 years for $10 mil wasn't big for a corner.

Doubt the Cowboys change how they do things, i.e. use free agency to fill holes and which allows them a little more flexibility when it comes to the draft.

 

[big dog cowboy]

This off-season may go down as one of the worst mishandling's in Front Office history. We did not do much at all to improve on a 13-3 team.

Deserves 2.

 

[Stash]

- Carroll was an insurance player in case draft kids weren't ready. He became expendable as the youth looks good.

Revisionist history at its worst. Carroll was a bridge player given $4 million to get the team and rookies to 2018. He sure as hell wasnt given that money for one lousy game and then to be cut. If that's the plan you're trying to explain, you make the front office look worse, not better.

-Gach is just a journeyman JAG. Not paid anything really...so what. He's one notch above a camp body.

Who?

-Moore? We've got depth and don't need him. Neal is probably better.

Sure, that's why the team kept Moore and continues to expose Neal to being claimed? D'oh!

- Paea was a low-risk, high upside deal. Oh well... Since he retired I don't think the Cowboys owe him anything more than pro-rated contract.

Sorry, it's not "low risk" when you're counting on him as your starter, with little or no backup plan. That's simply another awful decision.

Team is headed in the right direction by avoiding throwing big money at has-been types.

Team is 3-3 after missing on every offseason decision they made. That's failure, not "right direction". But make yourself dizzy all you want trying to futilely spin this offseason failure into somehow being a "good thing". Some fans will convince themselves of any ******** in defense of their team.

You embarrass yourself.

 

[KingintheNorth]

Doubt the Cowboys change how they do things, i.e. use free agency to fill holes and which allows them a little more flexibility when it comes to the draft.

Using the draft to fill all of your needs is not flexibility, it's desperation. Smart teams use all avenues of talent acquisition.

 

[KingintheNorth]

Deserves 2.

I know. The team totally got better. All of the signings were innovative and totally panned out.

Apologize on.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Claiborne, Church, and Carr are all playing well and the guys we signed to replace them are unemployed. Completely mishandled.

The replacements for Mo, Carr and Church were drafted not FA signings.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Using the draft to fill all of your needs is not flexibility, it's desperation. Smart teams use all avenues of talent acquisition.

Only to an extent.

Just because you THINK you have the magic formula doesn't make it so.

 

[KingintheNorth]

Team is 3-3 after missing on every offseason decision they made. That's failure, not "right direction".