Cowboys Salary Room: Stephen Jones - 'Cap Boy'? - Gives Dallas Top Spot in NFC East

[blueblood70]

2022

Amare $4.9m cap 78r 1180y 9TD
Gallup $4.8m cap 39r 424y 4TD

People are allowed to have the opinion that the earth is flat and that the pyramids were built by aliens. That's silly but feel free. People are also free to continue to try to justify dumping Amare and keeping Gallup. That's also silly. Even the Cowboys recognized they had a pretty serious issue with WR2, which is why they got Cooks and they are now paying Gallup that money to be WR3.

first of al HERE amari Cooper was set to make $22 million most of it guaranteed bonus money if he was still on the roster before we traded him we had a deadline just because he went to the Browns and restructured his contract you can't play that game they restructured his deal after they got him much like we just did with Brandon cooks but there are guys out there like DeAndre Hopkins and cook that would not restructure their deals and they got caught the same way amari Cooper left and then reworked his deal that's not the same once he's with the Browns it means nothing the year before CD lamb had a better year he was the number one amari Cooper was now expendable and now we had CD lamb have a career year once amari left meaning amari Cooper would have been the number two making $22 million there is no guarantee he would have been willing to restructure a deal like that that's why players leave they're disgruntled they'll hold you to the 22 mil get traded and then restructure later happens all over the NFL you trying to play that game with him as a brown and Gallup coming off an injury as a cowboy two totally different situations amari Cooper would have been here counting $22 million against the cap and he would have had a similar year as he did in 2021 which he would have been severely overpaid in that situation when he left to the Browns he became the number one wide receiver no and was willing to restructure his deal there was bad blood here between the Cowboys and ownership with amari Cooper and his money was too big to be here you can't use that comp it failed it fell hard because that's not what his salary would have been here that's the number two wide receiver

when you figure out the common sense used to figure that out that you're trying to cherry pick amari Cooper was the number one target with the Browns with a newly restructured contract here he would have had a $22 million deal with a lot of guaranteed bonus money as the number two receiver and he wouldn't have put up a year like that because CD lamb was our primary target who by the way again had a career year why don't you compare amari Cooper's numbers the CD lamb's numbers the last two years that's a comp that's why amari is not here

I'm not fixing all my stuff above it was text to talk and I gotta go to work so later on we can argue over my rambling and run on sentence but I don't care you get the point you made a bad comparison it doesn't work I'm not buying it try again try harder

 

[CowboyoWales]

Draft well, don’t utilize free agency, overpay your own marketed players, rollover cap space worth less tomorrow than it is today. Jerry cons fans into thinking we can’t afford all this talent that never wins. Jerry makes the most money. Rinse and repeat.

We don't necessarily 'overpay our own', we pay them just enough to prevent them hitting free agency....as it's market forces soon as player hits agency the price would increase as it only takes one team to outbid us.
Just look at the problem getting Digg's signed....the CAP's increased which hasnt gone unoticed by Travon and his agent.
Jerry's not tight, just has this strategy that buying one lottery ticket EVERY Year gives him a better chance of success rather than consolidating his assets into one draw.

 

[Dools29]

We don't necessarily 'overpay our own', we pay them just enough to prevent them hitting free agency....as it's market forces soon as player hits agency the price would increase as it only takes one team to outbid us.
Just look at the problem getting Digg's signed....the CAP's increased which hasnt gone unoticed by Travon and his agent.
Jerry's not tight, just has this strategy that buying one lottery ticket EVERY Year gives him a better chance of success rather than consolidating his assets into one draw.

Stephens literally screws up almost every second contract. Dak, zeke, Jaylon, Gallup. Luckily DLaw took a pay cut cause he wants to raise his family here. Luckily his negotiation tactics finally pissed Gregory off enough to leave and Kearse ended up not leaving.

We have only spent more in cap space than the lowly falcons and bears the past two years, despite paying franchise qb money and carrying the worst RB contract in the league, and that’s with a team competitive enough to win 12 games. We have the most valuable franchise in the world and the Jones’ been pinching pennies. Embarrassing.

 

[gtb1943]

We don't necessarily 'overpay our own', we pay them just enough to prevent them hitting free agency....as it's market forces soon as player hits agency the price would increase as it only takes one team to outbid us.
Just look at the problem getting Digg's signed....the CAP's increased which hasnt gone unoticed by Travon and his agent.
Jerry's not tight, just has this strategy that buying one lottery ticket EVERY Year gives him a better chance of success rather than consolidating his assets into one draw.

and Jerry's strategy has worked so well for 27 years.

and sorry but we clearly have overpaid for our talent. anyone claiming otherwise is a Jerry minion.

Now things have gotten a little better; we are finally dipping our toes into the FA pool not just waiting to go dumpster diving.

Things could be breaking our way with big jumps forecast for a number of years as regards the CAP. BUT it really comes down to properly evaluating not only our own players but potential FA's and so far we are not doing that great. Better than a lot of teams but not great.

The Boys keep saying we like our guys; well that is nice but it has not produced results that truly matter. Which means rings and being serious contenders for rings which we have not been in far too long.

Those saying we are doing well are the same ones satisfied with winning 12 games a year and making the playoffs. THEY ARE IN THE END LOSERS.

 

[Dools29]

and Jerry's strategy has worked so well for 27 years.

and sorry but we clearly have overpaid for our talent. anyone claiming otherwise is a Jerry minion.

Now things have gotten a little better; we are finally dipping our toes into the FA pool not just waiting to go dumpster diving.

Things could be breaking our way with big jumps forecast for a number of years as regards the CAP. BUT it really comes down to properly evaluating not only our own players but potential FA's and so far we are not doing that great. Better than a lot of teams but not great.

The Boys keep saying we like our guys; well that is nice but it has not produced results that truly matter. Which means rings and being serious contenders for rings which we have not been in far too long.

Those saying we are doing well are the same ones satisfied with winning 12 games a year and making the playoffs. THEY ARE IN THE END LOSERS.

The league stepped in and required us to spend over the cap floor. They still didn’t go the FA route, rather traded draft picks for contracts Stephen didn’t write to fill holes. Seemingly nice moves however.