Dak: Don't plan on being 3-5. However, that's up to the front office. You know what I mean

[Doomsday77]

Too much wrong with this team for one player to make a difference. Probably just afraid we can't get to 8-9.

What does 8-9 get us?

 

[Chasing6]

Sorry but Amari got traded to the Bills who is trying hard to get a better roster...

Jerry thinks the roster got better by paying Dak and CD more money.

 

[Doomsday77]

Jerry thinks the roster got better by paying Dak and CD more money.

Right but this is 6 games into the season....if he didn't see the team getting any better after the Lions game then...

 

[Chasing6]

Right but this is 6 games into the season....if he didn't see the team getting any better after the Lions game then...

He obviously has no idea what he is doing if he was shocked. We may of had the same or similar results if we were 100% healthy.

 

[Nav22]

Dallas has $21.76 million in cap space. $9.5 million of that was not available until after June 1st when Gallups' June 1st Designation kicked in (a majority of that was used on draft picks). $15 million was saved as part of the Prescott contract two days before the season. About another $8 million was saved when we signed Lamb on August 27th. We used some of those savings to sign players like Joseph, Lawson, and Phillips (trade). In other words, the majority of what you are referring to was not available to spend when free agency was in full swing. But you knew that didn't you?

Now you can argue that we should have signed those two sooner and we could have signed some free agents. And on that point, I would completely agree. But we didn't. And since we didn't, the contracts in place for Dak (59.5 million cap hit original - now 45) and Lamb (16.5 million original - now 8.75) were precisely why we didn't sign anyone else until late August when the money was freed up. At that point, no one was available worth anything, and it is just better to roll it over and spend it next season (now will they is the question).

I also completely agree with you on Free Agent spending though. Completely unacceptable and a joke really.

And no. I am not at all defending Jerry, the front office, or anything else. This offseason was a Greek tragedy. Just showing you some actual research on to why we have so much cap space right now that wasn't available during free agency.

Great post.

 

[Nav22]

Aikman would've won the 2022 Super Bowl. That team had all the pieces.

Maybe, maybe not.

But we know for damn sure Troy wouldn't do JACK with this 2024 team.

 

[Nav22]

Like I stated earlier; you can put Dak on a team with multiple pro bowlers on offense, defense, and special teams with a HOF coach… and Dak still would not perform well enough in the playoffs to win a divisional round playoff game

Winning a Wild Card game every few years was Dak’s ceiling.

Dak and the Cowboys will have a tough time making the playoffs moving forward.

We saw how Troy performed when he had a weak supporting cast too.

It wasn't good. Team sport.

 

[Chuck 54]

We need a RB and a WR
Don’t see it happening

Agreed, but we need DL and LB beef even more right now.

 

[Swagger]

Those comments will go down well with Jerry.

Imagine the highest paid player in the NFL on a yearly basis wanting more help! Has he not heard about the pie from Stephen?!

 

[Chasing6]

Agreed, but we need DL and LB beef even more right now.

No. We need a GM. You have seen the pieces our GM had added. We added a LB, we added DL, we added a RB or two.

We need a GM that has a clue.

 

[offlimits]

Why do you guys hate our legends so much? Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Irvin, etc... They have all been put down by daksters....

Probably because most of these children were babies or toddlers in the 90's

 

[Chasing6]

Why do you guys hate our legends so much? Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Irvin, etc... They have all been put down by daksters....

Speaking reality has nothing to with hate.

Our 90's team was extremely well built and the pieces made the some better. That is complimentary football.

Ou D was better when Emmitt could eat up the clock and we could dominate the clock 35 to 25 minutes.

Emmitt made our D better.

If teams committed to stoping Emmitt Troy could pick them a part with in the passing game.

On D we could stop the run and the pass.

It is called Val fed football. That is the number 1 challenge he in the NFL today with the salary cap and it takes a real GM to be able to figure it out.

We don't have that. If you feel better putting your head in the sand and want to blame Dak, Tony or the next guy, go right ahead.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

All of that wasted space to talk about wide receivers only???

Gee, I wonder why!


Is it because when Troy Aikman was winning big, he had...

- HOF Head Coach/GM building roster
- NFL MVP at RB
- Legendary OL
- #1 Defense in NFL
- All-Pro WR
- All-Pro TE
- Pro Bowl FB

Could that be why you're ONLY focusing on 1 measly position group to make your Troy/Dak argument????

As if other than WR, all else is equal???

No it is because you guys whine about Dak not having weapons. you can try to distract all you want but Aikman and Irvin was good enough for the passing game back in the day. Yes we had a running game with Emmitt, but some of those post Super Bowl years Aikman had less talent around him than Dak. Of course, you have to go back and compare the teams troy had in the super bowl era, but Troy did his job and was effective in the passing game when it was basically just him and Irvin with Irvin being double covered. How does Dak do with a double covered CeeDee?

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

Speaking reality has nothing to with hate.

Our 90's team was extremely well built and the pieces made the some better. That is complimentary football.

Ou D was better when Emmitt could eat up the clock and we could dominate the clock 35 to 25 minutes.

Emmitt made our D better.

If teams committed to stoping Emmitt Troy could pick them a part with in the passing game.

On D we could stop the run and the pass.

It is called Val fed football. That is the number 1 challenge he in the NFL today with the salary cap and it takes a real GM to be able to figure it out.

We don't have that. If you feel better putting your head in the sand and want to blame Dak, Tony or the next guy, go right ahead.

Many of the Dak Stans have put down Emmitt, Aikman and Irvin. People who should be off limits to such disrespect. As for what I was talking about is after the last superbowl, when Aikman only had Irvin in the passing game, him and Irvin were still productive. It wasn't until after Irvin went down in Philly that Aikman had some probs. Those 10-6 seasons that Nav says big deal that has some nicer seasons, Aikman probably had less talent around him than Dak. And it is pretty much a fact that the stans around here always complain about Dak not having enough weapons, when to many of us it seems he has enough. Aikman didn't have a legit #2 after Harper left and was productive. Romo could elevate receivers around him. If Dak stans want to say that Dak does too, then why all the whining about when we lose that it is because he doesn't have recievers, etc. I just remember when previous quarterbacks where here me always thinking you play with what you have, and didn't expect the world, given that Jerry wasn't good at drafting. Now the cowboys draft better, and people still complain.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

Speaking reality has nothing to with hate.

Our 90's team was extremely well built and the pieces made the some better. That is complimentary football.

Ou D was better when Emmitt could eat up the clock and we could dominate the clock 35 to 25 minutes.

Emmitt made our D better.

If teams committed to stoping Emmitt Troy could pick them a part with in the passing game.

On D we could stop the run and the pass.

It is called Val fed football. That is the number 1 challenge he in the NFL today with the salary cap and it takes a real GM to be able to figure it out.

We don't have that. If you feel better putting your head in the sand and want to blame Dak, Tony or the next guy, go right ahead.

I was talking about the post 96 superbowl era. Aikman with Irvin was still decent.

 

[Nav22]

No it is because you guys whine about Dak not having weapons. you can try to distract all you want but Aikman and Irvin was good enough for the passing game back in the day. Yes we had a running game with Emmitt, but some of those post Super Bowl years Aikman had less talent around him than Dak. Of course, you have to go back and compare the teams troy had in the super bowl era, but Troy did his job and was effective in the passing game when it was basically just him and Irvin with Irvin being double covered. How does Dak do with a double covered CeeDee?

Booed off the field at home.

0-2 in 1993 just because Emmitt was out.

Never competed without insane talent around him.

Keep pretending Troy (or any QB) was Superman though. This is hilarious.

"Got it done"

 

[khiladi]

Dak back to throwing teammates under the bus.. the biggest fraud in the league.

That was the year they went “Dak friendly” and Dak said they didn’t need a true number 1.

Guess what Dak? Lamb is that true number 1. And when they got Amari, your numbers only shot up in man coverage, not against zone, where you sucked and continued to suck.

And now that you have no real RG, teams don’t have to get out of zone.

 

[khiladi]

So the 240 million dollar man wants them to get his some more help ..... how shameless

Dude is such a fraud. He’s been doing this his whole career here, but his fanboys refuse to acknowledge it.

 

[khiladi]

So he alludes to the FO getting better players and then in the next breath he says the guys we have are good enough??

Because he doesn’t want to made it seem like he’s throwing shade at the players on the team. He’s a fraud.

 

[Legend]

Booed off the field at home.

0-2 in 1993 just because Emmitt was out.

Never competed without insane talent around him.

Keep pretending Troy (or any QB) was Superman though. This is hilarious.

"Got it done"

Emmitt should never been out.

The Cowboys just won a SB and Jerry should have paid Emmitt what he eventually paid him.

Aikman broke Joe Montana's record of 83 passes without an interception by throwing 89 during the 1992 playoffs.

He also won SB MVP.

Emmitt won the rushing title, NFL MVP, SB, and SB MVP after missing the first two games of the 1993 season.

Aikman, Smith, and Irvin were the Triplets for a reason.

Criticizing Aikman is like criticizing Montana or Young if Jerry Rice was out.