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by Ben Grimaldi
Truth be told, I’m a New York Yankees and a Dallas Cowboys fan. It’s why I can examine both teams and reach the reasonable conclusion that both teams have very similar characteristics and say the Cowboys are the NFL’s version of the Yankees.
The obvious thing they have in common is that both teams are among the most hated in their respective sport. No teams are loved, or hated, more than the Cowboys and Yankees, but that’s not the point I’m going to make.
Both teams, the Cowboys and Yankees, are linked by the way they have constructed their teams recently. The Yankees have held onto a few of their core players, despite their age, and have overpaid for a many of their current stars. The Yankees have also chosen to play with the players they have succeeded with in the past rather than move on with new players. Much of that has to do with their limited salary restraints of the past few seasons and New York is trying to avoid paying too much in luxury tax.
Does any of that sound familiar to Cowboys fans? Dallas has been limited this offseason by what they can do because of the salary cap and they have continued to move forward with older players, rather than rebuild. Looking at the Cowboys, they gave new contracts to Tony Romo, Jason Witten and Jay Ratliff into their 30′s, and could possibly be reaching a new deal with a player about to be 30 in Anthony Spencer.
The Cowboys have also overspent on plenty of their players, much like the Yankees have done with Alex Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and others. For every A-Rod or Sabathia, there’s a Miles Austin or Jay Ratliff on the Cowboys roster. Both teams overspend to keep their players for fear of the unknown without them.
They are also alike in that both teams keep pushing the future a year or two at a time. The Yankees are operating like they just need to play out the next two years with their core of older players before their contracts run out so they can reload with their, or any other teams, young talent come 2015. By that time the Andy Pettitte’s, Derek Jeter’s and Ichiro’s of the Yankees will be gone and they will be bringing up young stars like Melky Mesa, Gary Sanchez and any other star on the free agent market.
The Cowboys are doing the same thing, just in a slightly different way. Dallas is trying to get the best they have out of their best players for the next few years before they have to move. It’s why Tony Romo’s contract is structured in a way for the Cowboys to continue to restructure his deal when the team needs to get more cap space. The Cowboys know in the NFL you can only go as far as your quarterback takes you and rather than rebuild with a new quarterback, the Cowboys are squeezing everything they can out of Romo, and this core group of Cowboys, before rebuilding the entire thing.
Read more at http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/...sion-of-new-york-yankees/?1xXxS3Uyka0TmCqL.99
Truth be told, I’m a New York Yankees and a Dallas Cowboys fan. It’s why I can examine both teams and reach the reasonable conclusion that both teams have very similar characteristics and say the Cowboys are the NFL’s version of the Yankees.
The obvious thing they have in common is that both teams are among the most hated in their respective sport. No teams are loved, or hated, more than the Cowboys and Yankees, but that’s not the point I’m going to make.
Both teams, the Cowboys and Yankees, are linked by the way they have constructed their teams recently. The Yankees have held onto a few of their core players, despite their age, and have overpaid for a many of their current stars. The Yankees have also chosen to play with the players they have succeeded with in the past rather than move on with new players. Much of that has to do with their limited salary restraints of the past few seasons and New York is trying to avoid paying too much in luxury tax.
Does any of that sound familiar to Cowboys fans? Dallas has been limited this offseason by what they can do because of the salary cap and they have continued to move forward with older players, rather than rebuild. Looking at the Cowboys, they gave new contracts to Tony Romo, Jason Witten and Jay Ratliff into their 30′s, and could possibly be reaching a new deal with a player about to be 30 in Anthony Spencer.
The Cowboys have also overspent on plenty of their players, much like the Yankees have done with Alex Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and others. For every A-Rod or Sabathia, there’s a Miles Austin or Jay Ratliff on the Cowboys roster. Both teams overspend to keep their players for fear of the unknown without them.
They are also alike in that both teams keep pushing the future a year or two at a time. The Yankees are operating like they just need to play out the next two years with their core of older players before their contracts run out so they can reload with their, or any other teams, young talent come 2015. By that time the Andy Pettitte’s, Derek Jeter’s and Ichiro’s of the Yankees will be gone and they will be bringing up young stars like Melky Mesa, Gary Sanchez and any other star on the free agent market.
The Cowboys are doing the same thing, just in a slightly different way. Dallas is trying to get the best they have out of their best players for the next few years before they have to move. It’s why Tony Romo’s contract is structured in a way for the Cowboys to continue to restructure his deal when the team needs to get more cap space. The Cowboys know in the NFL you can only go as far as your quarterback takes you and rather than rebuild with a new quarterback, the Cowboys are squeezing everything they can out of Romo, and this core group of Cowboys, before rebuilding the entire thing.
Read more at http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/...sion-of-new-york-yankees/?1xXxS3Uyka0TmCqL.99
