This has been beaten to death already in every Jaylon thread. You do you and stat chase the rest of us will discuss real football stuff
IMO, getting 154 tackles doesn't nake you a good linebacker, but bad linebackers don't get that many either.
I think 154 tackles means, this guy is available every week and at least average at taking down ball carriers.
Please list every Cowboys defender who is available every week and at least average at their primary job function.
When you realize how short that list is, please tell me again why you want to cut one of the few people on that list, and how you plan to replace him. "I'd just draft a guy" is not an answer because we have 15 different holes we need to "just draft a guy" to fill.
Even if that weren't the case, it's amazing to me that everyone is convinced that we can just draft a guy and upgrade. LVE was a first rounder, JSmith was gonna be but ended up a 2nd rounder. Sean Lee was a second rounder. We're happy with none of them right now.
And don't say "we'll sign a guy on the market" unless you can tell me where the money comes from. It's gonna cost cap dollars just to cut jaylon, and then you gotta replace him at market value. By the time it's done, best case scenario we end up paying in total more than Jaylon costs next year, and we likely get somebody about as average as he is.
Listen guys. I get it. He's not a long term answer. He's not an all pro. But our defense is
trash. Whatever he is, he's about as good as anyone else on that side of the ball. It is so easy to just say "cut him!" but it isn't that simple to do it. I've asked for an actual strategy a few times now and all I get told is that I'm irrational or called names.
If everyone is so convinced that Jaylon must go, then why can't anyone say anything better than "meh ill just draft/sign someone". Sign who, Cowboys Zone??? Draft who? And at what cost to other areas of need, like a QB contract or our secondary that currently consists of like 3 guys total?