Sure, if you tanked to four wins, started a new rookie QB the next year and then still only won like 5-6 games. Sure. That's a rebuild.
But when you come off a 13-3 season, trying to argue that a crap FA plan is actually part of a shrewd rebuild is quite silly. And yet again, this team could have still handled FA better while not giving up future cap space that would kill them down the road and still being able to use premium picks in the draft to continue to get younger and better.
You make it sound like what people are suggesting here is blow draft picks in trades for 35 year old players making $15MM a year and then also turn around and blow every remaining dollar of cap space on overpriced, top of the list FAs.
The issue here and what makes your position somewhat comical is that you are consistently drawing this line in the sand where if you actually spend a bit more in FA on some mid-tier players instead of the crap they typically sign, you are somehow betraying the draft model and that you somehow completely undermine drafting and developing young players.
And your last paragraph is hilarious.
Guess what? If we had signed a couple of better FAs this offseason that were competent players it's not like our young roster would have disappeared. We'd still have the same impressive young roster you think we have. The only difference is we'd likely also be a better team right now than we are. That's the beauty of using FA wisely and not the way we use it. You can get better in the near term while ALSO not sacrificing the future.
But again, you act like what people are proposing is basically eschew young players and just blow billions in FA.
You are simply not thinking intelligently here and I can't force you to.
I've tried to demonstrate why your thinking is flawed but you choose not to get it.
Again, I've addressed both your suggestions.
Micah Hyde is a solid starter and would be a better SS option than Heath or Woods this second. But he got paid what it would have taken to keep Barry Church.
Dallas instead looks to have Xavier Woods ready to go for 4-5 years at the cost of Hyde for 1 season!!
And they get an additional 5th round pick. Woods is 5 years younger. So he will be younger than Hyde is now throughout his deal here and his RFA season.
Is 4-6 games of Hyde over Heath so valuable I wanna pay 30m and a 5th? Nope. And had I signed Hyde, Woods who was clearly a steal would languish on the bench for a couple seasons minimum.
Poe is a very good interior guy but he was 8mil for 1 season.
Does he really move the needle on this team much? Probably not and you pay him 8m plus lose a 4th round pick. No thanks.
David Irving and Maliek Collins makes me pretty darn happy inside. I can use Tyrone Crawford in there some as well.
Would you sign David Irving or Poe? Because they may well be the choices you are looking at in short order. Poe is free again.
DAL could have selected a better FA player than Carroll at CB but would that player have been able to keep Lewis and Brown off the field? Probably not.
And that player would have been costly.
Paea held down the fort til David Irving came back and then bam, retired. Best of both worlds really.
The two moves you described would have eaten more than the 10m in cap space DAL has. Instead that 10m can end up going to a combination of Tank Lawrence, David Irving and Martin next year when they roll it over.
When you have a young roster you use it and get better, when you have a vet roster, you use that and younger players sit on the bench.
Please just stop posting to me as you stated you were going to about 10 replies ago.