Demarco Murray Contract Talk

[Toruk_Makto]

I wouldn't pay him anything close to top dollar.

You mean no 7 year 100M AD contract?

Insightful.

 

[waving monkey]

How can you know Murray will stay healthy?
It's one more of the injury guys that you have to wonder
can you depend on him. Then again you let him walk
he goes to another team and runs for 1500 yards four years in a row.
I'm leery but his good.

I guess you give a contract.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

I would not pay him.

At this point, I am leaning toward not paying Dez either.

This team may be on the precipice of another wilderness of Jerry looking for a franchise qb.

By the time they get one (a franchise qb) again, if he can get one, it will be too late for Murray and Dez and they will be aging vets with bloated contracts.

This is the core the team should build around going forward:

Terrance Williams
Gavin Escobar
Travis Frederick
Zack Martin
Tyron Smith
Demarcus Lawrence


Hopefully, after this season we can add more names to this list (e.g., Claiborne, Crawford, etc.)

But if this team is truly rebuilding, it will think twice about Dez and Murray extensions.

That said, I think both will get big extensions from the FO.

If we put every GM and you in a room.

Youd be the only one who wouldn't resign a Dez already on your roster.

I'm glad you don't have the keys to the kingdom.

 

[Doomsday101]

I hope we can keep Murray and pay him a fair price. Based on the NFL salaries of RB 3 mill is not even in the top 25 in terms of pay. The notion that you can easily get a quality RB sorry I don't buy that

 

[jrumann59]

I hope we can keep Murray and pay him a fair price. Based on the NFL salaries of RB 3 mill is not even in the top 25 in terms of pay. The notion that you can easily get a quality RB sorry I don't buy that

Outside of AP there is a pretty steep drop off to McCoy, Lynch, Forte, Gore, Rice, Foster, Morris??, Moreno???, and then another drop off to everyone else. Murray is good, right now I see him in the 3rd tier of RB in the league but just on the outside looking in on the 2nd tier because he has only had that one good year. I do consider him much more talented than Forte but Forte has a body of work to prove his worth along with Rice and Gore.

 

[casmith07]

Why would you add Claiborne and Crawford, both unproven, to the core of players to build around yet let dez and murray, both proven and improving every season, walk?

The great thing about opinions...

 

[TellerMorrow34]

With Murray it's not a question about talent or ability.

The scary thing about giving him a contract is that he has a hard time staying healthy and that's always going to be a concern for him.

 

[big dog cowboy]

You resign Murray to a reasonable deal or you draft his replacement fairly high next draft. You really want to spend a high draft pick on a RB next spring? I don't.

 

[Doomsday101]

Outside of AP there is a pretty steep drop off to McCoy, Lynch, Forte, Gore, Rice, Foster, Morris??, Moreno???, and then another drop off to everyone else. Murray is good, right now I see him in the 3rd tier of RB in the league but just on the outside looking in on the 2nd tier because he has only had that one good year. I do consider him much more talented than Forte but Forte has a body of work to prove his worth along with Rice and Gore.

http://www.spotrac.com/rankings/nfl/average/running-back/limit-25/

I think Murray is more than a 3rd teir RB his yards per game is 5th in the NFL and is 4th in TD scored, his 5.1 per carry is tops amonst RB.

To me if you want talented players you pay them, if all you want is avg player who get low pay then cut our top player and bring in cheap players

 

[jrumann59]

http://www.spotrac.com/rankings/nfl/average/running-back/limit-25/

I think Murray is more than a 3rd teir RB his yards per game is 5th in the NFL and is 4th in TD scored, his 5.1 per carry is tops amonst RB.

To me if you want talented players you pay them, if all you want is avg player who get low pay then cut our top player and bring in cheap players

I think he has the talent to be in 2nd tier but his injury history have slowed his arrival their. Last year showed he should be in the 2nd tier but I am not ready to give it to him yet, JuJo taught me that. Call it tempered optimism.

 

[Doomsday101]

With Murray it's not a question about talent or ability.

The scary thing about giving him a contract is that he has a hard time staying healthy and that's always going to be a concern for him.

True last year he missed 2 games played in 14

 

[Doomsday101]

I think he has the talent to be in 2nd tier but his injury history have slowed his arrival their. Last year showed he should be in the 2nd tier but I am not ready to give it to him yet, JuJo taught me that. Call it tempered optimism.

I'm not saying Dallas has to sign him today all I'm saying is he is a quality player and it takes quality players if you expect to compete. We have enough avg players.

 

[scooper]

Lol he'd be lucky to get 1000 yards this year. We just don't run the ball. Hopefully linehan changes that though. If we are to resign him, have it be like Lee's contract.

Well run the ball now that we have an elite offensive line.

 

[TheCowboy]

Well run the ball now that we have an elite offensive line.

I sure hope so

 

[Doomsday101]

You mean no 7 year 100M AD contract?

Insightful.

Jonathan Stewart signed a 5 year / $36.50 million contract with the Carolina Panthers, including a $9,000,000 signing bonus, $11,500,000 guaranteed, and an annual average salary of $7,300,000.

Ray Rice signed a 5 year / $35 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens, including a $15,000,000 signing bonus, $15,000,000 guaranteed, and an annual average salary of $7,000,000.

and these guys are not even in the top 5 in terms of pay.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I would not sign him without first letting him test the market unless he will take $3 million a year for three years. No more and no longer. You can now get a 1st round calibre RB in the 2nd-4th rounds. I like Murray and hope he stays in Dallas but I wouldn't give him big money because the market no longer calls for it and he can be replaced cheaply.

I love this new perception that it is sooo easy to draft a elite back.

 

[KDM256]

I wouldn't jump the gun signing Murray whose often injured than not on a big contract.

If I was in the FO, I would try to put Murray & his agent on the back burner with contract talks for as long as I can and really get serious in negotiations around week 6 to see if Murray on the sidelines or helping this team compete for the NFC East.

 

[scooper]

How much is the running back franchise tag these days?

 

[Doomsday101]

I love this new perception that it is sooo easy to draft a elite back.

I agree. any postion player can be a so called dime a dozen but talented player get paid in this league.

 

[guag]

I say offer him a contract that will pay him as one of the top 10 RBs in the game IF he meets certain minimum performance criteria. If he meets this criteria (must play 14+ games, have 1200+ yards, something like that) then he certainly deserves to be paid well. I really hope we do something like this.