Do we make this mistake again?

[Redball Express]

It's getting late now as the deadlines appear on our horizon about signing or tagging Dak and Amari.

Lets remember why all of this happened in the first place.

Tony Romo.

The OL rebuild was supposed to help Romo.

Drafting Zeke was to replace Murray leaving and no running game.

To help Romo. To be Romo Friendly.

Dak was not drafted to take over. He was just supposed to be a project behind Romo as a safety net.

Now here we are,. Romo has got his dream TV job leaving him plenty of time for golf..

Dak is grossly about to be overpaid in a move that is going to doom this team for years if he fails or gets hurt and can't play well enough..

because of Dak needing to have a posse of people around him who are All Pros..

we can't afford a defense at all.

It been like the Keystone Cops in Dallas.

And we keep making the same old mistakes with this team..

we get a low cost QB and we want to go to the SB with him by overpaying for him to get there thinking if we just pay him enough..

and wait long enough..

It will all work.

Failures have now caused a complete coaching change to be made and Garrett was made the sacrificial lamb along with all the coaches.

Quite a blood letting to beDak Friendly.

Now Dak has stopped being Cowboy Friendly and wants to be paid the most in the league to be our leader.

Doesn''t anybody see this problem clearly?

The timing of signing Dak and Amari to these contracts are all out of order.

You pay players for performance AFTER you receive services rendered.

Not before.

Mahomes is the best there is right now.

He gets paid AFTER he wins a SB.

Not before.

Brady?

Same thing.

But the Cowboys?

Nope.

We like Dak.

We will overpay Dak becuz Dak has suffered with us and been underpaid for two losing runs into the playoffs.

OMG.

Somebody pour some coffee down the gullets of the Jones and sober them up.

We are about to completely lose this team to their decisions of wanting to make a bad business platform work.

It will not strike oil,Jerrah the WildCat man.

I have one suggestion for Jerrah.

Stop applying oil philosophy to sports.

 

[Jipper]

soooo you dont want them to overpay for Dak. got it.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Where were you when Romo, Dez and Witten were getting overpaid?

Where were you last year when Zeke and D-Law were overpaid?

Where were you when our Oline has been overpaid?

 

[JD_KaPow]

Mahomes is the best there is right now.

He gets paid AFTER he wins a SB.

Not before.

Brady?

Same thing.

This part tells me you have no understanding of the economics of the NFL.

 

[OmerV]

It's getting late now as the deadlines appear on our horizon about signing or tagging Dak and Amari.

Lets remember why all of this happened in the first place.

Tony Romo.

The OL rebuild was supposed to help Romo.

Drafting Zeke was to replace Murray leaving and no running game.

To help Romo. To be Romo Friendly.

Dak was not drafted to take over. He was just supposed to be a project behind Romo as a safety net.

Now here we are,. Romo has got his dream TV job leaving him plenty of time for golf..

Dak is grossly about to be overpaid in a move that is going to doom this team for years if he fails or gets hurt and can't play well enough..

because of Dak needing to have a posse of people around him who are All Pros..

we can't afford a defense at all.

It been like the Keystone Cops in Dallas.

And we keep making the same old mistakes with this team..

we get a low cost QB and we want to go to the SB with him by overpaying for him to get there thinking if we just pay him enough..

and wait long enough..

It will all work.

Failures have now caused a complete coaching change to be made and Garrett was made the sacrificial lamb along with all the coaches.

Quite a blood letting to beDak Friendly.

Now Dak has stopped being Cowboy Friendly and wants to be paid the most in the league to be our leader.

Doesn''t anybody see this problem clearly?

The timing of signing Dak and Amari to these contracts are all out of order.

You pay players for performance AFTER you receive services rendered.

Not before.

Mahomes is the best there is right now.

He gets paid AFTER he wins a SB.

Not before.

Brady?

Same thing.

But the Cowboys?

Nope.

We like Dak.

We will overpay Dak becuz Dak has suffered with us and been underpaid for two losing runs into the playoffs.

OMG.

Somebody pour some coffee down the gullets of the Jones and sober them up.

We are about to completely lose this team to their decisions of wanting to make a bad business platform work.

It will not strike oil,Jerrah the WildCat man.

I have one suggestion for Jerrah.

Stop applying oil philosophy to sports.

A strong O-Line benefits Zeke and Dak just as it did Murray and Romo, so it's a false narrative to act as if we are stuck now with a situation that was meant specifically to benefit Romo. It was really built to benefit a balanced offense, which we can do with the guys that replaced Murray and Romo.

As for not paying people until after big team success, by that standard we would let every quality player go if their contract expires without the team winning as much as it hoped to. You can't build a team that way. A team has to keep players that building blocks even if the team hasn't had the success up to the point their contract expires.

You can't build up to something if you keep demolishing the foundation before it is built.

 

[LatinMind]

It's getting late now as the deadlines appear on our horizon about signing or tagging Dak and Amari.

Lets remember why all of this happened in the first place.

Tony Romo.

The OL rebuild was supposed to help Romo.

Drafting Zeke was to replace Murray leaving and no running game.

To help Romo. To be Romo Friendly.

Dak was not drafted to take over. He was just supposed to be a project behind Romo as a safety net.

Now here we are,. Romo has got his dream TV job leaving him plenty of time for golf..

Dak is grossly about to be overpaid in a move that is going to doom this team for years if he fails or gets hurt and can't play well enough..

because of Dak needing to have a posse of people around him who are All Pros..

we can't afford a defense at all.

It been like the Keystone Cops in Dallas.

And we keep making the same old mistakes with this team..

we get a low cost QB and we want to go to the SB with him by overpaying for him to get there thinking if we just pay him enough..

and wait long enough..

It will all work.

Failures have now caused a complete coaching change to be made and Garrett was made the sacrificial lamb along with all the coaches.

Quite a blood letting to beDak Friendly.

Now Dak has stopped being Cowboy Friendly and wants to be paid the most in the league to be our leader.

Doesn''t anybody see this problem clearly?

The timing of signing Dak and Amari to these contracts are all out of order.

You pay players for performance AFTER you receive services rendered.

Not before.

Mahomes is the best there is right now.

He gets paid AFTER he wins a SB.

Not before.

Brady?

Same thing.

But the Cowboys?

Nope.

We like Dak.

We will overpay Dak becuz Dak has suffered with us and been underpaid for two losing runs into the playoffs.

OMG.

Somebody pour some coffee down the gullets of the Jones and sober them up.

We are about to completely lose this team to their decisions of wanting to make a bad business platform work.

It will not strike oil,Jerrah the WildCat man.

I have one suggestion for Jerrah.

Stop applying oil philosophy to sports.

Stop the dramatics, every qb has and will be overpaid. Thats the top spot. The market is what it is. The Lions screwed that over yrs ago with Staffords deal. IDK why cowboy fans are trying to make this about Dak and Jerry. Dak has clearly outplayed Wince, and Goff and theyre making 30+mil AAV so i understand why his agent is asking for more than what they make.

And it seems to me that some of you have no clue how much this new CBA deal is going to explode the cap. Another game, and a new TV deal. Fans are short sighted and dont pay attention or are too lazy to read about whats about to happen.

 

[Creeper]

I am not for overpaying Dak either but I also think drafting players to make the QB better is a mistake too. Don't get me wrong, every offense needs dependable receivers even if they are two TEs. But I think Jerry's mistake for many years has been his strategy of signing skill position players first and worrying about interior offensive and defensive lines second. Sign Dak, keep that offensive line near the top in the league, even if it means moving one from someone and replacing him with a better player, and the offense will be fine, even if Cooper departs in free agency.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

I am not for overpaying Dak either but I also think drafting players to make the QB better is a mistake too. Don't get me wrong, every offense needs dependable receivers even if they are two TEs. But I think Jerry's mistake for many years has been his strategy of signing skill position players first and worrying about interior offensive and defensive lines second. Sign Dak, keep that offensive line near the top in the league, even if it means moving one from someone and replacing him with a better player, and the offense will be fine, even if Cooper departs in free agency.

The Cowboys won't ever get better until Jerry stops with the "we like our guys philosophy"

 

[OmerV]

I am not for overpaying Dak either but I also think drafting players to make the QB better is a mistake too. Don't get me wrong, every offense needs dependable receivers even if they are two TEs. But I think Jerry's mistake for many years has been his strategy of signing skill position players first and worrying about interior offensive and defensive lines second. Sign Dak, keep that offensive line near the top in the league, even if it means moving one from someone and replacing him with a better player, and the offense will be fine, even if Cooper departs in free agency.

First, I agree we haven't focused enough on the interior D-Line, but much of the rest of your post I disagree with.

First, I don't think we are drafting "to make our QB better". What we draft on offense is designed to make our offense better, regardless of who is QB.

But, aside from that, the interior offensive line certainly hasn't been ignored the way you indicate. We drafted Frederick and Martin with our 1st round picks in back to back seasons, and since then have used a 2nd rounder on Williams, and a 3rd rounder on McGovern. We also acquired Collins who started as an interior O-Lineman with the Cowboys. That's some pretty serious resources to the interior O-Line.

As for receivers, we did use our 2019 1st round pick to trade for Cooper, but after that, our # 2 was a 3rd round pick, our #3 was a free agent, and who looks to be our primary TE this coming season (Jarwin) was an undrafted free agent. That's not really excessive for our receivers.

As for RB, we did use our 2016 first round pick on that, but our backup was a 4th round pick, so that's not excessive either.

Last year we used our top 2 picks on and O and D Lineman, the year before we used our top 2 picks on a LB and O-lineman, the year before that our #1 pick went to a D-Lineman (some might consider DE a "skill position"), the year before that we used our 2nd, 3rd and 4th round pick on a LB and 2 D-Linemen …

In short, it hasn't been all about the skill positions.

 

[NEODOG]

To me it's not about over paying--it's the firm idea we are better off trading Dak

I don't believe Dak is a championship QB - plain & simple

 

[RS12]

Jerry always doubles on strategies that dont work, like propping up a coach that was obviously never gonna get it done for a decade. Egomaniac billionaire has held this franchise hostage for over a generation. We are doomed as long as he is above ground. Why should crippling the franchise by grossly over paying a middling QB be any different.

 

[IceStar-D7]

This part tells me you have no understanding of the economics of the NFL.

LOL...if that were the rule for everybody we'd have no economy.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Stop the dramatics, every qb has and will be overpaid. Thats the top spot. The market is what it is. The Lions screwed that over yrs ago with Staffords deal. IDK why cowboy fans are trying to make this about Dak and Jerry. Dak has clearly outplayed Wince, and Goff and theyre making 30+mil AAV so i understand why his agent is asking for more than what they make.

And it seems to me that some of you have no clue how much this new CBA deal is going to explode the cap. Another game, and a new TV deal. Fans are short sighted and dont pay attention or are too lazy to read about whats about to happen.

 

[jazzcat22]

The Cowboys won't ever get better until Jerry stops with the "we like our guys philosophy"

Actually that is more of a Stephen and the old coaches crap.

 

[garyo1954]

It's getting late now as the deadlines appear on our horizon about signing or tagging Dak and Amari.

Stop applying oil philosophy to sports.

Yeah, the Cowboys will make that mistake. Jerry refuses to be wrong. Doesn't matter how many times he has been proved wrong, he'll say this is a new situation. And a chance to be proven right.

And we all know he only needs to be right once, ergo, hiring Jimmy Johnson, and we'll never hear the end of it!

You'd think as many times as he's drilled dry holes, he'd have a clue what one looks like.

 

[mcmvp]

Stop applying oil philosophy to sports.

I would suggest to stop making every single word/sentence into a new paragraph.

 

[Redball Express]

This part tells me you have no understanding of the economics of the NFL.

I think I do.

It's the whole point of the post.

This team operates differently than the rest.

It's been that way fro. Day One under Jones.

I am not attacking anyone. The fans in the end enable everything.

They either buy the team and its profit structure or they don't. Most of us toe the line and pony up.

We hope it works. No problem.

And there are a bunch of things I enjoy about Jones.

Just not his football GM manship.

That's all.

Proceed.

 

[Redball Express]

I would suggest to stop making every single word/sentence into a new paragraph.

I have explained to the Forum before.

I have glaucoma and reading and typing on tiny phone screens is difficult.

The monitors say its OK and do it. But I do not think it's for everybody to do as it makes for more storage space to do that.

I understand. Hope you can.

 

[Redball Express]

Yeah, the Cowboys will make that mistake. Jerry refuses to be wrong. Doesn't matter how many times he has been proved wrong, he'll say this is a new situation. And a chance to be proven right.

And we all know he only needs to be right once, ergo, hiring Jimmy Johnson, and we'll never hear the end of it!

You'd think as many times as he's drilled dry holes, he'd have a clue what one looks like.

Ding ding ding.

We have a winner.

 

[Redball Express]

LOL...if that were the rule for everybody we'd have no economy.

I know.

And nobody would be at work.

They would be walking around with their phones watching NFL Live all day.

Wait..

Everybody here already does that.

My bad.