Eatman-Would have taken a 1st to land Cooks

[kskboys]

Cooper did not jive in that locker room. There was a reason they let him go.

I agreed w/ the Cooper/Collins releases.

I only disagreed w/ you claiming that the FO was good or fine or whatever due only to some recent success. They are morons and have proven so over many years. Too late for that to be removed.

 

[MyFairLady]

Madness.

 

[Dak_Attack_09]

Sometimes the best moves are the ones you don’t make.

Like 27 years of no SB.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Eatman is a reject dont ever listen to him

 

[Zman5]

Not sure why the OP thinks the FO was going to give up a 1st for Cooks from watching that video. There is nothing there that would make you think they were going to do this. Eatman doesn't say he thought we were going to do this. He just says he thinks it was probably going to take a 1st rounder to get Cook.

Watch the video before taking out your pitch forks.

 

[Stsinaz12]

Just listening to Hangin' with the Boys. He says at 4.15 mark that it would have taken a first to land him.

Sound's very much like we were prepared to give this up.

I'm speechless!

Think 11 personnel thats what we are doing we are going to deploy our 3 TIGHT ENDS and destroy teams.

 

[Cowboyny]

was little of BOTH all cuts made this offseason were a little of both., they got rid of alot of salry and many of thepayer swho have been insocisnsitent or unavalble in years leadig up to their noy being here. think about that list

Cooper -way oiverpaid for player who wasnt our leadig reciver last eyar, missed two games and has been inconsitent.
Gregory- many ssupensions and injuiry missed games add penaltyes at inopotune times. would have takn $$ to kep him.
Zurlien-made decent $$ was insoncsentent may have cost us a gme or 2.
Jawrin-new deal, never seen much of the field.
Cwill-insocsistyent far too many penatlys.
Collins same as gregory, just missign games and not living uop to his $
Ced wilson-too much money for his prodcution, let him walk
Turner-not needed

who am i missing? i know we arent truly missing any of them and at 6-2, we might be a better team now as far as depth goes and not really dropping off much atr those above repalcments. as much as fans wanted to call oiur Off season and FAs a hostroically bad one, that is not what actually happened.

add a draft id rate an A right now, well I learn not to listen to those types of fans, same one pitting Dak vs Rush, Pollard vs Zeke,..they have no clue, just live in the momenet and ramanble on about how they FEEL things are going so badly ie overreact.

getting the same feedback after the trade dealine, once again calling jerry stupiud..they will never learn they are just fans and let eh pros make the decsiosn and results will speak foer themselves AFTER the season fully plays out....

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Sometimes addition by subtraction works.

 

[jterrell]

What we give up was all reliant on Houston eating a lot of money.
We liked Cooks but weren't paying him 18M next year.
If they ate some of that money then likely we pay a R3.
If they ate almost all of that money then we may have been willing to go to R1.

17M discount is prolly worth 2 rounds to Stephen Tightbucks.

Since HOU ended up willing to eat zero I can see why discussions were all over the map and took forever.
Dallas ultimately wanted the pressure of HOU being stuck with Cooks to drive the best bargain for themselves.
HOU has a very mad Cooks but held their water.
We shall see how that goes in the off-season.

 

[Majic]

He didn't reveal anything. They were talking about the Claypool trade and would you have given up a 2 and a 5 for Cooks. He said I think it would have taken a 1st. There's no inside info there. He's merely thinking out loud.

4 minute mark. No scoop. Just an opinion.

But in the past he does tend to disguise information he knows by disclosing it as an opinion. In the show on Tuesday had had a message from someone (presumably a colleague) who he was checking in with as to whether anything was going down, so he is very well connected. If it was an opinion he seemed quite sure

 

[Majic]

What we give up was all reliant on Houston eating a lot of money.
We liked Cooks but weren't paying him 18M next year.
If they ate some of that money then likely we pay a R3.
If they ate almost all of that money then we may have been willing to go to R1.

17M discount is prolly worth 2 rounds to Stephen Tightbucks.

Since HOU ended up willing to eat zero I can see why discussions were all over the map and took forever.
Dallas ultimately wanted the pressure of HOU being stuck with Cooks to drive the best bargain for themselves.
HOU has a very mad Cooks but held their water.
We shall see how that goes in the off-season.

That makes sense

 

[blueblood70]

Sometimes addition by subtraction works.

agree at this point, 6-2, almost identical to last year at this time with younger players and more depth. so mid-season grades say those moves were all correct. what we do in the post season will be the only thing that matters.

 

[Cowboyny]

I think that’s certainly the case with Collins. He had issues going back to LSU.

Once Steele proved he can be a solid option, Collins days were numbered, especially how he handled that suspension.

 

[reddyuta]

I have never understood the fascination with Cooks.so many teams have given up so many top picks to get him but they immediately want to get rid of him/.

 

[Cowboyny]

agree at this point, 6-2, almost identical to last year at this time with younger players and more depth. so mid-season grades say those moves were all correct. what we do in the post season will be the only thing that matters.

I remember here in NY, Giants got better once Shockey and Barber were off their team. Less talented, but played better as a team.

 

[Stash]

Once Steele proved he can be a solid option, Collins days were numbered, especially how he handled that suspension.

Yeah, there were a bunch of things with Collins, even going back to his injuries the year before too. It’s a shame as I hoped his career would really work out well in Dallas. But there’s one where I give the front office credit for moving on.

On a side note, if anyone wants to buy a #71 Collins jersey, I know where to find one cheap!

 

[kskboys]

I have never understood the fascination with Cooks.so many teams have given up so many top picks to get him but they immediately want to get rid of him/.

Yup. Same w/ Revis.

 

[quickccc]

That I can respect. They tried for a decent deal and it didn't happen. But since trades are off the table now they need to go get OBJ use the money that would have gone to cook for OBJ and make a run, with washington coming back too.

i would prefer to see if and how the OBJ audition would work out first here,.. before any thought of a long term contract and committee to him.
as there are concerns i have about him,(ala durability, ACL recovery, his diva persona)

Maybe his camp and market bidding is seeking out the long term committment from teams interested in him, .. instead of a one year renter.

 

[FaSho]

Just listening to Hangin' with the Boys. He says at 4.15 mark that it would have taken a first to land him.

Sound's very much like we were prepared to give this up.

I'm speechless!

Did someone say we were prepared to give up a 1st? It didn't happen obviously, so I have my doubts. I would think we weren't willing to pay that much, and that's why it fell apart.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

you are NOT straight

reason the deal failed is because they were UNWILLING to do any of that , bet they offered a 3rd maybe a 2 and only wanted to pay half his salary. Deal fell tough because they were Unwilling to do that scenario you do not have straight.
they kicked the tires, tired rolled off, move on..

I'm fine with YOUR scenario, because the original scenario just SCREAMED incompetence!

 

[Runwildboys]

Just the fact that they tried makes them look bad.

What did they try? We still have our first round pick, so apparently they weren't willing to give that up.