Franchise Dez is the right move

supercowboy8 · Feb 17, 2015

Putting the tag on Dez is the right move. After you place the tag you can still talk to him about a new long term deal and then take the tag off. The tag would just make it where no other team can talk to Dez.

Dez wants to be paid like a top 5 WR and he may deserve the title but no WR is worth that much. But let's look at the WR market. Let's wait and see what the top 5 average is in 2 months.
Cobb will get paid but it won't be 9 a year but will be up there close.
Miami is talking about releasing Mike Wallace. Zona might release Fitz and Houston sounds like they will release Johnson. The Calvin Johnson deal might get renegotiated to free up some cap space. If that happens there is 4 of the top paid WRs in the NFL now not there and now the average of the top 5 WR is way lower then it was last year.

So let's tag Dez and wait and see if the top 5 average WRs salary drops with the top guys getting released or have to take less to stay.

Clarkson · Feb 17, 2015

Tags have the potential to make things ugly. It's not a guarantee, but still. I'd rather just sign him. I guess I really believe in his leadership on the field.

cej757 · Feb 17, 2015

If you franchise tag Dez it's possibile he'll hold out until like week 10 and then come back like Vincent Jackson did his last year in San Diego.

just because the Cowboys place the Franchise tag on Dez doesn't mean he's gonna sign it. I don't like how this thing is going at all.

JoeKing · Feb 17, 2015

Signing Dez to any years beyond Romo's time in Dallas is a waste of money. Tagging Dez two years is the only way I see doing smart business. Yes, it's going to suck for Cowboys fans after Romo retires but that would happen with or without Dez.

TheFinisher · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
Signing Dez to any years beyond Romo's time in Dallas is a waste of money. Tagging Dez two years is the only way I see doing smart business. Yes, it's going to suck for Cowboys fans after Romo retires but that would happen with or without Dez.

A lot of young QB's would have success behind our line/running game and a #1 WR like Dez Bryant to throw to. Our offense is the most QB friendly unit in the league with all the talent around it.

JoeKing · Feb 17, 2015

TheFinisher said:
A lot of young QB's would have success behind our line/running game and a #1 WR like Dez Bryant to throw to. Our offense is the most QB friendly unit in the league with all the talent around it.

I'm just remember the QB revolving door between Aikman and Romo. A good QB is a commodity that is hard to replace. Hard times are coming post-Romo.

TheFinisher · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
I'm just remember the QB revolving door between Aikman and Romo. A good QB is a commodity that is hard to replace. Hard times are coming post-Romo.

Why not remember the more recent evidence, like when Kitna/McGee went 5-5 in 2010 and Romo went 1-5?

A lot of QBs would have had success playing with the league's leading rusher, a top 3 WR, HOF TE, and the consensus top OL in the game.

xwalker · Feb 17, 2015

cej757 said:
If you franchise tag Dez it's possibile he'll hold out until like week 10 and then come back like Vincent Jackson did his last year in San Diego.

just because the Cowboys place the Franchise tag on Dez doesn't mean he's gonna sign it. I don't like how this thing is going at all.

Jackson's situation was different. He held out in 2010 because the league cinsidered him restricted but he disagreed.

He played the 2011 season on the tag and signed with Tampa in 2012.

It's highly unlikely that Dez would hold out. That would be flushing over 6M down the drain.

cej757 · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
Signing Dez to any years beyond Romo's time in Dallas is a waste of money. Tagging Dez two years is the only way I see doing smart business. Yes, it's going to suck for Cowboys fans after Romo retires but that would happen with or without Dez.

So basically you're saying Dez will turn into Laurent Robinson without Romo?

Frozen700 · Feb 17, 2015

Wonderboyromo said:
Tags have the potential to make things ugly. It's not a guarantee, but still. I'd rather just sign him. I guess I really believe in his leadership on the field.

Agreed.....

Frozen700 · Feb 17, 2015

cej757 said:
So basically you're saying Dez will turn into Laurent Robinson without Romo?

If so that's a load of ********

Cowboys will turn into the Raiders without Dez.

JoeKing · Feb 17, 2015

TheFinisher said:
Why not remember the more recent evidence, like when Kitna/McGee went 5-5 in 2010 and Romo went 1-5?

A lot of QBs would have had success playing with the league's leading rusher, a top 3 WR, HOF TE, and the consensus top OL in the game.

Because I'm not a prisoner to only more recent events. Long term memory serves me well. The longer you live, the greater you will come to appreciate this fact.

JoeKing · Feb 17, 2015

cej757 said:
So basically you're saying Dez will turn into Laurent Robinson without Romo?

No, I'm saying the Cowboys will turn into the Jaguars without Romo.

Clarkson · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
Signing Dez to any years beyond Romo's time in Dallas is a waste of money. Tagging Dez two years is the only way I see doing smart business. Yes, it's going to suck for Cowboys fans after Romo retires but that would happen with or without Dez.

LMAO what? Sooo Dez isn't elite? He's absolutely a top-3 WR, objectively top-5. That's why we have to work on a future plan at QB. But to say we should rid ourselves of any premium assets if they stay beyond Romo is just absurdly stupid. It makes no sense. I am in shock at this mindset.

Clarkson · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
No, I'm saying the Cowboys will turn into the Jaguars without Romo.

Not with a great OL, run game, and WR. And if we can fix the defense in that time, not even close. This is not true in the least.

Clarkson · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
Because I'm not a prisoner to only more recent events. Long term memory serves me well. The longer you live, the greater you will come to appreciate this fact.

Ok I gotta stop taking this nonsense seriously. This is something else.

TheFinisher · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
Because I'm not a prisoner to only more recent events. Long term memory serves me well. The longer you live, the greater you will come to appreciate this fact.

I wasn't aware we had Drew Henson and Quincy Carter on our current practice squad.

TheFinisher · Feb 17, 2015

mrtxstar said:
No, I'm saying the Cowboys will turn into the Jaguars without Romo.

obviously...

JoeKing · Feb 17, 2015

Wonderboyromo said:
LMAO what? Sooo Dez isn't elite? He's absolutely a top-3 WR, objectively top-5. That's why we have to work on a future plan at QB. But to say we should rid ourselves of any premium assets if they stay beyond Romo is just absurdly stupid. It makes no sense. I am in shock at this mindset.

Do you remember the crappy years before Romo? Until we have a sound QB plan post Romo, why would we spend high dollars on a WR? How is that absurdly stupid?

JoeKing · Feb 17, 2015

TheFinisher said:
I wasn't aware we had Drew Henson and Quincy Carter on our current practice squad.

What? Is that suppose to make sense?

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