TRADED Glazer: Cowboys trade for DT Quinnen Williams

[Beast_from_East]

Dumb a 1st and a 2nd.
It does nothing to help this year.
As for next year they could get a player in the draft.

I know, some will say he is a solid players as to where they may get another Mazi in the draft.
But as of now I do not like it.

This is about getting a building block for the future, not about trying to salvage this season which went into the crapper with the loss last night.

And there is no DT projected to be in the 2026 NFL draft that is the caliber of Williams, he is not just solid, he is one of the best DTs in the NFL. He one of the best graded DTs in the NFL against the run, and he is also a beast against the pass as well with 23.5 sacks over the last 3 seasons, over 40 sacks for his career.

You think you are going to draft a rookie DT and he is going to come in and put up numbers like this?

 

[Beast_from_East]

Keeps the two firsts for next years draft. Provided the front office use one of those picks to draft the next franchise quarterback then I'm absolutely on board with this move.

That aint gonna happen, they are going to ride with Dak......when they traded Parsons they said it was the best way to win a SB with Dak.

Why?

Because the offense is still #1 in the NFL, even if they have sputtered the last couple of weeks points wise. So, the thinking is if you can bring this defense from being the worst in the NFL to say middle of the pack, 16-20 range, that is good enough.

That is what these moves are aimed at, moving the defense from last place to just middle of the pack. Plus they still have 2 first round picks in this coming draft and around $35 million or so in cap space to try to bolster the defense even more. The thinking is that if the defense is just average, the offense will put up enough points to win most games.

Will it work? Who knows, but that seems to be the plan they are operating under. Just get the defense to average and with this high powered offense we can win most of our games.

 

[csirl]

We get enough draft capital to be able to trade to get the best QB in next years draft..............and we throw it away. Madness.

 

[Kwyn]

His contract is not guaranteed and the number isn't enormous. I am not so sure he gets cut. But I understand why that is a common thought.

Year	Micah	Quinnen	Clark
2025	9,970,000	7,825,000	2,300,000
2026	19,247,000	20,750,000	21,500,000
2027	26,845,000	25,400,000	20,000,000

 

[Kwyn]

Keeps the two firsts for next years draft. Provided the front office use one of those picks to draft the next franchise quarterback then I'm absolutely on board with this move.

Unfortunately, we’re almost certain to see Dak’s contract renegotiated. He’s due $74m next year.

Our out with him is after 2028 and the money is just too massive to cut him.

It is unfortunate, but we are married to him for some time to come.

 

[Beast_from_East]

We get enough draft capital to be able to trade to get the best QB in next years draft..............and we throw it away. Madness.

They are not going to draft a QB in the first round as long as Dak is on the team bro, you should know that by now.

In fact, Dak is most likely to get extended again because they are not going to carry him at $74 million cap hit next year. So look for a new 2-3 yr extension on Dak's current deal to lower his cap number, meaning you are looking at 2028 or 2029 before you could reasonably move on from Dak.

In other words, there is no plan to replace Dak within the next half decade so those 1st round picks were never going to be used on a QB.

 

[DandyDon52]

They gotta get 7 wins in their final 8 games. Can they do it…….

not with eberflus @ DC.
If jerry wanted the playoffs real bad , he would throw a lot of money at bill bellichick to come here as DC right now.
Jerry is too cheap to do it. He would have to pay 25-30 mil to bill, and then some more to get him out of the college contract, and then a bonus of 20 mill if the defense does good enough to get in the playoffs.

Then however is the fact that dak has not been very good the last 3 games, and the offense has struggled badly in those games.

Anything is possible, but with eber and just adding 2 good def players, dallas will be doing good to win 4 of last 8.
I made a futures bet that dallas could win 8 games this year, and this helps me, now I have a better chance of that happening. So I need 5 wins ,and I think it is a maybe lol.

 

[DandyDon52]

There is no excuse now for the Defense to be bad for the rest of the season.

yes there is lol E B E R F L U S !

 

[DandyDon52]

They are not going to draft a QB in the first round as long as Dak is on the team bro, you should know that by now.

In fact, Dak is most likely to get extended again because they are not going to carry him at $74 million cap hit next year. So look for a new 2-3 yr extension on Dak's current deal to lower his cap number, meaning you are looking at 2028 or 2029 before you could reasonably move on from Dak.

In other words, there is no plan to replace Dak within the next half decade so those 1st round picks were never going to be used on a QB.

Well maybe they could just restructure ?

 

[Kwyn]

They gotta get 7 wins in their final 8 games. Can they do it…….

No way. There’s not a team in the league that will win 7 of 8, let alone a sub 500 Cowboy team.

It’s a fantasy.

This entire season has been a disaster. Everything we’ve done has been reactionary with no hint of an actual plan

So depressing.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Well maybe they could just restructure ?

You typically have to add years to a contract restructure to get significant cap relief.

What they normally do is have rosters bonuses built into the contract and then they convert the roster bonus to signing bonus which can then be prorated over the life of the contract. By adding extra years onto the deal, you can prorate the signing bonus over a longer period of time. This is where crazy stuff like void years can come into play.

The pro is you can significantly lower a player's cap hit.

The con is that prorated money is accelerated into your cap if you trade or release that player, so you typically only do "built-in" restructures with players you know are going to be on the team for a very long time, like Dak. The thinking is that the cap goes up every year, so even if you are kicking the can down the road as far as having to one day pay a big dead cap hit, the percentage of the cap at that time will be significantly lower than it is right now, as long as the cap keeps going up year to year.

 

[Runwildboys]

Rich Eisen likes it.

Does Eisen ever not like something?

 

[Gremell12]

ESPN ripping the trade and although I think they’re being a bit harsh, I’d have preferred we keep our draft capital. Jerry is making win now moves because he sees that the end for him is near and desperately wants to see the team succeed. But a more patient approach would have likely yielded better results.

Ripping it because we are a bad team now. But this isn’t just a win now player. Its a win in the next 3-4 years player.

 

[CowboyoWales]

This is about getting a building block for the future, not about trying to salvage this season which went into the crapper with the loss last night.

And there is no DT projected to be in the 2026 NFL draft that is the caliber of Williams, he is not just solid, he is one of the best DTs in the NFL. He one of the best graded DTs in the NFL against the run, and he is also a beast against the pass as well with 23.5 sacks over the last 3 seasons, over 40 sacks for his career.

You think you are going to draft a rookie DT and he is going to come in and put up numbers like this?

Yep, and from most 'Draft Boards', there doesnt seem to be any/many DT's that'll probably hit around 10-late 20's, we dont draft DT's and they take time to get up to strength. Yes there's an issue with timing and cost, but there's the consideration on whether we could get him now (and that his price may rise come draft time).....and lets give him time to play 'Flus' (non-scheme), hopefully it'll help Matt devise some form of D-Line parity.

 

[CowboyFrog]

You typically have to add years to a contract restructure to get significant cap relief.

What they normally do is have rosters bonuses built into the contract and then they convert the roster bonus to signing bonus which can then be prorated over the life of the contract. By adding extra years onto the deal, you can prorate the signing bonus over a longer period of time. This is where crazy stuff like void years can come into play.

The pro is you can significantly lower a player's cap hit.

The con is that prorated money is accelerated into your cap if you trade or release that player, so you typically only do "built-in" restructures with players you know are going to be on the team for a very long time, like Dak. The thinking is that the cap goes up every year, so even if you are kicking the can down the road as far as having to one day pay a big dead cap hit, the percentage of the cap at that time will be significantly lower than it is right now, as long as the cap keeps going up year to year.

Jerry is married to Dak He has told anyone who will listen as much. you have injury like Romo which would be the only thing that brings change to that relationship

 

[America's Cowboy]

That aint gonna happen, they are going to ride with Dak......when they traded Parsons they said it was the best way to win a SB with Dak.

Why?

Because the offense is still #1 in the NFL, even if they have sputtered the last couple of weeks points wise. So, the thinking is if you can bring this defense from being the worst in the NFL to say middle of the pack, 16-20 range, that is good enough.

That is what these moves are aimed at, moving the defense from last place to just middle of the pack. Plus they still have 2 first round picks in this coming draft and around $35 million or so in cap space to try to bolster the defense even more. The thinking is that if the defense is just average, the offense will put up enough points to win most games.

Will it work? Who knows, but that seems to be the plan they are operating under. Just get the defense to average and with this high powered offense we can win most of our games.

 

[America's Cowboy]

You typically have to add years to a contract restructure to get significant cap relief.

What they normally do is have rosters bonuses built into the contract and then they convert the roster bonus to signing bonus which can then be prorated over the life of the contract. By adding extra years onto the deal, you can prorate the signing bonus over a longer period of time. This is where crazy stuff like void years can come into play.

The pro is you can significantly lower a player's cap hit.

The con is that prorated money is accelerated into your cap if you trade or release that player, so you typically only do "built-in" restructures with players you know are going to be on the team for a very long time, like Dak. The thinking is that the cap goes up every year, so even if you are kicking the can down the road as far as having to one day pay a big dead cap hit, the percentage of the cap at that time will be significantly lower than it is right now, as long as the cap keeps going up year to year.

 

[America's Cowboy]

 

[jterrell]

I'm okay with trading for a future player who is 100X better than anyone else on D. You trust Daddy and Cap Boy with those picks in the draft?

Really? You don't think if we had the option we would at least have considered using one of those picks to move up in the 2026 draft?

No, we wouldn't. We have 2 picks in 2026 already. Those we likely to move around with.

We wouldn't move the single pick we will own in 2027. NYJ will get their choice of the picks but we were planning on ours being the worst pick anyway and we would have just kept it and picked. No way Jerry is sitting out round 1 of an NFL draft. He needs his face time in the war room.

 

[jterrell]

Agree with all stated, but I think you also need another edge.

Edge is the deepest position on the team.
You've hit on a rookie starter there.
You have a mix of olds and kids trying to vie for time.

Now they get some boost in the interior.

What they need is secondary pieces and another LB. We are playing at least 3 LB that should be out of the league.
And our safety depth has proven to be hilariously bad.
Diggs is obviuously going to be cut because they couldn't trade him.