How Dallas turned it all around

[jterrell]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

That has all changed.

Currently DAL ranks in cap space by future season:
2020: 3rd with 65M in cap space
2021: 5th with 158M in cap space
2022: 9th but with 275M in cap space.

You combine that with having arguably the youngest competitive team in football. --DAL had the youngest team to win a playoff game last year and only the seemingly 75 year old long snapper pulls them below some of the rebuilding teams.

DAL has drafted very well and while the draft capital and their patience was finally tested with the R1 deal for Amari Cooper they got a player who was clearly a Pro Bowl caliber guy from the second he put on the star; they have simply stood their ground and drafted very well. For every Taco there have been multiple All Pros. DAL has learned how to draft and how to team build.

Jerry is the leagues greatest entertainer as an owner. He says the most insane things and he overshares with fans to the nth degree. He is Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy) in an owner's box. You may love that or hate it or as with many Cowboy fans a little of both at times but what you can't do is say he was a better cap manager than Stephen. Stephen is boring and conservative and mostly just annoying. He's a parent that will talk you to death and never let you have any fun. But Stephen has your college paid for 5 years before you graduate HS and has 3 internships lined up for when you in the summers of your college years. It's so annoying efficient and mechanical but it works.

But all that would really not matter that much to be honest except DAL found a guy who was grinding away as a Head Coach of an Arena team in their name. This dude was giving them honest and usable scouting reports of his arena league guys. He came into the personnel side and started out working people. He was that mix of scout/coach that DAL has always valued since Jimmy showed up and his college based staff pointed out all the best collegiate players from their recruiting and opponent study. Will McClay hasn't just "accidentally" been offered a job per off-season as a GM. He's among the very best to do that job even without the title. He has kept Stephen's cap sheet clean as a whistle because he provided a bevy of talented young, cheap players. And yes you gotta pay those guys and Martin and Frederick and guys like that aren't cheap but you can balance that by adding quality around them like LVE, Chido, Jourdan Lewis.

And thus it will be with Dak, Amari, Zeke. DAL will be able to pay them all because they used their rookie deals to wipe off all the dead money of a Tony Romo and Demarcus Ware. They have stopped handing out deals that leveraged them into corners. We talk today about Dak but recall the situation with the last Romo contract? Team HAD to extend him because they couldn't afford his base. And he wanted Peyton Manning money. Man did the team learn there. With Dak/Zeke et al the team has essentially all the leverage. Can pay you pennies this year, can franchise you going forward. No more DAL needing the deal more than the player stuff. No more put it all on a credit card cap spending.

This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

 

[Qcard]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

That has all changed.

Currently DAL ranks in cap space by future season:
2020: 3rd with 65M in cap space
2021: 5th with 158M in cap space
2022: 9th but with 275M in cap space.

You combine that with having arguably the youngest competitive team in football. --DAL had the youngest team to win a playoff game last year and only the seemingly 75 year old long snapper pulls them below some of the rebuilding teams.

DAL has drafted very well and while the draft capital and their patience was finally tested with the R1 deal for Amari Cooper they got a player who was clearly a Pro Bowl caliber guy from the second he put on the star; they have simply stood their ground and drafted very well. For every Taco there have been multiple All Pros. DAL has learned how to draft and how to team build.

Jerry is the leagues greatest entertainer as an owner. He says the most insane things and he overshares with fans to the nth degree. He is Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy) in an owner's box. You may love that or hate it or as with many Cowboy fans a little of both at times but what you can't do is say he was a better cap manager than Stephen. Stephen is boring and conservative and mostly just annoying. He's a parent that will talk you to death and never let you have any fun. But Stephen has your college paid for 5 years before you graduate HS and has 3 internships lined up for when you in the summers of your college years. It's so annoying efficient and mechanical but it works.

But all that would really not matter that much to be honest except DAL found a guy who was grinding away as a Head Coach of an Arena team in their name. This dude was giving them honest and usable scouting reports of his arena league guys. He came into the personnel side and started out working people. He was that mix of scout/coach that DAL has always valued since Jimmy showed up and his college based staff pointed out all the best collegiate players from their recruiting and opponent study. Will McClay hasn't just "accidentally" been offered a job per off-season as a GM. He's among the very best to do that job even without the title. He has kept Stephen's cap sheet clean as a whistle because he provided a bevy of talented young, cheap players. And yes you gotta pay those guys and Martin and Frederick and guys like that aren't cheap but you can balance that by adding quality around them like LVE, Chido, Jourdan Lewis.

And thus it will be with Dak, Amari, Zeke. DAL will be able to pay them all because they used their rookie deals to wipe off all the dead money of a Tony Romo and Demarcus Ware. They have stopped handing out deals that leveraged them into corners. We talk today about Dak but recall the situation with the last Romo contract? Team HAD to extend him because they couldn't afford his base. And he wanted Peyton Manning money. Man did the team learn there. With Dak/Zeke et al the team has essentially all the leverage. Can pay you pennies this year, can franchise you going forward. No more DAL needing the deal more than the player stuff. No more put it all on a credit card cap spending.

This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

 

[Sydla]

Players they paid a ton too got older and are now off the roster. That's why they had more cap space. It's not out of creativity and smart contract structuring.............. they simply let older, higher paid guys roll off the roster and they refused to sign any players of note in FA after Carr. That's it. No big secret there.

And they'll basically use up all their cap space again and have a high concentration of cap tied into a small number of players when they sign Cooper and Zeke and Dak and some others.

A bigger issue that seemingly no one is talking about is that one issue in previous years was that the cap was disproportionately allocated to the offense. And they are doing it again. If Dak, Zeke, Cooper were to sign in the next few months, 6 of the 7 highest average cap hits would be on offense - Dak, Zeke, Cooper, Smith, Frederick, Martin.

 

[jsb357]

What have they turned around?

They were a 8-8 team that added some talent and got 2 games better.

Is that a turn around?

Everyone will point to 13-3 but then most teams have a outlying year from time to time.

The Raiders were 12-4 and the Jags were in the AFC Championship game not too long ago

Were are they now?

IMO a turn around in Dallas would be making it to the NFC title game 2 out of 3 years after decades
of mediocrity.

Until then Dallas is better (not good enough) but better.

 

[Bobhaze]

Well I certainly agree that Will McClay is an outstanding personnel guy and deserves a ton of credit. But I’m not so sure about saying this team “has turned it all around” until they actually do something meaningful in the playoffs.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Players they paid a ton too got older and are now off the roster. That's why they had more cap space. It's not out of creativity and smart contract structuring.............. they simply let older, higher paid guys roll off the roster and they refused to sign any players of note in FA after Carr. That's it. No big secret there.

And they'll basically use up all their cap space again and have a high concentration of cap tied into a small number of players when they sign Cooper and Zeke and Dak and some others.

A bigger issue that seemingly no one is talking about is that one issue in previous years was that the cap was disproportionately allocated to the offense. And they are doing it again. If Dak, Zeke, Cooper were to sign in the next few months, 6 of the 7 highest average cap hits would be on offense - Dak, Zeke, Cooper, Smith, Frederick, Martin.

Well I'll say this.....they started drafting much better and they didn't budge on the Jeremy Parnell and Anthony Hitchens type guys who I'm sure in years past they would've done whatever they could to retain them because they didn't have much confidence in their front office to find better players.

In regards to where the money is allocated too....I think it just ended up that way. Their best players are on offense.....their worst coaching is on offense. Like who's on defense that we should've paid? We know Jaylon and LVE will get their money. Byron deserves his money but he may be left hanging.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Well I certainly agree that Will McClay is an outstanding personnel guy and deserves a ton of credit. But I’m not so sure about saying this team “has turned it all around” until they actually do something meaningful in the playoffs.

In his defense...he never said turn it around as in success. I got he was talking about the cap situation.

What have they turned around?

They were a 8-8 team that added some talent and got 2 games better.

Is that a turn around?

Everyone will point to 13-3 but then most teams have a outlying year from time to time.

The Raiders were 12-4 and the Jags were in the AFC Championship game not too long ago

Were are they now?

IMO a turn around in Dallas would be making it to the NFC title game 2 out of 3 years after decades
of mediocrity.

Until then Dallas is better (not good enough) but better.

Didn't read his post huh lol?

 

[Verdict]

I love the OP and it's very true. On the other hand, it is sort of like we can't stand prosperity. Paying Witten anything other than a minimum contract was a waste of cap resources, if he plays like he did the last 3 years he played. Lee "may" also be done and we may be wasting his cap dollars as well.

The team probably overpaid for Tank. He is a nice player, but he's not anywhere near one of the top 2 or 3 at his position. In making the choice to pay Tank they could have offset that by not giving away money to Witten. They could also cut Crawford and balance it out a little bit that way.

As I see it they can't "set the market" on Dak, Zeke, Amari, Byron, L. Collins, Tank (already done) and Jaylon. If they do that we go right back to the old way of doing business.

The Hoodie would have flipped Byron or Tank for a high pick or picks, drafted a replacement and ensured the window stayed open.

If you are a Cowboys fan and you want the team to win Super Bowls you had better care about the team's cap health because it is the primary reason we have been irrelevant for the better part of 25 years.

 

[CWR]

People talk about us not taking advantage while Dak and Zeke were cheap, but its not very often a team is able to take advantage when they have such a young QB. Factor in the fact Dak was a raw fourth rounder who was not supposed to be ready right away and its absolutely no suprise.

 

[erod]

Turned it around?

LOL, the Cowboys have been doing this off and on for a decade.

 

[Longboysfan]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

That has all changed.

Currently DAL ranks in cap space by future season:
2020: 3rd with 65M in cap space
2021: 5th with 158M in cap space
2022: 9th but with 275M in cap space.

You combine that with having arguably the youngest competitive team in football. --DAL had the youngest team to win a playoff game last year and only the seemingly 75 year old long snapper pulls them below some of the rebuilding teams.

DAL has drafted very well and while the draft capital and their patience was finally tested with the R1 deal for Amari Cooper they got a player who was clearly a Pro Bowl caliber guy from the second he put on the star; they have simply stood their ground and drafted very well. For every Taco there have been multiple All Pros. DAL has learned how to draft and how to team build.

Jerry is the leagues greatest entertainer as an owner. He says the most insane things and he overshares with fans to the nth degree. He is Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy) in an owner's box. You may love that or hate it or as with many Cowboy fans a little of both at times but what you can't do is say he was a better cap manager than Stephen. Stephen is boring and conservative and mostly just annoying. He's a parent that will talk you to death and never let you have any fun. But Stephen has your college paid for 5 years before you graduate HS and has 3 internships lined up for when you in the summers of your college years. It's so annoying efficient and mechanical but it works.

But all that would really not matter that much to be honest except DAL found a guy who was grinding away as a Head Coach of an Arena team in their name. This dude was giving them honest and usable scouting reports of his arena league guys. He came into the personnel side and started out working people. He was that mix of scout/coach that DAL has always valued since Jimmy showed up and his college based staff pointed out all the best collegiate players from their recruiting and opponent study. Will McClay hasn't just "accidentally" been offered a job per off-season as a GM. He's among the very best to do that job even without the title. He has kept Stephen's cap sheet clean as a whistle because he provided a bevy of talented young, cheap players. And yes you gotta pay those guys and Martin and Frederick and guys like that aren't cheap but you can balance that by adding quality around them like LVE, Chido, Jourdan Lewis.

And thus it will be with Dak, Amari, Zeke. DAL will be able to pay them all because they used their rookie deals to wipe off all the dead money of a Tony Romo and Demarcus Ware. They have stopped handing out deals that leveraged them into corners. We talk today about Dak but recall the situation with the last Romo contract? Team HAD to extend him because they couldn't afford his base. And he wanted Peyton Manning money. Man did the team learn there. With Dak/Zeke et al the team has essentially all the leverage. Can pay you pennies this year, can franchise you going forward. No more DAL needing the deal more than the player stuff. No more put it all on a credit card cap spending.

This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

That's why I like the Pay ZEK 3. He plays this year on his original deal.
Give him 3 years at 14.5 per gurantee 30 of it.
Pay Cooper.
Dak plays this year on his original deal which the Cowboys hold the option on.
Tag him next year.
Get market value deals done for other top players if you can.

 

[Praxit]

...we need to get that monkey off our back. Its called, "Stalled in the playoffs".

 

[eromeopolk]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

That has all changed.

Currently DAL ranks in cap space by future season:
2020: 3rd with 65M in cap space
2021: 5th with 158M in cap space
2022: 9th but with 275M in cap space.

You combine that with having arguably the youngest competitive team in football. --DAL had the youngest team to win a playoff game last year and only the seemingly 75 year old long snapper pulls them below some of the rebuilding teams.

DAL has drafted very well and while the draft capital and their patience was finally tested with the R1 deal for Amari Cooper they got a player who was clearly a Pro Bowl caliber guy from the second he put on the star; they have simply stood their ground and drafted very well. For every Taco there have been multiple All Pros. DAL has learned how to draft and how to team build.

Jerry is the leagues greatest entertainer as an owner. He says the most insane things and he overshares with fans to the nth degree. He is Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy) in an owner's box. You may love that or hate it or as with many Cowboy fans a little of both at times but what you can't do is say he was a better cap manager than Stephen. Stephen is boring and conservative and mostly just annoying. He's a parent that will talk you to death and never let you have any fun. But Stephen has your college paid for 5 years before you graduate HS and has 3 internships lined up for when you in the summers of your college years. It's so annoying efficient and mechanical but it works.

But all that would really not matter that much to be honest except DAL found a guy who was grinding away as a Head Coach of an Arena team in their name. This dude was giving them honest and usable scouting reports of his arena league guys. He came into the personnel side and started out working people. He was that mix of scout/coach that DAL has always valued since Jimmy showed up and his college based staff pointed out all the best collegiate players from their recruiting and opponent study. Will McClay hasn't just "accidentally" been offered a job per off-season as a GM. He's among the very best to do that job even without the title. He has kept Stephen's cap sheet clean as a whistle because he provided a bevy of talented young, cheap players. And yes you gotta pay those guys and Martin and Frederick and guys like that aren't cheap but you can balance that by adding quality around them like LVE, Chido, Jourdan Lewis.

And thus it will be with Dak, Amari, Zeke. DAL will be able to pay them all because they used their rookie deals to wipe off all the dead money of a Tony Romo and Demarcus Ware. They have stopped handing out deals that leveraged them into corners. We talk today about Dak but recall the situation with the last Romo contract? Team HAD to extend him because they couldn't afford his base. And he wanted Peyton Manning money. Man did the team learn there. With Dak/Zeke et al the team has essentially all the leverage. Can pay you pennies this year, can franchise you going forward. No more DAL needing the deal more than the player stuff. No more put it all on a credit card cap spending.

This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

I gave you a like because it is true. The Cowboys are in better cap space. But the reason the Cowboy have its current problem is because Jason Garrett did not deliver with a young team. Jimmy Johnson did deliver with a young team. How long are you going to put up with 8-8 seasons 3 in a row, 12-4, 4-12, 13-3, 9-7. 10-6 with only 3 playoff appearances and only 2 wild card wins. Please don't compare Dallas to any other team but the New England Patriots when it comes to expectations. In fact, only one team is called America's Team. Make America's Team Great again starts and the top and like America you can not do that with a clapping red/orange haired figurehead.

These players and their agents are not stupid. They know what they have as leverage. You only have one franchise tag. If Dak plays through the 2019 season and is a free agent, who are you going to use it on? Dak, Cooper, and go through another Zeke holdout. Before the 2019 season is over, you have to sign 2 of these players to keep any of these players .

 

[kskboys]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

That has all changed.

Currently DAL ranks in cap space by future season:
2020: 3rd with 65M in cap space
2021: 5th with 158M in cap space
2022: 9th but with 275M in cap space.

You combine that with having arguably the youngest competitive team in football. --DAL had the youngest team to win a playoff game last year and only the seemingly 75 year old long snapper pulls them below some of the rebuilding teams.

DAL has drafted very well and while the draft capital and their patience was finally tested with the R1 deal for Amari Cooper they got a player who was clearly a Pro Bowl caliber guy from the second he put on the star; they have simply stood their ground and drafted very well. For every Taco there have been multiple All Pros. DAL has learned how to draft and how to team build.

Jerry is the leagues greatest entertainer as an owner. He says the most insane things and he overshares with fans to the nth degree. He is Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy) in an owner's box. You may love that or hate it or as with many Cowboy fans a little of both at times but what you can't do is say he was a better cap manager than Stephen. Stephen is boring and conservative and mostly just annoying. He's a parent that will talk you to death and never let you have any fun. But Stephen has your college paid for 5 years before you graduate HS and has 3 internships lined up for when you in the summers of your college years. It's so annoying efficient and mechanical but it works.

But all that would really not matter that much to be honest except DAL found a guy who was grinding away as a Head Coach of an Arena team in their name. This dude was giving them honest and usable scouting reports of his arena league guys. He came into the personnel side and started out working people. He was that mix of scout/coach that DAL has always valued since Jimmy showed up and his college based staff pointed out all the best collegiate players from their recruiting and opponent study. Will McClay hasn't just "accidentally" been offered a job per off-season as a GM. He's among the very best to do that job even without the title. He has kept Stephen's cap sheet clean as a whistle because he provided a bevy of talented young, cheap players. And yes you gotta pay those guys and Martin and Frederick and guys like that aren't cheap but you can balance that by adding quality around them like LVE, Chido, Jourdan Lewis.

And thus it will be with Dak, Amari, Zeke. DAL will be able to pay them all because they used their rookie deals to wipe off all the dead money of a Tony Romo and Demarcus Ware. They have stopped handing out deals that leveraged them into corners. We talk today about Dak but recall the situation with the last Romo contract? Team HAD to extend him because they couldn't afford his base. And he wanted Peyton Manning money. Man did the team learn there. With Dak/Zeke et al the team has essentially all the leverage. Can pay you pennies this year, can franchise you going forward. No more DAL needing the deal more than the player stuff. No more put it all on a credit card cap spending.

This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

Awesome post. Very accurate.

 

[Jake]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

The Eagles got a SB trophy to show for their current "bad cap management" while that decade for the Cowboys produced next to nothing.

 

[visionary]

Players they paid a ton too got older and are now off the roster. That's why they had more cap space. It's not out of creativity and smart contract structuring.............. they simply let older, higher paid guys roll off the roster and they refused to sign any players of note in FA after Carr. That's it. No big secret there.
.

I hate you for ruining this thread

@jterrell has been trying to come up with creative ways to defend this idiotic FO, and finally, finally he thought he had hit it out of the park

And you just had to go and spoil it

 

[408Cowboy]

The Eagles got a SB trophy to show for their current "bad cap management" while that decade for the Cowboys produced next to nothing.

Not that long ago everyone knew for a fact Chip set the eagles back 10 years. Those were good times.

 

[buybuydandavis]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.
...
This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

The homerun on the 2016 draft, particularly with Dak, let us actually compete while we transitioned from what could have been a disastrous dead money situation when Romo broke. The WR corps fit Romo. Or Romo fit them. The 2016 roster had Dez, Williams, Escobar, Witten, Dunbar, Whitehead, Butler, Cole Beasley. Production significantly dropped for everyone but Beasley. I think the only guys still in the league in any meaningful way are Witten and Beasley.

The downside of that transition was it providing a bridge for Garrett to remain HC. If we were going to move on from Garrett, the end of the Romo era was the natural time to do it.

 

[Luther]

So much has been made of Dallas not using the cheap seasons provided by Dak and Zeke and other young players to win it all.

I think that take ignores just how bad Dallas had been in cap management the prior decade.
DAL was essentially Philly. They overpaid stars but did so in a way that leveraged future caps to the hilt. They overplayed and overpaid veterans as stop gaps or quick fixes and generally led the league in dead money or restructure bonuses.

That has all changed.

Currently DAL ranks in cap space by future season:
2020: 3rd with 65M in cap space
2021: 5th with 158M in cap space
2022: 9th but with 275M in cap space.

You combine that with having arguably the youngest competitive team in football. --DAL had the youngest team to win a playoff game last year and only the seemingly 75 year old long snapper pulls them below some of the rebuilding teams.

DAL has drafted very well and while the draft capital and their patience was finally tested with the R1 deal for Amari Cooper they got a player who was clearly a Pro Bowl caliber guy from the second he put on the star; they have simply stood their ground and drafted very well. For every Taco there have been multiple All Pros. DAL has learned how to draft and how to team build.

Jerry is the leagues greatest entertainer as an owner. He says the most insane things and he overshares with fans to the nth degree. He is Steve Martin (wild and crazy guy) in an owner's box. You may love that or hate it or as with many Cowboy fans a little of both at times but what you can't do is say he was a better cap manager than Stephen. Stephen is boring and conservative and mostly just annoying. He's a parent that will talk you to death and never let you have any fun. But Stephen has your college paid for 5 years before you graduate HS and has 3 internships lined up for when you in the summers of your college years. It's so annoying efficient and mechanical but it works.

But all that would really not matter that much to be honest except DAL found a guy who was grinding away as a Head Coach of an Arena team in their name. This dude was giving them honest and usable scouting reports of his arena league guys. He came into the personnel side and started out working people. He was that mix of scout/coach that DAL has always valued since Jimmy showed up and his college based staff pointed out all the best collegiate players from their recruiting and opponent study. Will McClay hasn't just "accidentally" been offered a job per off-season as a GM. He's among the very best to do that job even without the title. He has kept Stephen's cap sheet clean as a whistle because he provided a bevy of talented young, cheap players. And yes you gotta pay those guys and Martin and Frederick and guys like that aren't cheap but you can balance that by adding quality around them like LVE, Chido, Jourdan Lewis.

And thus it will be with Dak, Amari, Zeke. DAL will be able to pay them all because they used their rookie deals to wipe off all the dead money of a Tony Romo and Demarcus Ware. They have stopped handing out deals that leveraged them into corners. We talk today about Dak but recall the situation with the last Romo contract? Team HAD to extend him because they couldn't afford his base. And he wanted Peyton Manning money. Man did the team learn there. With Dak/Zeke et al the team has essentially all the leverage. Can pay you pennies this year, can franchise you going forward. No more DAL needing the deal more than the player stuff. No more put it all on a credit card cap spending.

This has all changed and you can thank Stephen and Will McClay.

Well said.

 

[Whyjerry]

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I had to offer this when I read that we should thank Stephen Jones for all the Cowboys success.