cajuncowboy said:
Trust me, it's going around. Just a matter of time before you're infected as well.
..step back from the keyboard slowly and put your hands where we can all see them.
That's better.
Now, let's stop and think for a moment.
What's the one thing we don't want happening right now..?
We don't want to feel TO is the end-all-be-all answer to our team problems. And if any team has a history of over-reaching to solve a problem position and paying dearly on it's team, it's Dallas.
Can a leopard change it's spots..? Can JJ resist his biggest affliction..? Reaching and over-paying..?
It's a disease for our owner and right now, he needs help from the sane fans.
Do the names Joey Galloway and Deion Sanders ring a bell..?
Two over-reaches that inflicted mortal wounds into our team for long periods of time with short returns on the investment.
Sobber up, folks.
TO will be the worst combination of both mistakes made with Galloway and Deion.
TO coming to Dallas will require us to readjust the offense to justify his signing and the money paid. Just like it did when Galloway came. Not in my wildest dreams do I see BP taking the ball out of our RB's hands 30+ times a game to give it to TO for 90+ passes a season.
Ain't going to happen. You think Witten is going to stand for that going into his last year of his deal..? Or Terry Glenn or Key..? Do you guys seriously think we've fixed the OL to the point Bledsoe will have that kind of time to throw 90+ passes to TO in a season..?
Ain't going to happen.
And just like Deion, the cap slice required to sign TO will bleed us for years to come, long after any shine TO can add to the Star fades.
Remember what it was like to watch Deion go play for the 'Skins on our $ 8 million cap hit we took to let him go..?
I don't think this is doable.
TO may want to come here, some fans maybe hitting the panic button to bring him here, but if this owner and this coach throw caution to the wind to sign this guy and pay him well..
..it will mean we're going down a road AGAIN that our owner swore he'd never do again.
I personally don't think this team is good enough personnel-wise to add a TO. We've still got way too many holes on offense and defense to fill and right now, there doesn't seem to be enough talent in FA or the Draft to fill all these holes we have this year.
If they aren't filled and jelled accordingly, TO's addition will be deluted drastically if we can't run the ball, pass protect Bledsoe or stop other teams from scoring on our secondary at will and can't rely on our PK to win close contests.
This discussion of signing TO is premature.
At best.
And while I'd love to see him here under the best of all conditions, I don't think we have that right now.
Heck, the Eagles were way beyond us as a team even a year and a half ago with TO and with all their talent, a 5 time All-Pro QB and world class coaching couldn't make TO work and are cutting him loose probably today.
Let's all step back and see this for what it is.
Signing TO and the want to sign him is nothing more than an anxiety attack.
Let it pass and wait for some time to pass and we'll see it's not the answer to our problems.
Yes, we need another WR at SOME POINT, but we still have options down the road still in FA or by trade or by draft that should prove less costly and more harmonious.
Remember Terry Glenn and Key's arrival..? There maybe more to be found out there like them..but we have to play poker here on TO and not show our cards yet.
Let's not do this one, folks.
Step back from the keyboards and defrag you HD's or something.
Let the moment pass.
You'll feel better in a bit.
parcellswaterboy