Jerry about not being able to afford players and the cap and so on

[exciter]

He doesn't play he run well so I don't understand your point.

He disappears completely during the last quarter of the season and he has one sack this year. He's not the same player because he doesn't have the drive anymore and teams have figured him out.

You don't sign players like that to huge contracts. You trade them and stockpile picks, especially if you have holes all over the roster. Signing him would create even more holes because then we have a huge portion of our cap devoted to just three players.

Lol wow!
40.5 sacks in his first 3 seasons… only one of 5 players to ever reach that feat. Doesn’t even come close to his production creating pressures. Still top 10 this season in pressures despite missing 2 games. Lawrence has 3 sacks all due to pressure from Parsons. Forces teams to have to game plan him every game down to the play. Forcing minimum of chips, double and triple teams. He doesn’t disappear, teams have just become resigned to the fact they’re going to have to double team him by the last 3rd of the season. He’s a generational pass rusher, by far worth more than the hypothetical picks you can get in an ill advised trade. He’s the type of player you hold onto while he’s in his prime. No rational or reasonably intelligent GM would even contemplate trading him currently.

 

[gtb1943]

Lol wow!
40.5 sacks in his first 3 seasons… only one of 5 players to ever reach that feat. Doesn’t even come close to his production creating pressures. Still top 10 this season in pressures despite missing 2 games. Lawrence has 3 sacks all due to pressure from Parsons. Forces teams to have to game plan him every game down to the play. Forcing minimum of chips, double and triple teams. He doesn’t disappear, teams have just become resigned to the fact they’re going to have to double team him by the last 3rd of the season. He’s a generational pass rusher, by far worth more than the hypothetical picks you can get in an ill advised trade. He’s the type of player you hold onto while he’s in his prime. No rational or reasonably intelligent GM would even contemplate trading him currently.

excuses excuses
what he did in the past means NOTHING
up until his injury he did NOTHING

 

[exciter]

excuses excuses
what he did in the past means NOTHING
up until his injury he did NOTHING

Reading comprehension skills “ain’t” your strong point eh?

 

[KingintheNorth]

this is a badly mismanaged team

Jerry is responsible for so much of the issues, but I don't think fans have quite figured out how bad Stephen Jones and Adam Prasifika are at their jobs. Stephen is so bad; he's created this narrative that they don't want free agents and/or don't have room to sign anyone. Prasifika is in way over his head and is the poster boy for cronyism.

Some of you here know me outside the board and know that I have done some consulting for agents. A few of them are political and would not say a bad word about anyone, but several of them have been forthcoming regarding Stephen. They feel he's unreasonable and arrogant, and don't want to deal with him at all, while quite a few think he is outright incompetent.

It will all come out, it always does.

 

[J_Allen]

Lol wow!
40.5 sacks in his first 3 seasons… only one of 5 players to ever reach that feat. Doesn’t even come close to his production creating pressures. Still top 10 this season in pressures despite missing 2 games. Lawrence has 3 sacks all due to pressure from Parsons. Forces teams to have to game plan him every game down to the play. Forcing minimum of chips, double and triple teams. He doesn’t disappear, teams have just become resigned to the fact they’re going to have to double team him by the last 3rd of the season. He’s a generational pass rusher, by far worth more than the hypothetical picks you can get in an ill advised trade. He’s the type of player you hold onto while he’s in his prime. No rational or reasonably intelligent GM would even contemplate trading him currently.

He gets washed out on running plays, disappears during big games, and wears down towards the last quarter of the season.

No rational GM is going to pay one player 60 million, another one 32 million, and then another one 40 million. That's well over 50% of the salary cap devoted to three players.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Nothing is working with Zimmer’s scheme and he very likely won’t be back next year along with the rest of this coaching staff. We can’t stop the run and we don’t have much of a pass rush. This was going on before the injuries. Parsons is having a down year. In the four games he’s played he only has one sack. He’s going to be looking to be the highest paid defensive player. He may be asking for close to $40 million per season. He’ll be lucky if he comes up with 7-8 sacks this season.

He’s an undersized player that wears down from all the attention he gets and he’s not that great against the run. He was being taken out of plays by a tight end against New Orleans. If this season ends up as bad as it looks like it might, it wouldn’t shock me if the Joneses look to trade him. He’s going to be a training camp hold out next summer if he doesn’t get a new contract. We could use the draft picks to try and build the DL.

I think he is better suited to be a 3-4 OLB much like Watt. Him playing on early down tires him out playing run defense and he is undersized for 4-3 DE.

 

[Verdict]

1. We overpay for underperformance. Dak Prescott, Sean Lee, Jason Witten, Elliott, Dez. All of them were extremely unlikely to underperform their contract going forward and all have done so.

2. I am not sure about the accounting part of the cap but the way we seem to build in restructures doesn’t seem to be helping our cap situation.

3. It seems as though the past few years we have been slowly crawling out of past bad cap decisions, even though we have not been in cap hell.

4. The team absolutely refuses to move on from even marginal players. Gallup is an example of a guy who was a reasonably good player, but there was no need to pay him what we paid him when you can replace his production on the cheap.

5. We should be getting salvage value out of players before their useful career life expires. We should have flipped Martin for picks instead of extending him to a large contract. He’s just not worth the cap hit and that was clear when we resigned him.

6. Paying Dak this last contract was most likely the worst decision the Cowboys have ever made and that’s saying a lot.

 

[Pantone282C]

Their stupidity lead to this. Years and years of moronic decisions. Then we get to watch them sit on their hands through free agency and then over value and overpay their own players. Then they make moves like Trey Lance. Jerry on the phone without talking to his HC. Then overpaying a 3rd QB who has yet to step on the field while tying up a roster spot. There's no defending it or hoping it improves. This team is lost with them in charge.

They are intent on a spending fallacy - pay a few guys top money and the wins will come.

 

[exciter]

He gets washed out on running plays, disappears during big games, and wears down towards the last quarter of the season.

No rational GM is going to pay one player 60 million, another one 32 million, and then another one 40 million. That's well over 50% of the salary cap devoted to three players.

Lol,

 

[J_Allen]

1. We overpay for underperformance. Dak Prescott, Sean Lee, Jason Witten, Elliott, Dez. All of them were extremely unlikely to underperform their contract going forward and all have done so.

2. I am not sure about the accounting part of the cap but the way we seem to build in restructures doesn’t seem to be helping our cap situation.

3. It seems as though the past few years we have been slowly crawling out of past bad cap decisions, even though we have not been in cap hell.

4. The team absolutely refuses to move on from even marginal players. Gallup is an example of a guy who was a reasonably good player, but there was no need to pay him what we paid him when you can replace his production on the cheap.

5. We should be getting salvage value out of players before their useful career life expires. We should have flipped Martin for picks instead of extending him to a large contract. He’s just not worth the cap hit and that was clear when we resigned him.

6. Paying Dak this last contract was most likely the worst decision the Cowboys have ever made and that’s saying a lot.

The reason we overpay our own players is because Jerry desperately wants to erase everyone's memory of his drafts after Jimmy. If there was a grade below F- he would have gotten it.

He just makes himself look dumber by handing out money to people who don't deserve It. You can add Trayvon Diggs to the list as well - look how he's playing.