Jerry acknowledges the cap restraints with Prescott's contract

[Malhavoc]

It's like he's preparing you for another bargain basement offseason.

Bingo. It’s the money first for Jerry. He hated having to pay Prescott. And he’ll be cussing to himself when he has to do Parsons and Lamb. They will probably lose every FA other than Pollard because of the tag. They‘ll reload with the 1 and 2 yr specials. And hope for success in the draft.

 

[Zekeats]

Deserves it's own thread.

We need a Jerryonjackzone

 

[Gaede]

Why then did we trot out Allen Hurns and Cole Beasley as starters on the rookie contract? Didn't really break the bank then either. These guys are such liars

 

[Zordon]

Any other GM would get fired so fast for talking like this.

 

[Tabascocat]

He must have the peasants loading his yacht as we speak………

 

[FVSTONE]

Deserves it's own thread.

YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YORSELF JJ! Dakota "WENTZ 2.0" Prescot is going to make $49.1 million next season and he's not even going to get this club into the playoffs. JJ needs to follow the Eagles game plan and dump WENTZ 2.0 like the Eagles dumped WENTZ 1.0!

 

[john van brocklin]

It's like he's preparing you for another bargain basement offseason.

It's what we do here!
Get ready for the dumpster diving to begin!!!
Yeeeee hawwww

 

[john van brocklin]

I agree they could have been more aggressive if they wanted to but they had the Romo deal that ran through 2019 ( don’t remember what cap hits each year looked like), traded/signed cooper to a big deal, caved to zekes demands, and locked up the Great Wall of Dallas during that time. Had Collins not had issues and Frederick not been forced into early retirement we may have a completely different conversation.

Not saying all those moves were right however they didn’t have a ton of excess cap space those years either

Garrett wasted those years Dak was on his rookie contract and that is on Jerry.

 

[john van brocklin]

If the Cowboys would have paid Dak way back when they should have he would have only been what, $25-28M per year.

Imagine what they could do with an extra $20M in cap space right now.

We all knew that kicking the can of extending Dak down the road was a really bad decision. Now we are seeing exactly why and paying the price for Jerry's stupidity.

We are such or own enemies sometimes.

Who is "we"?
Don't lump me in with inept Jerry.
Please!

 

[plasticman]

Insert ready made excuse here.

But Jerry certainly took advantage of the fact that Dak played on a rookie 4th round draftee contract for four seasons. Where were all those great free agent veterans the Cowboys signed during those years? You know, the ones that contributed to those great super Bowl runs from 2016 to 2019?

Dak could play for a dollar a week and the Jones's would still fail miserably when it came to building a successful championship team.

 

[CowboyoWales]

This is 100% a lie. We could create 50 million in cap space with restructures but this is Jerry’s out for being refusing to spend in FA.

50 million…

It's not a lie, it's a valid opinion. It's easy to say we can create $40m to spend (after we wipe out the present deficit) without looking at the effects for the forthcoming years ......and the ability to re-sign: Diggs, CeeDee and Micah where the problem isnt so much whether we've got enough CAP it's that other teams can blow our offer out of the water.

It's fair to say that we can create SOME CAP space, however.....

 

[CowboyoWales]

It's not a lie, it's a valid opinion. It's easy to say we can create $40m to spend (after we wipe out the present deficit) without looking at the effects for the forthcoming years ......and the ability to re-sign: Diggs, CeeDee and Micah where the problem isnt so much whether we've got enough CAP it's that other teams can blow our offer out of the water.

It's fair to say that we can create SOME CAP space, however.....

....for me that's a clear indication that Jerry doesnt think that it's financially sensible to go ALL-IN behind Dak (possibly after his end of season performances/inconsistencies).

 

[CowboyoWales]

If the Cowboys would have paid Dak way back when they should have he would have only been what, $25-28M per year.

Imagine what they could do with an extra $20M in cap space right now.

We all knew that kicking the can of extending Dak down the road was a really bad decision. Now we are seeing exactly why and paying the price for Jerry's stupidity.

We are such or own enemies sometimes.

Sorry, but at what point was France screaming out about signing a contract? If you can see it, and I can see it, dont you think that France understood the increasing money financial benefits of delaying signing the contract?

 

[cowboyed]

This is 100% a lie. We could create 50 million in cap space with restructures but this is Jerry’s out for being refusing to spend in FA.

50 million…

I wouldn't go so far as to state it is a lie as Jerry stated it would be difficult but he didn't say impossible. That stated the guy that manages the cap with an iron fist is Stephen. Also not all players with contracts that can be restructured may want to do so. You also mortgage your future with locking in players willing to restructure their contracts as they will be playing for more years than you want them to.
You also may limit yourself with the amount of cap money needed to sign your talented young veterans that deserve contract renewals.

 

[fivetwos]

Sorry, but at what point was France screaming out about signing a contract? If you can see it, and I can see it, dont you think that France understood the increasing money financial benefits of delaying signing the contract?

He kept saying no, and the price kept going up.

Even if they signed him at the 28m number, he would be a free agent right now….in an environment where Daniel Jones gets 45m plus, and teams chase Derrick Carr as if he is Brett Favre.

The time to get it done with this group was wasted by stubbornly trying to prove Garrett could be Tom Landry

 

[noshame]

Eat Dak's cap Jerry, you can free us from him and MM for next season

 

[cnuball21]

While that’s true that $50M doesn’t just go away, you just push the bill down the road.

Who cares? Teams all across the league continue to do it to get better while we embarrass ourselves every year thinking draft picks will save our team.

 

[Captain-Crash]

"I love dak, who cares if we never win with him? I have his jersey too"

 

[cnuball21]

It's not a lie, it's a valid opinion. It's easy to say we can create $40m to spend (after we wipe out the present deficit) without looking at the effects for the forthcoming years ......and the ability to re-sign: Diggs, CeeDee and Micah where the problem isnt so much whether we've got enough CAP it's that other teams can blow our offer out of the water.

It's fair to say that we can create SOME CAP space, however.....

Yea, if you consider “some” cap space about 50 million that is correct.

Jerry had Dak on a rookie deal and didn’t spend big on FAs to make a playoff run.

Now he is saying Daks contract wont allow him to spend big on FAs while he could easily restructure contracts and do that.

He’s literally shoving poo poo to the media and some of our fans are buying it.

 

[Rayman70]

Jerry and Stevie CREATE the problem...now want us 2 think they will solve it. Same thing when they traded Amari. Create the problem, act like it was unexpected, then sell hopium as u try 2 fix the very issue you created. Its a parlor trick they are running. The fans aren't buying it.