Twitter: La'el Collins Extension Close

[speedkilz88]

COMES ON BYRON JUST SAY YOU WANT TO BE A COWBOY FOREVER

THATS LITERALLY ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY AND YOU GET FIVE YEARS

He's from Connecticut, he could be eyeing the east coast for all we know.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

It would rank him 3rd in football amongst RTs, a million or so behind Lane Johnson, who is a significantly better RT.

It's not a good deal at all IMO.

At this point he's not going to get much if any better, so if he's only just behind Johnson, no it's not a good deal....

 

[superonyx]

The salary cap is more complicated than your little Kohl's trip. They slot guys from year to year. This signing opens up more salary cap this year.

We already had the salary open this year to sign Zeke.

So explain it to me genius.

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

He's from Connecticut, he could be eyeing the east coast for all we know.

Nah, we talked Thursday and he's down with the ****s for sure.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Tried to say it. Nate specifically said, during the last Pre Season game that Collins had the best camp of any OL. This makes all the sense in the world to me.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

We already had the salary open this year to sign Zeke.

So explain it to me genius.

How do you know and why, exactly, would you only want to look at Zeke? Cowboys have several deals they need to get done.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I will give Jerry one thing, the man is LOYAL to guys he drafts.

And probably even more loyal to highly-touted players he gets to wine and dine and show off his salesmanship skills to as free agents.

 

[CF74]

True but now he basically becomes a backup his entire time here and we just spent a 3rd on him.

Injuries change things. It’s hard to say what their original plan was.

 

[Sydla]

We already had the salary open this year to sign Zeke.

So explain it to me genius.

Plus if Albert Breer is right, it doesn't save up space at all this year. Collins was a $10MM cap hit this year with a base salary of $6.6MM.

Breer is claiming Collins will now make $11MM in 2019, so I am not sure how we are saving cap space this year with this contract.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I did not see this coming at all. The only way I thought they’d bring him back is if it was a favorable deal.

 

[gimmesix]

My biggest takeaway on this is that Collins is a lot like Doug Free. You might could do better, but you certainly can do worse. Everyone wants to rag on such players because they are not on the level of Smith, Frederick and Martin, but realistically, few are on that level.

I am always interested in upgrading players like him if we happen to find someone better without having to spend a premium pick, which should be used on areas we have to upgrade unless we somehow don't have any of those. In the meantime, having a good but not great player locked up isn't a bad thing if the price was right.

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

Hopefully Lael can move up this list this season.

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

I did not see this coming at all. The only way I thought they’d bring him back is if it was a favorable deal.

What's crazy is you're not the only one. The cowboys have 500? insiders and yet NONE of them knew about the Jaylon or Lael extensions until they were already done.

 

[superonyx]

How do you know and why, exactly, would you only want to look at Zeke? Cowboys have several deals they need to get done.

Slow your roll.
I responded to a tweet that said we did the Lael deal so we could do the Zeke deal now. Like we had to give Lael 50m to pay zeke.

 

[mattjames2010]

This isn’t a bad thing. Just because he isn’t the other all-pro 3 doesn’t make him bad. He’s a decent tackle playing out of position, but still valuable

 

[atlantacowboy]

Wow. Most guaranteed money for a right tackle in NFL history. I bet he couldn't get his signature on that fast enough.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Slow your roll.
I responded to a tweet that said we did the Lael deal so we could do the Zeke deal now. Like we had to give Lael 50m to pay zeke.

Why, it's an honest question. If you don't want to answer, or can't, just say so.

 

[superonyx]

Why, it's an honest question. If you don't want to answer, or can't, just say so.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

Thats how I know.

I wouldnt want to only look at Zeke. Where did I say I did?

Again my response about needing to sign lael so we could sign Zeke was in response to a tweet posted in this thread.

maybe i am confused but you are asking me to respond to an assumption that I didn't even make.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

Thats how I know.

I wouldnt want to only look at Zeke. Where did I say I did?

Again my response about needing to sign lael so we could sign Zeke was in response to a tweet posted in this thread.

maybe i am confused but you are asking me to respond to an assumption that I didn't even make.

You know what your problem is? You don't really read. Read the question I asked you. Stop acting like everybody is out to get you and stop thinking you are smarter then the next guy. Here's a clue, the next guy doesn't give a crap about you and you aren't any smarter or any dumber then the next guy.

This is what you said:

We already had the salary open this year to sign Zeke.

So explain it to me genius.

This is what I asked:

How do you know and why, exactly, would you only want to look at Zeke? Cowboys have several deals they need to get done.


Did you see the Collins deal coming or the Smith deal coming? There are multiple things this team is working on and you can't know what those are so you can't assume that there is sufficient money to do anything with any specific player. That's the point and that's why I asked what I did. Like I said, if you don't know or don't want to answer, just say so.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Haha nicely done!