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By Charles Robinson11 hours agoYahoo Sports
Five months ago, after the Dallas Cowboys had toppled the Seattle Seahawks 30-23 on the road and staked their claim as Super Bowl hopefuls, team owner Jerry Jones was floating through the locker room. Tapping players on the elbow and winking as he walked by, he joked that this was the kind of win that might have prompted him to form a line out of his office for contract extensions.
"And I might have signed them all, too," Jones said, half-jokingly.
Yet here we are, in the midst of what might be the most remarkable period of financial self-control in Cowboys history. All of the sudden, this is the team that passed on the searing media spotlight of Johnny Manziel and drafted offensive guard Zack Martin, who became an All-Pro as a rookie. It's the franchise that weighed the off-field concerns of superstar wideout Dez Bryantagainst his colossal on-field production – and chose to give him a safer, salary-cap averse, one-year franchise tag instead of a monster extension. The extension would have freed room to spend more money this offseason, but the Cowboys chose the conservative play.
Read the rest here...long read and interesting http://sports.yahoo.com/news/lettin...-calling-big-shots-for-cowboys-035337598.html
Five months ago, after the Dallas Cowboys had toppled the Seattle Seahawks 30-23 on the road and staked their claim as Super Bowl hopefuls, team owner Jerry Jones was floating through the locker room. Tapping players on the elbow and winking as he walked by, he joked that this was the kind of win that might have prompted him to form a line out of his office for contract extensions.
"And I might have signed them all, too," Jones said, half-jokingly.
Yet here we are, in the midst of what might be the most remarkable period of financial self-control in Cowboys history. All of the sudden, this is the team that passed on the searing media spotlight of Johnny Manziel and drafted offensive guard Zack Martin, who became an All-Pro as a rookie. It's the franchise that weighed the off-field concerns of superstar wideout Dez Bryantagainst his colossal on-field production – and chose to give him a safer, salary-cap averse, one-year franchise tag instead of a monster extension. The extension would have freed room to spend more money this offseason, but the Cowboys chose the conservative play.
Read the rest here...long read and interesting http://sports.yahoo.com/news/lettin...-calling-big-shots-for-cowboys-035337598.html
whatever helps you sleep at night man. I would just refrain from stating these kind of opinions in public so you don't get laughed at. I get it though, it's a tough time for all of us cowboys fans right now.
