Not saying Dallas is on their level but it is what most of the good franchises do in the NFL. You very rarely see teams like the Patriots, Packers or Steelers ever become big players in free agency. Sure they may sign a player here or there but they don't make huge headline grabbing splashes like the Eagles do every season.
Again, I don't think anyone is asking for the Cowboys to sit there and sign every big name in free agency. But they've gone to the other extreme............ where they basically don't come within 500 miles of a big ticket guy and just react to the market with their fingers crossed someone falls through the cracks.
When Jerry Jones says backup QB and pass rush are the two biggest needs of the organization and then not even lift a finger to try to fix either in free agency when a guy like Vernon is available, but instead they turn their focus towards retreads like a Chris Long or Adrian Clayborn, I think it's worthwhile to question why?
And for all the laughing people do at the Eagles the last couple of years for trying to make splash after splash in free agency, interestingly enough, they somehow have more cap space than us and this year they seemed to have little trouble turning their bad contracts into a bit of new cap space and even moving up in the draft in the Top 10 moving two mediocre players.
So frankly, I am beginning to think that all this talk of fiscal responsibility is now jumping the shark.