Murray inactive

[xwalker]

Why would you cut a guy if you had guaranteed money invested in him?

Yep, his 2016 base salary of 7M is guaranteed.

 

[DanTanna]

BOOM!

I just won $1,000 !

 

[VACowboy]

The LeSean McCoy trade is working out well. The player they traded him for and the guy they replaced him with have both played like crap and are inactive with injuries.

 

[CashMan]

I honestly don't see it that way at all. I think he's just feeling the after affects of nearly 500 touches last season. He's not Emmitt or Dickerson, so the odds were he was going to pay for those carries this year.

He has 21 attempts on the year.

 

[mahoneybill]

Is or isn't... we will never know.

What we do know though is that going back to college, he has had numerous nicks and pulls that have kept him out of a significant number of games. And we know that last year was the first season that he ever played when he didn't miss significant time.

To me this is a direct result of his hurdle over one of our players. That motion is not normal, and puts a different stretch on the hammy as compared to running. Showboating in that regard got the best of him.

 

[rynochop]

Demarco may be the best non signing FA in Cowboy history

 

[AsthmaField]

To me this is a direct result of his hurdle over one of our players. That motion is not normal, and puts a different stretch on the hammy as compared to running. Showboating in that regard got the best of him.

Hmmm.... possible. I hadn't thought of that.

 

[JDSmith]

To me this is a direct result of his hurdle over one of our players. That motion is not normal, and puts a different stretch on the hammy as compared to running. Showboating in that regard got the best of him.

Now that is an interesting thought.

 

[JD_KaPow]

Why would you cut a guy if you had guaranteed money invested in him?

The guaranteed money is a sunk cost. You're paying it to him whether he's on the team or not. It shouldn't factor into your decision at all: if the team is better off without him, then cut him.

Of course it's more complicated than that in the NFL because of the cap and dead money considerations. It's much clearer in, say, MLB. But it's amazing how many sports teams just don't seem to get the concept of sunk costs.

 

[AbeBeta]

The guaranteed money is a sunk cost. You're paying it to him whether he's on the team or not. It shouldn't factor into your decision at all: if the team is better off without him, then cut him.

Of course it's more complicated than that in the NFL because of the cap and dead money considerations. It's much clearer in, say, MLB. But it's amazing how many sports teams just don't seem to get the concept of sunk costs.

You really think they are better off without him? That's blindness

 

[JD_KaPow]

Demarco may be the best non signing FA in Cowboy history

And the most obvious. I don't see how anybody could've watched us run him into the ground last year (23 touches against WAS in a meaningless week 17 game?) and thought we were going to even consider signing him. The decision had long since been made.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

All of that bragging that Philly fans did in getting him amounts to nothing so far.

 

[JD_KaPow]

You really think they are better off without him? That's blindness

I said nothing of the kind. The question I answered was, "Why would you cut a player if you had guaranteed money invested in him?"

 

[landroverking]

Jones' do look smart right now.

 

[BAZ]

All of that bragging that Philly fans did in getting him amounts to nothing so far.

Very true but it has to get better because it can't get worse.

 

[joseephuss]

Interesting the only season that he made it a full year was when he was playing for a new contract

Not really. He didn't choose to break his leg his rookie season. Plus every year a player is playing for a future contract.

 

[ghst187]

Was there an over/under on games played before he got hurt?

yes, i thought someone actually started that thread the day after he signed with Philthy. I think it was how many games he'd actually play in for the giggles this season vs how many he'd be injured.
I think the over/under for games missed due to injury was 7.

 

[PBCCowboy]

The question is now:

Did DeMarco carried the Cowboys into the playoffs?or did the Cowboys carried DeMarco into the playoffs...

 

[remdak]

He figured his smoothies would help...

Huff, Murray, Kendricks, Alonso all out this week. I guess those smoothies, sleep monitoring, and other sports science techniques aren't miraculous. It's a rough, violent game and players get hurt.

 

[hornitosmonster]

he plays for the Eagles so who cares.I hope some of you weren't stupid enough to draft him in fantasy football