One player away

[Proof]

Is there an example someone can point to where a team signed one player and it propelled them to the title?

Charles Haley I guess?

I just really hate the argument when it's used to support not pursuing talent. The only time I can really justify it is when it's spending like 150 million on a guy like Suh, who will not put you in the title conversation and completely cripple your ability to get any better after the fact. When you're a talented team, and have an opportunity to improve, I don't understand why "are we one player away" is even a valid objection.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Is there an example someone can point to where a team signed one player and it propelled them to the title?

Charles Haley I guess?

I just really hate the argument when it's used to support not pursuing talent. The only time I can really justify it is when it's spending like 150 million on a guy like Suh, who will not put you in the title conversation and completely cripple your ability to get any better after the fact. When you're a talented team, and have an opportunity to improve, I don't understand why "are we one player away" is even a valid objection.

I guess it's possible but if we got ET I would say we make the playoffs not get a title.

 

[Billyd]

I wouldnt..Earl doesnt stuff the run from the los, Stunt, Take the double team yada..Yall are ignorant on Earl!

 

[JoeKing]

I wouldnt..Earl doesnt stuff the run from the los, Stunt, Take the double team yada..Yall are ignorant on Earl!

 

[Idgit]

Not recently. It doesn’t work that way in the salary cap era. Unless you’re talking maybe Peyton Manning, but even Denver needed more than just him.

 

[Longboysfan]

The Eagles of the 90's and early 2000's with McNabb never signed that one or two players to get them further.

 

[RoboQB]

The Eagles of the 90's and early 2000's with McNabb never signed that one or two players to get them further.

They signed T.O. who helped get them further. Then McNabb hurled his guts in the huddle
while Owens played well with a broken leg.

 

[Jake]

Not recently. It doesn’t work that way in the salary cap era. Unless you’re talking maybe Peyton Manning, but even Denver needed more than just him.

Manning's best year in Denver they got crushed in the SB. They won it in spite of him during his worst year.

 

[Gridiron Man]

Selling out the future for the present is never a good idea. Credit cards come to mind.

Invest in the future through the draft (low risk high reward). These aging players on the downside of their careers are a bad idea.

 

[Luther]

Reggie White to the Packers

 

[noshame]

As much as I hate to say it.
Deion.
He took away a WR on his own and freeing up a safety and scheme to be as aggressive as they wanted to be.. Not to mention special team stuff.

 

[John813]

Albert Haynesworth pushed the Commanders to win the worst FA signing ever title.

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

Selling out the future for the present is never a good idea. Credit cards come to mind.

Invest in the future through the draft (low risk high reward). These aging players on the downside of their careers are a bad idea.

Acquiring one player does not equal "selling our the future" and making such a blanket statements as "never a good idea " is, well, just not a good idea. There are always exceptions.

And, when drafting, the risk is higher with the drafted player vs the established NFL player. You're choosing a player whose NFL quality is unknown vs one whose abilities/quality have been witnesses against pro talent.

The things in this particular case of ET III involves the price we pay for a player who probably is going to available to us next year anyway, the fact he's only under contract thru this season (which we can fix), and is he still capable of playing at an all-pro level.

Sure, the FO goes outside our philosophy of acquiring our talent via the draft and dumpster diving for free agents . For sure their is a need for a talent upgrade at safety. ET is a definite upgrade. Whether we make the deal is yet to be determined obviously but there are positives for the Cowboys.

 

[CowboyRoy]

I wouldnt..Earl doesnt stuff the run from the los, Stunt, Take the double team yada..Yall are ignorant on Earl!

Is that english?

 

[Proof]

Selling out the future for the present is never a good idea. Credit cards come to mind.

Invest in the future through the draft (low risk high reward). These aging players on the downside of their careers are a bad idea.

Restructuring is akin to credit cards. This is more dipping into savings.

 

[Hardline]

In the Cowboys case it's not one player away its one coach away.

 

[Silver N Blue]

 

[Silver N Blue]

I wouldnt..Earl doesnt stuff the run from the los, Stunt, Take the double team yada..Yall are ignorant on Earl!

Exactly!

 

[SoupcanSam]

I guess it's possible but if we got ET I would say we make the playoffs not get a title.

So you are saying we get a title, don't make the playoffs, and release ET..........?












Mind games!

 

[Califan007]

They signed T.O. who helped get them further. Then McNabb hurled his guts in the huddle
while Owens played well with a broken leg.

T.O. didn't help the Eagles get even an inch further. At all.

The Eagles made the NFC Conference Championship 3 years in a row before T.O. arrived. The year they made the Super Bowl, T.O. didn't play one snap in the playoffs due to injury...so they got further without his help.