all i can tell you is it wasn't too far ago where the vast majority of this board would have traded free for a bucket of 2 day old wal mart fried chicken. we (and i use the term loosely) hated this, felt he couldn't do that, and he was tied to the whipping post for several years by many fans. free since then took a pay cut and the furor died down cause his $ was more commensurate with his play. but however, most felt he was still average.
i'm not one to argue that. i think he's been solid at times, not at others, boiling down to a C+ type of player. however, in *this* OL he simply fits and it's working well. they play off each other and have together managed to become one of the best lines in the NFL. if someone were that much better than free i'd have to think we'd have kept him.
using the fact parnell got a stupid contract simply DOES NOT equate him to the better player. if it did, then Free must have been a hell of a player to get the contract he got that upset so many people. so the argument itself of $$$ for the contract is selective and takes a fraction of a second to try and justify an hour. it doesn't work that way despite the efforts to make it.
parnell got paid. great. he'll either move onto greatness and we can rue the day THEN, or he will prove the cowboys staff right and all this goes away in a few years.
