In my opinion, no. I think this is the Cowboys exercising some wisdom in regards to building their team. The first week is where a bunch of bottom feeder teams make desperation/knee-jerk moves in hopes of finding 1 patch for a tire with many holes. In doing so, they spend all their available resources on a few guys they hope can take their team to the next level only to get mediocre returns on guys whose best days of playing football are in the rear view.
Granted, you can find gems in Free Agency, but rarely are those gems the guy's who collect the most money in the first week. The reasons are numerous, but #1 in my mind is that once a guy gets paid, the effort to be the best evaporates and he tries to get by on the ability he has already accumulated. The problem with that is if you are not getting better you are getting worse.
Anyway, the Cowboys are being the best thing they can be right now: patient. They are sitting back letting the market establish value and will make a plethora of moves in the weeks leading up to the draft and the weeks leading up to training camp. Other than that, all will be quiet in Valley Ranch...as it should be.
Precisely.
One of the hardest things to do is put in the work it takes to be an NFL player.
The work it takes to be an NFL star is pretty much insane.
It is an intense grind 8 hours a day, 325+ days a year type job.
And it follows you home to where you must be vigilant about icing, heating, whatever your body.
Where your diet needs to be perfectly in check.
Once a guy goes from making a million a year to having retirement money (20+Mil) there is a huge change in lifestyle and most free agents no longer work at that hungry rate.
Rich guys have other concerns and often are working on their portfolios.
We've seen a few Cowboys... like Miles Austin go through that. --here every off-season til he got rich then off in LA working on his own.
