Relax, 90% Of Contracts Signed Today Will Be Seen As Bad Deals

[Wood]

Good teams live of the draft and plug in holes.. Now we just gotta get better at drafting...

your right. I just see bunch of bad teams over-paying. Are good teams; (NE, Pitts, GB, Seattle) loading up right now? Probably not.

 

[viman96]

Cowboys have kept 2-4 players per draft since Mo was drafted. Is that average? Better or worse than average? Just because they have not recently unearthed a mid to late round rockstar does not mean they are unable to do so.

 

[endersdragon]

I wish FA was after the draft... I know they have to do it this way for us to have something to talk about in March, but still I would rather know what our major holes are after the draft than before it.

 

[Boom]

I wish FA was after the draft... I know they have to do it this way for us to have something to talk about in March, but still I would rather know what our major holes are after the draft than before it.

Can you imagine how many bidding wars would occur to grab players in positions they didn't fill in the draft?

 

[Swanny]

If we would have signed Vernon for that much money, this forum would blow up about how we just gave some guy the equivalent of DLaw more money than the entire combined wealth of the state of Wyoming.

You're right. If Jerry signed Vernon to that exact deal I would literally go insane and seriously question why I continue to follow this team when Jerry runs this franchise into the ground. Seriously that contract is absolutely insane for a guy like Oliver. He's good but not even close to being that good

 

[endersdragon]

Can you imagine how many bidding wars would occur to grab players in positions they didn't fill in the draft?

Would be insane, but would still be worth it to not feel you have to reach for a position of need. I am so worried we might go Zeke at 4 because we really need a RB when we probably could get him in the mid to late teens.

 

[The Quest for Six]

I don't mind spending big money for a game changer or two when your team is one or two players away from competing for a Superbowl, but Dallas isn't that team

 

[silver]

Tell that to Denver

Half the starters in the Super Bowl were free agents.

 

[birdwells1]

Where did this fallacy come from that good teams don't spend money? Yeah, a team bargain shoppong can win a SB when they've gotten lucky in the draft a few years straight, and the cards fall just right.

"Drafting better" is easy to say. But even well run organizations miss because even your favorite pet cat can flame out.

That's what FA is for, like the Broncos last season, or the Patriots the year before.

The other teams that are now running the NFC or have for years either stocked up on defensive talent for years and years with top 15 picks (niners, Seahawks, panthers) and got incredibly lucky with later round picks (Sherman, Wilson, Norman, chancellor, etc). Arizona and Seattle have both spent money in FA as well. The year the Seahawks won the Super Bowl they spent a ton on their DL.

The Patriots have the best QB in the league and one of the best coaches of all time, and even they spent money on their way to their last Super Bowl.

You don't get a trophy for having the most cap space in the off-season. And a team that forced the least TO's in the history of the NFL while unable to win a game without their starting QB shouldn't be parting themselves on the back about how "smart" they are because they didn't spend money on impact players when they very well could have.

I agree, I'm not for just throwing money around but to act like not being active in free agency is in some kind of way the Cowboys being smarter than the rest of the league makes no sense to me. In 2014 the offseason before Patriots won their last super bowl they picked up Revis, Browner, and Chung. That same year the Broncos picked up T.J. Ward, Ware, Aqib Talib and Emmanuel Sanders. The year before, the Seahawks picked up Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett. These are our last 3 super bowl winners so to act like free agent pickups don't make a difference is just not true.

 

[Direwolf63]

Would be insane, but would still be worth it to not feel you have to reach for a position of need. I am so worried we might go Zeke at 4 because we really need a RB when we probably could get him in the mid to late teens.

We have a 1,000 yard rusher under contract for next year. We don't need a RB at #4. A RB in the 3rd or 4th round would be fine.

 

[Vinnie2u]

I agree, I'm not for just throwing money around but to act like not being active in free agency is in some kind of way the Cowboys being smarter than the rest of the league makes no sense to me. In 2014 the offseason before Patriots won their last super bowl they picked up Revis, Browner, and Chung. That same year the Broncos picked up T.J. Ward, Ware, Aqib Talib and Emmanuel Sanders. The year before, the Seahawks picked up Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett. These are our last 3 super bowl winners so to act like free agent pickups don't make a difference is just not true.

These teams were good before they added these free agents. We're not knocking on the front door. We're driving around the neighborhood with a nagging wife and the GPS is saying recalculate. Searching for satellite signals..

 

[Rogerthat12]

I don't mind spending big money for a game changer or two when your team is one or two players away from competing for a Superbowl, but Dallas isn't that team

You are right, so we should keep pillaging the trash bin so we can get better...http://i870.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab263/tvyps/TRASHGIF4.gif
Quest for Six Continues.....20 years and going....

 

[phildadon86]

Half the starters in the Super Bowl were free agents.

They still won one

 

[ThrowuptheXDez88]

Yeah and good teams also don't trade 5th round picks for Matt Cassell & Brice Butler.. wowwww would it be nice or what to have a 5th

 

[endersdragon]

We have a 1,000 yard rusher under contract for next year. We don't need a RB at #4. A RB in the 3rd or 4th round would be fine.

I wouldn't mind Zeke if we traded back to the teens... just not at 4.

 

[Alexander]

So do people believe that teams use the FA period as a substitute for drafting?

That is just so infantile. You have 31 other teams in the NFL, most of which have GMs trying their best to ensure employment.

Only in Dallas can they allow fiscal responsibility and a lack of accountability to go hand in hand.

 

[birdwells1]

These teams were good before they added these free agents. We're not knocking on the front door. We're driving around the neighborhood with a nagging wife and the GPS is saying recalculate. Searching for satellite signals..

I really think that, with the schedule we have this coming season, if we stay healthy, with this weak division we can make some noise.

 

[birdwells1]

So do people believe that teams use the FA period as a substitute for drafting?

That is just so infantile. You have 31 other teams in the NFL, most of which have GMs trying their best to ensure employment.

Only in Dallas can they allow fiscal responsibility and a lack of accountability to go hand in hand.

Yeah, in NY Jerry Reese is Gming for his job right now and with this division he might be successful.