Report: Cowboys out on Earl Thomas, Tyrann Mathieu

[the_h0wey]

Good. Good teams don't sign free agents or make trades. See Philly and New England.

Not to mention Denver a couple of years ago...

 

[garyv]

Honestly I don’t think it’s done. They talked at the combine when no media outlet knew about it. I think they’ll keep talking about compensation. If they lower to second third. I think we bite.

You may be correct. My Opinion nobody 20 or above is giving up their #1 Pick for him now my question is what
if Seattle said give us the 2nd Rounder Pick #50 for Earl Thomas now would you do that ?

 

[Stash]

No way on a 1st for Thomas. If/when he is traded its more like a 3rd and a conditional pick the following year.

I'd go for the 3rd on Thomas, but not the Eric Berry money. At any draft cost. If he wants to "come home"? Welcome home. If he wants to "get paid"? "Welcome to Cleveland". Or San Francisco, or anywhere else willing to pay you.

Matthieu at 12MM is too high but he will probably end up getting something like 9 or 10MM per year.

I don't envision a scenario where this team even looks at him.

The asterisk on both of those is that the signings so far this year have been coocoo for cocoapuffs who knows where the dust settles.

This entire market has been crazy. But the team should be getting praised for not indulging in the insanity, not beat up about it.

 

[Rodney308]

Staying away from dropping valuable resources on a soon to be 29 year old safety, is a good football decision. A great one, in fact!

My comment was not specifically referring to the decision concerning Thomas and Mathieu. There is no doubt that this team has done nothing meaningful since 1995. The conclusion that I draw is that the FO does not know how to build a winning football team. Valuable opportunities are wasted and, hence, the Dallas Cowboys for the past 23 years have been a mediocre football team.

 

[Rodney308]

Yeah don't get it twisted, this happened before the national anthem not DURING and that makes a huge difference.
All of those players who kneeled during the national anthem can go to hell, stay the feck off the Cowboys.
We're a Texas team we're not based out of Social justiceville Seattle or Crappy California, we have pride in our Nation and state.

YES!!! That's the spirit. Let's send people to hell for exercising their constitutional rights.

 

[Gameover]

and one and done.

regular season champions mean squat....moron.

Poor baby

 

[Gameover]

My comment was not specifically referring to the decision concerning Thomas and Mathieu. There is no doubt that this team has done nothing meaningful since 1995. The conclusion that I draw is that the FO does not know how to build a winning football team. Valuable opportunities are wasted and, hence, the Dallas Cowboys for the past 23 years have been a mediocre football team.

21

And they’ve been a top 10 record since 2005

 

[Bowdown27]

Thank you

 

[Gameover]

Jerry is a awful GM.

 

[Rockport]

http://www.prosportsdaily.com/articles/report-cowboys-out-on-earl-thomas-tyrann-mathieu-504864.html

Report: Cowboys out on Earl Thomas, Tyrann Mathieu
The Cowboys are out on the two best safeties on the market

(Photo: Jeff Curry, USA TODAY Sports)

Earl Thomas has been the apple of Dallas Cowboys' fans eye ever since he told Jason Garrett that he wanted to play for the team last season. With a gaping hole at safety, the team was expected to take a run arguably the NFL's best safety, and when Tyrann Mathieu hit the free agent market on Wednesday, the team was suddenly given an excellent consolation prize.

But according to Jane Slater of NFL Network, the Cowboys are out on both Thomas and Mathieu. She reports that the price tag is just too high on both of them, particularly Thomas, who would require not only a large financial commitment, but compensation for the Seattle Seahawks in a trade as well. They may have released Richard Sherman and traded Michael Bennett for scraps, but Thomas still holds quite a bit of trade value and the Seahawks are right for wanting to maximize it.

This report will be incredibly disappointing for Cowboys fans, who now have to live with the reality that the team not only missed out on the best players at its two biggest positions of need in safety and wide receiver, but lost its best internal free agent in Anthony Hitchens as well. There is now practically no chance that the Cowboys are a better team on paper next season than they were in 2017.

That doesn't mean they'll have a worse season. Circumstances like injuries, player development and overall luck will have a huge role in determining how far the Cowboys go. But this was a flawed roster that needed help, veteran help, and it now appears that help isn't coming. The Cowboys will have to find it on the fringes of free agency rather than getting the sort of difference makers they seemed to need

Who is this woman? She has no clue saying the Cowboys arent going to be any better this year. She has no idea so should not even put it out there.

 

[OmerV]

No chance “on paper” to be a better team because they didn’t trade for, or sign a safety? When free agency just started and with the draft yet to come?

Good Lord. Talk about panicking.

This reads like the writer is trying to rile up Cowboy fans.

I'm not convinced Woods and Frazier are out of the conversation anyway. Neither would be as good as Thomas, but not many are. Both came along and played well late last season.

 

[Roland]

The Honey Badger in Dallas prolly aint the best idea OFF THE FIELD...with the strip clubs,bars etc...Thomas would have been nice,but I'm afraid we are in full blown rebuild mode with rooks and 2nd year guys. Lets be honest...its prolly gonna be a ugly year on the defensive side...the back end. The Linebacking is no cake walk either. Tons of questions on both sides of the ball.We have to roll our sleeves up in the scouting department because this will be quite the undertaking this offseason.

I don't agree that it will be an ugly year defensively for us. Our young db's didn't look that bad, another offseason, more strength and conditioning and time to gel... who knows. If we somehow manage to add a A caliber safety, get a true 1 tech, and replenish our lb core, we could have a good to very good D.

 

[KDM256]

Earl Thomas was a pipe dream at best. ET is looking to cash out on his final big contract and the Seahawks aren't letting him walk away for crumbs. Even if Dallas did go full ****** and traded away draft picks for ET, we'll still have to come up with the money he's asking for which will hinder us at other position of needs.

Front office has to stay patient with player development and let some of these rookies/players on rookie contracts work in our favor. Why even draft Woods/Frazier if only to give up on them after 1 year??

 

[Whyjerry]

S is a big team need so them being out on 2 very good safeties makes perfect Cowboys sense.

 

[Dylan88Wilson]

That doesn’t state they’re “out”.

 

[Hardline]

Curious if you had your choice which of the following would you prefer ?

Earl Thomas
Tyrann Mathieu
Derwin James

I think with me personally I would almost rather have James because for 4 years plus a 5th Year Option
your not paying the guy 12 Million a year like Thomas and Mathieu might get. Lets not forget Vaccaro.

I would take Thomas so I could more justify taking Wynn or Hernandez in the first round.

 

[Rodney308]

Well, somebody needs to tell Wikipedia. Wikipedia says that Earl Thomas is "an American football free safety for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL)."

 

[cheyennes]

Obvio
We dont have money
We can get two good seafties via draft
Derwin, Read, Allen, Bates etc.
Every year is the same history, will see

 

[Rodney308]

Jerry is a awful GM.

Brice Butler is a good receiver. Dak can thrown the deep ball at times. And, yes, Jerry is an awful GM.

 

[ksadler1]

Wow, real shocker...