Speculation: La’el Collins could come off IR

[Zimmy Lives]

Hell Lawrence his rookie year was not consistent what makes tapper will be able offer something with a lower pedigree

Apples to oranges, jrumann59. If there's one thing to be learned from the NFL draft, where you are drafted means nothing.

Given the lack of production from the defensive end positions, I think going with the unknown (Tapper) is worth a shot if an option.

 

[Nightman]

I want all five of these guys on the line. Keep pushing the salary cap forward. Leary won't sign for 6, but maybe 7. Keep pushing the cap forward. We've been doing it for years. Never let it catch up, keep pushing it forward.

In theory, is this feasible with restructures every off season @bkight13?

I've heard that the salary cap is more posturing than truth, so then maybe we can gain a competitive advantage, in theory, by structuring contracts such as those of T Smith, T Craw etc and just keep pushing them forward (restructuring)?? Is this feasible. Then sign whomever the hell we want?

Let it catch up to us in 2030 or something and just field a team of scrubs while we pay off the debt for a couple seasons and start over? Lol

There is always a limit but DAL could spend 150% of the cap every year indefinitely as long as the cap rose a little every year.......when DAL was in minor cap troubles a few years ago it was because the cap was kept artificially low by the owners to manipulate the CBA.....the salary cap stayed flat at 123m from 2009 to 2013.......from 2013 it has grown from 123m to 166m next year.....it will continue to rise for the foreseeable future as the TV deals are locked in thru the CBA but probably not as rapidly

If you create 50m in cap space and have 20m in Dead Money it is sustainable
The fix is quick and only takes a season or two when the team rebuilds

Frankly with the way the team has drafted and limited number or big name FAs it would be hard to spend that kind of money......half of the 53 man roster counts for around 10m of the entire 166m cap....as one group of high priced players retires, a new group arrives and they are replaced by rookies.......the cycle repeats........

It all comes down to personnel decisions....whether it is the draft, FA or second contracts for homegrown guys, you have to make good choices......misses hurt

 

[Trouty]

There is always a limit but DAL could spend 150% of the cap every year indefinitely as long as the cap rose a little every year.......when DAL was in minor cap troubles a few years ago it was because the cap was kept artificially low by the owners to manipulate the CBA.....the salary cap stayed flat at 123m from 2009 to 2013.......from 2013 it has grown from 123m to 166m next year.....it will continue to rise for the foreseeable future as the TV deals are locked in thru the CBA but probably not as rapidly

If you create 50m in cap space and have 20m in Dead Money it is sustainable
The fix is quick and only takes a season or two when the team rebuilds

Frankly with the way the team has drafted and limited number or big name FAs it would be hard to spend that kind of money......half of the 53 man roster counts for around 10m of the entire 166m cap....as one group of high priced players retires, a new group arrives and they are replaced by rookies.......the cycle repeats........

It all comes down to personnel decisions....whether it is the draft, FA or second contracts for homegrown guys, you have to make good choices......misses hurt

B, would my above scenario work, with the understanding that the cap continues to raise... could we sign players to deals that allow further restructures and just keep pushing the contract further down the line? No one is really doing this, we have flirted with it (T Smith, Witt, Romo, to name a few) what if we did it with everyone that was worth it, i.e. blue chippers like Martin, Collins (perhaps) and Leary. Jones later and Dak etc. essentially signing every blue chipper to ten year deals and keep pushing their caps forward?

So that we can, essentially, create an aura of a pre-cap era. It will catch up, but we can just eat it for like two years with a non-competitive team and snag high first round picks while recouping and falling back under the cap with a crap roster. Is this just too way out? Lol

 

[Nightman]

B, would my above scenario work, with the understanding that the cap continues to raise... could we sign players to deals that allow further restructures and just keep pushing the contract further down the line? No one is really doing this, we have flirted with it (T Smith, Witt, Romo, to name a few) what if we did it with everyone that was worth it, i.e. blue chippers like Martin, Collins (perhaps) and Leary. Jones later and Dak etc. essentially signing every blue chipper to ten year deals and keep pushing their caps forward?

So that we can, essentially, create an aura of a pre-cap era. It will catch up, but we can just eat it for like two years with a non-competitive team and snag high first round picks while recouping and falling back under the cap with a crap roster. Is this just too way out? Lol

I tried to explain that is definitely do-able, even to a much greater extent than we have been doing

We restructure almost every big contract already, no matter what people want to believe....we didn't have some big philosophy change.....we rarely sign big FAs, we love comp picks, we extend our own guys and we need to draft well

The biggest problem in the past wasn't the cap, it was the players we chose to extend........both Roy Williamses, Miles Austin, MBIII, Jay Ratliff, Spencer, Free and Carr all under-performed once they signed

Romo, Ware, Witten, Lee and now the OL have been much better...I will count Dez next year after his injuries are in the past

The question you want answered is should they sign a Norman, Vernon and Alshon Jeffrey plus keeping Leary, Claiborne, Carr, TWill and Church.....I would say they could bu they won't and probably shouldn't......I have been one of the biggest proponents of getting a Suh or Watt or Vernon but the price is too high to swing and miss....just keep drafting well, sign some core guys to second deals and be ready to pounce on trades and reclamation projects that cost little but have big upside....this will satisfy Jerry's need to gamble without risking 2nd round picks

I would not sign Leary if he reaches 7-8m
I would sign Claiborne at 6m
I would sign Church at 3-4m
I would sign TWill or Butler- whoever was cheaper
Same with Carr and Wilcox
I would paycut Free(Green is RT)

I would draft a DE in the 1st and sign a mid-level FA
I would draft a CB/SS early and sign a FA
I would draft and/or sign speed WR
I would draft backups for RB and QB and re-sign Sanchez

The 800lb gorilla is Romo but that is another thread

 

[Trouty]

Hell yeah, B, thank you. You're a wizard, brudda