Twitter: Stephen Jones: "The cap is a real thing."

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When they overpaid their RB, they dumped him.
When they overpaid their QB, they traded him away for a better one.
They let players walk and signed AShaun, von Miller, S Williams, Corbett, Robert Woods, all good players.
Meanwhile, Jerry keeps mediocre players like Dak, Zeke, Tank, Gregory, LVE and was trying to keep Smith until someone knocked him over the head. Get rid of these bums and get some real talent.
 

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It’s like monkeys were given an NFL franchise to run.
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Yeah, monkeys could have got us the NFCE and 12-5.
 

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I’d wish for a Super Bowl win simply to stop the Eeyores from the endless doom and gloom and crybaby hyperbole for a few weeks, but I don’t think even that would do it for some.
 

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With new streaming and Sunday Ticket deals in the works, the CAP should be going up quite a bit in the next few years.

Dallas can afford to restructure whatever deals they need to.

The CAP is only as real as you want it to be.
 

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With new streaming and Sunday Ticket deals in the works, the CAP should be going up quite a bit in the next few years.

Dallas can afford to restructure whatever deals they need to.

The CAP is only as real as you want it to be.

No, the cap is only as unreal as you can make it be, and eventually you just can't. At some point, constant restructures act like a cut fuse on dynamite. Sure, the team can clear $40M in cap space to obtain a net of $15M in free cap space, but where does that put them relative to the numerous teams that started $40M under the cap and can also make $40M in cap space? At a disadvantage, that's where.

After a couple years, you cannot compete in free agency regardless of how much you free up because you spend most of it is used just to get cap compliant. Other teams who haven't been restructuring on the regular can choose to do so at any time and likely won't have the burden of previous restructures inflating their cap.

If forces you to artificially backload, which is the same as paying a higher contract for an older player. When is that ever a good idea? Restructuring sucks, it has always sucked, and as long as most of the league doesn't need to do it out of necessity it will always suck. Until the rest of the league commits as much to future years - through restructuring - as Dallas was once willing to (they've been much better for about 5-6 years), Dallas will ultimately be at a disadvantage at some point. That's how it works.
 

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No, the cap is only as unreal as you can make it be, and eventually you just can't. At some point, constant restructures act like a cut fuse on dynamite. Sure, the team can clear $40M in cap space to obtain a net of $15M in free cap space, but where does that put them relative to the numerous teams that started $40M under the cap and can also make $40M in cap space? At a disadvantage, that's where.

After a couple years, you cannot compete in free agency regardless of how much you free up because you spend most of it is used just to get cap compliant. Other teams who haven't been restructuring on the regular can choose to do so at any time and likely won't have the burden of previous restructures inflating their cap.

If forces you to artificially backload, which is the same as paying a higher contract for an older player. When is that ever a good idea? Restructuring sucks, it has always sucked, and as long as most of the league doesn't need to do it out of necessity it will always suck. Until the rest of the league commits as much to future years - through restructuring - as Dallas was once willing to (they've been much better for about 5-6 years), Dallas will ultimately be at a disadvantage at some point. That's how it works.

What is the alternative, losing Schultz, Anger, Gregory, Kearse, and moving Amari and or Tank?

They will be right back to a sub .500 team.
 

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The cap is a real thing, but if you look over there at that yacht, you'll see that it's got a heli port and you can land a helicopter on it and while the rest of the NFL is signing up all the really good free agents, me and pops will be cruising the Mediterranean sipping Johnny walker blue and wiping our ***** with all that PSL money we collect from moms art gallery. Then when we need to gas up said yacht to troll on over to the Caribbean, we will use all that merchandising money to make that trip. So yea, salary cap or no, we do alright...
 

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What is the alternative, losing Schultz, Anger, Gregory, Kearse, and moving Amari and or Tank?

They will be right back to a sub .500 team.

Drafting well and being smart in free agency? Plenty of teams had none of those names and made it further. With all those guys, this year's team wasn't good enough. What makes you think sacrificing future dollars will have a different result next year? If you aren't improving, you're falling behind. The only way to improve cheaply is to go through the draft or have some damn good scouts who can find half of the players you have listed (Schultz, Anger, Kearse)

The Dolphins have $64M in cap space without restructures
The Chargers are at $58M in cap space without restructures
The Bengals are at $54M in cap space without restructures
The Colts are at $37M in cap space without restructures
The Chiefs are at $15 (17th in cap space) in cap space without restructures

The Cowboys (30th) are at -$25M in cap space without restructures

That's at minimum $40M, and up to about $90M in more cap space to start with. Every one of those teams can exercise the same restructuring option. What are you going to get when over half the league can restructure from a significantly better starting point and flat-out outspend you in terms of the cap without doing a single thing? The Cowboys are currently 30th in cap space so there isn't much further to fall than that. In fact, they are $40M below the league average right now. That discrepancy between cap space makes it so you can't even plan on free agency. If someone can spend more than you and is willing, you won't be signing anyone.

Myself, I'd probably be the most interested in keeping the punter. After that, Schultz, but only at a reasonable deal. Those are pretty much the only 2 who consistently performed. Between Lawrence and Gregory, we're only talking 9 sacks. Is that worth $27M plus whatever a Gregory contract would cost against the cap?

If that results in a few less wins, who cares? They weren't good enough with them; they won't be good enough without them. Better get the books right so they can actually go after elite talent at some point.
 

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The more Stephen talks, the more I realize there is no hope. He's gonna be worse than Jerry.
Listening to SJ occasionally on his weekly radio “show” is an embarrassment. He sounds exactly like the guy he is- a beneficiary who qualified for his job the night his dad’s check to buy the team cleared the bank. Completely unaccountable for anything.

His smug entitled Joe Obvious sound bites could be done more insightfully by thousands of people who have worked harder than SJ to be where they are.
 

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When you pay your QB $40 + million a year it could have an effect on your talent level.

See Russel Wilson for further.

See former QB Tom Brady who refused to take top dollar so he could be surrounded by talent for the correct way to pay a QB.
 
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