Sturm on why the Cowboys sit out free agency

[Risen Star]

Let’s project this out: Diggs (five years, $100 million, $20 million per), Lamb (five years, $125 million, $25 million per) and Parsons conservatively at five years for $150 million ($30 million per), and you hope Dak Prescott remains at around $40 million per year. Now, you understand the Cowboys’ roster has four guys at $115 million per season and that is their core for now. They should have roughly that total again to fill out the other 50 guys on the roster. Now you know the Cowboys aren’t chasing too many things in free agency.

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There just isn't enough pie when in the next couple of years you may be giving half of it to 4 players.

But we should be quite used to this....

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Since Carr in 2012? The five biggest free-agent signings are all small with no impact: Henry Melton, Benson Mayowa, Cedric Thornton, Nolan Carroll and Gerald McCoy … I guess? Five biggest impacts? Robert Quinn has to count, technically a trade. Jeremy Mincey? Jayron Kearse? We really cannot come up with five. They have literally stopped shopping in free agency beyond one-year deals almost at all. Maybe they have something planned this year. Don’t cross your fingers.

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That is a scary list. We just don't do free agency. Free agency bad. Add to that the impending deals for Diggs, Lamb and Micah that they have to budget for and you can see why any hopes for a Wagner or Hopkins or even OBJ are probably just a pipe dream.

 

[Kolemmitt]

Enough talent to win some regular season games. Maybe even win a playoff game, but never enough to sniff the Super Bowl.

 

[Coogiguy03]

WELL THEN SOMEONE HAS TO GO!!!!

 

[Coogiguy03]

Enough talent to win some regular season games. Maybe even win a playoff game, but never enough to sniff the Super Bowl.

So true

 

[gtb1943]

Let’s project this out: Diggs (five years, $100 million, $20 million per), Lamb (five years, $125 million, $25 million per) and Parsons conservatively at five years for $150 million ($30 million per), and you hope Dak Prescott remains at around $40 million per year. Now, you understand the Cowboys’ roster has four guys at $115 million per season and that is their core for now. They should have roughly that total again to fill out the other 50 guys on the roster. Now you know the Cowboys aren’t chasing too many things in free agency.

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There just isn't enough pie when in the next couple of years you may be giving half of it to 4 players.

But we should be quite used to this....

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Since Carr in 2012? The five biggest free-agent signings are all small with no impact: Henry Melton, Benson Mayowa, Cedric Thornton, Nolan Carroll and Gerald McCoy … I guess? Five biggest impacts? Robert Quinn has to count, technically a trade. Jeremy Mincey? Jayron Kearse? We really cannot come up with five. They have literally stopped shopping in free agency beyond one-year deals almost at all. Maybe they have something planned this year. Don’t cross your fingers.

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That is a scary list. We just don't do free agency. Free agency bad. Add to that the impending deals for Diggs, Lamb and Micah that they have to budget for and you can see why any hopes for a Wagner or Hopkins or even OBJ are probably just a pipe dream.

Its an excuse nothing more

bottom line is the bottom line to the clown show

They are making money hand over fist with the status quo; why change it?

 

[ChronicCowboy]

Yeah Diggs, Lamb and Parsons make it precarious giving away any big deals. The team doesn’t want to risk losing those guys. I think they’ll sign a free agent receiver to a moderate contract but nothing over 8-10 million per.

 

[Reality]

That's old school flawed thinking at its best.

The truth is that the NFL of today is built for winning now, not planning for winning eventually.

For players you believe are key to your long term success, a contract extension solves any immediate cap issues.

For star players who are still on rookie contracts, if you cannot replace them with someone else on the roster or via free agency, you can sign them to a new contract at the last possible moment and push the cap hit to future years.

This so-called "planning" and "strategy" used to be relevant 10-20 years ago, but now it's just an excuse to avoid taking risks and impacting the team's financial valuation and global ranking..

 

[John813]

Thank god we still got Zeke Elliott on the roster still at a 16.7mil cap hit, or Tyron Smith cap hit unchanged at 17.6mil or D-Law at 26mil.

They could be players in FA, but they like to overpay/overkeep their own and then tell the fans, "only so much pie to go around"

 

[cnuball21]

Or you realize that now is the time to spend before you have to pay those guys.

The Jones just don’t get it so I’ll never get my hopes up.

 

[MarcusRock]

WELL THEN SOMEONE HAS TO GO!!!!

Neither he nor his son have plans to go anytime soon. Well one won't have a choice soon but ..... ya know.

 

[Carson]

Yeah. Because our team is “so much more talented” than the rest of the league. We are so blessed to be the only ones who have to pay people!

Meanwhile SF pays for elite WR, TE, LT, 2 DTs, LB

 

[EMMITTnROY]

The thinking is flawed though. Teams should take advantage of their roster exactly when they have young stars on rookie deals like Micah, CeeDee and Diggs. That's when you have cap space to make moves that move the needle. We've seen teams can manipulate the cap and restructure deals when they need to do so.

This team can contend right now if the front office made moves. And they have the cap space to do it. But they won't.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

other teams figure it out, S Jones is just a cheap ***

 

[Carson]

other teams figure it out, S Jones is just a cheap ***

Look at Tampa and New Orleans. Negative 30+ in cap and still making moves.

But they sell we can’t make moves because of an ascending cap and we have deals to make in 3 years!!!

 

[JonesBoys]

The cap will keeping going up. Spare me the Cowboys are the only team with good players that need to be signed in the next few years as the excuse not to make the current roster better. Anything can change in the next 2 years as well.

 

[JohnsKey19]

That's old school flawed thinking at its best.

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Old school antiquated thinking is what you get with a family run operation with the same guys making the calls for over 30 years.

 

[Bobhaze]

Let’s project this out: Diggs (five years, $100 million, $20 million per), Lamb (five years, $125 million, $25 million per) and Parsons conservatively at five years for $150 million ($30 million per), and you hope Dak Prescott remains at around $40 million per year. Now, you understand the Cowboys’ roster has four guys at $115 million per season and that is their core for now. They should have roughly that total again to fill out the other 50 guys on the roster. Now you know the Cowboys aren’t chasing too many things in free agency.

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There just isn't enough pie when in the next couple of years you may be giving half of it to 4 players.

But we should be quite used to this....

-

Since Carr in 2012? The five biggest free-agent signings are all small with no impact: Henry Melton, Benson Mayowa, Cedric Thornton, Nolan Carroll and Gerald McCoy … I guess? Five biggest impacts? Robert Quinn has to count, technically a trade. Jeremy Mincey? Jayron Kearse? We really cannot come up with five. They have literally stopped shopping in free agency beyond one-year deals almost at all. Maybe they have something planned this year. Don’t cross your fingers.

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That is a scary list. We just don't do free agency. Free agency bad. Add to that the impending deals for Diggs, Lamb and Micah that they have to budget for and you can see why any hopes for a Wagner or Hopkins or even OBJ are probably just a pipe dream.

Here’s my problem with the assumption about all those guys (except Micah)- what has this team accomplished WITH them? Answer: Not much.

Diggs is good but great? No. Lamb? Good. Not great. Dak? Good, not great. Parsons? Great. So why is having 3 of those guys critical? Answer: Because the FO doesn’t know what they’re doing.

 

[JonesBoys]

other teams figure it out, S Jones is just a cheap ***

It's his excuse every year. It's like Dallas has all these great players they have to sign but can't make it past the divisional round for some reason. I guess all these teams that get further every year don't have great players they will need to sign apparently.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Parsons is the only player that is irreplaceable.

 

[Risen Star]

Here’s my problem with the assumption about all those guys (except Micah)- what has this team accomplished WITH them? Answer: Not much.

Diggs is good but great? No. Lamb? Good. Not great. Dak? Good, not great. Parsons? Great. So why is having 3 of those guys critical? Answer: Because the FO doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Bob, you know it. If you get drafted by this team and make some plays you are a made man. No team in the league will have a higher opinion of you.