Sturm on why the Cowboys sit out free agency

[visionary]

You must pay Lamb. You must have receivers who win and make plays.
You must pay Parsons. Elite pass rushers don’t grow on trees.
You must pay your OTs. The whole offense crumbles without them….interior guys easily replaced.

However, while I really like Diggs, you don’t need to pay CBs huge money. You don’t have to have a shut down corner to win. You should be drafting corners and developing them. Bland is no Diggs, but if you had 3 Blands, you could win. I’m not giving Diggs an elite contract unless I haven’t worked on the cb room ahead of time.

This is the bottomline
You have to pay QB, DE, LT and WR
Can’t pay CB top dollar also and expect to afford other pieces to be competitive
This draft is deep at CB and someone will give you a 1 for Diggs with 1 year left. Next year they’ll wait for us to release Diggs. Niw is the time to trade Diggs

 

[jazzcat22]

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?

Does it matter how much money they make. They are still only allowed to spend as much on players as every other team.
Profit does not matter when there is a cap in place.

Is that so hard to understand for some fans?

 

[Bowdown27]

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

That’s the issue we have all pros/ pro bowlers all over the team but we can’t get it done. Dak needs help.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

If we pay Diggs 20 mil per year the this team is committed to mediocrity

 

[JBS]

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..

Last paragraph it is. They’re on record basically saying so.

Their strategy isn’t to win. So you can’t say their strategy doesn’t work.

 

[Sydla]

If we pay Diggs 20 mil per year the this team is committed to mediocrity

Unfortunately, this is where loyalty kicks in for Jerry and Stephen. Diggs is a great player. He's also one of their draft pick successes. They need that kind of validation around. These factors are weighted more than actual analysis and whether or not a CB at $20 million makes sense, what are other successful teams doing, etc.

It's why Gregory gets the offer he got from Dallas and then once he left for Denver, suddenly we didn't want to spend that money on DEs/edge players. We went from $70 million for a DE to like a couple of million for Fowler. They reward their guys. Not pay for smart moves.

 

[MaineBoy]

Parsons is the only player that is irreplaceable.

I’m thinking if they keep Parsons battling defensive linemen all season his body will be worn down and he will be replaceable in 2 years. Of course that will be after Jerry gives him a $500 million guaranteed contract.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Never has a collection of good but not great players, who have accomplished almost nothing, been given so much in return. It’s stupid.

Right, it's almost like their last names are aikman, irvin, and smith

 

[baltcowboy]

Lamb and Diggs on the open market this year would immediately become the highest paid receivers and corners in the NFL respectively. Now obviously that’s a year over year thing simply due to the inflationary nature of money and the cap, but the point is that Dallas is hardly the only team that would spend top dollar on them.

Yeah it seems fans on the board still believe Dak would have never received that contract the Cowboys signed him too. The Cowboys made mistakes with Zeke and Jaylon but everyone overpays someone.

 

[gtb1943]

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.

With the clown show its more of a maid man

 

[CATCH17]

Their status quo off-season have gotten them nowhere and the NFC is there for the taking.

They can either start separating themselves now or find themselves doing the same thing next off-season.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

One problem the Jones boys have is hanging on to players too long. Zeke and Lawrence are past their game changing days yet are getting paid like superstars. Same with Tyron, he's overextended his usefulness, but has a big salary.

They don't know how to structure outs on their contract extensions and are stuck with bad contracts. The staus qou will get you enough wins for the playoffs, and an early exit.

 

[phildadon86]

So.

Dont sign anyone because we have to sign our own guys down the road? Is that it? Makes sense. Teams like San Fran seem to sign their own and utilize FA, same with Philly, New Orleans, Baltimore, etc.

 

[phildadon86]

Their status quo off-season have gotten them nowhere and the NFC is there for the taking.

They can either start separating themselves now or find themselves doing the same thing next off-season.

Which do you think is more likely? LOL

 

[fivetwos]

Their status quo off-season have gotten them nowhere and the NFC is there for the taking.

They can either start separating themselves now or find themselves doing the same thing next off-season.

That’s the part that’s really irritating me….

The NFC is as weak as can be right now. How do you not take full advantage of that?

Maybe they see that as having to do even less to maintain relevancy.

What I AM going to do is wait for them to do next to nothing yet again before I complain about it. There’s still a remote shot they get it right. Maybe. Probably not. Lol.

 

[Motorola]

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..

The NFL's 31 franchises are cash cows - with the Dallas Cowboys being the biggest "bull" (pun intended) in the league.
Their financial valuation and global ranking is due to their popularity and following as a single team and being part of the NFL.
That "outside income" (sales, sponsor contracts, share from the broadcast revenue) is always there.
The Cowboys should stop being reluctant to spend the "team operating monies" = the cap, and acquire the talent and experience to forge a squad to win in a five-season window or less. JMO

 

[Cowboyny]

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

Problem with the Cowboys for years is they surround their star talent with bottom feeders as backups. Huge drop off when a starter gets hurt. MM has done better, but still an issue.

 

[ICP]

WELL THEN SOMEONE HAS TO GO!!!!

For me it would be Diggs

 

[ICP]

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.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

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.

It looks like they believe the hype or they keep the players to maintain the hype they've built. A lot of these guys wouldn't be superstars on any other team.