Joe Realist
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Once he gets paid, he will not be the same. Gets cut in 3 years.
Cowboys set the market with many of those contracts at the time. They look good now because it's been a while.
He's the best player for the position since Ware. He's young and improving each year. He's as tough as they come. They paid Ware without batting an eye.Mack is at $23.5MM AAV and Donald is at $22.5MM AAV.
He's not as good as either player. He's being unreasonable, especially when you take into account he's trying to use his shoulder surgery as leverage.
Never imagined I would say this a few months ago when I was pushing to bring him back............. but trading him won't be the worst thing.
If you want a defense this year that can help carry us to the playoffs you sign Lawrence at least to Franchise Tag.For what are you serious. This is a crucial contract for the Cowboys to show that they run the ship not the player. If they cave here then what happens with Dak, Zeke, Cooper, Jones, Smith and LVE? Have you seen the deals that the Cowboys have completed with other main stays (Smith, Martin, Fredrick, Lee), none of them underpaid, all paid accordingly but not overpaid.
Cave on Lawrence and the Cowboys will have larger issues upcoming. Saving 2 million a year on all players mentioned adds to your team. Caving will cause holdouts, trades or non-signing.
I get that this money is any of the fans. But if you want a competitive team long term, what Stephen is doing is great. And you all should be backing it 100%. One thing if he lowballs our players, another if he isn't willing to overpay.
actually,if Im Tank, I am taking that deal like NOW. Its exactly in line with what a DE like him should be getting.Flowers gets 19 mil per..so I think if this report is true, the 2 parties are much closer to a deal than we thought. This is actually good news, IF TRUE.
If you want a defense this year that can help carry us to the playoffs you sign Lawrence at least to Franchise Tag.
If not and your intent on saving a couple million a year over your value for him then fine but don’t be screaming when we miss the playoffs.
Basically this will cost us because of our other poor decisions on risk which didn’t work out. Making a third bad decision won’t correct the first two bad decisions.
And Lawrence isn't Mack.
And it’s going to delay his surgery. He has us bent over a barrel. Pay the man and we’ll try to save elsewhere.They can't force him to sign the tag, they can only offer it to him, which they did. Signing the tag is all up to Lawrence.
People keep saying that, but his agent will argue to the contrary based on hard numbers.
Just because it says an avg of 20mil a yr doesnt mean he will get 20mil every yr. Yr 1 will most likely be round have that. and could be even less with a vet minimum, to help resigning Dak and Cooper.Tank is a really good player, but paying him $20M/year will handcuff this team and I don't feel he is that good. I would have expected a $20M/year player to have more of a presence in the Divisional game.
People keep saying that, but his agent will argue to the contrary based on hard numbers.
SHOCKER, GREEDY AGENT. lol...Gonna haggle over 2 mil. lol..
And it’s going to delay his surgery. He has us bent over a barrel. Pay the man and we’ll try to save elsewhere.
If not then don’t get fussy when our defense falters this year.
And it’s going to delay his surgery. He has us bent over a barrel. Pay the man and we’ll try to save elsewhere.
If not then don’t get fussy when our defense falters this year.
Just business.Greedy Player too.