The Common Thread to Splashy Signings Today

T-RO said:
If you want to rage and rant...this won't be the thread for you. If you want to think perhaps it is.

Here's how to make sense of today's big external signings...:
A - The Team making the splash has a QB on a cheap or rookie contract...or no real QB...so big wads of cash available
or
B - The Team spent its big wad on day one and won't do any other major moves


Examples of A:
Chicago, SF, Falcons, Seahawks,

Examples of B:
Chiefs, Giants

Only exception to this pattern: Broncos, Browns - teams in dubious situations.

Dallas doesn't have a QB on a cheap contract, with league's priciest RB group. They will make one splash external signing, IMO.
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last year the chiefs were not big payers in FA, they signed two of their own to the biggest contracts of all their roster changes and everyone else was fringe FA like we sign, they won the SBN against the team that did the most..

this place ignores that somehow the chiefs doing bare minimum in FA and losing their top offense and very good defensive starts and still won a sb.. they say it cant be done.
 
T-RO said:
Top five in regular season wins over past two years combined. So the front office must be doing a few things right.

Agree they have a hard ceiling but it's due to lack of top QB and lack of top head coach. Breaking the bank in free agency won't fix that.

All I can say to the churning emotions around here: If you feel trapped with the Cowboys hard ceiling then do something about it. Adopt another team or two. Change your expectations or fan formula.
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actually, Daks top 5 since 2016 and the team is top 7 since 2013.
 
blueblood70 said:
last year the chiefs were not big payers in FA, they signed two of their own to the biggest contracts of all their roster changes and everyone else was fringe FA like we sign, they won the SBN against the team that did the most..

this place ignores that somehow the chiefs doing bare minimum in FA and losing their top offense and very good defensive starts and still won a sb.. they say it cant be done.
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But they still have a lot of great parts to that squad.

Elite QB, Elite TE, Elite LT, Elite DE, Elite coaching. I always feel like Reid is like Belichick. He can overcome and adapt
 
Carson said:
But they still have a lot of great parts to that squad.

Elite QB, Elite TE, Elite LT, Elite DE, Elite coaching. I always feel like Reid is like Belichick. He can overcome and adapt
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stop making excuses, they didnt do anything in FA last year picked up spare parts and signed their own and let hill and honey badger go and won a SB!.

sorry but that double standard we saw the chiefs win SB doing the same offseason process as us..that Fact dont care why we have solid tea b2b 12 win season, most of the core is back..

the constant need for the 20mil aging FA splash signing is a FAN thing..the eagles got to the sb on weak schedule especially luck in who They faced in the playoffs yet spent to most made the most moves and LOST the SB , most likely lose to the 9ers with healthy purdy.. so those are facts, il post to stop the frenzy of fans being upset itbeop0ffseaosn process 24hrs in.
 
T-RO said:
An NFC championship under the current "world climate" with Goodell, under Jerry, and with Dak is a pipe dream.

Appreciate the good things that we have under the Cowboys ceiling...or find some way to reconfigure your NFL enjoyment.

Alternatively, you can howl at the moon.
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Sorry that would be to accept losing.
I'll choose to howl!
 
T-RO said:
If you want to rage and rant...this won't be the thread for you. If you want to think perhaps it is.

Here's how to make sense of today's big external signings...:
A - The Team making the splash has a QB on a cheap or rookie contract...or no real QB...so big wads of cash available
or
B - The Team spent its big wad on day one and won't do any other major moves


Examples of A:
Chicago, SF, Falcons, Seahawks,

Examples of B:
Chiefs, Giants

Only exception to this pattern: Broncos, Browns - teams in dubious situations.

Dallas doesn't have a QB on a cheap contract, with league's priciest RB group. They will make one splash external signing, IMO.
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I would be happy with one splash external signing.
Those are rare around these parts for way too many years.....
 
T-RO said:
If you want to rage and rant...this won't be the thread for you. If you want to think perhaps it is.

Here's how to make sense of today's big external signings...:
A - The Team making the splash has a QB on a cheap or rookie contract...or no real QB...so big wads of cash available
or
B - The Team spent its big wad on day one and won't do any other major moves


Examples of A:
Chicago, SF, Falcons, Seahawks,

Examples of B:
Chiefs, Giants

Only exception to this pattern: Broncos, Browns - teams in dubious situations.

Dallas doesn't have a QB on a cheap contract, with league's priciest RB group. They will make one splash external signing, IMO.
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If a team pays 8M per year to an outside free agent or pays 8M per to re-sign their own player, it's the same 8M.
 
xwalker said:
If a team pays 8M per year to an outside free agent or pays 8M per to re-sign their own player, it's the same 8M.
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Absolutely. But fans don't get excited about internal signings. They want new shiny things.

Needs to be an external top 100 player to be any splash.
 
Every "splash" player signing is someone that their original team could live without. The team had such-and-such amount of money left on their cap and decided that someone else should get it. Every free agent veteran was deemed replacable by the team they played for. This is why I don't get too excited about signing veteran free agents from other teams.

Of course, there are exceptions,
 
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