TR: What Are the Cowboys Waiting For?

[Bullflop]

Much depends upon what Dez is willing to do to make things easier for the Cowboys to be substantially under the cap. Stephen Jones seems hell bound to convince Dez to take a substantial pay cut, just as Dez seems determined to keep his $$ intact or be reduced minimally. They're waiting to see if Stephen gets his way or not. If it's not in the cards, something has to give. Dez will either stay aboard with a lesser salary, may be cut or even traded. Not complex. Is the upcoming draft likely to affect Dez's standing? Quite possibly, if the pick seems promising enough. Risky business, though.

 

[Jenky]

Still goes back to what I believe is the reason why there's no FA signings as of yet; no cap space. Until those big contracts Jerry's paying to guys who are no longer on the team have expired, this team won't be in position to make a huge splash in FA.

I dont believe that. They can restructure any contract and agree to long term deals to free up space. The question is why haven't they done any of that? Trying to get players on a bargain and making "honest offers" is a waste of time.

 

[Jenky]

Much depends upon what Dez is willing to do to make things easier for the Cowboys to be substantially under the cap. Stephen Jones seems hell bound to convince Dez to take a substantial pay cut, just as Dez seems determined to keep it intact or to a minimum. They're waiting to see if Stephen gets his way. If it's not in the cards, something has to give. Dez might either stay aboard with a lesser salary or be cut or even traded to another team. Hence, the delay.

Are you saying its all on one player? That doesnt make any sense if they truly felt that way.

 

[Bullflop]

Are you saying its all on one player? That doesnt make any sense if they truly felt that way.

I'm talking about Dez and the FO. It's all a matter of if both parties are able to come to an agreement that they can live with. Dez's contract is obviously the most overpaid one on the team. It only makes sense that they would seek to lessen his strain on the cap. Will others come in to the picture as well? Possibly so -- we'll see. Stephen is talking tough right now. Let's see what develops -- negotiations are subject to some cold verbal exchanges.

 

[Longboysfan]

Capspace is no excuse. Philly has no cap space and still made moves. I thought we were supposed to be saving all this money to get martin signed and yet hes not signed. Stephen is just ultratight with the money.

Because he lived through Jerrys free spending multiple times where it set the Cowboys back on what they want to do.
Draft good players.
Resign the talented ones.

 

[kevm3]

Because he lived through Jerrys free spending multiple times where it set the Cowboys back on what they want to do.
Draft good players.
Resign the talented ones.

Martin isn't signed to an extension. Lawrence is only here for a year and can go to another organization. Same with Irving. We're not even really resigning our own players. Stephen has this notion that all of our players want to play for the Cowboys so much they will take a lowball offer. There's a very real possibility we lose among 3 of the best players on our team. Then what? Replace them with junk?

 

[tico]

Jason Witten is dead money..$695000 cap hit.. sheesh what a joke

 

[Longboysfan]

Martin isn't signed to an extension. Lawrence is only here for a year and can go to another organization. Same with Irving. We're not even really resigning our own players. Stephen has this notion that all of our players want to play for the Cowboys so much they will take a lowball offer. There's a very real possibility we lose among 3 of the best players on our team. Then what? Replace them with junk?

No. Wait till next year when the CAP goes up and the Cowboys have over 50 million to spend.

 

[dwreck27]

It amazes me that we still have posts saying we don't have any cap room. We haven't firehosed money at free agents because we aren't paying Hitchens 10 Million a year to be a backup or Sammy Watkins 16 Million a year to be the #2 (coming off a season where he ended up the #3 for the Rams).

We can create all the cap room we need, and the same people complaining about the lack of FA spending would be complaining about wasting money if we handed out deals like Hitchens and Watkins.

Actually I would prefer us getting guys like Bowman, Burnett(when he was availabe), Boston, Logan/poe and those ilk are are day 1 starters who dont seem like they will be breaking the bank...

But no we content with sitting on our hands and letting our 10 draft picks compete with the defending super bowl champ in our own division.

LAFFFFF

 

[Kaiser]

Actually I would prefer us getting guys like Bowman, Burnett(when he was availabe), Boston, Logan/poe and those ilk are are day 1 starters who dont seem like they will be breaking the bank...

You mean the guys who haven't signed with anyone yet? We aren't sitting on our hands if noone else has signed them either.

And guys like Bowman aren't a lock to start over Jaylon if the trainers are right about Jaylon's health improving. Poe is an improvement over a healthy Maliek Collins but not 10 Million dollars worth.

 

[ICP]

The Draft

 

[DoctorChicken]

I think it’s simple.

It’s gonna really, realy hurt this offense if they can’t resign Martin. And really hurt if they can’t sign Lawrence either.

They can’t just go throwing money around on FAs.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Still not sure why we were in such a hurry to dump him?

We're just paying off Romo dead money now. Keeping him last year would have added 15mil to that.

Dak saved us from cap/QB hell after Romo was done. We should count our blessings there.

 

[Beast_from_East]

And why again would he have needed to hold a clipboard?

Obviously there is a large segment of the fan base that believes Romo should have been given the job back when he was healthy. I mean, he even asked the team if he could compete with Dak for the starting job and they said no.

But that is water under the bridge at this point.

 

[Quickdraw]

I dont believe that. They can restructure any contract and agree to long term deals to free up space. The question is why haven't they done any of that? Trying to get players on a bargain and making "honest offers" is a waste of time.

They've done that in the past but all restructuring does it put off the inevitable for a year or 2. Plus, you can't restructure Romo's contract, and whomever else is not currently with the team but still being paid by them.

 

[foofighters]

romo wasn't going to stick around and be the backup....and i doubt the cowboys wanted to pay him that much to just hold a clipboard

I honestly wonder if Romo would have beat out Dak last off season. I am betting he probably would have. I think the biggest factor was Romo realizing his body just couldn't take it anymore. I wonder if it was worse than the fans were actually led to believe.

 

[Hadenough]

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

 

[bodi]

Capspace is no excuse. Philly has no cap space and still made moves. I thought we were supposed to be saving all this money to get martin signed and yet hes not signed. Stephen is just ultratight with the money.

https://www.bleedinggreennation.com...ree-agency-agents-picks-mock-target-cap-space

 

[LittleD]

Because he lived through Jerrys free spending multiple times where it set the Cowboys back on what they want to do.
Draft good players.
Resign the talented ones.

The last decent FA the Cowboys signed outside of Carr which most think we overpaid is Jeremy Mincy and that was 5 years ago. Not much
to brag about. Clearly the FO wants to focus on the draft to build the team which is cost effective. I have no idea if their strategy will work long term but, they are not going to spend big in FA any longer. Stephen just doesn't believe in that process.

 

[G2]

I honestly wonder if Romo would have beat out Dak last off season. I am betting he probably would have. I think the biggest factor was Romo realizing his body just couldn't take it anymore. I wonder if it was worse than the fans were actually led to believe.

Yeah, Romo said himself that his last injury to his back he realized it wasn't just a routine injury and that it was something serious and long term. I'm glad for him that he didn't try to wear the tread off completely.