Von Miller is expected to sign with the Dallas Cowboys

[Rayman70]

It’s a good low-risk move. If they’re betting on EZE and Malachi to be their edge rushers for the future, then Miller serves has a short-term bridge and mentor. He’s also not really an every-down player anymore, so it won’t take away any snaps.

Trading for Crosby would be more high-risk. Not only would it cost future draft picks to acquire him, but it would take away snaps from the young guys and it would be unlikely we’d retain the young guys for a second contract.

That doesn’t mean that trading for Crosby would be a bad move. We did the same when we acquired Q Williams. The difference with Q was we really had no young DTs we were developing.

I trust ML over EZE by far. That said, you nailed it. Good summary.

 

[Rayman70]

From a schematics view, I preferred Bosa. Big body 3-4 End with athletic ability to drop back. His problem is health. Who's to say we don't try to add him to the fold too. If that's the case, then I might be worried about our young guys. Could mean CP is concerned. Von made sense in hindsight for me.

 

[BigBlacKahuna]

What's next, are they going to dig up Vince Lombardi's corpse and have him mentor Schotty?

Not to pick on the guy because he's still much younger than me, but most pass rushers are done by age 32. Miller is 37.

Do you like ANYTHING about the team? You are so negative bruh…

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Let’s not talk about LeBron.
I’m a Rockets fan and I’m still devastated what he did to us in the first round this year. I just knew we had that series and had the nerve to buy tickets for a playoff game. I’m still sick.

Thought y’all had it too especially with no Luka

 

[deerhunter11]

Von Miller will turbo charge this defense every time he is in rotation. He will bolster our defense by stopping the momentum of opposing offenses in critical times of games.

This is a huge move for Dallas, to improve this pass rush quickly.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Not every team has a Myles Garrett that’ll give you 23 sacks. If you look at the Seahawks last year, they only had 4 guys with more than 3.5 sacks, and all but one were over 29 years old:

DT Byron Murphy (23 years old)
DT Leonard Williams (31)
DE Uchenna Nwosu (29)
DE Demarcus Lawrence (33)

The Cowboys only had 2 guys with more than 3.5 sacks, Clowney (8.5) and Houston (5.5).

Now, we lost Clowney (8.5 sacks) but added Gary (7.5) and Miller (9). We still have Houston. We’ll have full year of Q Williams. And we hope that at least one of the young guys in EZE and Malachi can step up.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

From a schematics view, I preferred Bosa. Big body 3-4 End with athletic ability to drop back. His problem is health. Who's to say we don't try to add him to the fold too. If that's the case, then I might be worried about our young guys. Could mean CP is concerned. Von made sense in hindsight for me.

Von is insurance of the young guys aren’t ready.

 

[DogFace]

What's next, are they going to dig up Vince Lombardi's corpse and have him mentor Schotty?

Not to pick on the guy because he's still much younger than me, but most pass rushers are done by age 32. Miller is 37.

Many posters are done by that age too.

Consider that.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Good morning to you, Mr. Negative (lol)

He had 9 sacks last season, the most of his career since 2021, when he was 32 (lol)

Be happy we finally have a player who replaces some sacks and pressure we lost when Parsons was traded.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MillVo00.htm

Exactly, and in some packages, he should still be effective. And he's good for helping bring in a better culture.

 

[mperfection]

Is this going to be our Charles Haley signing for the next dynasty?


I’m blindly going to drink the koolaid. It goes against my better judgement but I need something because I haven’t believed in the cowboys since 2018

NO! Charles Haley was 28 years old when we traded for him in '92 and was still in his prime.

 

[CTcowboy203]

Dallas fans thinking the "missing piece" is a 15 year player who averaged half of a sack per game last year. You can't make this stuff up. Another perfect example of why the Cowboys fan base will always be known as the most ignorant in football.

More like the fans are happy to add a quality veteran that can hopefully be a piece of the whole overall puzzle. A piece. Nothing more nothing less. At worst can be a mentor to the young guys,

They need all the help they can get. I like it.

 

[stinkface]

He is probably putting an addiction on his house and needs another million. Since Covid the price for building materials has doubled. Might be able to get marble counter tops now and a bigger pool.

 

[DallasEast]

@Hawkeye0202 , looks like your Jerry Jones handshake agreement speculation was right on the money.

 

[jazzcat22]

Bringing in Miller. Is it really worth it.
What player will be gone because of this?
It will force them to go short at another position. Or lose a LB.
So I will go with they know what they are doing. Or is this another Jerry bringing In a guy move just to make a splash.

Who goes.
Milton or Howel unless they were already planning on keeping only 2 anyway.
A young WR, unless somehow they keep 6.
Trigg, as they keep only 3 TE's. And no, they will not cut Schoonmaker over Trigg (at this point anyway)

This most likely regardless of any of those other roster choices. Pushes player like Liafau, Barron, Houston off the roster. And no, Williams will before those 3.
does a player like James get cut as well at LB.

Do they go short at DB's I instead.

 

[BobSacamano]

I don’t hate the move. He will be a nice rotational player and he can mentor the youngins

I keep seeing this posted but does anyone really know if he’s the mentoring type? Does he even know how to teach?

I think many are hoping that his veteran experience just rubs off on the young guys.

 

[DanTanna]

Von is currently tied for 9th place in sacks all time, needs 3 sacks to be tied for 6th all time. Needs 12 to be tied for 5th place, so a big jump from 6th to 5th. He had his most productive season in a while last year, hopefully he stays healthy and gets his 9+ this year. He is super motivated.

A two time Superbowl Champion, Hall of Fame lock, 9 sacks last year - what the hell is not to like???

 

[boysfanindc]

This means they couldn't manage to bring in Maxx Crosby, and Von is just a consolation prize—one I don't really see making a difference in improving this defense or turning them into contenders. If Von was still available, there was a reason for it, and the same goes for why Dallas hadn't signed him earlier.

Could have said that about Clowney last year and it worked out pretty good and Clowney was not coming off of a 9 sack season,

 

[DCreppinBoysfan]

Thought y’all had it too especially with no Luka

yeah I now feel about this current rockets team the same way i felt about the Cowboys for most of McCarthy tenure. Hopeless. It’s a poorly constructed team compounded by inept coaching. JJ coached circles of Ime

 

[Jarntt]

Because it wasn't "official" when the team tweeted it out last night.

Somebody's angry he didn't get credit for posting it first...

 

[boysfanindc]

Dallas fans thinking the "missing piece" is a 15 year player who averaged half of a sack per game last year. You can't make this stuff up. Another perfect example of why the Cowboys fan base will always be known as the most ignorant in football.

There were only 17 players in the league last year that had more sacks then Von. How we don't see that is a upgrade over Williams or Houston is beyond me.