We all need to quit saying that Jerry and Stephen do not understand the cap

[Mannix]

Jerry made an average QB the highest paid player in NFL history and you think he's cheap? Jerry is very cheap when it comes to the coaches, but lately, he spends too much on players who haven't come close to earning it.

Whether or not Jerry understands the cap is anyone's guess, but with the excuses they make for not even trying to bring in players like Henry, the signs point to them not having a clue.

He made an average player the highest paid QB in the NFL for ONE reason....he has ZERO confidence in his ability to rebuild on the fly, and does not want to risk contending for the playoffs for even one season. He 100% of the time will choose "what or whom he knows".....and he is cheap!!!

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Yeah no. You have to back up your statement with PROOF.

This narrative came out of the vlogosphere. They try to backdoor it with shoddily merged database views showing the Cowboys are low in cash spending.

Generally speaking when you see people ascribing an individual's behavior to an organization's actions, you are dealing with people that are trying to rationalize something they do not understand.

 

[Chasing6]

What they don't understand is who to give extensions to and who to let walk, or how to structure the contracts. Most of their dead money this year was from Gallup. They gave him his new contract AFTER he had just tore up his knee. He was never the same and it wasn't hindsight to think this may not be a good idea. They also opted to give a 2nd contract to Terrance Steele which has been dubious at best. Not to even mention the record breaking deal to Dak. And, the list goes on and on. Dumb and Dumber own and run the team and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight.

They are the ones telling us, they don't understand the cap, with there dumb comments on the cap.

 

[Mannix]

The Dallas Cowboys are almost like a cult. They prefer to keep things in house, hiring coaches and paying players that know and understand how the Cowboys operate over bringing in outsiders. I'm not saying they are an actual cult but it is similar to how cults operate. For whatever reason, Jerry and company prefer to deal with people they know and bring in a few here and there they can shape. I don't think it has much to do with cheapness, unless the Joneses are actually at the Michael Jackson level of being in debt--everything is shiny and excellent on the outside but inside there just is no money.

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Why am I the first like for this?

 

[DB_Cooper]

I’m not so sure Stephen really gets it. He always brings up Branden Carr. A $50 million CB that never missed a game. He earned that money IMO. Was he a star? No. But he was pretty darn good.

I agree. A pretty solid player for the Cowboys. I think the Galloway deal and the Roy Williams deals have spooked Jerry out of being more aggressive.

 

[fivetwos]

It depends on how you define "understand". I think we all know what the CAP is. It is simple math. You have 53 guys and you have to pay them all and fit their contracts under the number the league sets as the CAP. Dallas does that every year just like every other team.

What the Cowboys do not seem to understand is what that means in terms of building a roster. The CAP is just a parameter. Even before the CAP I am sure teams had budgets for players. Rich teams could afford more for player contracts, poor teams less. But they all knew what they were working with. A CAP or a budget, forces teams to do a better job of evaluating talent then paying their talent closest to what they produce on the field. Getting under the CAP is easy. Getting the most talent out of that number is the hard part. Ideally, you want to underpay for talent. Worst case scenario is overpaying talent.

The Cowboys fail in this area. They overpay their own players. They did it with Romo. They did it with Zeke. They did it with Dak twice. I think they did it with CeeDee, and they will probably do it with Micah. I would argue they did it with DLaw and Zack Martin in a way. They did it with Terence Steele. Overpaying 1 player by a couple of million is not going to hurt that much but when you overpay 4 or 5 players it adds up.

Perhaps the Cowboys know this but realize they don't pay free agents so they can overpay their players not needing the CAP space to sign others. Perhaps. But it doesn't sound like it based on Jerry's recent comments about paying Dak $60 million. It sounds like thinks it was good to pay Dak $60 million even though no one thinks Dak is worth that kind of money.

I think what Howie Rosman does better than Dallas is he evaluations talent better and he figures out how to get the most talent under the CAP. It's smart. First look at the talent, then figure out a way to fit it under the CAP.

They will not give tens of millions to someone they don’t know, and even so, softee Jerry would rather give that to players whose families he has already met and has a relationship with.

There’s flat out no way they put in the film and evaluation work that GMs ought to, and even if they did, they aren’t qualified.

They ask assistants to provide an opinion then they try to randomly decide who is more right, or who will play for cheaper.

A multi person vision is a major flaw.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

We won that deal. It was between Carr and Cortland Finnegan…

I assumed he meant it was a bad deal because carr underperformed...

 

[Mannix]

Has anyone actually said this or are you just ranting to rant?

So I have to footnote my posts at the bottom of the page to please you? I'll pass....but thank you for the advice.

 

[Jarv]

Jerry is not a football guy, he's a lucky wildcatter that's good at marketing.

 

[Aven8]

I agree. A pretty solid player for the Cowboys. I think the Galloway deal and the Roy Williams deals have spooked Jerry out of being more aggressive.

It didn’t stop him with Coop. He was a really good trade

 

[goshann]

They are the ones telling us, they don't understand the cap, with there dumb comments on the cap.

They are saying all that so you can’t say they won’t spend money. They believe saying the cap is ‘limiting them’ is better than saying ‘I don’t want to spend money on free agents because it’s often too risky so I would rather make more profit’.

They absolutely know they would have a better chance of winning if they signed more free agents but they aren’t willing to spend the money. And they do know they could manipulate the cap to do it. It’s very simple.

 

[rambo2]

They understand it just fine....they are just cheap!!! The lack of Free Agency spending isn't because they are worried about wrecking the team....that is just what they would like you to believe. They HAVE CAP ROOM...they just don't want to spend money. What opened my eyes was FLUSHING AN ENTIRE season down the toilet just because you didn't want to pay your Head Coach to walk. I can 100% GUARANTEE you that they understand the cap just as good as Howie Roseman....they just prefer to spend their money on MARKETING your boys!!!

You need to get over Jerry and hope they take the keys away from him soon.

 

[Chasing6]

They are saying all that so you can’t say they won’t spend money. They believe saying the cap is ‘limiting them’ is better than saying ‘I don’t want to spend money on free agents because it’s often too risky so I would rather make more profit’.

They absolutely know they would have a better chance of winning if they signed more free agents but they aren’t willing to spend the money. And they do know they could manipulate the cap to do it. It’s very simple.

The cap has nothing to do with profit.

 

[goshann]

The cap has nothing to do with profit.

How much they spend has everything to do with profit.

 

[garyo1954]

They understand the cap. They just don't understand how to allocate the peanuts left over after they make their favorite player the highest paid.

"We couldn't afford Henry."

 

[Chasing6]

How much they spend has everything to do with profit.

Not on the Cap. Maybe on toilet paper.

Go ahead and show me how much money Jerry made off the Cap last season.

 

[Coogiguy03]

They understand it just fine....they are just cheap!!! The lack of Free Agency spending isn't because they are worried about wrecking the team....that is just what they would like you to believe. They HAVE CAP ROOM...they just don't want to spend money. What opened my eyes was FLUSHING AN ENTIRE season down the toilet just because you didn't want to pay your Head Coach to walk. I can 100% GUARANTEE you that they understand the cap just as good as Howie Roseman....they just prefer to spend their money on MARKETING your boys!!!

MARKETING money doesn't affect the cap!!!

 

[CWR]

Yeah no. You have to back up your statement with PROOF.

The cap is very fluid. There are a ton of moving parts and the only poster I've know to have command of it was AdamJT.

That said there are obvious things as well. The Eagles are a great example. They have over 350 million dollars committed to future void years, but they continued to be aggressive and are now in the superbowl. For comparison the last I saw for Dallas was something like 60 million. Clearly there are mechanisms they can use to create space.

They just don't want to risk actually going "all in." In the mean time we've had to watch Philly and the Rams go in, get to or win a superbowl, blow up and rebuild again in the last few years. It can be done we chose not to. Call it cheap or conservative or whatever.

 

[charron]

They understand it just fine....they are just cheap!!! The lack of Free Agency spending isn't because they are worried about wrecking the team....that is just what they would like you to believe. They HAVE CAP ROOM...they just don't want to spend money. What opened my eyes was FLUSHING AN ENTIRE season down the toilet just because you didn't want to pay your Head Coach to walk. I can 100% GUARANTEE you that they understand the cap just as good as Howie Roseman....they just prefer to spend their money on MARKETING your boys!!!

Except they had every intention of extending Mike. They offered an extension and Mike chose to walk away.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Except they had every intention of extending Mike. They offered an extension and Mike chose to walk away.

Thank goodness.