We Like Our Guys

[Joe Realist]

We like them enough to finally get them ready to sign second contracts with new teams.

 

[AbeBeta]

If we liked our guys so much we wouldn’t have a few comp picks every year lol
This is not an exciting FA class but I don’t care about names so much as potential
Last few years we’ve signed cheaper guys but got guys who contributed
That’s the real important thing

Kearse and Hooker were great pickups. Keeping Lewis and Brown were decent low-cost moves. When we've moved on, it has been with guys who did not end up performing -- see Jones and Gregory.

And before anyone jumps in on Gregory, we didn't sign him because he wouldn't agree to losing his guaranteed money if he got another failed drug test. Did the same thing with Collins, he signed, lost his guarantees, and is now gone.

Folks are complaining but this is not the team of old. You could literally stab a teammate without consequences.

 

[offlimits]

I love watching other teams overpay. It is as entertaining as the meltdowns on here.

Kinda like the Rams did in 2022?

 

[ICP]

Too bad our guys aren't enough to get us anywhere in the post season

 

[buybuydandavis]

If we liked our guys so much we wouldn’t have a few comp picks every year lol
This is not an exciting FA class but I don’t care about names so much as potential
Last few years we’ve signed cheaper guys but got guys who contributed
That’s the real important thing

What keeps us from contending isn't failing to overpay in free agency, it's overpaying our own guys, especially the top ones.

Zeke, Dak, DLaw, Tyron, Martin, Gallup, Schulz
7 for 7 Figures

I'm not gonna cry about paying Martin.
All the rest underperformed their cap hit. Often in a big way.

Meanwhile, the one big money cap casualty, Cooper, was clearly better value than everyone but Martin.

On the other hand, we really did fantastic with 2nd and 3rd tier free agents last year, including guys we resigned like LVE and Brown. Maybe that's how we should be building the team. Fewer top salaries but spread the savings around to lower tier players. Lots better value.

 

[Beast_from_East]

I love watching other teams overpay. It is as entertaining as the meltdowns on here.

The problem is they turn right around and then overpay their own.

So overpay your own, but avoid free agency like the plauge........................I really dont get their strategy.

Its like Bobhaze says in his excellent posts, that this team every year does virtually nothing to improve in the offseason and then wonders why they go home early every year.

We are now starting year 28 of trying to get to the NFCCG............that is not me being a hater, that is just the facts and facts dont have feelings.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Too bad our guys aren't enough to get us anywhere in the post season

You can never build a team good enough to reach the SB with just a strategy of using the draft exclusively as the main avenue to improving the team.

 

[ICP]

You can never build a team good enough to reach the SB with just a strategy of using the draft exclusively as the main avenue to improving the team.

Yep, sad that most on this board have realized this for quite some time but the two idiots with the money are clueless

 

[Bleedblue12]

RIght now, the Cowboys are a better than average team that will win 10-12 games but not go far in the playoffs. Neither the coaching staff nor QB has the clutch gene to win it all. Sad but true!!!!