Our front office felt the need to give up a first round draft pick AND spend 20 million per year on an inconsistent WR. We also spent a 4th overall pick on an RB AND made him the highest paid RB in the NFL 2 years before his contract was up. Now we are going to make Dak the highest paid QB in football. We will be the same team we have been for 25 years. Plenty of shiny toys at the top. Thin and weak below.
Cooper has been inconsistent? When he's played 16 (or even 15 in 2018) he's had 1,070, 1,153, 1,005 and 1,189 yards receiving. He's had 6 ,5, 7, and 8 tds. Yards per catch has been 14.9, 13.9, 13.4 and 15.1. Yards per game has been 66.9, 72.1, 67 and 74.3. Last year, even with an injury, which was plain to see if anyone looked, he had career highs in all 4 of those categories.
That's consistently good, and he's going to have even better years as he gets to play under McCarthy, I would bet.
Good receivers cost money, you aren't getting a top one for peanuts. Good quarterbacks cost money, even if Dak isn't on the level of Wilson, Rodgers, etc. the cost of good quarterbacks is only going to go up.
Gotta be realistic, the days of players flocking to the Cowboys for less money because they were America's team, or could make up lesser salaries by the just about guaranteed playoff money, are over...
It's easy to sit at a computer and say I'd do this and I'd do that, if it's so easy there'd be a line at our door wanting us to be the general manager for an NFL team. Would I do exactly like Jerry has done? Probably not, but then I don't have to be accountable to millions of Cowboys fans. Good thing...