Friends, romans, countrymen...seriously. Players after 30 are progress stoppers, unless they man the offensive line, as a general rule. Ware/Hatcher may have yet another great season next year, but how many of those do you realistically expect him to get going foward? And now that the Cowboys have invested a 2nd and 3rd rounder on Lawrence, who will clearly need time to develop, do you expect he would get that time with Ware still on this team? In the NFL, teams constantly have to take a step back to take two steps forward. If you don't, you get what the Cowboys have been getting for the last several years: mediocrity.
At the end of last season, I imagine, the Cowboys brass took an unbiased look at what they had. In Ware, they had a guy who has been an absolute warrior, but in recent years his play has declined. You cannot expect a player to improve in his 30's. It was time to move on, regardless of sack percentages. Some players are NFL ready as soon as they hit the field, but those players are rare and I do not believe Lawrence is that type of player. He could be, but the point I am trying to make is most players need time to develop and the only way you do that is letting them play And Jerry Jones is not one to pay millions of dollars for guys to warm the bench. When you take all of this in consideration, you should be able to understand that while letting Ware go may not have been the best decision for this next season, but for seasons in the future, it was the only logical decision.
