What's your favorite and worst single offseason move?

[big dog cowboy]

really hoped we would move up for Duke Johnson

We we're trading up for a RB. Or any player for that matter. The Cowboys even said that. Not sure why I've read similar things in this thread about us trading up.

 

[Nightman]

Worst- letting Murray leave
Beast- signing Hardy

 

[VACowboy]

When you're sticking to your board, I think you also have to look at the trends in the draft. If you think you can get a player in a later round, even if you have him rated higher, you do that. That's exactly how ended up getting Gregory.

Well, yeah, but you don't let trends of the draft dictate that you take a player at a certain position when there are better players on the board. To me it seems a lot more likely that Green would drop to the late fourth than Gregory to the late second.

I'm not arguing that Green isn't a good player or the team doesn't know what it's doing. But if I have to pick a worst move of the offseason, it's taking Green in the third round.

 

[punchnjudy]

All the moves have been covered, but I like that they've continued the general trend of building the team from the inside-out on both sides of the ball.

Romo not having a backup or a successor is the biggest concern, but they won't need a superstar at qb to win the super bowl if they keep building the team in this manner. However, they will need someone decent (similar to Roethlisberger or R Wilson in terms of overall quality), and even that level of quality can be hard to find.

 

[Hardline]

While that is true we wouldn't have won the Super Bowl with that defense and everyone knows it.

We could have won the Super Bowl with that defense. In fact we came very close to accomplishing it.

 

[DFWJC]

Gurley or Gordon would have went further in advancing the Cowboys than Gregory.
It wasn't the defense that got us to 12-4 last year. It was the ground game.

For starters, you have to have an actual trade partner.

Gurley:Then, assuming a team in the top 10 would be willing to drop all the way to 27, we would have have trade our entire draft for one player...

Gordon: not sure he's deserves to be mentioned with Gurley. But even then, it would have cost us Byron Jones, Randy Gregory, and our 4th....IF SF was willing to trade with us instead of SD.

 

[Seanleebaby]

Murray needed the Cowboys more than the Cowboys needed Murray......He'll never come close to 1800 yards with the Eagles......but he took them money and it was smart not to over pay him....Julius Jones, Troy Hambrick and Marion Barber, they were suppose to be the next big thing in Dallas too, how did that work out...Murray, the one year wonder doesn't make him the end all be all as a running back.....McFadden was brought in for a cheap look, not as a Murray replacement.....he may not even make the team but this offensive line will make the running back, not the other way round....holes you can drive a truck through at times,, even Randle, Williams, or McFadden can do that!!

I remember when Eagles fans used the same logic when they lost DeSean. "It was system not him". "Maclin will replace him easy." How did that turn out? Especially in the Commander games.

You might replace some of Murrays production. But that physical, grinding mentality; that ability to move the chains and keep your defense off the field so they didn't get exposed is quite possibly gone. How are you going to feel when you need Darren McFadden to pick up 2 yards on 3rd down to close out a game?

 

[ColeBeasley11]

We we're trading up for a RB. Or any player for that matter. The Cowboys even said that. Not sure why I've read similar things in this thread about us trading up.

I didn‘t expect them too do it just had hoped we would. Too me Duke was the last of the RBs who would have been a clear upgrade at the position.

 

[evarc]

fav letting murray walk, lest fav not addressing rb in the draft...

 

[xvendettax914]

Favorite? Donnie Baggs

Least favorite? Not signing C.J Ah You

 

[Beast_from_East]

Favorite: Gregory in the draft and Collins after the draft. Two young players that will make a difference in the next couple of years.

Least: Losing Murray and not getting another RB in the draft. Randle's off-field problems trouble me. McFadden has been mediocre to bad since coming into the league. Williams is an unknown. Our situation there worries me. Not enough to do something stupid like give up premium picks and a huge salary for AP but enough that I would like them to take a hard look at someone like Chris Johnson.

You read my mind bro......................Gregory and Collins during and after the draft were my favorite moves by far.

Least favorite..............like you said, the RB situation............letting the NFL rushing champion walk out the door and doing nothing other than signing McFadden to replace him. No free agent RBs signed, no RBs drafted, all we did was sign McFadden and called it a day. I personally think that was a huge blunder myself, but not a lot we can do about it at this point. I would sign Chris Johnson tomorrow, but other than that maybe a trade for somebody like Lamar Miller. That's about all our options left because I don't think Minnesota is going to trade Peterson to anybody.

 

[Eskimo]

Best: Drafting Gregory (I think he is an elite talent and to get him in the 2nd round was just unbelievable. We'll help him as much as possible to deal with his drug/emotional issues. If he can't succeed here, he wouldn't have succeeded anywhere else).

Honorable mentions: Collins as UDFA, letting Murray walk, Greg Hardy signing that contract

Worst: Re-signing Free over Parnell. My concern here isn't so much whether Free is better than Parnell but I don't trust his ankles anymore to allow him to play through the year. I strongly suspect something degenerative is going on and the staff naively believes they have fixed it. I could understand bringing back Free if he were cheap and they had a good plan for a backup if his ankle wasn't healthy but they really didn't. The Collins pickup as a UDFA mitigates this decision but they couldn't have predicted that at the time they re-signed Free.

Honorable mentions: Not getting a long-term deal with Dez done, letting Bruce Carter leave in FA

 

[Rogah]

You might replace some of Murrays production. But that physical, grinding mentality; that ability to move the chains and keep your defense off the field so they didn't get exposed is quite possibly gone. How are you going to feel when you need Darren McFadden to pick up 2 yards on 3rd down to close out a game?

I'll feel good about it, assuming Romo is under center (so the defense has to respect the pass) and the offensive line is in place.

Despite having a career year and far and away leading the league in rushing yards, he was only 10th in YPA. 10th is pretty good, but certainly not all-world.

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

We're not done yet but for me favorite: The Collins Coup.... Least: no resolution to CB contracts... Carr not cut or paycut.. scandrick wanting more $.

Favorite: The Kraken
Least Fav: Not truly addressing rb

 

[skinsscalper]

Favorite, by far is the Collins move (Gregory and Hardy are REALLY close 2nds only because the Collins deal was so cheap and stealth).

Least favorite would probably be not being able to work out a deal with Murray but there's no way in hell I would have paid what Philly did so I don't blame the FO.

 

[Bleu Star]

We're not done yet but for me favorite: The Collins Coup.... Least: no resolution to CB contracts... Carr not cut or paycut.. scandrick wanting more $.

Favorite: The Oceans 12 heist on the rest of the league to spring first and get Collins.

Worst: Not allowing themselves to blink and take the negotiations with DeMarco in a more inclusive direction.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Seems like the consensus favorite move was Gregory/Collins and the consensus least favorite move was not finding a legitimate replacement for Murray.

Small sample size of 76 replies, but pretty representative of what I think most fans would say.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

best drafting Randy Gregory . Worst is not drafting an RB.

 

[TheCount]

Best: Not forking over major money to keep Murray, even though it would have been nice.
Worst: Chaz over RB, though I don't mind the crop of RB's we do have.

 

[ConstantReboot]

I hated the fact that we whiffed on RB in the draft as well and I am definitely not a Green fan at all.

But ultimately he cost the Cowboys Langford, Allen or Davis the way things rolled. Not really sure those three in particular would be starting quality.

However, Ajayi was available.