LarryCanadian
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I'm sorry to put another of these out there, but I just read another article about Dallas "winning" the TO "SWEEPSTAKES". Now I agree TO is probably the most talented all around WR in the league, but I honestly feel that having him on your team is much more akin to "Russian Roulette" than winning a sweepstakes.
That being said, to me the more interesting question is the opportunity cost of what "groceries" you could buy instead of paying the huge bonus and contract for an aging headcase superstar WR.
I'm guessing you'd need to pay a TO around 6-9 million in signing bonus and 3 Mill a year salary average. Say a cap cost of 5-6 million a year. Maybe less early on, but hurtful later again when he's cut and/or outstays his welcome and you have to eat an accelerated bonus.
Would you rather sign another solid Oline player and a solid Linebacker and possibly even an impact free safety for that money? That's 3 holes to fill versus adding a player to which we are pretty decent right now. For me an improved oline improves our QB, running game, and WR's as we have talent and ability at all those positions already. I'd personally rather add oline talent than TO, but that's me.
In my ideal future, I'd like the Cowboys to draft another young WR for the future. Someone that will be alongside Crayton for a long time. That would be a great mix of the vets Keyshawn and Glenn and 2 young guys in Crayton and a 1st to 3rd round draft pick.
Add a stud Guard or Tackle in free agency. Who cares if we have too much cap tied up in Oline already, we need some talented youth. Draft another young oline as well fairly early. Apparently the next draft has many promising offensive tackles. Worst case you could move Flo to right tackle in a year or two and have a new stud left tackle, and Petiti could continue to develop and back up both positions eventually. We've been asking a lot of Petiti who dropped about 40 pounds just to get into playing shape this year. He needs a year in weight room and conditioning etc. He sure is tough, physically and mentally he just needs to adjust a bit more.
Doesn't really seem like Peterman has stepped up at guard, so while he gets one more year to prove himself likely, we could use a stud guard to replace Allen and Rivera who are getting up there. I really wished we would have signed Wahle from the Packers but I understood Parcells wanting the veteran leadership and reliability from Rivera. Lets go after a free agent stud Oline though.
What does everyone else think. We can talk about signing TO or not all we want, but I haven't seen anyone discuss what it means in terms of not being able to sign other players. We still look great cap wise and I feel that another great offseason adding depth and filling in our now much fewer gaping holes would put us into contender mode for a few years!
Thoughts?
Larry
That being said, to me the more interesting question is the opportunity cost of what "groceries" you could buy instead of paying the huge bonus and contract for an aging headcase superstar WR.
I'm guessing you'd need to pay a TO around 6-9 million in signing bonus and 3 Mill a year salary average. Say a cap cost of 5-6 million a year. Maybe less early on, but hurtful later again when he's cut and/or outstays his welcome and you have to eat an accelerated bonus.
Would you rather sign another solid Oline player and a solid Linebacker and possibly even an impact free safety for that money? That's 3 holes to fill versus adding a player to which we are pretty decent right now. For me an improved oline improves our QB, running game, and WR's as we have talent and ability at all those positions already. I'd personally rather add oline talent than TO, but that's me.
In my ideal future, I'd like the Cowboys to draft another young WR for the future. Someone that will be alongside Crayton for a long time. That would be a great mix of the vets Keyshawn and Glenn and 2 young guys in Crayton and a 1st to 3rd round draft pick.
Add a stud Guard or Tackle in free agency. Who cares if we have too much cap tied up in Oline already, we need some talented youth. Draft another young oline as well fairly early. Apparently the next draft has many promising offensive tackles. Worst case you could move Flo to right tackle in a year or two and have a new stud left tackle, and Petiti could continue to develop and back up both positions eventually. We've been asking a lot of Petiti who dropped about 40 pounds just to get into playing shape this year. He needs a year in weight room and conditioning etc. He sure is tough, physically and mentally he just needs to adjust a bit more.
Doesn't really seem like Peterman has stepped up at guard, so while he gets one more year to prove himself likely, we could use a stud guard to replace Allen and Rivera who are getting up there. I really wished we would have signed Wahle from the Packers but I understood Parcells wanting the veteran leadership and reliability from Rivera. Lets go after a free agent stud Oline though.
What does everyone else think. We can talk about signing TO or not all we want, but I haven't seen anyone discuss what it means in terms of not being able to sign other players. We still look great cap wise and I feel that another great offseason adding depth and filling in our now much fewer gaping holes would put us into contender mode for a few years!
Thoughts?
Larry
