True but it's also been several years since we've had this many holes going into the offseason as well. Last two years we've had offseasons highlighted with the free agent acquisitions of James Washington, Ryan Nall, and Chuma Edoga. This is not the offseason to pick up a few JAGs late in free agency and hope to hit in the draft. This team needs a lot of help.
Still have to free up money to do so.
It’s been that way for almost two decades. Most likely It was written as a SOP around 2010, and into the bylaws in 2013. I don’t know why anyone would’ve thought it would be diff this year:
Look at the Head coach. Not fired/not extended, retread D-coord one year, Dak one year left on a bad contract. Letting all the FAs leave, not signing anyone relevant in FA.
The Joneses played consecutive bad hands, mortgaging the future with Zeke & Dak's contracts, and now the hens are coming home to roost now that no NFCCG-or-better was produced. The Joneses may HAVE the money, but those pesky cap rules are preventing them from spending it. That must gall them to no end.
Well hells bells ms lulu let's see here. Mr. Jerry Jones said we were going all out this year. It got peoples attention but only those not yet jaded to his ways perked up to embrace his words. So those fans are now reeling as they are slowly realizing the suck is in.
It might gall to no end but Jerry Jones was very instrumental in getting the salary cap implemented to begin with. So your statement strikes me as irony.
We like our guys.
Yeah I'm not even sure how this is debatable at this point. Any free agents the Cowboys grab are most likely going to be 1 year deals, or 2 year deals with an out in the contract. I have a feeling the 2025 roster will look significantly different from what they enter the 2024 season with.
I'm not sure about that anymore. Like 8 starters are going to be gone to FA. They are in reboot mode. Takes some time...
Total of 14 free agents and releasing Gallup. So potentially 15 spots need to replaced. We have 7 draft picks.
They aren't committing to anything or anyone. Pretty obvious. The Green Bay game really pissed them off apparently. They want to start over.
I think the answers are in the Ancient Scroll of Football Stupidity that Jerry has been amassing since his childhood. Rumor has it, it contains pearls of wisdom regarding ill-conceived draft strategies for targeting player no one else wants in rounds 5-7, nepotism in the workplace and on the football field, and how to confuse the league by not engaging in the practice of improving your team during the offseason.
Not only in 2024, but in 2025 as well. In the highly-unlikely event the Joneses are able to refrain from making another monumental contract blunder in that time-frame (there is PLENTY of danger lurking in that regard), the team may be in a position to make some significant moves - both with high draft picks & cap-friendly free agency - in 2026.
I think there were some real reasonable deals which would've helped the team a lot. If they aren't interested in those I don't think anything is going to move the needle. This off-season will likely be less than last year. No Gilmore or Cooks incoming.
