Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion. But you already stated that you don't care about anyone's opinion who happens to disagree with you, even if they are working in the NFL, get paid for that opinion and have access to a lot more than you do. In other words, you consider yourself more infallible than anyone in the NFL.
You'd have to sow me where I ever said that. I don't believe that I did. What I'd do say is that I would question the credibility of anyone who valued the quality of play of Doug Free over Ron Leary. I stand by that. I certainly never claimed to be infallible as you're trying to suggest.
You also said that you don't care whether someone can prove mathematically and unequivocally that we could afford to keep Leary.
I said they can say it all they want - in theory only - because I strongly believe that there's no chance that the team re-sign Leary, even if people claim that they could. Therefore making any such claim umproveable.
And that you don't care what Stephen Jones has said about the team's priorities regarding our free agents.
You pointed to a quite with a list of names that omitted Ron Leary and used that as evidence of The team stating what they would do regarding him. And then misquote me and repeatedly try to misrepresent what I've said?
Disregarding anyone's opinion if they disagree with you and disregarding any proven facts that contradict your claims is the very definition of "burying your head in the sand and pretending that whatever you think is true."
Pot meet kettle Adam. You've mirespresented and twisted things that I've said repeatedly and then used a quite from Stephen Jones that didn't even mention Ron Leary as some sort of evidence of the team saying they could, but didn't want to re-sign him.
The discussion was about how much offensive linemen are paid, not whether they made the Pro Bowl. I stated that few teams, if any, would ever pay all five offensive linemen a lot of money. Your reply was "Most teams don't have the option, do they? We're in a unique situation here." As I stated in my reply, that's not true at all. Plenty of other teams have as many or more highly paid offensive linemen -- and many other teams have the option to pay all five linemen a lot of money. The discussion was never about Pro Bowls.
Maybe your discussion wasn't. That doesn't make that the case for anyone else. The Cowboys are in fact in a unique position, whether you like it or not. They've got the best offensive line in the league with more Pro Bowl level players and than anyone else. Just the fact of being the only team that has three Pro Bowlers makes them unique, but being tops in the league overall reinforces that uniqueness. I'm really sorry if you don't like that fact, but unfortunately it's true.
And they're also in the unique position of having another coveted lineman eligible for free agency that they have to make a tough decision about.
If you can find another team with three Pro Bowlers on the best offensive line in football, with a rock solid, dependable, sought after fourth lineman up for free agency, you'd certainly be in position to challenge the use of the term unique. But, short of that, the Cowboys are in fact, in a unique position.
