One of the biggest topics in Cowboyland is who do we resign from our great drafts of 2015-2018. Here's the list for this season of FA.....
Player Pos. Type Cap Hit 2018
Players tagged or tendered
DeMarcus Lawrence DE UFA 17.1
David Irving DT UFA 2.9
2015 draft class
Damien Wilson OLB UFA 0.7
Geoff Swaim TE UFA 0.6
Veterans on expiring contracts
Cole Beasley WR UFA 3.4
L.P. Ladouceur LS UFA 1.1
Datone Jones DE UFA 0.8
Rod Smith RB UFA 0.7
One-year "Rentals"
Tavon Austin WR UFA 3.0
Cameron Fleming T UFA 2.5
Jamize Olawale FB UFA 2.0
Marcus Martin G UFA 0.9
Caraun Reid DE UFA 0.8
Darian Thompson FS UFA 0.7
Restricted Free Agents (ERFA)
Justin March-Lillard ILB RFA 0.6
Daniel Ross DT ERFA 0.5
From this list DLaw is the most important that you sign at almost any price. Khalil Mack who is the highest paid DE will average between 17-22mil over the length of his contract. I say front load DLaw Contract and when it hits year 3-5 it will be easier to get from under. Irving is willing to come back for a hometown discount. Treat him like Rolondo McClain and sign him yearly until he shows otherwise or you find someone to replace him. The rest will depend on our salary cap. Looking at the big picture Dak, Cooper, Jones Smith, and Zeke which is the CORE of this team is coming up the next 2-3 seasons. There's 2 ways I see this working out. Next season the NFL will add a Transition tag. The difference between the 2 is one only the team can negotiate with the franchise player that was tagged, while with the Transition tag any team can out bid the team that place the tag. I would consider this an option for Byron Jones. He is approaching his 5th year option this season. I would also consider trading him for either a first round pick to get back into the first round for a CB Stud in this years draft. We have the right front office staff in place to replace Jones. We also have the right coach in place who probably won't be around after this season in Kris Richards to coach up any CB be ready. I also believe Jourdan Lewis can fill the role. He's not Richards prototype of CB because oh his height. But he has a better nose for the ball than Jones, and we need to find out if he is keeper as he approaches the end of his rookie contract.....#Thoughts
Sorry but the post went in circles and create another hole. First nobody is going to give you a 1st for Jones. 2nd bring Irving back? Idk if ur really serious. The guy got the first significant amount of money in his life and he checked out with every check he cashed.
Jones isn’t a top CB. He is a decent press corner who you don’t want playing in zone. Or against any type of speed. He really got exposed to speed at the end of the yr.
Lawrence will get paid but he’s not demanding a lot. He won’t be 22mil a yr.
Dak Elliot and Cooper will all be extended now rather then later because basically it’s cheaper. Elliot’s cap hit this yr will probably be 6-8mil as he already has a deal in place this yr. they will probably move over his base as a sb or guarantee any base salary he has and add on the prorated sb for the new deal to go along with the sb salary he’s already been paid but is too prorated.
Dak too already has a deal in place but will be added new money. And I think everything will be guranteed this yr as they did with Romo 3 times during his career.
Cooper I think is where Dallas saves money. As deal is already guranteed so they can take that deal and turn his 13mil into a signing bonus and add guranteed money in base salaries. His cap hit this yr won’t be the 13mil+ that he has as of right now with the 5th yr option.
Think too Dallas should go and restructure Crawford. He is a important piece to the dL and they can lower that caphit and add more security in yrs for him.
