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You aren’t the only one. I thought he had a good season last year.
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NoDak
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Nah, I like Jones. Think he did a good job, now that he's in the right position.
If we weren't going to be tight up against it trying to sign a lot of high priced guys the next couple years, I'd like to try and keep him. But we have some good young corners, and he just might be priced out of all the guys we are going to need to try and re sign.
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I'm a big Jones fan. I think he's very good.
That said, there's a fiscal reality that you have to face and Jones very well may get caught in that.
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Yeah, you can't keep everyone while paying them a king's ransom, no matter what tweaks you make to their contracts.
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I don't think he is nearly as good as some people think.
All Pro? No fucking way. Hip issue or not.
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I don’t think anyone on this board doesn’t think he’ is a quality CB who had maybe his best season last year.
But would you sign him to the mega deal his pro bowl creds are going to demand?
I wouldn’t, and I don’t think a lot of folks here would either.
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Mega deal, probably not. We don't know for sure what he's sign for though, right? I wouldn't mind paying him quite a bit if the other pieces are taken care of.
I guess part of my point is that at some point this good streak of drafting is going to run out, so I'm wary of thinking you can always replace very good players with new draft picks and it work out okay.
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We can't even keep everyone at "market value" -- let alone if some guys are gonna ask for the moon like Lawrence.
Jones would have to take a real bargain deal for me to want to keep him. I mean, he's gotta be near the bottom of guys I'd want to sign to big contracts of all our free agents coming up in the next two years. I probably am going to prefer Awuzie getting the long term contract, if we're gonna pay a CB.
Jones would have to take a real bargain deal for me to want to keep him. I mean, he's gotta be near the bottom of guys I'd want to sign to big contracts of all our free agents coming up in the next two years. I probably am going to prefer Awuzie getting the long term contract, if we're gonna pay a CB.
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Oh yeah it's almost certainly going to run out, for example we were phenomenally lucky in 2016 taking Prescott in the 4th instead of trading back up into the 1st for Paxton Lynch like we just barely missed doing.
Though I will say the Cowboys approach is finally right: Listen to McClay and your well-paid, talented scouts and pay less attention to your idiot coaches and owners.
We still have the occasional bouts of shortcut-taking idiocy like Gregory, but for the most part we are drafting appropriate talent where it needs to be taken.
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This is true but many thought Byron was a bust until we got him in the right defense playing the right position. I think it's what makes corner a much easier position for us to draft and replace than say a 10 sack DE. Corner is just lower on the priority list on defense. We need to focus on the D-line and keeping around our two freak LBers for the rest of their career. That's what we should be building around. And unfortunately a paying a corner big money may hinder that. In a different defense things might be different.
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I'd let someone else overpay him like they did for Claiborne and whatshisname a couple of seasons ago and gladly collect my comp picks.
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By: ryan welch | 14 hours ago
Rico Gathers has had a rough start to 2019, with Jason Witten’s return virtually assuring a tight squeeze at the tight end position. and now, TMZ has released the body cam footage of Gathers’ August arrest for marijuana possession.
[video]https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/html5/html5lib/v2.69/mwEmbedFrame.php/p/591531/uiconf_id/6740162/entry_id/1_mjqid96r?wid=_591531&iframeembed=true&playerId=k altura-player-9999999999-52284864281584780&entry_id=1_mjqid96r#[/video]
Gathers was arrested August 31 on possession of marijuana, the day before the Dallas Cowboys’ final roster cuts. In the video, Gathers is seen on a park bench with a female companion, at night, when they are approached by two Frisco police officers. The video is the capture from one of the officer’s body cams.
After a conversation about the smell of marijuana in the air, Gathers turns over what appears to be unsmoked marijuana and is subsequently arrested for possession.
Gathers was originally drafted in the sixth round by the Cowboys, and while there was an understanding that there was a learning curve, converting from basketball player to tight end, the fourth year vet has failed to make much of an impact during his stint with the cowboys.
In his career he only has three catches for 45 yards all in 2018, with most of his time being spent on the practice squad his first two years.
With the return of Witten, the progression of young tight ends Blake Jarwin and Dalton Shultz, it will be difficult for the team to keep four tight ends on the roster, but stranger things have happened.
You can follow Ryan Welch on Twitter @Rywelch.
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I couldn't get the video to post, but the link will take you there.
Also... This dumb fuck got caught smoking weed out in the open the night before final cuts?
Rico Gathers has had a rough start to 2019, with Jason Witten’s return virtually assuring a tight squeeze at the tight end position. and now, TMZ has released the body cam footage of Gathers’ August arrest for marijuana possession.
[video]https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/html5/html5lib/v2.69/mwEmbedFrame.php/p/591531/uiconf_id/6740162/entry_id/1_mjqid96r?wid=_591531&iframeembed=true&playerId=k altura-player-9999999999-52284864281584780&entry_id=1_mjqid96r#[/video]
Gathers was arrested August 31 on possession of marijuana, the day before the Dallas Cowboys’ final roster cuts. In the video, Gathers is seen on a park bench with a female companion, at night, when they are approached by two Frisco police officers. The video is the capture from one of the officer’s body cams.
After a conversation about the smell of marijuana in the air, Gathers turns over what appears to be unsmoked marijuana and is subsequently arrested for possession.
Gathers was originally drafted in the sixth round by the Cowboys, and while there was an understanding that there was a learning curve, converting from basketball player to tight end, the fourth year vet has failed to make much of an impact during his stint with the cowboys.
In his career he only has three catches for 45 yards all in 2018, with most of his time being spent on the practice squad his first two years.
With the return of Witten, the progression of young tight ends Blake Jarwin and Dalton Shultz, it will be difficult for the team to keep four tight ends on the roster, but stranger things have happened.
You can follow Ryan Welch on Twitter @Rywelch.
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I couldn't get the video to post, but the link will take you there.
Also... This dumb fuck got caught smoking weed out in the open the night before final cuts?
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And, ESPN led with the headline, "Rico Gathers arrested after caught peacefully smoking weed".
DLK150
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TMZ led the same damn way!
Here's video of Dallas Cowboys tight end Rico Gathers being put in cuffs and getting hauled off to jail for quietly enjoying an evening blunt with his friend in a park.
For real.
Umm, it's illegal in Texas. Of course he went to jail. They are writing these stories like he is some innocent dude that was doing nothing wrong.
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Oh that victimless crime!!
It is a true scourge.
We must arrest them all!!!!
It is a true scourge.
We must arrest them all!!!!
DLK150
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Anyway you look at it, it's pretty damn dense to be smoking it in a public park regardless of the time of day. If you're going to toke, be smart enough to do it at home. I didn't watch the whole thing, did he blurt out the good ole "I play football in the NFL for Dallas."?
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