Helman: Okoye Released

[boozeman]

Aw.

 

[p1_]

Fail. Add this to the Melton fail.

 

[ravidubey]

Fail. Add this to the Melton fail.

I don't think either were real fails. One was a total no-risk shot in the dark and the other produced 5 sacks from the interior without impeding Crawford's progress.

Shante Carver, Marco Rivera, Morris Claiborne == FAIL.

 

[boozeman]

I don't think either were real fails. One was a total no-risk shot in the dark and the other produced 5 sacks from the interior without impeding Crawford's progress.

Shante Carver, Marco Rivera, Morris Claiborne == FAIL.

I would say paying a guy for a year to rehab is a fail. Not a huge one, but "shots in the dark" usually should not take that long.

This one was Rod getting his boy a ride.

They had no business signing him to a contract.

 

[data]

irony is not lost on me and karma will come back. I want to win a super bowl to put a ring on fingers I love.

 

[ravidubey]

I would say paying a guy for a year to rehab is a fail. Not a huge one, but "shots in the dark" usually should not take that long.

This one was Rod getting his boy a ride.

They had no business signing him to a contract.

Meh. He cost the team no coaching time and no roster slot.

The Bucs signing Alvin Harper to be a #1 WR == FAIL.

Dallas signing Okoye as an afterthought to a min deal where he spends the year on PUP and/or inactive but had an outside chance of bringing 1st round talent to the DL-- OK, technically a failure but totally fine from a risk/reward standpoint. So fail, but only in a font so small it's unsupported by the forum software.

 

[p1_]

Meh. He cost the team no coaching time and no roster slot.

The Bucs signing Alvin Harper to be a #1 WR == FAIL.

Dallas signing Okoye as an afterthought to a min deal where he spends the year on PUP and/or inactive but had an outside chance of bringing 1st round talent to the DL-- OK, technically a failure but totally fine from a risk/reward standpoint. So fail, but only in a font so small it's unsupported by the forum software.

How do you view the Melton signing?

 

[ravidubey]

How do you view the Melton signing?

We got what we paid for... a hired gun who got us 5 interior sacks and didn't impede Crawford's development or wait for the door to smack his backside on the way out.

We paid for a prove it deal and Melton performed well enough to get us through the year but not well enough to "prove" he was worth a long term deal. His presence probably prevented an injury to Crawford who I view as a long term contributor for this team.

Short term benefit to Cowboys == medium-high.
Long term damage to Cowboys == nil.

Compare this with Carr with average short term gain and severe long term damage to the Cowboys cap.

Carr and Claiborne are the FAILs on this roster.

 

[p1_]

Amen. And now we have need at both positions.