Cowboys’ free agency approach has been drastically altered by past blunders and it needs revisiting

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The problem with your philosophy is Jerry & Stephen Jones don't know shit about acquiring franchise QBs.

Since Aikman retired all of their top QB choices have been train wrecks.

They lucked into Romo and had to "settle" on Dak.. If not for some outstanding luck they'd have walked out of the 2016 draft with Paxton Lynch or Connor Cook.

So no thanks, I don't want the Joneses leading the search for a new franchise QB. Because history has shown that the QBs they covet are the Quincy Carter/Paxton Lynch/Drew Hensons of the world.
100% this.
 

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Flatty nominee for the Rooooolly for word with the most consecutive ‘o’

The Rooooolly has been won with the word ‘Roy’ since inception. This could be the first year Roy is dethroned.

Previous winners included:
  • ROOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY!!1!11!1!!
  • ROOOOOYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!11!11
  • RRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOY
Over my dead fucking body.
 

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Ruined a perfectly good thread. Thanks Aaron.
 

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I am no Prescott fan, but I cannot help but still feel good fortune if he can really kick it into high gear.

Now if he doesn't get over this pussy of a past season, then all bets are off.

He could be a victim of the Oikos curse.

Oikos curse?
 
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Carr just got $40 million a year.

Dak is not overpaid. If our front office wasn't dumb, they could have gotten him for less to be sure but what Dak got paid is standard.
 

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Carr just got $40 million a year.

Dak is not overpaid. If our front office wasn't dumb, they could have gotten him for less to be sure but what Dak got paid is standard.
Pretty much.
 

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I would have let Dak walk and try to get better at the position before I'd allow him to eat up so much cap space when he needs all the help he can get around him.

I agree, there's a difference between being overpaid and not being worth market value.
 

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I would have let Dak walk and try to get better at the position before I'd allow him to eat up so much cap space when he needs all the help he can get around him.

I agree, there's a difference between being overpaid and not being worth market value.
And do what, go through another decade trying to find a QB in the draft? Fuck that.
 

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And do what, go through another decade trying to find a QB in the draft? Fuck that.
What's the difference? You either have the QB that can win you a championship or you don't. I think you actively try and find that guy until you have him.

People can say Dak can win a SB all they want, the truth is his bets shot was last year. He fell apart and we spent the last half of the year waiting for him to get right, he really never did unless it was against trash teams.
 

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What's the difference? You either have the QB that can win you a championship or you don't. I think you actively try and find that guy until you have him.

People can say Dak can win a SB all they want, the truth is his bets shot was last year. He fell apart and we spent the last half of the year waiting for him to get right, he really never did unless it was against trash teams.
I don’t agree with this at all. I think we can win with Dak. He may need more pieces around him versus an elite QB but I believe we can win with him. People are so shorttermed memory they forget how good he has been.
 

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Carr just got $40 million a year.

Dak is not overpaid. If our front office wasn't dumb, they could have gotten him for less to be sure but what Dak got paid is standard.
He is literally the definition of over paid ... just bc other bad teams do stuff does not make it a good thing to do.

(the raiders have had so much success lately lols)
 

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Dak's not overpaid! He's simply making the market rate!! :rolleyes:
 

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I don’t agree with this at all. I think we can win with Dak. He may need more pieces around him versus an elite QB but I believe we can win with him. People are so shorttermed memory they forget how good he has been.
It's literally the same argument I made for Romo. Is he "good enough" to be on a championship team? Sure. He could not fuck it up, but he isn't putting a team on his back in the playoffs. He's especially not doing it without an elite supporting cast that the front office feels it can't afford because they're paying Dak Prescott like he doesn't need that help around him.

Idk, I hope I'm wrong obviously, but we'll know in a few short years.
 
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