Chocolate Lab
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Emphasis on the fifth round.
2024 Cowboys Free Agency Thread
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Why?
We would have fucked up that FA class too and we would be exactly where we are now.
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It's depressing and makes me just not even want to acknowledge the Cowboys until draft time. What's the point in thinking about this current train wreck.
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What gets better at draft time?
We get the idea that since "we draft well" that we get more happy horseshit shoved down our throats?
Last year's debacle does not buy any fucking slack as far as I am concerned.
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Big time. Dak will be lucky to survive with this cast. We can’t stop the run and can’t run or hold up against the pass. This is a seven win team.
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I mean I enjoy the draft. Call me a sucker, I get it. But it's the only time we get to add talent. Hopefully it's not a train wreck of a draft.
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This draft is very lackluster to me to begin with and then you add in the fact it is thin at what is needed, yeah, sounds like good things are coming in April.
Genghis Khan
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And with a worse cap situation after extending Dak, Lamb and Parsons.
It's frustrating and depressing. I honestly see no path to getting better if they insist on going the route they're taking.
There are two ways I see to potentially breaking through their championship drought.
One is to throw caution to the wind and spend cap dollars in free agency to fill in all their holes while continuing to draft well to upgrade even further.
The 2nd is to trade or otherwise move on from Dak, install Lance, and either Lance reaches his potential or they're in a position in the 2025 draft to find a QB of the future. That way at least the cap gets reset without a QB costing 60 million a year and they'd have a few years window with a QB on his rookie deal to spend on the rest of the roster.
Naturally they're choosing door number 3, which is to pay Dak out the ass but go cheap almost everywhere else on the roster and delude themselves into thinking that the draft alone can fill in the gaps. This option makes zero sense to me.
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Might as well.
Genghis Khan
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The worst part to me is we don't have shit for draft capital.
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I mean we have a small fortune in cap room next year. But only like 30 some players under contract.
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Now, yes, but I expect our upcoming extensions to fill up most of that. That doesn't have to be the case but I don't expect us to actually enter an offseason with the appearance that we could actually spend.
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I mean if we extend Dak it probably drops his number next year. Lamb's extension would definitely eat up a portion of the cap room since he isn't under contract. But the way these things are done he wouldn't have a big cap hit. Most these guys make near league minimum the first year because they get a big old signing bonus spread over 5 years or whatever. And Parsons would probably initially reduce his number as well.
Dak not being under contract next year counts 40 mil against the cap. I bet an extension would spread that out for a lower number next year. Just the way these things work. Regardless we won't be spending the money in free agency next year either.
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I think I've figured it out.
Stephen doesn't think Dak is good enough to extend. Daddy Jerry loves Dak like a Garrett. So Stephen is going to not sign anyone so when we suck, he can say, see, he's not a good enough QB to give all that money
It almost makes as much sense as anything else?
Stephen doesn't think Dak is good enough to extend. Daddy Jerry loves Dak like a Garrett. So Stephen is going to not sign anyone so when we suck, he can say, see, he's not a good enough QB to give all that money
It almost makes as much sense as anything else?
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The dumbest part about this whole idea is that you either lose Dak for nothing or you extend Dak. Here is a brilliant idea, flip Dak and get some fucking picks.I think I've figured it out.
Stephen doesn't think Dak is good enough to extend. Daddy Jerry loves Dak like a Garrett. So Stephen is going to not sign anyone so when we suck, he can say, see, he's not a good enough QB to give all that money
It almost makes as much sense as anything else?
Anyway, moving on. This offseason makes about as much as Jerry's interviews.
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But…we could trade down…yeah.
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I mean I would. We kind of have to. It's not like we can really take BPA at 24 unless it's an Olineman anyway.
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How insanely dumb was it to trade a 4th for a luxury former 1st round bust backup QB when you desperately need your picks as your only consistent avenue for improving the roster.