2024 Cowboys Free Agency Thread

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Genghis Khan said:
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.
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Yeah it might be different if you plug holes in free agency. But when you have a good 6 legit needs, you need all the picks you can have.
 
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Genghis Khan said:
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.
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It would've been fine if they operated like a normal organization. It was a bit of an overpay but it seems even more egregious because these dickheads can't be bothered to do anything during FA but sit around playing with their assholes.
 
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Genghis Khan said:
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.
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At the time Jerry thought we were Super Bowl bound, would be picking at the end of every round, all our other draft picks would work out, etc.

Yes, he's an overoptimistic idiot.
 
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Sheik said:
Only the Cowboys can take a 12 win team and blow it up for no good reason.

Teams usually do this for reasons.
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I don't think they think they're "blowing it up" necessarily.

The plan is seemingly to extend Dak, Lamb and Parsons, potentially all in the next 6 months or so. There's still a decent amount of rising talent beyond Lamb/Parsons in terms of Tyler, Ferguson and Bland.

I think Stephen, in his infinite wisdom, is looking at this as something of a "strategic reset" where they might take a step back for a season in the name of resetting their salary situation that would theoretically make them more competitive for the next 3-5 years afterwards.

Combine that with the very real probability that we have a new HC next year and it makes some sense to preserve flexibility for that new regime.

This is all what I'm imagining moron Stephen is thinking, in reality it's of course very stupid and unnecessary.
 
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Simpleton said:
I don't think they think they're "blowing it up" necessarily.

The plan is seemingly to extend Dak, Lamb and Parsons, potentially all in the next 6 months or so. There's still a decent amount of rising talent beyond Lamb/Parsons in terms of Tyler, Ferguson and Bland.

I think Stephen, in his infinite wisdom, is looking at this as something of a "strategic reset" where they might take a step back for a season in the name of resetting their salary situation that would theoretically make them more competitive for the next 3-5 years afterwards.

Combine that with the very real probability that we have a new HC next year and it makes some sense to preserve flexibility for that new regime.

This is all what I'm imagining moron Stephen is thinking, in reality it's of course very stupid and unnecessary.
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I'd call it a soft rebuild.
 
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Cowboysrock55 said:
I'd call it a soft rebuild.
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Yea, Tyron is a perfect example.

He likely has no real value beyond this season, in 2025 he'd be 35, it's 50/50 he'd be retired to begin with, and even if he plays what can you really count on him for?

His value was in still being a very good LT for this upcoming season as you make a run, but if you're consciously "resetting" is it worth it to have dead money from his new deal in 2025 and maybe even 2026 because they probably would've needed void years to bring him back this season?

Probably not.
 
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I’m hoping he’s trying to show as much profit as possible on the books to suck another buyer into taking the team … god I’m really manifesting this
 
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boozeman said:
A retool. Or something like that is how it will be sold.
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Trying to sell a "retool" when you're coming off a season where you were the 2 seed in the NFC and a top 5 team in the league would be something else.

I get letting go of some of the guys that left, but sitting on their hands and letting guys like Hankins walk for probably an extra $1.5M or something is ridiculous.
 
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Simpleton said:
I don't think they think they're "blowing it up" necessarily.

The plan is seemingly to extend Dak, Lamb and Parsons, potentially all in the next 6 months or so. There's still a decent amount of rising talent beyond Lamb/Parsons in terms of Tyler, Ferguson and Bland.

I think Stephen, in his infinite wisdom, is looking at this as something of a "strategic reset" where they might take a step back for a season in the name of resetting their salary situation that would theoretically make them more competitive for the next 3-5 years afterwards.

Combine that with the very real probability that we have a new HC next year and it makes some sense to preserve flexibility for that new regime.

This is all what I'm imagining moron Stephen is thinking, in reality it's of course very stupid and unnecessary.
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They are conserving the bulk of future cap space for Dak, Lamb, Micah, and Diggs.

So that’s basically a soft rebuild
 
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ravidubey said:
They are conserving the bulk of future cap space for Dak, Lamb, Micah, and Diggs.

So that’s basically a soft rebuild
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After those four, Jones’ wont pay for the stars on our helmets.
 
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