2023 Cowboys Free Agency

[Chocolate Lab]

JFC. Carlos Watkins leaving doesn't change anything. If he were here playing significant snaps, you'd still have the same need.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

JFC. Carlos Watkins leaving doesn't change anything. If he were here playing significant snaps, you'd still have the same need.

Yeah it shouldn't change things but it does sort of open a roster spot. I'm sure there was the thought we could always fall back on Watkins.

 

[p1_]

Yeah it shouldn't change things but it does sort of open a roster spot. I'm sure there was the thought we could always fall back on Watkins.

good that we cant fall back on him. Get another one, a good one.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

good that we cant fall back on him. Get another one, a good one.

Hell I'm even ok if they pick another DT off the veteran scrap heap. That's all Watkins was and has been. It's time to draft a guy again though.

 

[Genghis Khan]

JFC. Carlos Watkins leaving doesn't change anything. If he were here playing significant snaps, you'd still have the same need.

He doesn't change anything per se, but he was a nice fallback option that they now don't have. Watkins could fill a role. Now they need a guy.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Hell I'm even ok if they pick another DT off the veteran scrap heap.

I think that very well might happen.

 

[Simpleton]

Poona Ford or Mike Pennell would be nice pickups but DT should obviously be a focus either way in the draft.

 

[boozeman]

Poona Ford or Mike Pennell would be nice pickups but DT should obviously be a focus either way in the draft.

I would be very pleased if they looked at Ford. But I don’t see it.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

He doesn't change anything per se, but he was a nice fallback option that they now don't have. Watkins could fill a role. Now they need a guy.

But we can get a guy off the street or even a cut next camp who is as good as Watkins. He didn't even make the team last year and made it through waivers.

 

[boozeman]

But we can get a guy off the street or even a cut next camp who is as good as Watkins. He didn't even make the team last year and made it through waivers.

True. But the guy did everything asked and he had to go to the poverty Cardinals for his deal.

 

[p1_]

Hell I'm even ok if they pick another DT off the veteran scrap heap. That's all Watkins was and has been. It's time to draft a guy again though.

Right?! I say grab a FA ( watkins is an easy replaceable) and spend some valuable draft capital, at least round 2/3.

 

[ravidubey]

Watkins was a quality depth loss at our weakest position. We def lost out there.

Unfortunately that woefully disregarded position (nearly 3 decades) is also one of if not the most impactful an defense

 

[boozeman]

Right?! I say grab a FA ( watkins is an easy replaceable) and spend some valuable draft capital, at least round 2/3.

They have to think ahead to 2024. Right now there is one guy in Odighizuwa that I would feel comfortable starting that season.

 

[Genghis Khan]

But we can get a guy off the street or even a cut next camp who is as good as Watkins.

I'm not so sure about that. I'm not saying Watkins is a pro bowler or anything, but I do believe he's better than Gallimore and much better than Bohanna. I feel like most guys you pull off the street are Gallimore/Bohanna level (or worse).

We certainly can find a competent guy, but not bringing back Watkins means we still need to do it.

And yes, we can draft a guy too. But keep in mind that we drafted in the middle rounds in recent years guys like Gallimore, Bohanna, Hill, Ridgeway, and Collins. It's not as easy as just drafting a guy.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I'm not so sure about that. I'm not saying Watkins is a pro bowler or anything, but I do believe he's better than Gallimore and much better than Bohanna. I feel like most guys you pull off the street are Gallimore/Bohanna level (or worse).

We certainly can find a competent guy, but not bringing back Watkins means we still need to do it.

And yes, we can draft a guy too. But keep in mind that we drafted in the middle rounds in recent years guys like Gallimore, Bohanna, Hill, Ridgeway, and Collins. It's not as easy as just drafting a guy.

I just don't think that much of him. I think our weakness at that position got him more attention than he deserved.

I bet Golston could do a similar job -- not a starter, not a true NT, more of an in-between, all-around player who can move and make some plays.

 

[mcnuttz]

I'm not so sure about that. I'm not saying Watkins is a pro bowler or anything, but I do believe he's better than Gallimore and much better than Bohanna. I feel like most guys you pull off the street are Gallimore/Bohanna level (or worse).

We certainly can find a competent guy, but not bringing back Watkins means we still need to do it.

And yes, we can draft a guy too. But keep in mind that we drafted in the middle rounds in recent years guys like Gallimore, Bohanna, Hill, Ridgeway, and Collins. It's not as easy as just drafting a guy.

Ridgeway seemed to be the sort of nasty guy we'd like.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Ridgeway seemed to be the sort of nasty guy we'd like.

I wonder what happened with him here.

I still say he was so bad in camp, though. He usually ran last team, or close, and even then barely ever showed anything. I wonder if his attitude wasn't right, or he was so out of shape he couldn't show what he could do. Wonder what the Skins did to get him going. Maybe being cut woke him up.

 

[p1_]

I wonder what happened with him here.

I still say he was so bad in camp, though. He usually ran last team, or close, and even then barely ever showed anything. I wonder if his attitude wasn't right, or he was so out of shape he couldn't show what he could do. Wonder what the Skins did to get him going. Maybe being cut woke him up.

i seem to recall him getting pushed back/around a lot. Especially for a guy that came in barking alot, talking lots of trash.

 

[boozeman]

Ridgeway seemed to be the sort of nasty guy we'd like.

He got bullied in the preseason pretty bad.

Maybe he was okay coming in and spotting for two Pro Bowl DTs when they had worn down their opposing interior OL for a whole game. The highlight of his season was performing a rasslin' move on Dameon Pierce.

 

[bbgun]

He didn't do much in DC. I just hated cutting him for a shitty, no account receiver.