2025 Random Cowboys Stuff Thread

[boozeman]

That sounds good, but the only problem with that is then you get into the incredibly complicated trades the NBA has. Which I really, really hate.

The NFL is the weirdest professional league about trades.

I know some organizations like Philly and Baltimore cha-ching the shit out of comp picks. But that is about it. We try to be clever in getting those precious fifths, but that is the extent of the game.

I would welcome a new system.

They have already defiled just about every other tradition, why not that?

 

[Bipo]

The NFL is the weirdest professional league about trades.

I know some organizations like Philly and Baltimore cha-ching the shit out of comp picks. But that is about it. We try to be clever in getting those precious fifths, but that is the extent of the game.

I would welcome a new system.

They have already defiled just about every other tradition, why not that?

The cap punishes for building a good team through the draft. Fucking ridiculous that you can't pay someone you drafted and some piece of shit vulture team that can't hit on a draft pick to save its life signs him away.

 

[ravidubey]

The cap punishes for building a good team through the draft. Fucking ridiculous that you can't pay someone you drafted and some piece of shit vulture team that can't hit on a draft pick to save its life signs him away.

Compensation is more picks, not more cap space because doling out bonus cap space to teams to sign their own FA's cuts into the owners profits, while compensatory picks cost the league nothing and "reward" the good drafting teams by giving them broader draft options.

If anything, compensatory picks penalize the union by effectively extending the draft by darned near another round and reducing UDFA options.

Teams who buy free agents are getting shafted unless they craft contracts smartly and with voidable years-- so you can't build that way, only address weaknesses here and there.

I will add that by trading for George Pickens, Dallas acquired a player better than any WR in this past draft and far better than any available 2025 NFL free agent.

The rub is they only got him for a year, but if he kills it, they at least have a shot at paying him big money with the worst case scenario getting a 3rd round pick in compensation.

 

[ravidubey]

The NFL is the weirdest professional league about trades.

They should allow cap acceleration burden to be traded for an offset amount of burden from the other side, in the case where you are trading players for players.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

And that is their right.

Let Goof Son and Waiter Cap Boi figure it out. Or not.

I also agree, I've said many times, the cap is a joke. And this team is just cheap. So I really don't care if our players milk these cheapos for all they can get.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Did Troy get some kind of work done around his eyes or did his old lady just punch him there?

 

[bbgun]

Did Troy get some kind of work done around his eyes or did his old lady just punch him there?

Jerry gave him the name of a good doctor.

 

[UncleMilti]

Jerry and Tardo pull this off and I’m feeling like we can run with anyone in the NFC.

 

[ravidubey]

He’s usually a lot more circumspect and cautious regarding the Cowboys

 

[bbgun]

He was just razzing Strahan. He knows we suck.

 

[Irving Cowboy]

2025 NFL schedule release: Cowboys to host Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs in Thanksgiving game on CBS

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[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I have an irrational hatred for those glasses.

 

[Rev]

I have an irrational hatred for those glasses.

I wouldn't say that is irrational. Irrational would be if they didn't make you angry. Damn old man trying his best to look like an old lady and that is in charge of your team.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

They just know that if they have another season and offseason like a year ago fans may become disinterested. If we have a good season it will go back to the same old same old. "Well only so much pie, we had to pay Parsons, Tyler Smith is going to need an extension"

 

[Simpleton]

They just know that if they have another season and offseason like a year ago fans may become disinterested. If we have a good season it will go back to the same old same old. "Well only so much pie, we had to pay Parsons, Tyler Smith is going to need an extension"

I think last offseason was a bit of an outlier, they've never really been that apathetic about things.

They might've been a bit more aggressive this offseason (prior to the Pickens trade) but I think that's closer to what we've seen out of them most years, aside from the unusually aggressive trade for Pickens.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I think last offseason was a bit of an outlier, they've never really been that apathetic about things.

They might've been a bit more aggressive this offseason (prior to the Pickens trade) but I think that's closer to what we've seen out of them most years, aside from the unusually aggressive trade for Pickens.

Yeah last offseason was really bad. And frankly it did have a lot of fans pissed off. It was the least excited fans have been about the team in a long time. And of course we followed it up with a season about as exciting.

This offseason by contrast probably just feels a lot more aggressive. In reality it was a lot of the same from previous years. Bunch of one year free agent deals and such. But the free agent signings this year did feel a little better than years past. We actually got some guys who I think can help. And the Pickens trade certainly feels like the most aggressive trade we have made since trading for Cooper. Which of course happened during the season as opposed to being part of the plan.

 

[Simpleton]

Yeah last offseason was really bad. And frankly it did have a lot of fans pissed off. It was the least excited fans have been about the team in a long time. And of course we followed it up with a season about as exciting.

This offseason by contrast probably just feels a lot more aggressive. In reality it was a lot of the same from previous years. Bunch of one year free agent deals and such. But the free agent signings this year did feel a little better than years past. We actually got some guys who I think can help.

We undoubtedly got guys who could start or at least be valuable rotational pieces, compared to last year when we signed Kendricks and basically nobody else of note.

I guess Carl Lawson and Linval Joseph at the asscrack of TC dawn?

Dante Fowler, Solomon Thomas, Kenneth Murray, Jack Sanborn, Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders are all guys who are legitimate NFL players (or could be if they bounce back in the case of Sanders). None of them except maybe Fowler are true difference makers, but they round out the roster and bolster depth.

It's not exactly how I'd go about things but I think you can say they made a legitimate effort to improve, especially once you factor in the Pickens trade.