2016 Random Cowboys Related Stuff Thread...

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Deuce said:
That's a lot of Aston Martin references for a guy who had 1 great year and followed it up with a historically horrible egg the next season.
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Set the record for rushing with this organization and that's saying a lot with is being on the same team as the all time rushing leader. Murray's only problem was he wanted a large payday. We both know why the following year was a folly.
 
L.T. Fan said:
Set the record for rushing with this organization and that's saying a lot with is being on the same team as the all time rushing leader. Murray's only problem was he wanted a large payday. We both know why the following year was a folly.
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Of course we know why he followed it up with an egg, cause history told us it would happen. We ran him into the ground and was smart enough to let him walk. He had 1 epic season and Im grateful for it, but he'll end up w 1 hit wonder when it's all said and done. Nothing great before and nothing after.
 
Deuce said:
Of course we know why he followed it up with an egg, cause history told us it would happen. We ran him into the ground and was smart enough to let him walk. He had 1 epic season and Im grateful for it, but he'll end up w 1 hit wonder when it's all said and done. Nothing great before and nothing after.
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The media experts and pundits as well as coaches said he was misused. I heard no one say he was physically harmed and unable to perform as a result of the prior years workload.
 


Good lord, that's a huge signing bonus.
 
Iamtdg said:


Good lord, that's a huge signing bonus.
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Yeah, it's big money for a RB.
 
Trent Richardson signed for 4 years 20.5 million (13.3 mil SB) fully guaranteed with no offsets back in 2012. 4.5 million more for Zeke four years later seems about right.
 
ravidubey said:
Trent Richardson signed for 4 years 20.5 million (13.3 mil SB) fully guaranteed with no offsets back in 2012. 4.5 million more for Zeke four years later seems about right.
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Richardson was selected higher then Elliott.
 
Iamtdg said:


Good lord, that's a huge signing bonus.
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It is basically the same contract for whomever we picked at four.
 
boozeman said:
It is basically the same contract for whomever we picked at four.
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The contract amount is regulated by the CBA because of the new rookie wage scale, but the signing bonus was what stood out to me. It's 2/3rds of the contract amount.
 
Iamtdg said:
The contract amount is regulated by the CBA because of the new rookie wage scale, but the signing bonus was what stood out to me. It's 2/3rds of the contract amount.
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In 2014 Watkins got 4/19.9 with a 12.8 signing bonus, in 2015 Cooper got 4/22.6 with a 14.7 signing bonus, now Elliott got 4/24.9 with a 16.3 signing bonus. There is a clear trend there, there is basically no room to negotiate, the entire contract is more or less dictated by the CBA.

As an aside, this is more or less what we offered Murray a year ago, if I remember correctly it was 4/24 with a 12 million signing bonus. So we basically waited a year and had to spend the 4th overall pick to get a more talented guy with obviously much more tread on his tires.

Seems worth it to me, but then again JALEN RAMSEY.
 
Iamtdg said:
The contract amount is regulated by the CBA because of the new rookie wage scale, but the signing bonus was what stood out to me. It's 2/3rds of the contract amount.
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It's all guaranteed anyway though, right?
 
Iamtdg said:
Yeah, just struck me as a lot up front.
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I don't have a problem with it, he seems to be smarter than most rookies and doesn't come from a very poor family which means he'll probably get some sound financial advice and not blow it all in a blink.
 
Angrymesscan said:
I don't have a problem with it, he seems to be smarter than most rookies and doesn't come from a very poor family which means he'll probably get some sound financial advice and not blow it all in a blink.
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I don't have a problem with it, either. It was just an observation. Good lord. :lol
 
Iamtdg said:
I don't have a problem with it, either. It was just an observation. Good lord. :lol
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The thing is, if it had been Dez for example I would have been "struck", I do believe there are a lot of players that would be better off if their salaries were "dosified" not only through the length of the contract, but longer, kind of like lottery winnings.
That would severely reduce all these bankrupt/homeless former players.
 
From an article released today:

On how she started working for her dad after graduating from Stanford:

Charlotte Jones Anderson: He called me while I was in D.C. and he said, 'By any chance do you know what biker shorts are?' I said, 'Why do you need to know about biker shorts?' He said, 'There's a line of women lined up outside my office that think I'm going to change their iconic uniform of hot pants. Can you come help me out?' So I came down to Dallas for that weekend and while I was there he asked me to stay. I looked at him and I said, 'Why do you want me to stay? I don't know anything about running a football business.' And he said, 'That's okay, neither do I.' He said, 'All I need is someone around me that I can trust.'
 
Iamtdg said:
'Why do you want me to stay? I don't know anything about running a football business.' And he said, 'That's okay, neither do I.' He said, 'All I need is someone around me that I can trust.'
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To be fair it's not like there was ever a handbook on how to do this. From a business perspective, Jones has taken the Cowboys into the stratosphere, and at the time of that conversation (I believe) he had made all the right moves.

Until he allowed Jimmy Johnson to leave.

Even still he redefined how the NFL should run its businesses.

Unfortunately that didn't include the business of winning.
 
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