Cowboys Free Agency

[Genghis Khan]

Jason La Canfora – Verified account ‏@JasonLaCanfora

Three teams keeping close tabs on former Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle - #Ravens, #Cowboys and #Steelers.
5:12 PM - 11 Mar 2016
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[townsend]

Jason La Canfora – Verified account ‏@JasonLaCanfora

Three teams keeping close tabs on former Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle - #Ravens, #Cowboys and #Steelers.
5:12 PM - 11 Mar 2016
275 RETWEETS168 LIKES

Now that would be helpful.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Now that would be helpful.

I like the player but I'm wary of the price.

 

[townsend]

I like the player but I'm wary of the price.

I'd also be a little afraid of us deciding to stick Jones at corner if we sign Weddle as a FS.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Now that would be helpful.

Do you move Jones to corner and cut Carr then? Or do you cut Church and leave Jones at safety?

 

[BipolarFuk]

Resigning all our guys. Looks like the Jones' are convinced this team is fine, just ran into bad injury luck last year.

 

[townsend]

Do you move Jones to corner and cut Carr then? Or do you cut Church and leave Jones at safety?

Can I cut both, and get a mediocre free agent, or draft pick to fill in at CB for 1/4 Carr's cap #?

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Can I cut both, and get a mediocre free agent, or draft pick to fill in at CB for 1/4 Carr's cap #?

Cut both and sign Hayward and Weddle and I cream in my pants.

 

[boozeman]

 

[Cowboysrock55]

My guess is he didn't look very good or it was leverage to get Claiborne to accept his offer already.

 

[Genghis Khan]

My guess is he didn't look very good or it was leverage to get Claiborne to accept his offer already.

I think probably it was leverage against Claiborne. I'd much rather have Carroll honestly.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I'd much rather have Carroll honestly.

It's close for me. Carroll was a little better player last year but Claiborne is younger and probably still has a little upside left. Carroll is 29 and could start to decline soon. Plus you have to factor in that Carroll is coming back from a serious injury. I have no idea where he even is in the recovery process.

 

[VA Cowboy]

Eh. This is just inconvenient. I would have preferred not to worry about the interior OL swing guy.

But if we get lucky, we might be able to get a decent one in the fourth.

We'll get another Chaz Green in the 3rd.

He would've been a first or second rounder if he weren't injured all his career!

 

[townsend]

We'll get another Chaz Green in the 3rd.

He would've been a first or second rounder if he weren't injured all his career!

Yeah, that's part of our evaluation process that needs to be fixed. We find so many "should have been a first" injury prone guys in the bargain bin, that we can never count on.

The fact that Jerry is a consummate optimist who thinks nothing can go wrong means we can go into a season with 5 or 6 injury risks pencilled in at starter, with no depth behind them.

 

[VA Cowboy]

Yeah, that's part of our evaluation process that needs to be fixed. We find so many "should have been a first" injury prone guys in the bargain bin, that we can never count on.

The fact that Jerry is a consummate optimist who thinks nothing can go wrong means we can go into a season with 5 or 6 injury risks pencilled in at starter, with no depth behind them.

We gamble way too much in the 2nd and 3rd rounds hoping to hit a home run on guys that fell because of injuries and character issues instead of just drafting smart. Recently it's been Gregory, Chaz, Carter and even Lee. You can even go back to guys like Antonio Bryant and Derek Ross. We got away from doing that when BP was here but since it seems to be a reoccurring theme.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

We got away from doing that when BP was here but since it seems to be a reoccurring theme.

Name the second round picks under Parcells that turned out so well?

 

[Clay_Allison]

We got away from doing that when BP was here but since it seems to be a reoccurring theme.

Yeah. We need solid dependable guys like Jacob Rodgers.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Jason La Canfora
Jason La Canfora – Verified account ‏@JasonLaCanfora

Interested teams in safety Eric Weddle, as reported yesterday, seem to view him in the $5M/season range.
10:43 AM - 12 Mar 2016



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At 5 mil / year, maybe 3 or so years, I'd be very interested. Maybe $7m signing bonus. Do it, Jerry.

 

[Simpleton]

If Weddle signs for about 5 a year and we aren't in on that (in on it doesn't necessarily mean signing him but at least involved in negotiations) then it is the height of incompetence. We could cut Church today and have only $500K in dead money, and we'd be saving about 4 million against the cap, that right there would be enough to cover Weddle's first year cap hit.

If Weddle is willing to sign a deal like that we could basically straight up trade Barry Church for Eric Weddle, if we aren't interested in that then I really don't know what to say.

 

[Jiggyfly]

We gamble way too much in the 2nd and 3rd rounds hoping to hit a home run on guys that fell because of injuries and character issues instead of just drafting smart. Recently it's been Gregory, Chaz, Carter and even Lee. You can even go back to guys like Antonio Bryant and Derek Ross. We got away from doing that when BP was here but since it seems to be a reoccurring theme.

Parcells struck out on every 2nd rounder he picked and he went for injured guys as well like that OT out of USC.

And let's not even go into how he reached in the 4th round, does Skyler Green bring up great memories.