Nextyearfordaboyz Posted October 29 Share Posted October 29 8 hours ago, TVScout said: I actually think this narrative is so overblown. We have made in-season trades for Amari Cooper, Michael Bennett, Everson Griffin, and Jonathan Hankins since 2018. And you’ve seen them use veteran trades in the offseason to add to the roster like Quinn, Gilmore, Cooks, etc. You aren’t going to see a trade this year because the wheels are off. But we are clearly willing to add talent via trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt79511 Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 1 hour ago, Nextyearfordaboyz said: I actually think this narrative is so overblown. We have made in-season trades for Amari Cooper, Michael Bennett, Everson Griffin, and Jonathan Hankins since 2018. And you’ve seen them use veteran trades in the offseason to add to the roster like Quinn, Gilmore, Cooks, etc. You aren’t going to see a trade this year because the wheels are off. But we are clearly willing to add talent via trade. Agreed, we don’t have to gripe about this team’s complacency every time a trade is made. If anything it makes more sense for them to trade away players this year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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D82 Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 6 hours ago, TVScout said: I mean...I don't think anyone is surprised, outside of maybe Jerry & Stephen who thought bringing back the shell of Ezekiel Elliot, signing Dalvin Cook (another expired player past his prime) and Rico Dowdle to be the face of your running game was a great idea. Instead of, y'know, spending the $8M it would have taken to bring in Derrick Henry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBoys Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 The run game doesn’t matter. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northland Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Thought I would post this here. A nice run for me. Michigan wins the National Title last year and I just watched the Dodgers win the World Series. Been a Dodger fan longer than I've been a Cowboys fan. Two different sports with different financial realities, and it is probably unfair to compare them, but when the Dodgers say they are all in, they mean it. I know they will do everything they can to field the most competitive team possible. We may not win every year, but we will be in the mix. As a fan that's all you can ask for. Nothing better than beating the Yankees in New York. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Slamman Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 20 hours ago, Northland said: Thought I would post this here. A nice run for me. Michigan wins the National Title last year and I just watched the Dodgers win the World Series. Been a Dodger fan longer than I've been a Cowboys fan. Two different sports with different financial realities, and it is probably unfair to compare them, but when the Dodgers say they are all in, they mean it. I know they will do everything they can to field the most competitive team possible. We may not win every year, but we will be in the mix. As a fan that's all you can ask for. Nothing better than beating the Yankees in New York. Agreed. As Dodgers fans, we had some rough years during the McCourt years but the new owners understand “all in.” The cowboys need new ownership… as long as cowboys remain Jerry’s toy, we’re doomed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dallas94Ware Posted November 6 Author Share Posted November 6 (edited) On 10/30/2024 at 4:45 PM, D82 said: I mean...I don't think anyone is surprised, outside of maybe Jerry & Stephen who thought bringing back the shell of Ezekiel Elliot, signing Dalvin Cook (another expired player past his prime) and Rico Dowdle to be the face of your running game was a great idea. Instead of, y'know, spending the $8M it would have taken to bring in Derrick Henry. While I will be the first to tell anyone how badly I wanted Henry with a star on his helmet, I think the media overstates how easy that would have been to accomplish. Because it was far more difficult to do than they realize if you look at the whole picture. What many don't realize is that the 8m/year for this year was absolutely certainly doable. But it was the cap hits beyond this year that were the problem. Was Henry, at his age, going to take a one year deal? Very unlikely. He wanted. And deserves. Some sort of guarantee over these last few years of his career. Would 8million bankrupt the cap for Dallas next year, then? Nope. Certainly not, either. But while his cap hit is more than just 8 next year, that still wasn't the issue. It's that the money going to him at his age, even if he was stellar this season, could end up in year 2 or year 3 of that contract going to a player who at any time now can suddenly stop being as good as he is. And that money invested into him this year, next year and the year after diminishes the resources the team has left, cap wise, to get the deals done on their younger core players who the team intends to keep. That 8/9/10 million cap hit for Henry in year 2 could make the difference between keeping Bland, Parsons, Tyler Smith, and extending Lawrence, Martin, or any other veteran you might want to extend. You'd likely have to balance signing Henry by knowing you're going to allow some of those guys to walk -- and reality is, even without Henry. Some of this guys are going to have to walk. Adding Henry just guarantees that the ones you do want to keep,you'll find a harder time in keeping and you may lose 1 more than you intended to. Which is FINE if you feel the team is one Derrick Henry away from a title. But let's be real .. they definitely were not. Pollard provided a decent run game and before that, an explosive one. And they still got exploited as a poorly coached, top heavy roster with a ton of weaknesses when the games counted most. So how would Henry being here help over come any of that? It would have just been a flashy move for an exciting player that we would all love to have here and solve the biggest weakness right now, which is a lack of ground production. But at the cost of an extra core player or two the team may have wanted to keep, who is much younger. For a guy at an age and position where he could fall off at anytime. And also a guy who still only solves one problem but doesn't fix any of the others that have kept you from winning in the postseason. The team has actually done a good job managing the cap and planning 3, 4 and 5 years down the road. Media and some fans view things too myopically and focus only on the current year's cap figures and pay no mind to how that cap hit plays out down the road and impacts other, younger players and their situations with remaining as part of the teams core. Makes total sense to throw that caution to the wind and just manipulate salary into bonuses all across the table and say F it who cares ... IF you're one Derrick Henry or one or two star free agents away from a title. But this team was no where near that close to make doing those things worth it ....still, would have been damn nice to see him running behind Tyler Smith/Beebe/Martin and punishing linebackers up the middle with a star on his helmet. Sucks it didn't happen. But it makes total sense as to why it didn't if you really look at the bigger picture. Edited November 6 by Dallas94Ware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plan9misfit Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 On 10/30/2024 at 5:20 PM, DaBoys said: The run game doesn’t matter. If only Matts hadn’t taken off. I think he’d be able to tell us how his giant plate of crow tastes right about now. I’m also curious as to what mental gymnastics he was using to deflect how terrible Q-2 has been this season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plan9misfit Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 On 11/3/2024 at 7:05 PM, TVScout said: We can do better. Losing the next few games will hopefully propel us into a top 7 pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plan9misfit Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 And, for the record, there’s only one man (thing?) that can save this team. I know who He is. @The_Slamman knows who He is. @DaBoys knows who He is. In fact, all of you know who He is. Two words: Pat. McQuistan. PERIOD. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Slamman Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 2 hours ago, plan9misfit said: We can do better. Losing the next few games will hopefully propel us into a top 7 pick. Seriously, only the giants and panthers scare me at this point. Both of those teams are excellent tankers. 3-14 might be a dream but 4-13 should be a top 3 pick. The key moving forward is twofold… 1. Keep Cooper at QB. Without defenses having to honor the run game (at all), his arm is not good enough to zip ball into tight spaces… his fumbling is an added bonus. 2. We gotta sit MP and Overshown… put them both on IR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elevators_rule Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 I just can never get behind the idea of tanking. It's disgusting to root against us. If we "tank" this year. I hope we have a decade+ of losing seasons following it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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