JJT - Miles Austin paid like elite receiver, but not playing like one

[Bob Sacamano]

You can't give me a single pro for signing a guy to top money off of one year rather than making him back it up the final year before he's a free agent.

There is no pro to that. The only positive would be to save money. We didn't do that. We paid him like he's one of the best WRs in the game and all he did up to that point was have one year where he wasn't hanging on the bottom of our roster.

It's just not smart to do that. It will lead to a lot of bad contracts.

It can't lead to a lot of bad contracts when the precedent of extending young players to a salary befitting their production before they hit UFA has always been in place. Sometimes extensions are given 2 or 3 years before that event.

Now extending Roy Williams before he even plays a down for you is setting a bad precedent.

 

[sbk92]

It can't lead to a lot of bad contracts when the precedent of extending young players to a salary befitting their production before they hit UFA has always been in place. Sometimes extensions are given 2 or 3 years before that event.

Now extending Roy Williams before he even plays a down for you is setting a bad precedent.

Roy Williams had several years of proven production in the NFL. Absolutely it was a bad move, but the process was right. If we're going to hand out big contracts, don't do it with players who have only ever produced one year.

Unless you absolutely have to. If Austin was free last offseason, I wouldn't have had a problem with it. We did the exact opposite with Romo and I applauded them for it.

And it's not like I'm saying he can't play. He's a weapon I want on my offense. I just don't think he's a legit #1. I think Romo is doing a Peyton Manning and making Austin Collies and Pierre Garcons look like great players.

Dez is our Reggie Wayne.

 

[sbk92]

You want to point fingers and talk about childish behivior. Nothing here has been more childish than they way you blantantly ignore facts in order to maintain your silly little facade of always being right. No one here believes it but you yet you continue to cry it on like it is some internet badge of honor.

Yes, I've ignored facts.

You're talking about Jon Kitna having all this time to work with Dez Bryant when Dez hasn't had a single training camp with Kitna while Austin has had two.

The next time you make sense will be the first time.

 

[Cythim]

Yes, I've ignored facts.

You're talking about Jon Kitna having all this time to work with Dez Bryant when Dez hasn't had a single training camp with Kitna while Austin has had two.

The next time you make sense will be the first time.

And the childish act contines! Austin was working with Romo while Kitna took Bryant under his wing and worked with him in practice during the first seven weeks of the season. Oh no training camp blah blah blah! How much time do you think they gave the backup QB to work with the starters in training camp? Seriously, use your head, it's that lump three feet above your ass.

 

[sbk92]

And the childish act contines! Austin was working with Romo while Kitna took Bryant under his wing and worked with him in practice during the first seven weeks of the season. Oh no training camp blah blah blah! How much time do you think they gave the backup QB to work with the starters in training camp? Seriously, use your head, it's that lump three feet above your ass.

Talk to any player and they'll tell you camp is when you get your timing down. You heard Romo and Roy talk about it all the time when they had their problems. They needed to have a camp together.

But I'm childish. And stuff.

 

[sbk92]

I would say there's a 99.9% chance that Miles Austin has taken more reps with Kitna than Dez Bryant.

And I'm talking before Dez went down with the injury.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Roy Williams had several years of proven production in the NFL. Absolutely it was a bad move, but the process was right. If we're going to hand out big contracts, don't do it with players who have only ever produced one year.

Only one year to go above 1,000 yards, and it wasn't that impressive. Only 7 TDs.

Unless you absolutely have to. If Austin was free last offseason, I wouldn't have had a problem with it. We did the exact opposite with Romo and I applauded them for it.

And it's not like I'm saying he can't play. He's a weapon I want on my offense. I just don't think he's a legit #1. I think Romo is doing a Peyton Manning and making Austin Collies and Pierre Garcons look like great players.

Dez is our Reggie Wayne.

Well I think Austin is. He has everything a #1 is supposed to have. And he's put up elite numbers.

 

[sbk92]

Well I think Austin is. He has everything a #1 is supposed to have. And he's put up elite numbers.

He's been in the league 5 years. He's had one year where he's put up elite numbers.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

He's been in the league 5 years. He's had one year where he's put up elite numbers.

Yeah, he started all 5 of those years...

 

[sbk92]

Yeah, he started all 5 of those years...

That's right. The man kept that scary talent down.

 

[Cythim]

Talk to any player and they'll tell you camp is when you get your timing down. You heard Romo and Roy talk about it all the time when they had their problems. They needed to have a camp together.

But I'm childish. And stuff.

You are trying to compare starters to backups. Romo and Roy needed camp to get their timing down because they had were busy prepping for games during the season. I'm sorry you are too bullheaded to acknowledge the truth to all of this. You have no one to blame but yourself.

 

[sbk92]

You are trying to compare starters to backups. Romo and Roy needed camp to get their timing down because they had were busy prepping for games during the season. I'm sorry you are too bullheaded to acknowledge the truth to all of this. You have no one to blame but yourself.

I'm trying to compare players to players.

Dez Bryant hasn't had more time with Kitna than Austin has had. He's just an infinitely more talented player who is not so reliant on pro bowl type QBs to produce.