Spagnola: If They Are So Good Why Are They Free Agents?

[Bob Sacamano]

That would be great... but I will give dbair mentality this. It's correct that all teams make bad free agent signings from time to time.

But I doubt there's a team out there that makes as many bad deals as we do and straight up refuses to get rid of them until it's too late (Ware). And when you do give out a big deal... WHY ARE YOU CHANGING SCHEMES TO MAKE WARE AND CARR EVEN LESS IMPORTANT??

We look terrible with our extensions. We extended TO only to cut him a season later. Extend Ratlff; cut him 2 seasons later. Extend Ware; same thing.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Austin was a probowl calibar player in his prime when we resigned him. Carr was widely regarded as the best CB on the market that yr, and got paid accordingly. If you want to call them deals that didnt work out, ok. But saying they were "bad deals" when they were signed is not really all that accurate IMO.

Ratliff I would agree with, he didnt warrant another extension and they did it anyway. There's been other deals that have been bad too.

What about extending Roy Williams before he even played a down as a Dallas Cowboy?

 

[Sheik]

Did they extend Williams right off the bat? I thought it was a few games in, after averaging like 2 receptions a game for 3 weeks or something.

I swear to God I saw that while thing blowing up before it happened. All those idiots squawking "he needs time to get in sync with Romo".

No, I'm pretty sure I saw Romo throw Ed Reed two passes in one game, and they don't even practice together.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Nope, we traded for him and immediately restructured his contract.

 

[cmd34(work)]

He was a pending free agent so extending him was always part of the process. We weren't trading a 1st, a 3rd, and a 7th for 4 months of Roy Williams. Although, with Jerry who knows.