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Over on Cowboysunshinezone, I’ve heard every excuse in the book defending these moves. Even GloryDays is on board. I get the financial aspect of cutting Ware but I just don’t see what the team’s “strategy” is going forward. We just signed two average-at-best players for millions of dollars. Here are some of the excuses being tossed around…
WE ARE REBUILDING. This is GloryDays motto and I would be on board with that except we are only 1 year removed from an epic contract given to Tony Romo. We literally cannot afford to cut him until after the 2016 season and that’s assuming we don’t restructure him again next off-season when his base salary jumps to $17M and his cap hit is over $27M. Hard to rebuild when over 1/5th of your Salary Cap is earmarked for one player. Not to mention the biggest problem with the rebuilding idea, Jerry Jones is still the guy making decisions. This is a guy who invested over $65M, a 1st , and a 2nd on two man corners and less than one year later switched to a defense that has almost no need for expensive man corners. Jerry switches strategies every few months. Impossible to rebuild anything that way.
WE ARE SIGNING DEPTH. I have never heard of a football team securing depth before starters. Starting yesterday morning, we needed four new starters on the defensive line. Two free agent signings later, we still need four new starters. These are two guys who have been journeymen (Mincey 5 teams, McClain 4 teams). Both players were waived in the last few years and we made no effort to sign or claim them but now we are paying them millions. McClain was actually Restricted and Houston chose not to tender him. Yet, here we are, snatching them up on the 2nd day of Free Agency. Ware’s release created over $7M in cap room and we’ve already used half of that on two JAG players. Okay, so let’s pretend they are depth. If there is a starter out there we really want that can come in and improve the club, let’s say Melton or even Hatcher. If it gets down to us and another team and we get outbid by a million because we wasted precious cap room on “depth” then what the hell was the thinking? These same two guys would have been available a week from now, possibly even a month. They are the same caliber of players we were scrambling to sign in the middle of last season.
WE ARE LOADING UP FOR 2015. New coach, tons of cap room. I wouldn’t hate that. But again, why sign JAGS to 2 and 3 year deals? Sign them, or equally JAG’ish players, to 1 year deals. However small, cutting them next off-season still creates dead money. Also, sucks to be Jason Garrett to get one final season and the team strategy is not really trying in 2014. Not that I have any faith in Garrett or his coaching philosophy/ability but still, that has to suck getting one last year to prove yourself and the Front Office is already looking past you.
MARINELLI WILL COACH ‘EM UP. This is becoming the stuff of legends. I think Marinelli is a really good defensive line coach but this miracle worker label Jerry and Cowboy fans have put upon him is both ridiculous and unfair. Fans point out that George Selvie is proof that Marinelli can get untapped potential out of players. That’s great but it should not be The Plan. The only thing Selvie and these two guys have in common is that they have bounced around the league and that they once played with Selvie (McClain in college, Mincey at Jacksonville).
I think Jerry is putting way too much faith in Marinelli and in Will McClay, who apparently is going to sign every player that he knew from his time in Jacksonville, the benchmark of great football organizations. Meanwhile, Cowboy fans will go through another year of pain, embarrassment, and agony. The good news is Jerrry is getting older, the fanbase is seemingly growing less tolerant, and fewer if any media outlets are picking us to win anything. Jerry is well on his way to meeting the fate of his good friend and mentor, Al Davis; dying a long-time loser with distant memories of glory.
WE ARE REBUILDING. This is GloryDays motto and I would be on board with that except we are only 1 year removed from an epic contract given to Tony Romo. We literally cannot afford to cut him until after the 2016 season and that’s assuming we don’t restructure him again next off-season when his base salary jumps to $17M and his cap hit is over $27M. Hard to rebuild when over 1/5th of your Salary Cap is earmarked for one player. Not to mention the biggest problem with the rebuilding idea, Jerry Jones is still the guy making decisions. This is a guy who invested over $65M, a 1st , and a 2nd on two man corners and less than one year later switched to a defense that has almost no need for expensive man corners. Jerry switches strategies every few months. Impossible to rebuild anything that way.
WE ARE SIGNING DEPTH. I have never heard of a football team securing depth before starters. Starting yesterday morning, we needed four new starters on the defensive line. Two free agent signings later, we still need four new starters. These are two guys who have been journeymen (Mincey 5 teams, McClain 4 teams). Both players were waived in the last few years and we made no effort to sign or claim them but now we are paying them millions. McClain was actually Restricted and Houston chose not to tender him. Yet, here we are, snatching them up on the 2nd day of Free Agency. Ware’s release created over $7M in cap room and we’ve already used half of that on two JAG players. Okay, so let’s pretend they are depth. If there is a starter out there we really want that can come in and improve the club, let’s say Melton or even Hatcher. If it gets down to us and another team and we get outbid by a million because we wasted precious cap room on “depth” then what the hell was the thinking? These same two guys would have been available a week from now, possibly even a month. They are the same caliber of players we were scrambling to sign in the middle of last season.
WE ARE LOADING UP FOR 2015. New coach, tons of cap room. I wouldn’t hate that. But again, why sign JAGS to 2 and 3 year deals? Sign them, or equally JAG’ish players, to 1 year deals. However small, cutting them next off-season still creates dead money. Also, sucks to be Jason Garrett to get one final season and the team strategy is not really trying in 2014. Not that I have any faith in Garrett or his coaching philosophy/ability but still, that has to suck getting one last year to prove yourself and the Front Office is already looking past you.
MARINELLI WILL COACH ‘EM UP. This is becoming the stuff of legends. I think Marinelli is a really good defensive line coach but this miracle worker label Jerry and Cowboy fans have put upon him is both ridiculous and unfair. Fans point out that George Selvie is proof that Marinelli can get untapped potential out of players. That’s great but it should not be The Plan. The only thing Selvie and these two guys have in common is that they have bounced around the league and that they once played with Selvie (McClain in college, Mincey at Jacksonville).
I think Jerry is putting way too much faith in Marinelli and in Will McClay, who apparently is going to sign every player that he knew from his time in Jacksonville, the benchmark of great football organizations. Meanwhile, Cowboy fans will go through another year of pain, embarrassment, and agony. The good news is Jerrry is getting older, the fanbase is seemingly growing less tolerant, and fewer if any media outlets are picking us to win anything. Jerry is well on his way to meeting the fate of his good friend and mentor, Al Davis; dying a long-time loser with distant memories of glory.
