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  1. Full trade: Full trade: Spurs: De'Aaron Fox, Jordan McLaughlin Kings: Zach LaVine, Sidy Cissoko, three first round picks (2025 CHA, 2027 SAS, 2031 MIN), three second round picks (2025 CHI, 2028 DEN, 2028 own back) Bulls: Zach Collins, Tre Jones, Kevin Huerter, their own 2025 pick via SAS As much as I can decipher..... Spurs gave up 2 first rounders and couple of 2nds???? I may be off.
  2. Zach Collins traded...... now we got a win-win!!!! J/K. Tre gone too. Chris Haynes @ChrisBHaynes · 2m Sources: Spurs are sending Tre Jones and Zach Collins to Chicago. - Kings are sending Kevin Huerter to Chicago. - Jordan McLaughlin is going to San Antonio with Fox.
  3. It's going down...... Chris Haynes @ChrisBHaynes · 58s Kings are trading De’Aaron Fox to the Spurs in a three team deal that lands Zach LaVine in Sacramento along with three first round picks, league sources tell @ChrisBHaynes .
  4. How about talking to more than 1 or 2 teams for fuck's sake? Frankly, if an executive at my company did something clearly this moronic, there would hopefully be protocols to catch said decision and unwind them. But even if there wasn't, this would cost them their job. Maybe not immediately but within 9 months they would be gone. It'll be interesting to see if Harrison survives this. He shouldn't. Not opening up the trade talks to more teams to increase competitive offers is a fireable offense right away and borderline intentionally undermining of enterprise value. Think about it beyond the terrible trade in basketball terms, the Mavericks just hurt and reduced their enterprise value last night, by probably 20%. It's business suicide...... or a mark of a much more insidious long-term plan.
  5. Frankly, even #2 wouldn't make it make sense because they're going to be so bad in 2-3 years. If we don't get a Watson story or some sort of personal scandal then this is simply the worst trade in modern NBA history..... and they're have been some really bad ones in the past.
  6. Filling out the staff. https://x.com/toddarcher/status/1885807653001031978 What's going on with the twitter link feature these days?
  7. Neither is the answer but mainly because no QB has been inducted with such short careers since like Sammy Baugh. Allen has 7 years. Hurts has 5 years. So if they both retired after the SB, neither would make it but Allen is much closer than Hurts. He's a much better passer with double the passing TDs, almost double the yards, TD% is a full point ahead and he's had multiple years of 30+ passing TDs and 4 years of 4k+ passing yards. Hurts hasn't reached either of those plateaus. After the season, Allen will have 4 top 5 finishes for MVP, Hurts will have 1. Even with a SB win, unless he goes stupid like scoring 6 TDs and winning a game in the last seconds, this isn't relatively close. Allen is way ahead of Hurts right now. Hurts is a solid QB on a really good team. Allen is an elite one on a decent team. Buffalo without Allen wouldn't make the playoffs.
  8. He's turned around Zona's run game without the benefit of a ton of first round picks (1 Humphries who was probably overdrafted). This is a good hire for running game specialist. Fuck that. Choice should stay at Texas if he knows what's best for his career unless the plan has always to go to the pros. Texas will enjoy success and winning, Dallas will not. Hope Texas opens up the purse strings a little on this one. Where's Robert Wagner when you need him......
  9. The issue with BS isn't calling plays per say, its he's traditionally been a bad play caller too. Way too conservative with little to no creativity. He talks a big game but nowhere has he walked a big game. He also is a big company guy. He just came out in praising the HC hire and talking up how having some sense of continuity in the building makes his life easier. Definitely the type of guy who gets up to EVP who's just a corporate schill while still being pretty decent at his job.
  10. Well put. He's very old and relies more and more on Stephen to run the club from a day to day perspective. Jerrah just likes the camera and microphones, but he does less now than he ever has in terms of dictating the future of the Cowboys. While I understand the first point, I truly don't understand the 2nd. We just hired a JAG assistant, so are you saying, we're ahead of the game because we didn't hire a hot-shot young assistant? Guys like LaFleur or O'Connell or Ryans? This cycle it would have been Ben Johnson with maybe Glenn behind him. So, we're better off not taking our shot on a good young mind and gunning for mediocrity, tops? My issue is besides maybe Jimmy (which wasn't objective either), we've actually never gone the hot-shot young coordinator or college coach in any real objective way. It was always someone who was part of Jerrah's pretend family or a recycled old coach. I truly would be curious to see an actual objective head coach search, we haven't had one in 60 years. Of course not, it's still a old white boys club. Marty was actually a very good coach. Everywhere he went, he turned around organizations and they won, he just could never get over the hump. His son is a more charismatic, less intellectual, less instinctual version of his old man. Nice enough guy to float around the club and have a spot, but no one really every thought he may get a seat at the head table, because his resume' is so shitty. This was the strangest of hires. Guess he thought he'd get 2-3 years traction. https://x.com/WerderEdNFL/status/1883576518078517520 Maybe Witten sees all the turmoil and says...... I'm good. https://x.com/NickHarrisFWST/status/1883245648365158656
  11. Ice or Mr Iceman, I apologize, I thought you were just being difficult, but it's become clear, you simply don't understand how the shell game works in the NFL. If any of my posts came off as pithy, it's because I've posted many times in this thread and years back around how to understand the economics of the NFL and specifically the Cowboys and how the Jones' have intentionally and let's face it, successfully, duped the fanbase into believing they're trying so hard but just can't get around the salary cap and therefore, it's not their fault..... they put the best team on the field that money can buy. This is a farce and in reality, the Cowboys have turned into one of the cheapest teams in the NFL the last half dozen years (most of this is Stephen's influence). Specifically, if we want to tackle this subject, there's a few things to understand. When the latest contract extentsion was hammered out with Dak (late and foolishly by Stephen FTR), it was built to allow the Cowboys to move money around the contract using common or standard restructures to create salary cap room at the team's behest..... not Dak's. Dak obviously signed off on giving up this power because he (and his representation) understand it isn't going to have an deleterious effects on his money or his timing of him getting his money. In fact, it's only improves his situation. It also allows the organization to theoretically create some cap freedom to improve the team. Dak signed on to being able to create flexibility in his contract for Stephen's use. I have no idea why twitter embed no longer works this way, but this link reviews the automatic conversion clause is Dak's contract: \https://x.com/TheRealDA_Lee/status/1882910605411254618 This link goes into high level the possible amount of salary cap (based on salary cap projections) the Cowboys front office could create for 2025 using this automatic conversion clause: https://x.com/corryjoel/status/1879180662504366176 What is a standard restructure: https://www.newsweek.com/how-restructuring-nfl-contracts-works-1875079#:~:text="A typical contract restructure is,dead money into future years." Now the choice is Stephen's and while the contact was built to be restructured, because of the way the 2024 season went down and because of Dak's injury, he may see this as a perfect opportunity to do very little restructuring at all, and then shift the blame to Dak if they want to create less "dead money" in the future (when the salary cap is expected to be well north of 300m) and cut him in 2-3 years. Remember, they did something similar but not as drastic last contract and ended up paying up like fools. They may end up in the same boat although Dak's health will dictate this. Understanding what the media leverage points are: https://x.com/ChrisSmithUSN/status/1883007079658729936 Seeing how they did this in the past: https://x.com/CapologyDept/status/1636039237245059076 Now, is there a downside to restructuring? There is, as you're pushing out accounted cap space into future years, when you expect the cap number to go up.... which it has precipitously. Example, the salary cap in 2021 was about 185m so a 40m cap hit that year was roughly about 21.5% of the cap. You push it out 2 years, the cap was about 225m with 40m then taking up about 17.7% of the salary cap. The salary cap because of TV revenues continues to escalate at an extraordinary level and teams understand this and project and push out money accordingly. It's how teams like the Eagles or the Rams or the Vikings or the Lions or Chiefs can have highly paid impact players at almost every level (have to draft decently). They all do it a little different but all of those franchises, while having to navigate tough cap waters, continue to spend money and put good teams on the field. In conclusion, it's important to remember that this is all Stephen's decision..... whether Dak counts 90m this year or more like 52m in cap space for this year. It was meant to be restructured but a terrible season and a lot of media criticism tends to make Stephen's tiny balls shrink up into his chest and he may be lookijng for a scapegoat.
  12. Bro, the contract was built to be restructured. Always. If you don't like restructuring contracts, then blame Stephen, but there is no reality in which Dallas ever had any intention to pay 90m in one year.... https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2025/1/24/24347393/dallas-cowboys-slaray-cap-space-2025-extensions-restructures-dak-prescott-ceedee-lamb-micah-parsons#:~:text=Dak Prescott (2025 Cap %3D %2489%2C896%2C666,option to add void years).
  13. I'm sort of here..... Stephen is weak and if enough of the fandom can shame him and hate him enough, he may pull up stakes and leave. Probably not, because the whole fucking Jones' family doesn't have real jobs, they're all tangentially employed by the Cowboys. Jerrah just needs to die soon. Eberfleus was a huge failure as a HC, from clock management to terrible staff hiring, but he has some skins on the wall as a DC. He's a least defendable, although I would have much rather had Saleh as HC and if you had to keep Big Loser's son on the staff, then keep him as OC.
  14. No, they're not. See the Eagles or the Bills or KC or the Rams or the Lions or half a dozen other franchises that seem to put talent on the field and spend money. Dallas doesn't even spend money. If you believe this narrative, then Jerrah has some beach front property in Arizona for you. It's bullshit. They may try and sell it as this, but this isn't on Dak. This is a one of a bevy of shitty decisions made over 30 years by a couple of guys who are having fun playing GM. It's not a serious organization, it's Cosplay for dumb white southerners. It's congruence to Red is the way Jerry is forcing staff decisions on potential coaching staffs. First it was Garrett being hired before Wade, now it's going to be getting Witten ready to take over in 3-4 years.
  15. As they should be..... It's the worst hire of the cycle and one of the worst hires in last 5 years. Literally settling on a guy because he's cheap and no one else wanted..... in a decade. He was lucky to have an OC job. Most likely. I expect he'll be the TE coach (where he should start) or some special assistant on offense. The Jones boys have ruined an American institution and simply want to be an ATM for them. It's tragic. They didn't even try for anyone serious.... probably because their pride couldn't take the rejection and Stephen doesn't think coaching matters that much in the NFL. Except they're playing Risk. Dallas has the dumbest front office in sports right now when it comes to organizational achievement. Congrats!
  16. Probably a bit overkill, but folks are chirping about this...... If they decide to extend Osa and Parsons then this will get pretty even, just the way the contracts match up now with Tank coming off the books and CeeDee and Dak going on it. Stuff like this ebbs and flows generally. No... we can't. If true, then says something about the man..... Fuck that. Detroit's defense being injured to hell is helping the Commanders a ton. And the fact that Detroit is getting Gared Joff tonight. Here's a reason why I don't think Deion and Jerrah could work together..... they have huge differences in approach. Jerrahs' new cheapness is more Stephen driven but this isn't going away.
  17. I mean..... are we surprised? Are we mad at him? If you ever saw his last show, this is the least surprising news ever...... She just set female sports analysis back a decade.
  18. Extremely large individual. Former 5 star and guy who reportedly was starting to put it together last season. If he can take it up a level, you have a real impact player. If he only progresses half a level, then you have a rotational surface eater who can play 35 snaps a game.
  19. Waiting almost 70 picks in the middle of the draft is going to rough as shit...... Wait, the GM doesn't know the contractual situation of his quarterbacks? Are the fucking GM or not, Jerrah, you feckless piece of shit. Look at this asshole right here..... Full of excuses but wants others to pay the freight for all of his fucking failures..... People really need to stop going to these games. Only way to get inside the head of this level of unaccountability. Hurt the profitability of the product.
  20. Tampa win really hurt, but then again they haven't beat a team with a winning record so they're not very good either. First Commanders win too, but seems obvious we match up with them pretty well. Parsons was a terror the last half of the season on a bad team.
  21. I think we have to root for the Colts and Atlanta......
  22. Very much agreed. They showed some heart, some guys got good experience, Parsons got his 2 sacks and not any huge injuries..... This was a good loss.
  23. Mariota, baby!!!! And to boot, Bland got destroyed by McLaurin (who Diggs owns BTW) along the way thereby moving his market down a little and showing folks that Bland is a #2 or #3, not a #1.
  24. Tough play...... but Cooks has to get his feet down. That's why he's payed million of dollars.
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