Patrick Bateman

This front office will not use that high of a pick on a QB. The last time they drafted one in the top rounds was Quincy Carter 2 decades ago. They don't value the QB for whatever reason. We won't have a high pick if Dak is healthy. We'll be in the middle of the pack worst case. See, this is a minimum of a 2 year, probably 3 year process...... and that's just to acquire one, then you have to coach em' up and develop them unless you get a rarity. Additionally, next year's QB class is pretty shitty. There will always be a guy or two but for the most part, it's not very good. Other positions are pretty stout including WR and defensively. You want to get rid of Dak, you best have a better alternative then, we'll see what Lance has or we'll get a journeyman and then see what the draft gets us because that's set up for failure and a cycle of real pain unless they can strike the lottery 3 times in a row. A week to see if this has been solved...

And...... that should be all we need to know for ROY. It also makes ESPN's morons who cover basketball look like the mouth breathers they are.

Click bait.... And engagement farming..... Silliness.

7 players have no trade clauses..... all QBs. The presumed benefit is cap space. There is no market for a guy on his last year who is hitting free agency with a not trade clause UNLESS you allowed him to negotiate with the team first and that team would probably just want to wait until he's officially a free agent instead of giving up a draft pick which as stated earlier would have to be better than a 3rd. It would be a really hard needle to thread and we're in the season already so I doubt Dak wants the hassle. SF lucked into their situation with Purdy, just like Dallas did with Dak and Romo before him. SF drafted current draft bust Trey Lane (which they gave up a ton of draft capital) and actively tried to trade for Aaron Rodgers and Kurt Cousins. They're not really some franchise with the magic game plan. They like every other fucking organization are trying to find a franchise QB all the time and when Purdy comes due..... they'll pay him, probably some obscene amount which half their fanbase will say is tragic because they don't understand modern economics of professional football nor the complexities of the salary cap; which is no criticism to them, our team has a self made billionaire and son who's entire life has been spent in pro football and they still don't know what they're doing with the cap.

A few items as we get ready for game week, next week..... He's going against maybe the best pure pass rusher in the league in week 1, so I'm expecting a rough outing with multiple pre-snap penalties, a couple of holds and giving up some pressures, but if he can get through it without losing his confidence, then he's gonna have a chance to settle in and be a pretty good tackle for us this season and into the future. This is on Carson, the OP wasn't linking. I like him, I think the has a shot at being valuable one day, but he ain't ready for this. He's going to get beat..... a lot the first year and it's not his fault. He should be a CB4 or 5, not a boundary starter. Let's hope he learns on the job quickly. Solid bench player..... He ended up in Washington with Quinn. There's a little more to this like losing Dorance Armstrong and Fowler in Free Agency and then having Sam Williams blow out his knee for the year so despite adding a rookie who looks like he can stop the run, we're way worse at DE and generating pass rush. Or technically, Joseph replaces Hankins. So it's exact direct replacements, but how do you think the Cowboys braintrust fared in the end on the roster? You get Overshawn and Diggs back too but there will be more injuries, probably at least 1 early. I can't say the roster is better, but maybe not worst. Meh, it's always about replacing and not improving it seems. With a first place schedule and a couple of brutal stretches, I think most folks think we won't get to 12 wins again and it's easy to understand why.

That's not really it. Nobody cares about "spending too much", it's the misallocation of resources. Jerrah used to misidentify talent and therefore misallocate on contracts. Over the past decade they have gotten fairly good at drafting. Like all teams they have misses *cough* Taco and Mazi *cough*, but overall they draft way better than they did when Jerrah was making most of the decisions. But they've still been bad at negotiation, going back to the Emmit days. He still goes cheap, gets called out and then gets bent over until he pays a bit over market. Additionally, Stephen is much more cost conscious so now, they're better at talent identification, but still bad at negotiation within much more constrained economic principles. The Eagles and others have proven that Salary Cap Hell, while it can exist, if you have a deep understanding of the salary cap, it can be quick and not nearly as painful as though. Within two years, you can be back competing for the playoffs if you're good at talent acquisiton. Is that last game a tie or something? They just decide not to play it? It's a great question. I thought about it yesterday. It's hard to see, maybe he's a really stout blocker in practice, because without that, yea, he's just another midwestern stiff who probably should have been a 5th round pick. Have to think his 2nd round investment is keeping him on the roster or at least giving him the tie breakers.

Read back through the thread, there are plenty of articles and statistics to show you that since Stephen took over the purse strings, the Cowboys have been one of the cheapest organizations in the NFL in cash outlay, or money actually spent. They hide behind the salary cap and most fans ignorance of how the economics of football, but they live behind marketing and hoopla to drive net worth rather than actual pour money back into the final product. They are really bad at the salary cap too and negotiation, which leads to some bad contracts, but at the heart of it..... Stephen is cheap and Jerrah is now too.

I agree there were some good things and he did get better and better throughout this preseason, but too many mental mistakes and as you and others have said, he really needs reps and he won't be getting them anymore. It's what happens when you draft a kid who barely played in FCS who's mentally not ahead of the curve. He would have needed to come along slowly and get monster reps to be ready to play by year 3, but instead..... Frankly, he should have stayed in school, but can't really criticize the decision, he went top 5. But in reality, he needed more reps at the collegiate level. Also injuries early his his career really hurt him. If Dallas really wants to develop him, then tonight was sort of good. Enough positives to build on but enough obvious mental mistakes and accuracy issues which means he won't get a big offer from another team. I do wonder what his upside is? Really good backup? Bottom 1/3 starter? Maybe top 20 starter? He doesn't look like he'll ever be as good as Dak, but he is only 24. I don't know, tough decision probably dictated by what happens with Dak and others. I think most will look to what RB could they have gotten right around where Dallas could have picked. So this probably means guys like Bucky Irving, Ray Davis, Braelon Allen, Audric Estime, or even Jaylen Wright. Any of those guys pop, and all have looked good early, and the decision will be criticized fairly heavily, fair or not. Has he? He'll be the 3rd QB. Rush will be the guy who will fill in for Dak if he's out 3-4 weeks. If Dak misses the season for some reason and it goes south pretty quickly, I could see Lance getting the 2nd half of the season to himself to get real reps. He's definitely not a RB or run with those type of skills. Yes, he's fast but he's not ultra elusive and he's not the guy who will lower his shoulder like Allen or a Taysom Hill, who is much much larger. I don't think Lance is a better runner than most of our outside weapons. Maybe a trick play or something, but definitely not a consistent part of the sweep game. The biggest takeaway with Lance is replacing Dak, if he chooses to move on, could be really really hard and maybe a multi-year challenge. Dak may prove Jerrah's last chance at a deep playoff run before he dies, and he's chosen to fuck around and go cheap.... Sort of shows where is priorities are. He'll talk the game of being "all in", but he's totally full of shit.

Another big dude who is probably past his prime but we're just asking him to be a rotational piece. He's cheap, which Stephen likes, but looks like Zimmer won out on getting some girth for the middle. So Mazi, Osa, and now Lindal at the 1 tech and Carl Lawson at the 3 tech who was signed last week for our IDL rotation.

Or maybe the Cowboys are just bad at contract negotiations......

Chuma sucks so it could be a blessing in disguise. Let's see what Richards can do with all the swing snaps and reps. If he can handle it, you can IR Chuma and possibly he can be ready if someone goes down mid-season. If not, you PS him and move on. Hopefully Richards can improve and at least play a functional RT, he had been playing guard and improving.

France will be pretty stout in 2028. They just had 3 lottery picks in the 24' draft and none of them played and 2 other drafted guys. They'll have 2, maybe 3 more lottery picks next year including what most consider the best PG prospect in Traore. Wemby is probably the best player in the world in 28 so that's 5 other lottery picks to see if they can pan out. Gobert is probably a the old guard backup on the team in 28'. I think the US playing at home will propel our guys to the gold medal but Frank could be pretty scary in just 4 years.

Embiid already hinted he may play for Cameroon, if he does play..... 4 years from now, injuries may have ended him. Tatum is awfully iffy after this go around. Can't blame him if he sits out, he has 2 gold medals already. Ja is also a question mark with all of his hijinks. AD will be 35 years old. I think a lot of people have Cooper Flagg being someone of interest. Some like Jalen Brunson but another small guard?

Welp, I think Cowboy fans got a sneak peak of what it may be like without a upper tier QB like Dak or Romo. I don't think Lance was the worst QB ever. Shit, he wasn't even the worst QB on the field today, but I think this quote nails it: There was not fluidity, for a natural athlete it was really stiff, and for every good read, he made a bad one. At least he protected the ball for the most part, but it wasn't a good perfromance. A few other thoughts: Guyton is going to be just fine long-term. He looks really good and he is a smooth athlete. Choka (yes I know his real name) is in a boot and has sucked at TC, so I think the plan is Guyton starts at LT and takes his lumps. It'll be hit or miss the first year but with health.... by year 3ish, he's a top 7-8 LT I bet. Very promising. The bad news is Beebe is having a difficult time at Center. He just really is having a touch time getting off the snap and playing with leverage. He looks much better at guard. May not be the end of the world but I'm getting the feeling he may end up being a backup OG and eventual replacement for Zack. We found a good corner in Carson. He'll take his lumps and get beat but he can plan and has that dawg in him. Very nice pick. Cowboys still can't stop the run. The Jalen's are all pretty good. Tolbert didn't play which was uhmmmmm, but Jalen Brooks and Cropper looked pretty good actually. Tough day for Ryan Flourney, the rookie, with a really bad drop and fumble which didn't we didn't lose. Good news, the LB's and Agent O looked much better. Bad news, without Micah, I fear our pass rush sucks. Nobody could get pressure today. Nobody. Overall, the big # all saw their value go up, the rookies overall are playing well but we have some of the same issues around physicality upfront on the IDL. Oh, Mazi looked active and better. Not good, but definitely better than last year.

They had? Are you sure? Jim Plunkett had never been to the playoffs and was 15 games under .500 overall in his career. Theismann had never been to the playoffs and was 4 games over .500 and his claim to fame was being a kick returner for awhile. Brad Johnson no big wins. Stafford was 0-3 in the playoffs and 10 games under .500 in his career. Drew Brees was 1-2 in the playoffs before his SB and his 1 conference championship he lost by almost 4 touchdowns. Only Steve Young and Elway really had "big wins" and Young was 0-2 in conference championships, so that leaves Elway really with some notches on his belt, but at least you let us know you don't know the history of football. Again most of these guys weren't under .500 vs teams with winning records, they were under .500 overall! And I'm not going to do anything..... The "(closed) free market" is going to make him the highest paid player in history. I assure you I have nothing to do with it, and he will be for probably 6-9 months until someone else eclipses that amount. I think what most folks are actually criticizing are the "option quarterbacks" front office putting the organization in this situation in the first place. There are a lot of decisions they made throughout his career and in the last 18 months which have led to being in this situation and that starts at the top with ownership. Again 30 years of no championships isn't on Dak. Maybe he plays a part most recently but just like it's not all on Romo or Parcells, or whomever.... There is only one consistent ingredient. Now ask yourself, why are you showing more frustration with the player rather than the root of the cause? You want to move on from Dak, that's fine. It's a realistic opinion, but please tell me how this is going to change anything..... realistically. What is this team going to do next year without a QB and perhaps looking for a new HC. What is this magic bullet for success?

France is coming...... Wemby will probably be the best player or top 3 in the world. They have 4-5 dudes under 25, their lottery pick isn't on this team and they have 3 more dudes expected to go top 20 next year.... The gold medal game could be the start of a sweet 8-9 year rivalry between France and the USA. We should win in a couple of days, but by 28'..... shit, France is gonna be legit with health.

That's about 20% of SB wins. What does it say for ownership that has gone 30 years since a championship? How do they fare? They have a pretty successful run after? Was it just "their time" after such ridiculous ineptitude? What about General Managers that have gone 29 years since reaching a conference championship and cycled through 20 different starting QBs since then? How is their record? How many SBs do they get to? Are they really successful after the dark times? Does history tell us Dallas is getting ready to go "on a run"? Just need to get rid of that one guy holding us back all those years, huh?

Cowhurd's a moron and doesn't have the acumen. Wright has some really stupid opinions but at least he can explain them..... sort of. Where, o' where is Kellerman?

It's largely based off last season..... I see no reason anyone would rank any of those players you listed ahead of Dak considering the criteria and while he and Cousins are similar top lines careerwise, Dak is the superior player when you add in the rushing aspect and if you look under the hood a little more closely, Dak's advanced are well ahead of Kirk's. But yea, rating Mahomes at 3 or 4, whatever it was, is just jealousy at this point.

Eh.... you asked a question in a very nativist form, which was obviously meant to be rhetorical for you. Oscar Schmidt holds a ton of Olympic and FIBA records. In fact, if you open it up to FIBA, then KD, as much as we love him, certainly wouldn't qualify because he doesn't play enough games in the qualifying rounds so you'd have to be very narrow in the question and say.... Olympic history. And even then, KD will show up in very few all-time statistical categories. He has a shot at being a top five Olympic all-time scorer with a few big games in this tournament. If you narrow it to Olympics only, I do think he has a case, especially the way he carried the US team in Tokyo. That was an extremely weak team and he put us on his back He also is money in Gold Medal games. 30 and 9; 30 and 3, 4 ast, 2 steals and 1 block with 5 3's' and finally, 29 and 5 with 3 assists and 1 blk and he put the game away in the last 10 seconds with FT's. Tokyo was probably the worst team we've sent since 04' and they needed all his greatness. Jrue Holiday may have been the 2nd best player on that team. Jayson Tatum was a top player for them.... he can't get off the bench in this Olympics. So, if KD goes 4 4 4 with maybe another huge game in the gold medal round, then I think he has a claim, but other players will have bigger totals or even per game stats. And Oscar Schmidt is a good name and he holds something crazy like 5 of the biggest scoring games out of the top 10 in Olympic history, but he really only had 1 crazy run. The other 2 were impressive, let's not say they weren't but he was a chucker in the other 2. His shooting percentages were poor. 1 of them they were just dog shit so he did get up tons of shots. He still scored like 25 when he was in his high 30's so again, a great Olympics AND FIBA player. And if you open it up further by saying International basketball, you'll get players like Pau and Manu and Dirk. Pau is probably a top 10 Olympic player. Manu may be too, certainly in modern times.

Yea, it's more about a guy who people enjoyed watching and played an aesthetically pleasing game who had a tragic death leading to rosy retrospection. He was a great, no doubt, but he wasn't a top 10 all-time player and certainly doesn't belong at #2 on this list....

Seems the scheduling plus an expected uncompetitive matchup between two teams who aren't located in Europe led to a low attended opener for the women, but it did have good TV ratings compared to the last Olympics.

At a position where you literally just have to push upfield half a yard and not be moved..... A broken down Volvo stationwagon may be ideal. Lost Sam Williams..... let's go out and really land someone who can make and impact! Or..... Let's get the cheapest guy out there.

Supposedly this guy is legit..... He hinted at the Tua news last week.