Realist Larry

Two bad choices,
pay through the nose,
or let him go and waste a first rounder

or I guess Franchise, but I’m not sure I trust Coop and his consistency issues in that scenario

along with his talent.

The idea that a talent like this could drop to #17 is fun to think of,
even though, again, we probably pass over him if he’s there and instead stretch and take a risk just because of
"Position Bias" against Safeties.

After all, all a Safety does is help the CB's in coverage, make up for their mistakes if needed, along with providing run support at the same time, with chances to bring the wood and some attitude----who wants that?

"The Cowboys took a lot of fliers with their second-round pick this past decade, a round that shouldn’t exactly be spent on lottery tickets, but they do, at least, have the biggest contract in team history with DeMarcus Lawrence to show for it."

The Second Round has killed us going back even further than this, as I’ve pointed out for years,
and last year’s dumb Hill pick is a very disturbing sign. Again?! Really?!

IMO, what killed the team and its depth the most are:
1) Wasting a super super high pick by trading up with TWO for Mo Claiborne, a move that said "JJ!" all over it

2) Spending our other high pick, #4 overall, on a RB! who we are now tied to with a terrible contract

3-4) and the uber-idiocy of the Esco-WHO? pick and the Gregory pick, basically just throwing in the trash two Second Rounders……….
these risks pile up through the years
(all the injury concerns we drafted too)
so that while many MANY here defend those picks, and each one individually can be (poorly) justified as a
"Risk/Reward" chance,

when you continually spend high draft picks on "Risk/Reward" gambles, over the years it haunts you and takes a toll on the roster depth.

Add up those 4 picks and we have maybe FIVE goood players on our team over the years instead of Clai-nothing, Esco-Nada, Gregory the Magic Dragon, and Hold-Out Elliott, who at least was good, just not worth the $$$$$

Anyways, good article———I’ve probably written this 100X over the last decade!

But one thing: Even I don’t criticize them on anything beyond the Third Round, at that point it’s all throwing darts blind…….

we just have to figure out QB………..
lol, what’s new?

from the media.

Man, it would never end!

so we’ll see what happens
It’s still a long way off!

The Pac 12 sucks!

to me, Safety is an underrated position that sets the tone for an entire defense, and you want a premiere talent from the first round……….I’ve been saying this for a decade plus while our team has ignored this position.

Later on in the draft we can stock up on depth and "good" players who can maybe start!

We screwed up last year and ended up with a decent draft pick in a year when some playmaking talent should still be sitting there, so let’s use this pick to get a game-changing playmaker,
not trade down for two lesser players.
It can be Safety or a DL or a WR, but get one really good player rather than two decent players.

That’s how you build a playoff team, I want a Championship team,
and when you get a pick around #15, ya gotta hit on it!

at both LB and CB, and are the glue of the secondary—-whether our FO knows it or not.

but he hasn’t broken even one big run in two seasons now, and looked a lot slower last year already.
And, sadly, you can’t just ignore the $$$, that contract is going to be a thorn in our side for years,

while a bunch of young guys we never heard of tear it up every season for a pittance.

I hope he puts in the work this off-season, shows up in prime shape and rips it up next year, but it’s hard to see that as likely unfortunately.
Time will tell.

Dude’s barely a Top Ten RB at this point.

Oh, maybe they go by salary??

and get it done.

Of course the agent wants more, and not for Dak by the way but for themselves and the commission!

But Prescott has the power to say, I want to do what’s best overall, not just dollars and cents, let’s take this much and sign.
Help the team out a little (he wouldn’t be giving up much) so they can work on all the other aspects they have to take care of.

Instead he’s sucking up time and energy squeezing out a few extra dollars, when just $$$$30 Mill for ONE year is enough to live on, rich, for a lifetime….much less $$$60 or 70 or 80!

With just a small sacrifice he helps the team, but of course, that helps him too, what’s better for the team is better for him in the long run.
If it’s truly his agent leading this stupidity I have less respect for him, to be led around by the nose by someone who’s priorities are

1) Me, the agent and my commission
2) the player, since I feed off him
3) the team but who really cares as long as we get ours.

Dak’s concerns should be
1) Me
1A) The team, who’s fate I’m intertwined with after all
176) my agent

or a position where we are playing a $1 Mill instead of a $6 Mill player.

It’s crazy that he doesn’t think $$$$$$$$$$$$30 Mill/Year is enough, whatever money he skips he gets back really by being surrounded by better players around him!

It’s shortsighted and greedy thinking.

Can I just Fast Forward like on my DVR and skip all this crap????

get it over with, please…………..

How in the world did a First Round draft pick with two ints. in his career get this reputation?

Sure, coverage is good, but ya gotta make some plays on the ball sometimes!

With Dak,
without Dak,
we’re not going to any NFCCG’s anytime soon!

we have no playmakers on D, an aging OL, at best we’ll have an overpaid "Good" QB, or maybe no one,
we’re stuck with Zeke’s stupid contract too………….

I’m actually in favor of blowing it all up and starting over, looking down the road at 2025 or so.

um, ok

look, they’re not great teams, but they’re one step ahead of us at this point.

You ask me to bet my savings, I’d pick either of those 2 before our team

I get what you’re saying, 3 teams in one division does make it harder for them, but I’m obviously just saying I can easily count 16 teams that have a better championship chance than us,
it wasn’t about making the playoffs

and it’s the injuries to T Smith and Frederick that are the main concerns, no fault of theirs,
but I think the usual rule of OL playing a long time is in danger for those two.

But I didn’t mean start the rebuild with OL, we’ve drafted quite enough of those!

But our roster is aging quickly,
too many guys have to be paid,

and a talent drain is beginning.
Oh, except at RB since we so wisely signed Elliott

We actually had a window from 2014 to 2016 but there’s been a steady decline since, and I like the new coaching staff but the talent is aging out and a rebuild is needed.

Start with the OL and go from there……..

12th is very generous and a McCarthy Bump I guess.

But half the league is ahead of us right now.

Heck, if we weren’t in the awful NFCE, which allowed us to 8-8 even though
we were 3-7 outside the division,

we wouldn’t even get consideration. We’d be the last place Cards or Dolphins or Bucs if we were in the AFCN, AFCS, NFCN, or NFCW!

Especially if you take out all the old guys, he’s probably one of the 10 best young QB’s in the league.

But that doesn’t mean we have to pay him $35 or $40 Million a Year.
To lock up that much cash in one player who can’t win you games on his own and elevate other players is silly.

It also doesn’t mean he has to demand that $$$$——he should be smart enough to realize that every 2-3 Mill$$ more he takes is money that could go to surrounding him with a better roster, and winning more games.

If I’m him, I take $$30/Mill, get my gaurenteed money, and let the teamhave more to spend for other players so I can WIN.