The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

Ambiturner · Jan 12, 2015

radditsu_sl said:
Eagles are feast or famine. But Dallas ain't pulling off the cap magic. They get back... sean lee? Claiborne is done. Its going to be real tough. Giants suck....skins suck... who else is going to stop them?

What "cap magic" do the Cowboys need to pull off?

radditsu · Jan 12, 2015

Ambiturner_sl said:
What "cap magic" do the Cowboys need to pull off?

8 million projected cap room to get murray, dez, rookies, and a better D?

Ambiturner · Jan 12, 2015

Carr and Melton are gone which gives them 15mil. They can retructure Romo for 13 mil, and can change any year of Tyron Smith's contract from base salary to guaranteed which saves another 10 mil. So that gives them $46 mil to work with without doing anything crazy.

I think they'll manage

moontayle · Jan 12, 2015

radditsu_sl said:
8 million projected cap room to get murray, dez, rookies, and a better D?

2015 $130,212,355 $143,260,739$13,048,384

That's without restructures. Romo accounts for $27m of that, you think they might restructure a little bit? Personally I wouldn't do too much, maybe hock it down to $17m hit so they don't pay the piper down the road. Fair amount of dead weight comes off the books in 2015, only Austin remains at $7m.

Salary Cap Space - Over the Cap

Saints are in a world of trouble. 22m over the projected cap in 2015.

radditsu · Jan 12, 2015

Ambiturner_sl said:
Carr and Melton are gone which gives them 15mil. They can retructure Romo for 13 mil, and can change any year of Tyron Smith's contract from base salary to guaranteed which saves another 10 mil. So that gives them $46 mil to work with without doing anything crazy.

I think they'll manage

I was looking at the low end of the 2015 projected cap.

Grimmlokk · Jan 12, 2015

Cowboys will be fine. Or not. You can't predict shit year to year except that NE will still be good and the Redskins will still suck. You might stumble in to an accurate prediction sometimes but it's got fuckall to do with your super elite football knowledge.

Commander Vimeseh_sl · Jan 12, 2015

When does new England not get to be good? When Brady goes? Belicheck? Or does coach Vader go at the same time as Brady?

Dioblaire · Jan 12, 2015

Gilgamel_sl said:
Fox out in Denver. Sure sounds like him taking over the offense and the potential of Gase going to San Fran forced Elway's hand. Pretty sure this means Peyton will be back though.

Sounds like it isn't just Fox, though. The whole coaching staff got the ax.

Edit: Posted before I saw that Famm mentioned they were all gone. Bah.

Lost Virtue · Jan 12, 2015

dioblaire_sl said:
Sounds like it isn't just Fox, though. The whole coaching staff got the ax.

No one except Fox got the axe "officially" yet... Everyone else was basically told "you are free to look elsewhere if you want."

Dioblaire · Jan 12, 2015

Ah, ok. That makes sense.

Robert Baratheon_sl · Jan 12, 2015

Lost Virtue_sl said:
No one except Fox got the axe "officially" yet... Everyone else was basically told "you are free to look elsewhere if you want."

I think that's just a signal that the new HC will be given wide latitude to can the existing coaching staff. Probably pretty standard.

Lost Virtue · Jan 12, 2015

Robert Baratheon_sl said:
I think that's just a signal that the new HC will be given wide latitude to can the existing coaching staff. Probably pretty standard.

I think a lot of it also depends on if Manning is staying or retiring. If he stays, you do not want a complete rebuild of the coaching staff, so they will retain what they can. If he retires, I foresee a bomb going off and rebuilding entirely.

Araxen · Jan 12, 2015

Wombat · Jan 12, 2015

Lost Virtue_sl said:
If he retires, I foresee a bomb going off and rebuilding entirely.

Just throwing this out there: Mike Shanahan for Head Coach, Jay Cutler for Quarterback.

sebur · Jan 12, 2015

moontayle_sl said:
2015 $130,212,355 $143,260,739$13,048,384

That's without restructures. Romo accounts for $27m of that, you think they might restructure a little bit? Personally I wouldn't do too much, maybe hock it down to $17m hit so they don't pay the piper down the road. Fair amount of dead weight comes off the books in 2015, only Austin remains at $7m.

Salary Cap Space - Over the Cap

Saints are in a world of trouble. 22m over the projected cap in 2015.

We are never in a world of trouble. We do this every year while Brees has been here. They push stuff back, restructure, let people go etc etc. We will be fine.

Profundis · Jan 13, 2015

John Fox to interview for Chicago Bears vacancy

Bubbles · Jan 13, 2015

Dallas got screwed by the refs. That Dez call, lol. Packers had at least 2 "catches" like that. Fuck this shit

moontayle · Jan 13, 2015

Commander Vimeseh_sl said:
When does new England not get to be good? When Brady goes? Belicheck? Or does coach Vader go at the same time as Brady?

A question I ask is if they can keep it up after Brady retires. Currently 14 straight winning seasons. 6 more to tie the record by the Cowboys who didn't have a losing season between '66 and '85 and did it with 3.5 different QBs.

azeth · Jan 13, 2015

moontayle_sl said:
6 more to tie the record by the Cowboys who didn't have a losing season between '66 and '85 and did it with 3.5 different QBs.

and when free agency didnt exist.

Royal · Jan 13, 2015

Lost Virtue_sl said:
I think a lot of it also depends on if Manning is staying or retiring. If he stays, you do not want a complete rebuild of the coaching staff, so they will retain what they can. If he retires, I foresee a bomb going off and rebuilding entirely.

I think this is Elway's way of encouraging Manning to hang 'em or move on without all of the PR pitfalls or disrespect of cutting him outright.

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