1 hour ago, EricAllenPick6 said:

That's really solid analysis.  That's all business side and market value stuff.  From a football perspective, asking for north of $60mil is insane and limits what the Cowboys could do with other positions.  Case in point, Tom Brady could have gotten paid a lot more $$$ over his playing career, but he took less because he wanted to win championships.  He left money on the table for other positions.  Mahomes did the same thing (at least, he claims to have done the same thing), and he's winning championships.   Dak right now could be that guy, but I don't think he wants to be that guy.  Dak wants $$.  He doesn't care if it's from the Cowboys or from another team.

Cowboys would franchise tag Dak if they can't get a deal done.  The franchise tag for QB is $38.4mil, a bargain compared to what he wants!  

 

 

 

They can't tag him - his current contract has a no-tag and a no-trade clause.

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

They can't tag him - his current contract has a no-tag and a no-trade clause.

Oh wow, I didn't realize that.  In that case, Jerry Jones is an idiot and if he did not plan on signing him to a long-term deal he should have traded him already. 

3 minutes ago, EricAllenPick6 said:

Oh wow, I didn't realize that.  In that case, Jerry Jones is an idiot and if he did not plan on signing him to a long-term deal he should have traded him already. 

I've said all along that extending him now would be organizational malpractice. If you intended to keep Dak, then you needed to extend him before free agency and lower his 2024 cap number. Instead, you carried him at $55mm, and lost valuable pieces (LT, C, multiple defensive lineman, CB and S) and replaced them with...nothing. If you end up extending him now, all you did was throw away the 2024 season for no reason at all. 

It's amazing that no one calls out Jones' utter mismanagement of this team. Same thing applied to Lamb.

49ers and Dallas downfall begins.

Meanwhile our core is locked up and we're getting a younger, faster defense and are a playoff team that's window is still wide open.

If Hurts gets back to form the NFC is right here for us the next few years.

2 minutes ago, Swoop said:

49ers and Dallas downfall begins.

Meanwhile our core is locked up and we're getting a younger, faster defense and are a playoff team that's window is still wide open.

If Hurts gets back to form the NFC is right here for us the next few years.

Detroit is right there too.

3 minutes ago, just relax said:

Detroit is right there too.

Sure are. Green Bay looks to be good for the next few seasons as well.

That said the two "strongest" teams fizzling out is a great thing.

TC observations after two practices:

The white practice helmets have a real Marvin the Martian feel.

Hurts looks like he has been working out with A. J.  Both look bulked.  If possible, Brown looks even stronger.  

Like the gassers that Cam and Jordan had the OL do the first day and then Hurts and Goedert joining in.  I hope that remains a thing.  

Really finding Fangio’s stamp.  Looking a player’s potential. We see Braun at ILB apparently doing well and a suggestion that Huff is showing potential beyond pass rush specialist.  Fangio seeing him as a complete edge player.  Both Hunt and Smith dropping in coverage.  Mitchell getting nickel snaps.  Loved his analytics comment.  

Spad’s TC piece is crap.  More Fran.  Best thing on PE.com is they have added Dom to the coaches page.  Best FU to Goodell in years is the Eagles making Big Dom a "coach”.  

Walkthrough today.  Means installations.  

 

23 minutes ago, Swoop said:

49ers downfall begins.

They will be good this year, but next year is where their rubber really starts to hit the road.

Just now, BigEFly said:

TC observations after two practices:

The white practice helmets have a real Marvin the Martian feel.

Hurts looks like he has been working out with A. J.  Both look bulked.  If possible, Brown looks even stronger.  

Like the gassers that Cam and Jordan had the OL do the first day and then Hurts and Goedert joining in.  I hope that remains a thing.  

Really finding Fangio’s stamp.  Looking a player’s potential. We see Braun at ILB apparently doing well and a suggestion that Huff is showing potential beyond pass rush specialist.  Fangio seeing him as a complete edge player.  Both Hunt and Smith dropping in coverage.  Mitchell getting nickel snaps.  Loved his analytics comment.  

Spad’s TC piece is crap.  More Fran.  Best thing on PE.com is they have added Dom to the coaches page.  Best FU to Goodell in years is the Eagles making Big Dom a "coach”.  

Walkthrough today.  Means installations.  

 

On the point about the gassers, and all the talk from players about conditioning this offseason -- I wonder if one of the underreported parts of last year's collapse was a lack of conditioning among the players, especially on defense. We all thought the defense got destroyed by all the snaps in the Buffalo game. Maybe they really never got their legs back. There seems to be a real focus on conditioning across the board.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Walkthrough. Back at practice tomorrow.

booo

I don't know if this was discussed but Ayedze was released.  I think several people here liked him as a UDFA.  

Getting hurt as a developmental UDFA this time of year is just brutal

23 minutes ago, RLC said:

Getting hurt as a developmental UDFA this time of year is just brutal

Its for guys like this that the UFL is a wonderful opportunity.    It will be interesting to see moving forward how NFL teams dip into that talent pool.

Jalen Hurts refutes reports of conflict with Nick Sirianni; Says relationship is in a great place

After months of discussions and articles about their relationship, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts clarified that they are on the same page and have a solid relationship, Glenn Erby of USA Today's Eagles Wire reports.

Jalen Hurts said his relationship with Nick Sirianni is "in a great place,” Les Bowen wrote on X.

Hurts commented after The Athletic reported that his relationship with coach Nick Sirianni had been strained during the last season.

The Inquirer reports that Hurts acknowledged that the 1-6 finish to last season challenged the dynamic between him and Sirianni and that, at times, they were not on the same page.

3 minutes ago, paco said:

What am I supposed to be seeing here other than a hot chick?

1 hour ago, Swoop said:

49ers and Dallas downfall begins.

Meanwhile our core is locked up and we're getting a younger, faster defense and are a playoff team that's window is still wide open.

If Hurts gets back to form the NFC is right here for us the next few years.

What’d I miss from the 9ers? Just the Williams holdout and Aiyuk trade request or was there more?

Guaranteed to be wrong. But here's where I am at the beginning of camp:

I'm very skeptical of how good Devin White will be here and he's coming off a very meh season, but in terms of his physique the dude is a physical specimen. Just looks built to play LB.

4 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I'm very skeptical of how good Devin White will be here and he's coming off a very meh season, but in terms of his physique the dude is a physical specimen. Just looks built to play LB.

He can’t be worse than what we had last year

7 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I'm very skeptical of how good Devin White will be here and he's coming off a very meh season, but in terms of his physique the dude is a physical specimen. Just looks built to play LB.

Obviously it's early days, but he's getting good reviews from the reporters watching practice. He is apparently flying around and providing good coverage on routes that Barkley is running out of the backfield.

His run defense has always been horrible, but playing behind Davis and Carter can make things a lot easier on that front.

6 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

If they give Dak 60M then there needs to be a serious talk about separating QB pay from the cap or set a max a QB can make. These prices are eventually going to hurt a team

The problem with the QB market is the escalation of the next guy getting more than the previous guy by default. It's what the agents negotiate off of and a guy like Trevor Lawrence had no business getting a $55 million AAV and $200 million guaranteed. But it was negotiated off of what Herbert and Burrow got last year. I kind of felt the same way about Hurts with his deal, but it is what it is. Mahomes is really the only guy who should be making that type of money at the QB position. Maybe Josh Allen as well, but he doesn't have the playoff success. 

The Purdy deal will be interesting because he has the leverage from a numbers and success standpoint to ask for $55+ million/year. Tua is somewhat there too, but hasn't been as successful as Purdy from a playoffs standpoint. I think Purdy is in a similar position as Hurts where they both benefit from a great supporting cast. Tua as well. All three of those guys are kind of in the same bucket to me, in the second level behind elite QBs. 

Goff was really the only guy to take a "discount" at a $53 million AAV and $170 million guaranteed and not top his predecessors. 

EDIT: Speak of the devil, this just broke

 

Hurts' contract looking better and better.

2 hours ago, paco said:

Well, the guy is one of the funniest people in the planet right now.  So I guess she likes his personality (and money).