As for Micah, I'd say the folks saying he's 80%-85% of Ware is about right. So he's 85%-ish of a hall of famer? You gotta have a pass rush to compete in this league, and that's going to be worth a fortune to teams that haven't already overpaid mediocre players everywhere. Micah should have been kept if we'd moved forward with a young QB to build around. Keeping Dak means you may as well let him go. Nobody older than 24 has a chance of being on this team when they're super-bowl competitive.

I do see some micah jerseys from time to time, which I think is how Jerry decides who to sign. So I expect he'll be grossly overpaid rather than just tagging him or trading him.


They did not HAVE to pay Dak anything. If they'd made him play out his existing contract last year and renegotiated this year with a tag on him as many, many folks had suggested, it would have saved them a fortune. They could have signed some free agents last year - Derrick Henry or Saquon for one (either plus Dak's old contract is less than Dak was paid last year). Then his new deal with the injury hanging over him couldn't possibly have been worse than $70M+ against the cap in 2026 and 2027. Or you give up 2025 2nd round and 2024 1st round to move up in 2024 first round to draft one of the elite QBs, tag Dak for one transition year, and you stop paying an average QB 30% of your cap space. Even if Dak had a decent regular season, nobody is under any delusion that he's remotely capable of making a deep playoff run. There's not enough Johnny Walker Blue in Dallas to even make Jerry believe that.

All of those are better options. Jerry literally chose the worst option available to him, and everybody knew it except him and a few blue-sunglasses homers.

To be completely honest for a bunch on billionaires to be so stupid to let salaries get so out of whack when they have a monopoly over pro football they are pretty dumb. They are literally bidding against themselves. At least with baseball and basketball there is the fear of a player going to Japan or Europe but that's not the case in football. They don't even need to collude, they just need 32 rich guys to exercise some common fing sense.

Too many egos involved to factor in common sense…..a bruised wallet is the only thing that will override an ego.

In a league built for parity there seems to be a massive lack of it. I think it shows there are 3 types of organizations. 1. Smart ones, 2. Lucky ones, 3. Incredibly stupid ones..... if that is the case where do the cowboys fit on that list in the salary cap era.

In a league built for parity there seems to be a massive lack of it. I think it shows there are 3 types of organizations. 1. Smart ones, 2. Lucky ones, 3. Incredibly stupid ones..... if that is the case where do the cowboys fit on that list in the salary cap era.