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Cowboys – (Not so) Close is Good Enough

 

It is always a joy to see NFC Eagle Opponents having difficulty.  It appears this will not be a good free agency period for the Cowboys:

  • They lost a good player (wr Amari Cooper) per salary cap limitations & off field issues.
  • They lost a good player (OT La’el Collins) also per salary cap limitations & off field issues.
  • They lost a good player (wr Cedrick Wilson), again per salary cap limitations (notice a pattern on that).
  • They blew re-signing DE Randy Gregory via a late attempt to insert added language to his contract.

They did re-sign DeMarcus Lawrence, Michael Gallup and some lesser players to relatively team friendly deals.

Eagles Lesson: The Dallas Cowboys are 1 of only 5 teams in the NFL to not play in a conference championship game this millennium.  Much of this has to do with their combination of poorly managed free agency and their failure to recognize when to “push their chips in, and go for it.”  The Eagles are fortunate the Cowboys are as bad in Free Agency as they are good in the draft, applying their ongoing “hand grenade” approach (close is good enough) in free agency.  The remaining NFC East teams remain gratefully competitive in the division as a result.   


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