Elliot gets paid
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Final terms on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cowboys</a> RB Ezekiel Elliott: 6 years on the extension, $90M in new money with $50M guaranteed. Paid. 💰💰💰</p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1169205650796232704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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That team is going to fall to shit once Dak is paid too.

They're really committed to keeping that "championship core" together, ain't they?

Idiots.

I’d take Byron Jones in kc now

this is what bad teams do.

Gurley contract take 2

LMAO Jerry is such an idiot for giving a RB an 8 year deal basically. And yes I know the final year or two is probably not going to happen but RB's are expendable and easily replaced.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Cowboys didn’t need to pay Zeke. He’s got two years left on his deal. We know paying backs top dollar has backfired for teams. Zeke wanted Gurley money. Cowboys said no, then gave him more guaranteed than Gurley. Zeke got exactly what he wanted and more. The Cowboys got years <a href="https://t.co/K6VO2LS3NC">https://t.co/K6VO2LS3NC</a></p>&mdash; Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) <a href="https://twitter.com/geoffschwartz/status/1169211195548717056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Unfortunately, they are to much of a contender to risk him not playing.

Let’s hope this extends Gordon’s hold out. Or... they pay him comparably !!

Insanity

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Melvin Gordon and his camp knew Zeke was going to surpass Gurley’s deal, which is why $10m per year (2/3rds of the top of the market) wasn’t enough for him. We can argue about his tactics but hard to make a case he shouldn’t be pissed the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chargers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chargers</a> never budged off that number.</p>&mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1169216729744060416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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They aren't winning shit with or without Zeke so they just wasted a ton of money IMO.

Dallas and the Rams aren’t bad teams, but it’s looking more and more like bad franchise moves.

Dallas would have been hailed as smart if they did the right thing. I think Jerry folded his hand after getting nervous.

The Cowboys haven't mattered in a long time, Jerry is old as balls, these things matter.

I dn Cowboys are smart, remember there will be a new CBA soon

this is a potentially franchise crippling move (depending on what the new CBA says)

Jones is obviously ****ing his sister.

That's the only explanation.

The line of thinking that, "it would be OK if I just ****ed my sister once. I'm really horny." is the same line of thinking that would yield, "it would be OK if I gave my idiot running back that is perpetually in trouble 100M and 50M guranteed."

Only explanation.

Gat dam Beuhler. LMAO

Y’all keep going on about this; but Cowboys have the top 5 most cap space in NFL

This was the first thing I thought about after hearing about this deal :evil: . This is the last year of his contract so the CowBoys have a choice... either sign him to a new deal now, or let him play this year and let him walk for free or tag him at the end of the season. Would Jerry take a 2nd now maybe? I suspect Brett will be thinking about this. Jerry would get someone he needs to pay off of his roster, a second round pick and Byron would be out of the NFC.

The Cowboys are not trading any players they think they are a bowl contender.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Cowboys are paying #1 money to their RB, RG, possibly QB &amp; WR.. top 10 LT $, top 5 RT $..<br><br>All to keep together the 24th ranked DVOA offense.</p>&mdash; Michael Kist (@MichaelKistNFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelKistNFL/status/1169240285852897280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Considering you can say those players are worthy of those deals, what's this say about their offensive coaching?

Elliot is a definite stud RB. Way over paid for certain but Dak and Cooper are not championship quality players
There is nothing great about them. Jerry went full stupid on them.

Good lord.

The Chiefs overpaid for Watkins, other than that......

Apparently there are clauses in this deal that if he gets suspended/has another off the field issue, almost all of the guaranteed money voids.

It's basically 3 years and we'll see.

Jerry Jones being Jerry Jones. There's a reason the Cowboys haven't been relevant in a competitive sense for almost 25 years.

Hint: it's him. He's out Al-ed Al Davis.

Dak wants $40 million a YEAR. This is going to go south real fast in Big D.

So, in regards to RB's, this is another reason I wouldn't want to draft one that early.

Zeke is definitely a badass football player, but man that's a lot of cap space into a position that is pretty easy to get production from.

Pretty easy to get production from and has a frighteningly short shelf life.

The good thing here is that they're paying Zeke early to include his prime years I guess.

All they care about is they are a playoff team, they don't want to go back to being 5-11.

It was a mistake drafting Zeke over Ramsey.

Trade Dak and use the picks to move up for Tua. Have that sweet rookie QB deal on for five years while he's surrounded by talent.

Good thing they don't have to worry about any other major contracts soon...

Dak will be a Buccaneer. :evil:

Signing Cooper will actually lower his number since he's on his 13 million dollar season for his 5th year rookie tender.

They had 80 million in cap space next year before Zeke deal.

The new CBA is 100% going to raise the cap. Remember when Matt Ryan was the highest paid and everyone thought that deal was dumb?

The Cowboys just locked Zeke up for his entire prime, everything after 5 years from now (When Zeke is 29) wont mean anything. The Cowboys can cut him at age 29 and not worry about it.

BR loves coming to the rescue slobbin cowboy knob. It's hilarious...

They'll be pretty good and that would cost a shitload to trade up that high i'd imagine.

They had 66, half of which will probably get eaten up with Dak's deal.

Then they have Amari and co.

It'll go quickly.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I can&#39;t comprehend how you give that much, for that long, to a running back with a lot of miles already who has spent seemingly every summer in a court room. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cowboys</a></p>&mdash; Marcus Whitman (@TFG_Football) <a href="https://twitter.com/TFG_Football/status/1169243590977105921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cowboys</a> would been better off trading a 2nd for Gordon, giving him the 4 years $50 Mil he wants, and seeing if you can recoup a 3rd for Zeke, just saying.</p>&mdash; Marcus Whitman (@TFG_Football) <a href="https://twitter.com/TFG_Football/status/1169244160001478656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Not a good idea either.

??? How am I coming to the rescue, I wish the Chiefs would start doing this shit.

Making running backs the highest paid player at their position?

ROFL

Though I will always wonder what could have been if Kareem hadn't been an idiot last year, it's pretty clear to me that we wouldn't have held onto him after his rookie contract. RBs just aren't worth it in today's NFL.

LOL wtf? I guess there's no evidence proving you wrong though..

Arguable the best running back over the last three years. In 5 years they can cut him with no dead money.

He doesn't have a injury history at all, and they have verbiage in contract that voids money if he is suspended.

But no our offense doesn't need a RB like him, Andy Ried makes no-bodies into something.

But then again Cowboys don't have Mahomes. The Cowboys go as Zeke goes.

Nope. Next man up..

In our offense yeah, in other peoples offense maybe not. Yes the NFL has changed, but some teams are still running at a high clip.

I hope the new CBA makes it so players who sit out are ineligible for a new contract somehow. Give them guaranteeed money and make it so they can't sit out. Part of the 'fun' of the NFL should not be 'how can my team be a cap wizard' or 'How many weeks will the best RB not play in the NFL'

To be fair,

Running backs should be exempt from rookie wage scale. Its bullshit that their earning potential is within the first 5 years, and after that they are screwed.

Yea cause players are going to totally agree to give away their leverage in the only league that has non guaranteed contracts, right.

Why would you want to hitch yourself to a RB for that long?

The position takes such a beating and is so easily replaceable for fractions of what they paid Zeke. Sure you probably won't get a player of Zeke's caliber, but that's not really the issue.

Teams built around RB's don't win SB's.

I understand the theory ... the Girls aren't highly competitive without Elliot to make the offense go.

But that's the problem right there. When your offense is built around a RB, your house is built on sand. Very, very expensive sand.

FAX

Did you even read my post?

'Give them guaranteed contracts and make it so they can't sit out'

It's okay my friend. Reading is hard.

You aren't going to be able to do that, even in leagues where shit is guaranteed a guy could do that. But in reality I think they'll take being able to easily get out of a contract over having to actually live up to paying a guy 100 mill.

Big money goes to players at positions where the NFL has a scarcity. That's why you see QBs and LTs and pass rushers and corners get premium deals. Because high level play at those positions is rare, and the best players are irreplaceable to their franchises. On the flip side, the RB position in today's NFL is a carousel. For everyone. RBs have the shortest average career of any position and quality players are found in the mid- to late rounds of the draft every single year (this is where the "next man up" comment comes in...). The league just doesn't value RB the way it values other positions, and it hasn't for more than ten years. Whereas Jerry Jones operates like it's still 1992, and all he needs is the next Emmitt Smith, the next Troy Aikman and the next Michael Irvin (and maybe the next Mark Tuinei if we want to take it a step further).

They ran their offense through a RB, their QB isn't good enough to overcome it and honestly they don't want to go back to being a 5-11 team.

Like I said, Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman. He's been trying to re-build that 1992 team for 25+ years, and he sees that in Zake and Dak. Or, well, I see that in Zeke and Dak. He never saw Troy as having limitations, and evidently doesn't see it with Dak, either.

Unfortunately for him he never found another Jimmy Johnson, after he ran him out of town.

It'll be interesting to see the exact terms.

Jerrah isn't getting any younger and I imagine that was part of settling. That team needs Zeke and everybody knew it.

In his article about the LeSean McCoy acquisition, Seth Keysor suggested that the main issue with RBs in today's NFL isn't that they're truly "not valuable" but instead that the running game has become a fine-tuned dance that requires a ton of guys to do their jobs, and the RB just happens to be the dude carrying the ball. In other words, a mediocre RB can look like a superstar when he has the right blocking, and a superstar RB can look like shit when the guys in front of him don't block worth a damn.

That's not to say that there's no difference between a Charcandrick West and a Jamaal Charles, but there are far more important positions when it comes to making an offense perform than the RB position.

Keysor is right, of course. It's a team game ...

To me, it's the dual-threat aspect of the position that has changed everything from economic value to on-the-field contribution ... guys who catch the ball are more diva-like than the hammerheads of yore.

FAX

We all witnessed what would happen to Charles when teams would load the box and make teams have to throw to beat them.

Charles would still make a guy or two miss and potentially house one, but in the end, if the guy under center can't do it, it doesn't matter.

Four years. Very few running backs are drafted in the first round anymore.

Valid point, I think.

The league has come a long way. Half the teams do stuff more complicated than anything Mike Martz (or Al Saunders) ever tried with the The Greatest Show on Turf, and that's barely a generation ago, in career terms. Hell, in the 90s, the Norv Turner/Ernie Zampese offenses were advanced, for their day. But the Cowboys have been stuck there ever sense.

Congrats to the Cowboys for the dumbest contract in NFL history.

The NFL already has guaranteed money in all the big contracts, but if you are talking about the total contract being guaranteed like the NBA yeah the owners will never do that. The players would love that though for sure.

Honestly I don't think we can throw stones........... See Eric Berry

Gotta give Zeke his props, but........you do not pay a RB big $$$$$$. You can win without Jim Brown.

The Patriots all time leading rusher....Sam "Bam" Cunningham.

The Lions with Barry Sanders did what?

The Eagles think real life is Madden...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Eagles offered Jordan Howard and a mid-round pick swap to the Chargers for Melvin Gordon, but LA said no, per <a href="https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlbertBreer</a> <a href="https://t.co/x1nCQjKkE5">pic.twitter.com/x1nCQjKkE5</a></p>&mdash; B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) <a href="https://twitter.com/brgridiron/status/1169288043255226368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Howie is smarter than everyone.

That is seriously some shit you'd offer on Madden just to see if the stupid computer would do it.

Howie is just smart and always does due diligence. They're just always trying to see what they can do to get better and be aggressive doing it.