The Dallas Cowboys Memorial (2015 Off-Season) Thread

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Wombat_sl said:
Meh. Does anyone think he can hold up for an entire season anymore? It sounded like everyone assumed he would be back, but is there any reason to expect anything more than the Broncos to barely win the division and then get bounced out in the widcard or divisional round?
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To bad the Chargers are going to own that division this year!
 
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They need serious line help for sure. Most of our "stars" had early season ending injuries so it was a pretty rough year. I also hope we get some defensive line help too. We only had 1 pro bowler this year. Frankly with the insane number of injuries we had its a miracle we even had a shot at the playoffs.

I also hope they dump Matthews despite how good he is, unless he is willing to take a big pay cut. He is injured every year.
 
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Uber Uberest_sl said:
Manning is still a top 5 QB in the AFC, it's a no brainer for Denver to roll with him.
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I agree its a no brainer for Denver to want him back but I also don't see him leading them to the promise land. At most I think he is coming back to break Favre's record, think he is like 2k yards away or so
 
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Can't really blame him for going after that record. If they can run a balanced game plan with good running and a real defense he can certainly get back to the superbowl. I just think maybe the time when you could ridehimto it has passed.
 
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Famm_sl said:
Can't really blame him for going after that record. If they can run a balanced game plan with good running and a real defense he can certainly get back to the superbowl. I just think maybe the time when you could ridehimto it has passed.
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This. A healthy Manning is good enough. His game just falls off a cliff is he's dinged up.
 
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Its getting very close to manning not being a top 5 even in the afc. Brady, luck, rapistburger, manning, rivers, flacco in that order but manning is the most questionable for the AFC.

Maybe the broncos can drag manning to a SB win. But I doubt it, by the end of the season he is basically Alex smith except with a 22m cap hit. The guy costs his team Aaron Rodgers money but gives them an Aaron wrogers performance too often.
 
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and the season before that he threw for 5400 yards and 55 tds calling him anything but one of the top 3 qbs in the afc is retarded.
 
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littles_sl said:
and the season before that he threw for 5400 yards and 55 tds calling him anything but one of the top 3 qbs in the afc is retarded.
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before his neck injury and when he was 2 years younger. apparently QBs fall off a cliff, they dont ride down gently

he's still a top AFC qb

Brady Manning Roethlisberger Luck Rivers Flacco
 
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Azeth_sl said:
before his neck injury and when he was 2 years younger. apparently QBs fall off a cliff, they dont ride down gently

he's still a top AFC qb

Brady Manning Roethlisberger Luck Rivers Flacco
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That was after his neck injury.
 
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see that is where brady is smarter than most of the other qb's

brady knows that in order to have the best TEAM to win the superbowl, he cannot make 20 mil a year as a #1 in the game qb, so he backends his contracts knowing full well that when the "payday" years hit, it's time to renegotiate, take less money up front- with a great bonus- so that the team can get players Like revis & keep players like edelman etc.

brady's base salary (minus bonus's) last season...2 million dollars-cap hit was only 14.8 million-including bonus's etc... one of the best qb's in the league, but he knows that he CANNOT get paid as the best in the league and expect his TEAM to be as good due to less money being avail for the REST of the team....btw he was -according to an article i read like the 17th highest paid qb in the league.

if fitzgerald goes to any team it will be a team that he thinks is his best chance of getting a ring, that is why Revis came to NE... will take slightly less money in order to be able to get the Ring, if a player has a "long" career then RING>getting Paid..and they make the choice That way...

teams that are "cusp" teams or are there..

packers
seahawks
patriots
cowboys
denver
colts

are probably the top 6 teams most likely to get to the superbowl next year

ravens
steelers
cards
bengals

probably the next 4....
 
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As others have said, the question in Denver is not "Is Peyton as good as he used to be?" but "Is he better than whoever we can get to replace him?". The answer to the second question is obviously yes. They brought in a ton of big name veterans last year to make a SB run with him and they are going to have to rebuild from scratch when he's gone so there's no reason not to give it one more shot even if there's a chance he's not up to the job anymore.
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
As others have said, the question in Denver is not "Is Peyton as good as he used to be?" but "Is he better than whoever we can get to replace him?". The answer to the second question is obviously yes. They brought in a ton of big name veterans last year to make a SB run with him and they are going to have to rebuild from scratch when he's gone so there's no reason not to give it one more shot even if there's a chance he's not up to the job anymore.
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No way I am saying Manning and Catler are the same caliber quarterbacks, but that is a similar situation the Bears have with Jerk Face. Nobody is going to eat his contract for us, and whatever veteran we bring in might just demand a similar pay-out before getting under center.

Thus I am pretty positive we're stuck with Catler for another year.
 
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Axlrose_sl said:
No way I am saying Manning and Catler are the same caliber quarterbacks, but that is a similar situation the Bears have with Jerk Face. Nobody is going to eat his contract for us, and whatever veteran we bring in might just demand a similar pay-out before getting under center.

Thus I am pretty positive we're stuck with Catler for another year.
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Yup. See also Russell Wilson in Seattle, Colin Kaepernick in San Francisco, Joe Flacco in Baltimore, Cam Newton in Carolina, Andy Dalton in Cincinatti, etc. If you have a passable quarterback you pretty much have to pay him like a star because there are so few of them around.
 
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Lenardo_sl said:
see that is where brady is smarter than most of the other qb's

brady knows that in order to have the best TEAM to win the superbowl, he cannot make 20 mil a year as a #1 in the game qb, so he backends his contracts knowing full well that when the "payday" years hit, it's time to renegotiate, take less money up front- with a great bonus- so that the team can get players Like revis & keep players like edelman etc.
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I thought Brady was the GOAT that carried his team of nobodies to Superbowl after Superbowl?!?!?
 
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You guys are trying to argue logically with a Pats fan who only comes into the thread when they are winning a SB. You understand that right?
 
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