Our plan is working perfectly, sell picks and jettison Pro Bowlers to stack late draft picks high! 3rd Round (68th overall) 3rd Round (80th overall, from Seattle) 3rd Round (98th overall, compensatory) 4th Round (103rd overall) 6th Round (177th overall) 6th Round (211th overall, compensatory) 6th Round (214th overall, compensatory) 7th Round (222nd overall)
WTF we're the only team with nothing under the Gained column. Houston Rockets: buyouts lining up to play here. Houston Texans: nobody wants to come here, even if starting jobs are available. Hopefully, Watson's star power attracts some talent soon.
Well, at least we have 8 picks now. There are real gems to be had in the later rounds and hopefully Gaine will be the Draft Master this year--we need some help!
You're getting upset over semantics. The fact is that they did a terrible job managing the secondary and OL free agents the past few years, and that's not just hindsight talking.
Besides trading for DW4 and gifting a 2nd round pick for Os so McNair could save around 10 mil in cap space, not much. I can only hope the reason for the unused cap space was because RS got played by Romo. Because if the Os deal was truly a $$$$ saving deal for McNair, then I'm done with this franchise.
So, then you agree that although the front office overall did a poor job, they did do at least something positive.
Yes, But something positive isn't enough to win a championship. How Gaine does in this years FA and what McNair allows him to do both in spending mioney and the types of players he signs will go a long way to determining how the DW4 era plays out. They have the money to sign the #1 and #4 OG's rated by PFF in the NFL with enough leftover to sign Solder. Just gotta be willing to spend the money.
Pretty clear that the Osweiler trade was done to make a run at Romo. But even after, the cap space didn’t go completely unused. They paid all of Hopkins $8.5M roster bonus with it rather than paying it out in multiple years.
Nope, everyone in NFL knew Jones would never allow Romo to suit up in Houston. Ever. The 2nd rounder was the price of instantly excising bad PR for the GM. Remember how local sports gossip media hailed the move back then -- now, selling a draft pick not looking so good. Yes, McNair did a great job in finally forcing Rick to draft a QB in the first after 11 years.
