4 years 20 million they are just waiting on the Bucs to decide what they want to do I just heard this on ESPN the Hot List
No, the Cowboys and Key have agreed on a new contract. Now the 'Boys and Buccs have to work out a deal to bring Key to Dallas. It's looking like Galloway is too expensive for the Buccs, so the Cowboys may get him for just draft picks...
Or they could just wait for the Bucs to release him before April so that they won't have to pay an extra 1 Mil. I'm a little partial to this method, especially if Dallas could restructure Joey's deal afterwards, though I'm not sure how he'd feel at the time.
I cant figure out why Tampa wants Galloway in return. He is decent but grossly overpaid. Wouldnt it be better for them to dump Keyshawn for a pick? If Dallas can pull this off it would be a great trade. Get a solid reciever who likes Parcells and dump a crappy contract.
TB has crappy and slow receivers, Galloway would help them. But they certainly are not goint o want to pay him much more than 2 or so mil so it is the crontract renegotiation that is the sticky part. If that doesn't work at all, looks like Dallas will send like a 5th round draft pick to TB. I like the move for Dallas. Galloway, Glenn and Bryant brought speed and quickness, but not toughness and size. Key is an excellent compliment, and at about 5 mil a year should be reasonable. I would like Dallas to get a vet RB like Staley, Dillon, Stewart, Mack or another guy yet to be cut do to price--if for not too much $. None of the FA QBs out there I think could be had for a reasonable price for what they bring. I wouldn't mind adding a former back-up for cheap (a Huard, Quinn, Redmon, Palmer, Johnson) and/or draft pick to compete with Carter and Hutchison. I don't see anyone worth spending big money on, if the receivers and RBs are better it will be less pressure on the Dallas QB having to make all the plays anyway.
from what I read on espn it looks like galloway is not agreeing to the pay cut thing.. I don't blame him.. they are offering him a million.. .. that's a huge pay cut from 6 mil..
John Clayton reports Keyshawn for 2005 5th or 6th round pick. Despite the attitude, one hell of a steal for Dallas.
I like this, although is Key worth $5MM a year...I know Dallas needs a big receiver, but couldn't they get a great receiver in the draft...
5 mil is not too bad, I think the going rate for the elite receivers is closer to like 8-10 mil with incentives (Moss, Owens, for some reason Rod Smith is like 11 mil). I could find a number of guys in the 5-8 mil range (when bonus is averaged out) include Davis Boston, Muhammad, Marty Booker, Harrison, Isaac Bruce, Jimmy Smith, Joey Galloway, maybe others too. If anyone knows a good cite for 2003 NFL salaries that would be good to know.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1752144 doen't look like Galloway to TB is going to happen I wouldn't take a pay cut from $6+million to $1 million either Dallas will get KJ one way or another, plus if they sign Bobby Taylor and Duce Staley they are gonna be tough to beat...too bad Q.Carter is their QB grrrrrrrrrrr
If he isn't traded, Galloway will likely get cut from the Boys. Both the Buc and Boys can simply wait until the players are cut from those respective teams and then sign those guys as FA. The Bucs are not going to get anythign more than a 5th round pick, otherwise Dallas will wait until the Bucs have to cut KJ which they have to for salary and PR reasons. I thinking they are try to work trades for salary cap reasons, but like I said there is little reason otherwise to expect compensation for those guys. Yes I here the Boys are on the trail for Bobby Taylor and Duce. I really would like to see Taylor opposite Newman. Taylor over Edwards (probably an ideal nickle back though Edwards may leave) just makes a physical secondary even more physical and with better cover skills of big WRs. Dallas defense would be more or less set, though I wouldn't mind using mid to late picks to try to find some speed DEs. Duce is not a great player, but he is a good all-around back who usually gets away from the first hit and plays hard every play, and that makes him a ton better than anyone the Cowboys had. Seeing how the other NFC east teams used to raid the Cowboys for players in the mid 90's serves the Iggles right for losing guys to division rivals. BTW I heard Carlos Emmons signed with the Giants. The Iggles have not addressed their softness in the middle of their defense (Emmons was their best run stopper), Kerse is not going to make up the difference in their run defense nor IMO be enough to compensation losing both corners. I think the Iggles understimated how much their great secondary would always save that team's bacon, Dawkins as good as he is can't cover for eveybody. I am not that worried about the Boys QB position. 1) getting the big possession receiver and a decent RB will take a lot of pressure off. 2) An open job with Quincy, Hunchison and a draft pick (maybe Rivers at 22) or free agent (a Hoard) is not that bad. As we see with the Rams, Panthers, Seattle, etc, some times adequate QBs come out of no where the year before. Rather than overpaying or reaching for a QB the Boys should just strengthen their skill people on offense first and let the QB position play out.
Look for Galloway to possibly goto the Eagles once he is cut. Sounds like Galloway would like to be closer to Ohio (he is from Ohio and is a minority owner of the Arena team here in Columbus). I don't know if Cleveland, Cincy, Pittsburgh, Detroit or Chicago would be interested in him but sounds like Philly wants a WR (and although Philly is not real close to Columbus it is much closer than Dallas). Additionally he would get to play Dallas twice a year.
Could someone explain what this latest deal is about? Sooo why is Joey Galloway taking less money? or is he? Just because the Cowboys want Johnson dudes taking a paycut? Dallas is paying him the rest of his contract somehow, right? Is that what this means? The Cowboys will sign Galloway to the contract he's come to an agreement on with Tampa Bay - expected to be a one-year deal worth $2 million, with $500,000 in playing incentives he could earn next season - and then turn in the paper work for the trade, which might not officially be stamped until Monday. By doing so, the Cowboys will drop Galloway's $6.31 million base salary from this year's salary cap but will incur a $5.33 million charge for the acceleration of the final three years of his prorated signing bonus. Thanks>>>>>>>>>>
