they have a good draft/front office team. But this is the annual cost of overpaying stars. It's a struggle every year and it does limit their options on critical roster spots.
My biggest hope is that Pickens gets tagged and sulks all season.
I think the only people who truly worry about this are the amateur cap followers. Sure, it looks bad but they will have it figured out in short order. They move some numbers around and voila....they get cap space. Just ask the Eagles and the Saints.
a team's ability to spend by looking at their cap space in any given year is like looking at how much a company paid in taxes and determining how well they performed.
The salary cap is an accounting mechanism, not a spending mechanism.
with those who say Dallas will make enough adjustments to create room to add more. But whether it will be enough to plug the many holes they have remains to be seen.
Dak is a very good QB, but that contract is punitive at this point. They really should have moved on last season by selling Dak.
My biggest hope is that Pickens gets tagged and sulks all season.
That's enough to do whatever they want.
But Dallas doesn't need to go that extreme as they don't participate in free agency.
Jason_OTC also had an article showing Dallas has spent the least amount of money in free agency and least per player in the last six years.
You need to go back to 2012 when Dallas last splurged on a player in free agency, Brandon Carr.
The salary cap is an accounting mechanism, not a spending mechanism.
Dak is a very good QB, but that contract is punitive at this point. They really should have moved on last season by selling Dak.