Sounds like a win-win with the 2nd round tender.

Why would you trade that away for a second rounder. That doesn’t make any sense to me. I say tender him at a first

… I just can’t see him parting with a draft pick that high for a wide receiver.

they will tender Austin a first as I don’t see any WRs available in the 2nd rd this year that will be as good as Austin.

Also, if we cut T.O. and lose Austin, we are suddenly extremely thin at WR.

And now the possibility of losing another wide out seems even further alluring? I just don’t buy this one. Who is going to be the Cowboy’s downfield threat if they’re letting everyone go who fits that bill?

It especially doesn’t make sense to me if they draft another wide out to take Austin’s place. In that scenario they’d be letting go of a player who they’ve developed into a starter just to start all over again with someone completely unproven on the professional level.

Would Miami send us #44 which they got from Washington for Taylor, or would they send us #56 which is their own pick? I was under the impression that tenders send your own pick if you have it, then go to someone else’s if its not there.

Not that 56 would be bad, but I’d much rather have 44. A lot of talent falls off the board between those spots. If I recall from your draft primer post, the likely break point for 2nd and 3rd round graded prospects will be between those 2 picks.

Are we sure we’d get 44? And is anyone else worried about New England (58) or tennessess (62) making a run as well?

"Second-round picks are like gold; they have a very low cap cost and they should bring in a four-year starter at very modest money. "

Going off that, I’d consider Chris Canty’s tenure so far in Dallas a significant success from the team’s standpoint, even if he leaves this offseason.

Al Johnson, not so much.

Also gives you an idea of what the standard should be for Martellus Bennett.

Hey – let’s do what we need to do to keep Miles. The nagging injuries are a concern, but we’ve seen him improve each year. I see him as a solid #2 in the future.

BTW – Garcia is now a UFA…..’Boys should make a call to his agent.

Wouldn’t we be able to match and keep him? Then if we decide not to, we get the pick?

But remember, we had this conversation about Chris Canty a year ago. Everyone was getting hot and bothered and begging Jerry to throw the 1st+3rd round tender on him. Now,, consider if we’d taken the 56th pick in the draft for Canty. We’d be a much happier team now; he did pretty much the same thing he’s always done, provided solid production and neglected to blow people away. And now he’s getting ready to leave, and we’ll likely get a compensatory 4th rounder next year.
Austin’s one of the most oft-injured players on this whole team, a team that couldn’t find reason to move him ahead of Crayton on the depth chart as is. As enamored as we may be by his potential, I think the rational move, in this hypothetical scenario, would be to grant the second round tender and take the pick if it comes along.

I hope they show him some tenderness.

when is the deadline to make the tender to RFAs?

Give him the first rounder, I like what I’ve seen from him so far.

Our RECENT COACHING CHANGE>………….what is the one thing an owner can do anytime he wants and get anybody not currently a head coach for another team.\

Coaching Change. We should be talking about will Tony Romo be a student of Shanahan’s newly installed WCO. Or will Garret stick around now that Holmgrem is the GM? Or will the Cowher Scowl finally bring discipline to the locker room.

Wade is a lame duck Defensive Coordinator who is pretending to be a HC. So much so that he wanted to bring in support……………maybe Jerry will hire Clergy or a therapist. But Dan Reeves a Landry guy and former Cowboy and coach…………cannot come to terms with Jerry Jones.

I think the Circus starts not with the bearded woman or the crocodile man or bat boy. It starts with Barnum and Bailey…………or in this case Jerry Jones.

TO is a scapegoat………..a patsy………..if he is cut he alone is not the cancer in the locker room.

We need an SOB not a son of a bum…………….Carter was a nice guy but a lousy President…………….we need a Reagan. Nice guys finish last.

I think Jerry Jones had a Chance………….he interviewed a coach that is restoring order to a locker room and keeping primadonna’s in check. His name is Mike Singletary and he talked about the Locker Room not being SACRED. Sound familiar.

You wanna change things in Dallas. Hire a coach………and shut the media out of the locker room. Cancel the Michael Irvin upcoming American Idol auditions for the Cowboys………..or is this the real backup plan for TO and RW2………Irvin’s curtain calls?

Parcells made plenty of mistakes on Draft day and in game planning……….but one thing he did do……..was rein in GM Jerry and keep him on short leash. Like it or not that is the our problem. We are looking down the barrel of another run at 5-11 seasons if Jerry doesn’t hire somebody he thinks is at least as smart as he is about football. Does anybody really think Jerry wants Wade………..or is just that Holmgrem, Cowher and Shanahan would all want more control than GM Jerry is going to give up. After all Mrs Doubtfire walked off and then took his heir apparent and scouting director with him. Jerry was fine with it though………..cuz everybody that was left told him the Robe that Parcells designed and made was ROYAL and beautiful. No Emperor you look Regal. Turns out he was standing there in his boxers and his business socks…………..

GM Jerry needs an equal in Valley Ranch to steer the ship right. Parcells is no more Saint than Jimmy Johnson was………..but the guy knows how to run a football team and has turned around too many franchises for it just to be luck or timing.

Oh BTW big Bill has a clause that he can leave anytime if a better job comes a calling. Hey Jerry suck it up and call Bill. You need somebody’s help when it comes to shopping for groceries and cooking the meals.

If somebody wants him that bad, let him walk and use the pick to fill a more pressing need.

The plus side; Austin has deep speed, which is something the rest of the Dallas WR corps lacks. He also knows the system, which makes him more of an impact player than a rookie might be. He also is a decent kickoff retruner.

The down side; a 1st or 2nd round tender deal is not a long term solution, it is a rental agreement for a player who, in 37 games with Dallas, has 18 catches for 354 yards and 3 TD’s. Over that time, he has also had 82 Kick returns for a 24 yard average. Those are “pedestrian” numbers at best. Add to that the fact that Austin has struggled to stay on the field in Dallas (injuries) and hasn’t shown any substantive signs of becoming the next Andre Johnson, at least not yet.

My take: Dallas is a draft-pick-challenged team due to the Roy E trade and if they can rob some poor slob team of their 2nd round pick and grab a viable contributor (remember the 18 catches in 37 games rounds out to one catch every 2 games that someone has to make up for) for the next 4 or 5 years, well, I always ask myself…

What would Jimmy Johnson do?

The answer is give him a 2nd round tender and hope Ireland or someone else falls in love with him. Then, laugh all the way to the combine with a suddenly more interesting, not to mention more impactful group of draft choices.

If you were establishing a new 3-4 defense, would you rather start with a Canty at DE or a Peppers at OLB

the royalty at Valley Ranch knows whether T.O. is staying or not. I like Austin a lot ,but still am concerned about the injuries. If TO is going, it should be a first round tender. If hes staying go with a second. If we lose him I hope we at least get the 44 pick.

Fred Taylor was released from the Jags.

I think a team like the Patriots or the Broncos would benefit from signing Taylor.

He’s injury prone, but he can still be productive.

inked a 5 year deal with the Lions

I don’t know if that was a good sign or not. Didn’t they go 0-16 last year? lol

He is the future at WR. It would make no sense to create a hole at WR. Not right now when we are parting ways with TO this year or next, and still unsure how the RW2 trade will turn out. For a pick outside the top 50? No way.

Dallas has plenty of draft picks already. They don’t need to risk losing a young, speedy, game breaking type WR to get a low 2nd round pick.

for a low 2nd round pick doesn’t make any sense to me. Specially with our receiving corps. Even if TO stays this year he’s gone in ‘10. RWII hasn’t shown me shizz, Crayton has a decent play about 4 times a year, Hurds’ gone, everyone salivates like Pavlovs’ dog over Stanback and I have yet to see this guy after preseason. I’m not ready to crown RWII king. He hasn’t earned crap yet. I’d rather keep Austin (if he would only stay healthy). We have enough draft picks to get some talent in the areas of need already.

Jimmy Smith

Randall Williams…………..

both got their shots at WR for the Dallas Cowboys. Both got cut by the Dallas Cowboys.

One went on to a potential HOF career at Jacksonville. The other obscurity.

Austin is kind of in the same place…………but Austin and Hurd and Stanback have all three had problems staying healthy and on the field. Austin seemed to have a good year last year and flash some real speed. Hurd has looked ok at times…………..Stanback has hardly been healthy yet.

It instantly makes receiver a position of need for this team which at present it’s not. That would take this team from having two positions in need of upgrading to having three. So following that logic the extra pick is, at best, a wash.

It’s just… well… Stupid.

It still doesn’t solve anything. You are trading on the hope that whoever you draft turns out better than what you had. If you let Austin walk, from your post you still have to replace him with two recievers. I just don’t see the value there. If Austin doesn’t produce this year, then nothing ventured nothing gained. But, you do have some idea of what you have there.

And how the 90’s Cowboys let this, at the time, promising young wide out go, to a Florida team (the Jaguars) where he flourished for years. Can you imagine if they had hung onto to him and lined him up opposite Irvin most of his career?

I just don’t want to see the ‘boys make that same mistake again w/ Austin; (to another Florida team no less). I’d like to see one more year with Austin so that we can see what he’s capable of when (hopefully) healthy for an entire year. And heading into his 4th year he’s ready to head in his prime.

You can pick up great players anywhere in the draft and there are just as many early round busts as there are successes. The draft is not this automatic and magical fix-all.

If we give Austin a tender this year, if it’s uncapped next year, won’t he still be restricted?

Wade will do that as well as HC. Lots of coaches do things similarly, running their own affairs, but I’d be more confident in future success if HC was clearly above the role of coordinator, rather than parallel to it like Dallas has it
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