[CM Hooe]

Yeah I don't think any of you will be able to convince me how deliberately making the roster worse by dragging out when core players get paid or obtusely demanding proven players continue to prove their already-demonstrated value is going to help the team win more games and improve its final results.

The Cowboys have won 36 regular season games over the past three seasons. Only the Chiefs have won more regular season games over that span. Sure, the postseason wins haven't come the way we've wanted to, but this was a good team plenty worth continuing to build upon. We can probably agree that a good way to improve the team is to add more proven players. The path forward to do that was to create cap space by extending the franchise quarterback's contract (along with the contracts of other key players).

That didn't happen because the front office is deliberately jerking around its talent for stupid and myopic reasons. As a result of their dragging their feet on important contracts, the team roster is now significantly worse as many starters and contributors have now moved on and there is no easy path to replace them. At the same time, we share a division with a team which aggressively acquires and retains talent and constantly works around the salary cap, that of course being the Eagles. Comparing how the Eagles' front office operates with how the Cowboys does its business is utterly infuriating.

The "win with less" idea is a fundamentally stupid approach to cap management and roster construction, and it is flatly antithetical to the process of building a team capable of winning a Super Bowl.