I can't say enough about what Jerry has done this year. He's made so many good moves you tend to forget about things like getting a promising backup QB for a 5th/7th swap. If his name wasn't Jerry Jones, we'd be talking about what a genius he is.
You can now begin to see the makings of a top DL coming together with Williams and Clark at DT. I like our young EDGE, Donovan Ezeiruaku. A great DL can help hide a lot of issues. The extra 1st-rounder and the cash we saved trading Micah will allow us more opps to find impact players. Nobody is truly deep anymore. We can get significantly better on D within a year or so. Just getting healthy will be a big help, especially DeMarvion Overshown. There's another stud if he can stay on the field.
Jerry has made a ton of good moves, but the catalyst was the Micah deal. We still have a long way to go, but you can kinda see the path forward now.
Gotta stop you there. Both Kenny Clark and Quinnen Williams will have $21M cap hits in 2026. Micah Parson's cap hit will be $19M in 2026. Cowboys aren't saving anything until 2028. But both Williams and Clark will need new contracts.
The Cowboys are $35M over the cap next year so they're going to have to do some contract restructuring to get under and as I asked above, spend probably $30M on Pickens if they want to keep him. It would benefit Jerry to play the void year cap games other GMs do, to lower the cap hits but he seems unwilling.
I think you forgot the fact Williams and Clark are two players, lol, but the main point to my post was that is Jerry is cooking and that's not something that's negotiable. GM of the Year-type stuff.
We'll see what happens in the offseason, but the future is looking bright (I need some sunglasses). Like I said, still a ways to go, but we needed to pull off something like the Micah deal to get a reset and Jerry did it. Jerry was killing it even without the Micah deal, but the trade with Green Bay moved up the rebuild timeline.
I didn't forget anything. Both those guys (Williams and Clark) will count more against the cap than Parsons will in 2026. So for $42M against the cap you have those two guys, or you could have had Micah Parson and $23M of cap space. With the addition of Williams, there is a pretty decent chance that Clark becomes a cap casualty in the offseason.
I think you're trying to tell me we should've signed Micah to
save money. No thanks, lol.
I was actually kinda surprised a lot of the media sided with Jerry on the Williams deal. They usually flame him when he does a deal, but at the same time, flames him when he doesn't do a deal. Jerry draws criticism like a magnet, but this one was so good they couldn't flame it.
The bolded talking point is the oddest one for me. Teams have shown time and time again, you don't need to "save money"
This cap is going up every year so dramatically that by the 3rd year of EVERY new contract, its a bargain, assuming the player is still playing at the level.
Which Micah undoubtedly will be.
Add in the fact Jerry Jones is literally BRAGGING in the Wall Street Journal that he's sitting on an oil/natural gas field of 10% of a TRILLION dollars....the math just doesn't add up.
Its a want thing, not a can't thing. Jerry just will not do what other owners/teams like the Packers/Eagles do when they pay cash up front and add void years later in contracts.