Cowboys on shortlist of teams yet to sign a single outside free agent

Mar 13, 2024
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The Dallas Cowboys were once again silent on day 2 of free agency.

They are now one of only five teams that have yet to sign a single outside free agent.

Jerry Jones and the family doing what they always do, waiting until all the season-changing players are off the board, waiting to attack the lesser players for lower amounts of money.

First things first, they can work with the cap situation, they’ve just yet to do it.

So those saying they have little to nothing is a myth. Teams in worse situations in 2024 have at least signed someone.

Already Gone

On Monday, Tony Pollard signed with the Tennessee Titans, Dorance Armstrong was the first of many to sign with Dan Quinn and the Washington Commanders.

Tyler Biasasz joined Armstrong on Monday.

Dante Fowler, another former Cowboys defender signed with them on Tuesday.

I knew Fowler and Armstrong were probably on the way out to join Quinn, but did not see the others leaving.

Yet, it is now Wednesday morning, and the Dallas Cowboys are still one of the last remaining teams to not make a move on an outside free agent.

The only move this team has made is resigning long snapper Trent Sieg to a one-year, $1.292 million deal, with $1.152 million guaranteed.

What a joke.

Still Need Help

The Cowboys have lost five players who gave them significant time.

The best running back left on the market is J.K. Dobbins who can’t stop getting hurt, and the linebacker market is starting to thin out also.

Every single team inside the NFC East has gotten better, one way or another, and Jerry Jones has not been heard from.

How can you claim to be “all-in,” and be one of the last teams to make a move?

At what point is losing before or after one playoff game enough? Regardless of what you think about Dak Prescott, it was this way before he got here also!

This team never makes any splash moves, and this team continues to draft mostly great players and waste their careers.

What To Expect Going Forward

I am even asking myself this question, the fact that I thought that maybe Jerry was finally tired of seeing all the same results. No, he’s not.

He has money in his pockets, will still be able to talk on the radio whenever he wants, and will have folks talking about Dallas if they win or lose, he doesn’t care, and it is sad.

Expect them to sign someone for a very low price if they do, and the player they sign will make absolutely no impact at all in 2024, but hey at least they did something for us all, right?

They will probably draft a running back in the second or third round and tell us to deal with it.

Jerry even has former Cowboys players laughing at him, take a look at the tweet below from former Cowboys defender Marcus Spears, it is true, though. It has become laughable that he has done nothing to make this team better.

https://twitter.com/mspears96/status/1767247691200020719?s=20

This team has plenty of options to extent, and rework the deals they have on the team, yet they are making no effort to do it early enough to have a chance to sign a guy that can help them right now.

They can easily create over $50 million in cap space, and Jerry and the folks are just sitting back and who knows maybe they even want to tank.

So many good years and chances have been wasted because of these guys. I don’t know why I expected anything different.

Shane Taylor

Shane Taylor

Shane Taylor is a sports journalist with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and seven years of professional media experience. He has written 766 articles for InsideTheStar.com, reaching over 928,000 readers. Prior to Inside The Star, Shane worked as a Sports Reporter for Journal Star and a Regional News Reporter for Shaw Media. He currently works in the TRIO Upward Bound department at a junior college.

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Mike honcho
Mike honcho
Mar 13, 2024 9:16 AM

Dallas cowboys oys are garbage, dak is hot dumpster juice and Jerry is a dam moron, keep buying their shit ….

Danny
Danny
Mar 13, 2024 10:45 AM

At the end of the day this is the jones family team. Yeah they want you to come to their games and spend money and all that stuff so they can buy art host concerts and other venues and give generously to charity. But as long as jones no longer trusts anyone to do the job and meddles, I wouldn’t hold my breath for any super bowls. When he bought the team he did one right thing and that was give Jimmy the reins. He mucked that up after champions were built. Here we are 28yrs later and jones is still mucking it up. By all means go to the events a jones castle and spend money and have fun. But keep a favorite side team that has an actual chance to win a super bowl cause it would take a miracle to happen here on this ride.

Edward Carmichael
Edward Carmichael
Mar 23, 2024 8:11 AM

Jerry Jones can’t sign any outside free agents because Jerry Jones have the Cowboys over the cap and don’t have money to spend the N.F.L. draft and H.B.C.U. is the cheapest and smartest option

Edward Carmichael
Edward Carmichael
Apr 11, 2024 9:37 AM

with Dak Prescott’s contract eating up most of the Cowboys salary cap and Jerry Jones over spending I’m not surprised that Jerry Jones couldn’t sign any outside free agents 

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