MikePJ76

Next year they are going to demand to play on only fields made of marshmallows. should keep the turf injuries down probably a sticky situation though.

I'm pretty sure he came over from the other side with Furio and slapped around that low rent massage parlor owner Dominic and that schifosa wife of his.

No, he does not fit in at all. He seems to be the opposite of what the team will be looking for when signing some mid level free agents. It seems he really wants to stay in Dallas also.

I am worried about disrupting the progress of the running game. They finally built it and now center-left guard is going to be a concern until the games start and we see them succeed. They have to sign a veteran DE and DT in free agency they have no choice. I would like them to sign espenesa and daquan jones back even though jones is old and the team has made an effort here to get younger but he may come back on a team friendly deal.

no need to apologize or whatever. This thread is crazy.

I umm understood it very clearly. Haley was an unstoppable force and a certified lunatic. His going to Dallas that training camp was bad for everyone. It wasn't haley alone though as people try to make it seem. They had tremendous linebackers and the secondary was completely remade with great players. It was still a trade however. That defense got better all over in 92. And again to your point about why Dallas lost to the lions in 91, it was more of a matchup issue and location issue...not to mention Troy Aikman did not start though healthy after Steve Burlein played so well over the last half of the year and helped them beat the bears in soldier field the previous week in the wild card round. Dallas had already lost at detroit earlier in the year. Their secondary was not up to that challenge. The lions were unbeatable at home in 91 and I think they were like undefeated in domes or on turf? Something like that. I believe they were among the best in protecting the quarterback that season having given up what appears to be 25 sacks that year which is impressive for a team that played a base set with 4 wr in 1991.

I think if he asks them to send this years money via paypal and mark it as a GIFT it wont count. I got this info from a backwards hat guy with a youtube channel who watches film.

i imagine this is the case FWIW Dallas center Tyler Biadasz is a free agent and it seems Dallas is in the same boat with him as they were with mcgovern last year and connor williams the year before. So maybe the bills end up interested in him for a mid level deal with small cap numbers the first few years. I have to think they have at least one more guy in camp who is a real center and not just anderson and mcgovern. I know this, the bills ran left a hell of a lot in clutch situations last year and if moving mcgovern upsets the running game which was the strength last year...then what?

IMO if they succeed in rebuilding the defensive line they are still as much of a threat to win a championship in 24 as in any other time. I don't think anything that has happened has changed that especially since they may make some mid level signings after the draft that turn out to be better than imagined like Floyd.

sure also just normal team building. The league and the cap leave little room for old and declining players who make considerable amounts of money. I imagine the front office had this mapped out as they gave out the contracts with a few scenarios being different. Releasing/trading Diggs, dawkins, milano etc....would seem like a time to say rebuild. Most of these players sans the two starting safeties can be replaced on some level via the draft or mid level free agency after the draft. A lot of leadership and intelligence has left the locker room along with their cap numbers however and its nearly impossible to know how or when you can replace those qualities in players. Von Miller needs to be dealt with imo, there is no point in his being on the roster except for the cap ramifications.

seems like they will just restructure Allen and be all set now. I imagine most of their free agent work is going to be done post camp and post mini camp.

this is concerning to me. Everybody evaluates differently but Dallas repeatedly tried to make McGovern a more versatile player by giving him reps and time at center in the spring and camp. They concluded he can not play center. I feel like they just weakened the strength of the team.

and he is wrong. White didn't put them over the top to win a championship in the way that Tom Brady-Gronk did in one year or to a lesser extent Deion Sanders did. In Fact Reggie white was not enough to put them over the top so much that over the next 3 off seasons they had to sign Sean Jones, Guy Mcintyre, Steve McMichael, Fred Strickland, Mark Ingram, Keith Jackson, Don Beebe, Desmond Howard, Eugene Robinson, Santana Dotson..... and even then along with all the draft picks they needed Dallas and SF to fall apart the same year so they didn't have to play them to get to the super bowl. Reggie White helped them get to the playoffs but he damn sure didn't get them to the super bowl as the missing piece, again the premise of the thread even with the original poster including errors in his post attaching white and brees to that.

Its the whole premise of the thread. A free agent who immediately puts the team over the top. I am sorry your reading comprehension is poor. I can't help with you that. your response about Allen is the equivalent of me asking you what 1+1 is and you say purple, then get mad when I point out purple is not a number.

Buffalo plus talked about this the other day and said he could be released and resigned in the summer

Curious why on Brown? He is always hurt or playing through an injury. He is an exceptional blocker though in the running game. it would be a real tough sell to give precious free agent money to an always something guy when it comes to injuries

he was on pace for a hall of fame career until his car accident. He was never the same again after that. This post makes zero sense in response to what I posted and to the topic of the thread.

yes it absolutely would not. It would have had he stayed healthy in 22 and the bills won the super bowl. That would be an exact answer to what this thread is about. This thread is about a free agent signing that led directly and impacted directly the team getting over the hump and winning the super bowl. It has almost never happened in one season via free agency. The closest thing is Deion, Demarcus ware, Tom Brady-Gronk.....but even each of those have a number of other additions that helped the team. basically this thread shows that a free agent signing will not get you over the hump in one year to a championship and that is all. Trades have been more productive and team building takes a lot of time. Free agency is best used to fill holes you have and you get your core players from the draft. Its pretty much always been that way.

The thread is about Free Agent Signings that put teams over the top. I pointed out that Charles Haley Was not a free agent signing. Haley brought an element Dallas did not have for the most part in 90 and 91 when they turned it around. However their defensive line was pretty good, it was their secondary that needed the most work and that is why Detroit with that unique for the time Run n Shoot offense was a mismatch. Detroit also was impossible to beat at the silverdome that year. Since you want to take this approach with me I will respond accordingly. I started watching the nfl as a kid in 83. I am well aware of that era of the nfl. Dallas had another excellent draft in 92 which added to the team Kevin Smith, Robert Jones and Darren Woodson. Smith was outstanding, Jones was the rookie of the year and Woodson had a hall of fame career. Woodson is still the modern day prototype safety, Big and strong to play the run but quick and agile enough to cover the slot. He should be in the hall of fame. During the season they traded for safety Thomas Everett. They completely remade their secondary in 92 and it was unique for the time with a guy like woodson playing in Dallas mostly Cover 4 scheme on the backend. Haley was brought in right before the summer and fit right in providing the edge rush they needed but Dallas defense improved tremendously that offseason Haley withstanding. I remember that Dallas draft so well because they drafted a player from Tennessee who went the rival high school of my high school....He was from Rome Free Academy (Rome, NY) and I was in 9th grade at the time at Proctor High School (Utica, NY) RFA and Proctor were rivals especially in baseball (my sport). Both had (Have) excellent baseball programs. so again the thread is about free agent signings and you are mansplaining (somewhat incorrectly) Haley's importance to Dallas defense. So one more time, Charles Haley was not a free agent signing that led to a championship because he was not a free agent signing. that was 4 seasons later. The packers underwent a ton of change in those 4 years before they won the superbowl. They got beat by Dallas in each of those 3 playoff losses in part because their big time free agent signing, Reggie White got manhandled by Dallas right tackle Eric Williams. Williams owned white.

Umm. Charles Haley was traded to Dallas in 1992. He was not a free agent signing.

Reggie White got his azz whipped as a packer playing vs Dallas in the playoffs. He lost to Dallas in the playoffs in 93, 94 and 95. He was not the difference maker. GB won the nfc in 96 because SF and Dallas were beat up and run down from years of deep playoff runs and veteran players getting old.

The exact same thing they did with cook last year. This team is built to run the ball and if they get a big time wr in the draft that is going to open up the running game even more. There are plenty of touches to go around. IMO this team needs another legitimate running back. I imagine they draft one in the middle rounds. A guy who can play right away. To go one step further if they are to use say 9 of the 11 picks, I would try and find a stud blocking tight end, off the top of my head I can not name one in the draft because I essentially hate college football at this point but they are always out there. A running game cures all ills. Defense struggling, run the ball slow the game down, bad weather run the ball, have a big lead and do not want to throw the ball, run the ball....redzone, short yardage etc. they have all the major components of a great running game already set adding just a little more to it will be great for the team and imo will protect Allen a little more during the season...I do not want to see allen running the tush push multiple times a game every week going forward. That is a recipe for disaster to me so continue to build the running game. IMO another good running back and a great blocking tight end continues to build this. I also know they like to use the third tackle as an extra tight end so that works for me too.