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Old 12-13-2016, 04:17 PM   #1843
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
Man, if I'm a Cowboys fan, I'm praying for a Super Bowl this year because that team is in trouble next year. They're already projected to be $10M over the cap. They can cut or trade Romo and it'll give them about $5M in cap space, but then they're also eating about $19M in dead money, and after that it gets a little dicey. 3/4 of their starting secondary are scheduled to become UFAs and I don't really see a way for them to re-sign any of them without some crazy contract magic by the FO.

They're also going to have to cut some pretty key contributors and popular players. The obvious one is Witten, but I could see one or both of Doug Free and Sean Lee being moved as well.

If they don't absolutely nail the draft, I think we see a big drop off in play from them. The Eagles aren't in great shape either but the difference is that they have some pretty obvious cut/trade candidates that should free up between $20M - $30M in space and they don't really have any UFAs who need to be re-signed or replaced.
Eagles need to spend big in FA though and are hurting a bit for draft picks aren't they? WR is a trouble area for sure, to bring back DeSean isn't going to be cheap. Oline help couldn't be a bad idea either.
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