Cowboys news: Mike McCarthy thinks roster growth by young players will improve the team
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Why Mike McCarthy isn’t concerned about Cowboys’ lack of free agent signings: ‘We are definitely improving’ – Jordan Dajani, CBS Sports
Mike McCarthy thinks that the Cowboys will see improvement in 2024 from roster jumps by younger players.Despite the lack of additions, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is not worried about the state of his roster. In fact, he believes the Cowboys are improving with the players they have coming back.
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“I’m a big believer in the second to third year jump, you know we have some young players, we got some guys coming back off of IR that are young players that we’re excited about, so we are definitely improving. We’re just not part of the free agent market right now,” McCarthy told ESPN.
Not being a part of the free agent market is not necessarily a bad thing. Real contenders are built through the draft. McCarthy also pointed to the fact that just because the first and second waves of free agency are over, does not mean that free agency itself is over.
“Also there’s a lot left,” McCarthy said. “You’ll probably have a market right before the draft or post draft, and then you got your June 1 market and obviously we’ll have another draft class. So I have great confidence in our roster.”
Cowboys decade-long track record of under-investing in team suggests that Jones family is not in it to win it – OCC, Blogging the Boys
Unfortunately, this slow offseason has not come as a surprise for how the Cowboys like to operate.The Cowboys rank just 25th over the four-year period from 2013-2016. And that’s despite signing Tony Romo to a then-franchise record $108 million contract extension in 2013 that made him the fifth-highest-paid player in the NFL at the time.
The Eagles rank No. 1 over the period with $613.9 million in cash spend, a cool $22 million more per season than the Cowboys.
Now you could argue – and the Cowboys certainly would – that this four-year period is just a snapshot, and a lot of things can influence the four-year number that may be just inside or just outside of this period. True.
You could also argue – and the Cowboys certainly would – that they are just $22 million off the league average spend, which is just peanuts over a four-year period. Also true.
