Cowboys Secure Osa Odighizuwa with $80M Deal Over Franchise Tag

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00:00The Cowboys over the weekend shared an intention that they would franchise tag defensive tackle

00:05Osa Adigizuwa if a long-term deal was not reached. Well, that long-term contract extension

00:14was reached yesterday. Osa Adigizuwa and the Dallas Cowboys agreed to a four-year

00:19$80 million deal that includes $52 million guaranteed. Osa Adigizuwa, who's played all

00:26four years of his NFL career for Dallas, a career best four and a half sacks as a disruptive force

00:33for an otherwise pretty poor Dallas defense a season ago. Now Donny, is he worth $20 million

00:40per year? I guess you could debate that. In my estimation though, finally Jerry Jones and

00:46Stephen Jones make a good deal because they don't place the franchise tag on Adigizuwa.

00:52They don't let this drag out. Yes, they waited until deadline day, but they get a franchise

00:58friendly deal and get one of their young promising defensive players paid up front. Yes, the salary

01:04cap's going up. Marginal football players are going to get paid. Now Adigizuwa is a very good football

01:09player. 26 in his prime makes sense. Lock him up long term. You get that. But here's why we always

01:13get angry and it always gets back from me, Ben, to the Cincinnati Bengals. You saw the Dallas Cowboys

01:18go, hey, we're gonna have to franchise tag you in case we can't work things out. No, they might be

01:22close. They had lines of communication that were open. Here's the difference. One year at $26 million,

01:28which goes right to the cap hit that season on a franchise tag. He just signed four years, $80

01:34million and will count $6 million against the salary cap this upcoming season. So that gives you

01:40roughly $20 million more to play with and you got your football player. He's paid. He's happy with a

01:46lot of money and the salary cap. You didn't abuse it by eating up $20 million, which other teams

01:52will use the cap space and say, okay, T. Higgins, $25 million when you get T. Higgins at $5 or $6

01:58million and use that money to spread it around and build your defense. So I know I always make

02:02it about the Bengals, but this is what we talk about when if you're using the franchise tag,

02:06you are doing it wrong in the NFL. Hey, Jerry, finally a good decision.