Dallas Cowboys Will Release 11-year Veteran Greg Ellis

I still don't get it. This should have been delt with during the draft to pick up something for him. Anything....a Bag of footballs is better then nothing. Just makes no business since for you to have under contract a guy who made/makes 5 mil. a year and isn't hurt and we can't move him for a dinner a mcdonalds. worth nothing so we let him walk....

well, this just shows you at times that we pay to much money out for these players. ellis is an 11 year vet. he's got a contract of what ? 4.5 mil? no one will pay that and we can't move that to some of the teams that could use him. cap free next year? not this year. 4.5 mil is a nice piece of change to throw into the ware deal and spencer is cheap now, might as well play him. we probably get the same if not better play at this point with spencer? if we were to have traded him it should have come at the draft, not now. everyone knows when in camp and just before the season is when older vets get RELEASED not traded. everyone knows are cap situation, and they know we did nothing in freeagency. we drafted depth and youth. what would that tell any of you if your lets say bill belicheck?

I dont understand why mgmt. is so not on top of things and let's players like this walk without a trade?? Jones gets another F grade for this effort. Must be ego? If they played there cards right they could get something...3,4,5 round by end of training camp when we see spencer has the goods this year thru practise/play while we shop Ellis. M Plain stupid mgmt. on the Cowboy staff the way the could and should deal with this kind of issue.  WE go to great lengths at times to get mid/late draft picks while crap like this happens and players walk with nothing for the team. What in the hell is wrong here?

MBIII, he might have had some value before we said that we were going to release him if we couldn't trade him but I can't see why anyone would trade now.  I just don't see him having enough value to create a bidding war and that is the only way a team gives something up for a player they can get without giving anything up.  Am I missing a piece of this puzzle?  Why would we keep releasing statements like that.  We did the same thing with Roy Williams.  He had less value so Ididn't really make a big deal out of it but Ellis is a very accomplished pass rusher.  That is worth something in the NFL.  I know that he is expensive for the role that the envision for him but that can't be the whole of it, can it?

There has to be some kind of trade value left in Ellis. I don't want to see the guy go, but if he goes, we need to get something for it. I don't care if we get late-round draft picks, Ellis still has talent that teams could use.

I have never heard a single teammate of Ellis speak poorly of him.  Everything I have read, and I do mean everything, has been the same.  His teammates talk about his willingness to teach them what he knows, his calm leadership on the field, and his work effort.  Now I know at times he has said some boneheaded things but he plays hard every week.  Even when he is complaining he is working hard on the field both practice and gameday.  The only black mark on his record as far as I am concerned is his slowing his rehab in 07.  I am sorry to see him go but I understand the decision.  My wife and I are purdue alum so we are big believers in Spencer and have been for a year or two longer than most cowboys fans but I am not impressed with his body of work yet.  I expected better so, Spence, this has gotta be your year.

We don't have any idea how good Spencer is in the pass rush because to this point he has played almost exclusively running downs. Here's his chance to prove his worth as a first rounder.