In past years, the Dallas Cowboys have been hampered by high salaries which kept them from signing key free agents. One notable casualty of the Dallas’ salary cap woes was Pro Bowl defensive end DeMarcus Ware in 2014.
The front office spent so much on the salaries of quarterback Tony Romo and others, they couldn’t afford to sign Ware. So he left, signing a $30 million three-year contract with the Denver Broncos.
Dallas didn’t have a “war-daddy,” owner Jerry Jones’s cute term for an edge rusher, for several years after that.