We don\u2019t drag deals out<\/a>,\u201d Cowboys COO and co-owner Stephen Jones told 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, via Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. \u201cWe do deals when there\u2019s an opportunity to do a deal. Certainly, no one knows what\u2019s going on . . . internally with agents. Sometimes players and agents aren\u2019t ready to pull the trigger until they see other cards play.\u201d<\/p>\nHistory contradicts him. They dragged their feet with quarterback Dak Prescott, forcing him to play out the fourth year of his rookie contract and one year of the franchise tag before finally getting his second deal done. They dragged their feet with running back Ezekiel Elliott until he forced the issue with a training camp holdout. Ditto for receiver CeeDee Lamb in 2024.<\/p>\n
Last September, with Prescott on the brink of the final season of his second deal and with no way to keep him from becoming a free agent in March 2025, they finally extended him via contract that pays out much more than if they\u2019d moved sooner.<\/p>\n
Currently, they continue to drag their feet with linebacker Micah Parsons.<\/p>\n
They could have extended his contract a year ago, when the top of the market was $34 million per year. They opted to let him play for $3 million and kick the can. Now, with the market at $41 million, they\u2019re doing it again.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll likely lowball Micah before Week 1. If he takes it, they win. If he doesn\u2019t, he\u2019ll play for $24 million before the two sides play the franchise-tag game in 2026.<\/p>\n
Some teams (like the Eagles) move swiftly, securing long-term commitments early \u2014 and less expensively. The Cowboys don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
They can say they do as they want. The facts will keep saying otherwise.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Eagles currently are an elite team. And the Cowboys are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys have a well-earned reputation for dragging their feet on doing deals for key players. That doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-46718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}