Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has no qualms about negotiating directly with players who are represented by agents, ignoring the letter and\/or the spirit of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.<\/p>\n
He has done it before. He did it with linebacker Micah Parsons. Left unchecked, Jones will do it again.<\/p>\n
So where are the NFL and the NFL Players Association on this? The union has methods to challenge Jones\u2019s actions. The union hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
The league can take action, too. It hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Of course, it\u2019s not as if it works. The Cowboys end up waiting too long and paying too much, regardless of how Jones goes about negotiating.<\/p>\n
Maybe that\u2019s the best punishment. Jones deals directly with players. And the Cowboys eventually pay more than they should have paid.<\/p>\n
Regardless of the outcome to the negotiations, it\u2019s amazing that the league and the union allow Jones to keep doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has no qualms about negotiating directly with players who are represented by agents, ignoring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-59867","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\/59867","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=59867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}