FRISCO, Texas — Now that the Dallas Cowboys have signed extensive receiver CeeDee Lamb to a deal price $136 million, the place does that go away the staff in its contract discussions with quarterback Dak Prescott?
“It will stay prefer it’s been,” proprietor and normal supervisor Jerry Jones stated Wednesday.
The edges have had discussions, however nothing seems shut in the intervening time. Prescott stated within the remaining week of coaching camp in Oxnard, California, that talks had been getting into the fitting path, and he reiterated he needs to stay with the Cowboys.
With Lamb underneath a contract that makes him the second-highest-paid receiver within the NFL at $34 million yearly, the Cowboys can pivot fully to talks with Prescott, however Jones stated the main focus of the group is on the Sept. 8 season opener towards the Cleveland Browns.
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Jones stated he has had no indication from Prescott’s aspect that talks wouldn’t proceed with out an settlement in place by the beginning of the season.
What extra does Jones have to see for him to present Prescott, who’s getting into his ninth yr because the Cowboys’ beginning quarterback, a brand new deal?
“You possibly can simply say, ‘If you have not seen it by now, you have not seen it,'” he stated. “I am such a fan of Dak’s and recognize the entire nice issues that everyone knows that’s there. And I recognize his work ethic greater than something out right here. I am unable to inform you how proud I’m that we have him this yr to begin this marketing campaign. … If you take a look at a scenario, you’ve got acquired additionally acquired to weigh, ‘OK, what are the results of the opposite aspect of the coin?’ And so Dak’s scenario proper now for me, from my mirror, has extra to do with our scenario than it does with the deserves of Dak Prescott being the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.”
If the Cowboys don’t attain a cope with Prescott, the membership shall be subsequent season with no quarterbacks signed for 2025. Prescott, Cooper Rush and Trey Lance are all set to be free brokers in March.
The Cowboys can not place the franchise tag on Prescott, who’s within the remaining yr of his four-year, $140 million deal he signed in 2021. If Prescott hits free company in March, he would rely $40 million towards the Cowboys’ cap in 2025.
“Contracts is not the end-all answer, and a few of the greatest selections that I have been part of with the Cowboys have been once we did not have contracts someway, with a participant on our staff or another staff,” Jones stated. “So I stop a very long time in the past getting bent out of form about having anyone underneath contract or not. And there is every kind of different issues apart from a contract that would change the result of him being underneath contract — harm, the extent of play — so you may’t simply decide that and say, ‘That ought to offer you a greater feeling about our staff,’ or me a greater feeling. The entire thing has quite a lot of transferring components.
“Now I can reside with that and to reside with it. You need to as a result of we play a sport that it may possibly change on the following play.”
