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The latest Dallas Cowboys buzz heading into the weekend.
Jerry Jones and the Cowboys may have to write a pretty large check if they want to bring back Osa Odighizuwa for the 2025 season and beyond.
Odighizuwa couldn’t have picked a better time to break out, doing so in his contract year. With a relatively weak defensive tackle class in free agency, teams are primed to open their checkbooks for one of the few standout stars available at the position.
Marcus Mosher for the 33rd Team predicted “This Year’s Mega Contacts” and Osa Odighizuwa cracked the list
Odighizuwa is projected to earn a whopping three-year, $63 million contract.
“Look for Odighizuwa to earn a contract worth at least $20 million per season. Given the lack of depth at defensive tackle in free agency, it wouldn’t be a surprise if he earned significantly more,” Mosher wrote.
“We saw Christian Wilkins sign a deal worth upwards of $27 million last year, and Odighizuwa is younger and far more durable.”
Dak Prescott reflected on the Super Bowl-winning division rivals and believes that the Cowboys are within reach.
While some would say there’s a gap between where the Eagles and Cowboys are at, Prescott thinks that Dallas is “very close” to winning a Super Bowl of their own.
“I feel like we compete with the Eagles and beat them, for the most part, when we play them.” Prescott said at the reveal of models for the 2025 Children’s Cancer Fund gala on Tuesday.
“I don’t want to say ‘check the record’ when they’re the guys holding the trophy right now, so credit to them. They earned it and they deserve it, by all means, but yea, very close.”
In his nine year career, Prescott is 9-4 against the Eagles, but it’s an accomplishment that is hard to celebrate considering the Cowboys haven’t made an NFC championship game in 30 years, the longest drought in the NFL. In 2024, the Eagles beat the Cowboys by a combined 75-13 margin with Prescott nursing his hamstring injury.
With all of that in mind, Prescott knows that if Dallas wants to end the drought and reign above the NFC again, the responsibility falls solely on them.
“To see [the Eagles do it] in such a dominating fashion, credit to them,” Prescott said on Philadelphia’s Super Bowl win. “It’s our turn, and it’s on us.”
Todd Archer of ESPN outlines what needs to happen for the Cowboys in order to be contenders in 2025.
How do the Cowboys close the gap on the Eagles?
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