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The latest Dallas Cowboys training camp news is here.
In this case, no news is not necessarily good news, as the Cowboys refuse to learn the lesson of what happens when waiting to pay top players.
With his player personnel duties seemingly not changing anytime soon, Jones remains focused on how to get the Cowboys back to the Super Bowl. That seems unlikely to happen anytime soon without a happy, healthy and productive Micah Parsons in the fold, and the star defender’s contract dispute was primary topic of discussion Monday before the start of training camp.
“There’s nothing new about what we’re talking about here today relative to contracts. That’s been going on a long time now,” Jones said.
“If you say, well, if you don’t get him in you’re going to lose the first two games, then go on to win the Super Bowl, well, we’ll take that,” he continued, referencing running back Emmitt Smith’s 1993 holdout.
There were no updates on Parsons’ on-field status from Jones, executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones or new coach Brian Schottenheimer ahead of the team’s annual, nearly monthlong stop in Ventura County. It’s the second straight offseason where financial dealings with standout players risk overshadowing the Cowboys’ football preparations.
A drama-free start to Cowboys camp in Oxnard will have to wait yet another year, as heated contract talks are once again the opening headline.
For Jones, he feels entitled to have his players make as little money as possible for as long as possible so he can (theoretically) spend more money on more players.
Just like the Cowboys did when Dak Prescott was on a fourth-round rookie salary for four years and decided they needed to cut Dez Bryant because they could get by with Deonte Thompson. Right?
Jones believes in the player essentially serving out the entirety of their contract before getting a new one, which is how things were done back in the 90’s (an era he can’t stop talking about) but now how they’re done in 2025.
It’s why Jerry and Stephen are comfortable with taking so long to pay their players; philosophically, they don’t seem to believe they even should be extending their players as soon as possible. Jones went on to specifically admit his non-belief in the basic concept of inflation with regards to the football market.
There’s a lot of reasons why this whole business of thinking “well, my goodness, it’s pretty obvious to me everything goes up, so why don’t you catch it when it’s low?” Have you ever thought that when it’s low, they’re counting on it going up? And those are the numbers coming out? Not the...
