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Cowboys owner isn't entertaining a rebuild in Dallas.
Jerry Jones says the decision to sign Dak Prescott to a four-year, $240 million contract last September was a sign the Dallas Cowboys are a win-now team.
“I wouldn’t have signed Dak Prescott, the highest-paid player in the NFL, if now wasn’t when we wanted to win,” Jerry told The Athletic’s Dianna Russini ahead of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. “This is a shocker, to be here at this Super Bowl, and not have the Cowboys here. I didn’t plan on that when I made that agreement.
“So we’re going to do everything we can do get there... I know what it takes to get there, and we’ll do those things.”
Jones gave a similar answer when Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press asked him how far he believed the Cowboys were to competing in a Super Bowl.
“The decisions I’m making are not based on rebuilding. They’re based on competing, and competing now,” Jones told Maaddi. “The decisions I made last year were based on competing now.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same in Dallas.
Free agency has been a talking point early in the Cowboys offseason once again after last year saw Jones and Dallas remain quiet with the open market. When discussing how the team could approach it in 2025, he sees paying one of his own — presumably Micah Parsons — as the top priority instead.
“Well, we spent the most money of anybody in the NFL on a player last year,” Jones said. “If we can do that again, that’d be pretty good.”
“I think you ought to look at free agency, not so much the criticism we got last year, but look at in years past and how we’ve done it will probably be more in line.”
The Eagles are making their third trip to the Super Bowl in the last eight years. When will their salary cap bill come due?
“You get the best possible players and the best possible people on and off the field to try to win world championships,” Eagles executive vice president Howie Roseman said. “It’s not going to work every year because there are not the same picks or money. But I feel like every offseason we’re trying to find ways to get better and do better than the year before.”
The Eagles and Cowboys share one philosophy. Draft and develop. That’s a bedrock principle for both....
