Cowboys

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones dismissed the importance of signing LB Micah Parsons to a contract extension.

“I am not the least concerned about having any dangling participles out here on a contract,” Jones said, via Cowboys Wire.

Jones referenced former OL Zack Martin‘s contract holdout and said that the team has always found a way to come to an agreement with their star players.

“Not at all,” he explained, flashing back to times it has all worked out in the past between the club and holdout stars. “Two years ago we were here, and I think Zack Martin wasn’t here, and you had a situation although he had a contract. You work through that.”

Jones went as far as to reference RB Emmitt Smith‘s contract dispute and how the team went on to win the Super Bowl in 1993.

“I was looking at this documentary and spent some time going back on the Emmitt Smith negotiation and what was going on there,” Jones offered. “There’s nothing new about what we’re talking about here today relative to contracts. You say, ‘If you don’t get him in, are you going to lose the first two games then go on to win the Super Bowl?’ Well, we’ll take that.”

Jones added that the team won’t rush to guarantee money to Parsons and said that injuries could happen, while referencing QB Dak Prescott‘s contract and injury history.

“Just because we sign him,” Jones offered, “doesn’t mean we’re going to have him. He was hurt six games last year. [Ed note: It was actually four.] Seriously. I remember signing a player for the highest-paid at the position in the league and he got knocked out two-thirds of the [way through the] year: Dak Prescott. There’s a lot of things you can think about- just as the player does- when you’re thinking committing and guaranteeing money.”

Jones concluded by saying Parsons is one of the more financially-savvy players he’s ever been around and said he will get paid his worth.

“Of all of the players that I’ve ever negotiated with,” he said, “Micah Parsons is as savvy and knowledgeable and understanding of his financial business relative to football as any player I’ve ever been around.”

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