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Adam Schefter suggested a common Dallas Cowboys fan conspiracy theory.
The Dallas Cowboys operate in a unique fashion. We all know this.
Consider that we are only a few days into training camp beginning for them and that most of the headlines to date, granted there has only been a single practice at the time of this writing, have been about the contract situation surrounding Micah Parsons or Jerry Jones taking a bit of a shot at Trevon Diggs and Terence Steele relative to the deals the team gave them a few years ago. Football season, baby.
As noted the Cowboys are an outlier in terms of standard operating procedure for NFL teams. Many fans have known this for a long time, but the national media is starting to catch up a bit. Consider this offering from Kevin Clark on Tuesday morning where he noted that he does not believe Jerry Jones would sign up for three straight Super Bowls if he could not conduct a press conference in the process.
Whether or not that is true lies with Jerry Jones himself. We needn’t spend time wondering about his opinion on this kind of thing. The point here was to illustrate how the national media has “caught on” to the Cowboys as their every day fans have known them for some time.
This bore out by way of a different ESPNer just one day later. Adam Schefter was on 105.3 The Fan and discussed a variety of things, the Micah Parsons situation included because... duh.
One of the more interesting answers from Schefter was to a question about the Cowboys’ philosophy with extensions. We have talked and talked and talked and talked about how the way they do things is difficult to justify as it literally all of the time generally leads to them paying more than if they had been proactive.
Schefter brought up the Dak Prescott contract situation of last year. Many Cowboys fans were opposed to the extension happening, but speaking in terms of the financials of it all it is difficult to disagree with Schefter in that if the Cowboys had acted swiftly they could/would have paid less than they ultimately did.
“If we go back to last offseason, it’s very easy to say it now. Hindsight. But I would have said it back then. I was surprised that there were no conversations with Dak in February about a new deal. Couple of months later, Jared Goff gets done at $52M and then there are more quarterbacks that get done. And all of a sudden Dak’s at 60.”
“So if they had gotten him done at the time of Jared Goff, it’s 52. It’s 53. So it cost them an extra 7 by waiting. What was the advantage of waiting? I don’t know. Maybe Jerry liked that everybody was talking about Dak Prescott all summer. Maybe he got $7M worth of PR. That definitely could be the case.”
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