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When it comes to Jerry Jones’ stewardship of the Dallas Cowboys, somebody please make it make sense.
The owner of the Cowboys brought his clown show stewardship of the franchise to the annual NFL meetings this week. Needless to say, nothing good came of it.
With the NFL Draft just three weeks away, and most of the fireworks in free agency fading into memory, Jones managed to step into a Home Depot of Rakes in Florida.
There are so many, it’s hard to figure out where to start. Maybe we’ll go with the rather large elephant, or rather, a lion that isn’t currently in the room.
Micah Parsons and his looming contract extension.
The Collective Bargaining Agreement, whether you like it or not, is in full force in the NFL.
Which means that the teams and the players, and everyone else associated with the NFL, have to abide by the rule laid out within. Someone needs to remind Jones of this fact.
While the other 31 NFL general managers negotiate contracts with the players’ agents, Jones has been trying to cut Parsons’ agent out of the loop.
Needless to say, Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta, is not amused. Neither is Parsons for that matter.
The Cowboys’ leading pass rusher has even directed Jones Inc. to call his agent and make their offers.
Reportedly, no such call has been made.
Given that Jones has publicly said he doesn’t know who Parsons’ agent is, one suspects that said call is not coming anytime soon.
Especially when you add this report about Jones saying Parsons’ extension is “not urgent at all” to him. Mulugheta has been relegated to discussing the issue with Adam Praifka, Dallas’ director of salary cap/player contracts.
I sincerely doubt any other NFL team negotiates contracts like this.
Only the ones that look like a clown show do.
This may come as something of a surprise to you.
The Dallas Cowboys haven’t won a Super Bowl in 29 years.
They haven’t even played in one for 29 years. They haven’t even played in an NFC Championship game, or won a divisional round playoff game, in the same time span.
They are just 5-13 in the playoffs since winning Super Bowl XXX at the end of the 1995 season.
The man who has been the owner and general manager all of those 29 years wants you to know something about that.
“I don’t wake up in the morning saying it’s been that long since we’ve played in an NFC Championship game,” Jones said in an interview earlier this week at the NFL meetings.
And that’s not the most infuriating thing he had to say on the subject.
“…no one has shown me the answer on how to get to a Super Bowl,” Jones added in the same interview with The Athletic’s Jon Machota.
Jimmy Johnson has entered the chat.
Not to mention one slight...
