Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones talks lots.
And whenever you discuss lots, you’re nearly at all times sure to say one thing that comes throughout as moderately silly.
As Michael Scott as soon as famously mentioned, “Typically I’ll begin a sentence and I don’t even know the place it’s going. I simply hope I discover it alongside the way in which.”
Jones discovered himself in that precise state of affairs on Thursday when discussing the present panorama of adverse contract conditions in Dallas.
Jones, whose 81 years of life expertise makes him a chief candidate for political workplace, went on an incoherent mumbling rant, explaining that he’s presently like an choice quarterback who has to judge all choices earlier than making a choice.
“We’re attempting to make our thoughts up on what to do,” Jones mentioned. “Does that sound like Mahomes to you?”
It doesn’t sound like Mahomes in any respect. And if Jones and Mahomes had been each quarterbacks (they’re not, in case you forgot), Mahomes is one thing that Jones isn’t.
A winner.
Mahomes has three Tremendous Bowl rings at simply 28 years previous. The Cowboys final Tremendous Bowl win was in 1996. Mahomes was barely one yr previous. Simply another excuse why that comparability made no sense.
The contract conditions unfolding in Dallas are considerably mind-boggling. Quarterback Dak Prescott has been main the Cowboys for almost a decade now, and so they’re nonetheless hesitant to decide to him long-term.
Whereas Prescott isn’t on the identical tier as Patrick Mahomes and even Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, franchise quarterbacks don’t develop on bushes, and the Cowboys don’t have many different choices. Possibly they will pivot to a veteran like Kirk Cousins or Kyler Murray if their groups determine to maneuver on after this yr, however at that time, why not deliver again Prescott?
On high of the entire quarterback state of affairs in Dallas, star large receiver CeeDee Lamb is holding out of coaching camp as he awaits his personal contract.
After being chosen within the first spherical of the 2020 NFL Draft, Lamb has turn into top-of-the-line large receivers within the NFL. He’s a greater receiver than Prescott is a quarterback. And he undoubtedly deserves to be compensated as one of many high gamers within the NFL.
He has over 5,000 receiving yards and 32 touchdowns in 4 seasons with the Cowboys, growing productiveness each single yr.
“It simply has to make sense,” Lamb mentioned of his contract expectations.
If contract negotiations are going something like press conferences, they in all probability don’t make a lot sense.
