Jerry Jones seems to want the Dallas Cowboys to head into a rebuild.
“Neglect” is the word that comes to mind when talking about the Cowboys this offseason. They traded longtime left tackle Tyron Smith to the New York Jets, Tony Pollard to the Tennessee Titans, center Tyler Biadasz to the Washington Commanders, and the list goes on.
Most egregiously, the Cowboys did not sign contract extensions to quarterback Dak Prescott or star receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Jones is entering his ninth season with Dallas, but for some reason, he’s still hesitant to sign Prescott. The quarterback market has been booming this offseason with big contracts for Jordan Love, Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence, but Prescott is still in the waiting game, becoming an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.
The same goes for Lamb, Dallas’ No. 1 weapon as a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, who has established himself as one of the best pass-catching players in football during his first four years in the league.
Jones also isn’t ready to commit to the Lambs. On Thursday, he “There is no urgency” To get a contract with a top wide receiver done.
Maybe Jerry is bluffing, the Cowboys could make Lamb the highest-paid non-quarterback player of all time, and Dallas could get out of their way this once and for all and do the right thing.
But for now, Lamb has every right to be upset about the situation. He has 5,145 receiving yards and 32 touchdown catches in four seasons. He’s just 25 years old.
Lamb’s response to Jones’ comments today was completely accurate.
Lamb has every reason to laugh out loud. This whole situation with the Cowboys is laughable. His situation is completely insane. The Cowboys have a chance to acquire a good young receiver in his prime and they’re not going to do it.
Then again, maybe Jones has some kind of master plan, maybe he just doesn’t approve of Mike McCarthy as the team’s head coach, but why would he want to keep a superstar player on the team?
There are at least 20 other NFL teams who would love to add Lamb to their roster, and of course, if the Cowboys underperform early in the season, they could trade Lamb for big money at the NFL trade deadline, but even if Dallas is heading for a rebuild, Jones will likely want at least one marketable star player.
The longer it goes on, the less his deal will cost — and he’s due to play out his fifth-year option — Jones is probably starting to get impatient with his star receiver openly laughing at him, and so is everyone else.
