Much of the offseason has been spent trying to figure out what Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones meant by going “all in.”
Is the plan to go out and sign big-name free agents while pushing the salary cap back to 2027? Or is it to sign the star players who demand new contracts, such as Dak Prescott?
As it turns out, it might be neither.
NFL Network’s Rich Eisen spent the whole week at the Scouting Combine, keeping his ear to the ground and returning with a rumor list. Now, Eisen is a well-known figure in the industry and has been for decades, so we don’t take this lightly.
Eisen has disclosed some of the talk heard in Indianapolis during the Scouting Combine, and it has something to do with Prescott’s contract predicament. Cowboys Nation, you’ll want to sit down for this.
“The notion I heard from numerous individuals at the combine is that his [Jerry Jones’] concept of all in is to make Dak play out his walk year, not extend him at all, and simply eat
“This is what he means by all-in. He means, “Hey Dak, you haven’t won a playoff game except for a couple around here, and last year was so bad that I’m going to make you play it out, and I’ll eat the 59, nearly 60 million dollars.” If you do what I hope you do [win the Super Bowl], hold me over a barrel because you think he’ll take less than 59 million dollars to stay put. I was just stunned when I heard that.”
CowboysSI.com has already discussed the three alternatives available to Dallas when deciding what to do with Prescott’s deal, and not extending him and severely limiting the team’s roster building options was not regarded to be a real consideration.
According to Eisen, it is more than just an option; it might be the path Jerry takes.
This contradicts Dak’s statements at a Children’s Cancer Fund event on Monday, when the quarterback stated that he was “confident” a deal would be reached.
