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Ralph Vacchiano
NFC East Reporter
A year ago, when the Dallas Cowboys fell short of the Super Bowl again, Jerry Jones didn’t sound like a man who was willing to do whatever it takes to win a championship. He was admittedly “real hesitant to bet it all for a year.” He felt his ‘Boys could do the job with what they had.
Now, after they fell short again this past season with what Jones seemed sure was a championship-caliber roster, the 81-year-old owner has changed his approach. He plans to be aggressive in trying to stop the Cowboys’ Super Bowl-less streak at an already painful 28 seasons. He sounds like he’s ready to do whatever needs to be done.
“I would anticipate we will be all-in at the end of this year,” Jones told reporters at the Senior Bowl last month. “We will push the hell out of it. It will be going all-in on different people than you’ve done in the past. We will be going all-in. We’ve seen some things out of some of the players that we want to be all-in on. Yes, I would say that you will see us this coming year not build for the future.
“It’s the best way I’ve ever said. That ought to answer a lot of questions.”
It answers some, but it does leave open one big one:
What exactly does “all in” mean?
That’s something Jones and his team have to answer in the coming months, especially since his team is currently projected to be about $22 million over the NFL salary cap. That doesn’t exactly leave them many chips to push to the middle of the table, especially when free agency starts next month. To be aggressive, they’ll have to clean up their own financial house first.
Can they do that without losing too many key players? Will they have to mortgage some of their future to make a championship run in 2024? And if so, does that even matter anymore?
Those are all important questions, and the answers start right here with the three biggest offseason issues the Cowboys will have to address:
1. Figuring out how much…
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Publish date : 2024-02-20 19:15:13
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