Jerry Jones shifts Cowboys’ team-building approach from ‘all in’ to ‘get it done with less’

The messaging of Dallas Cowboys front office this offseason has officially turned 180 degrees. 

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones emphatically stated Dallas would be “all in” on upgrading its roster following an embarrassing postseason meltdown, a 48-32 NFC Super Wild Card Weekend defeat at AT&T Stadium against the NFC’s seventh seed and youngest team in the NFL, the Green Bay Packers. 

However, the opposite has since occurred. Linebacker Eric Kendricks is the Cowboys’ only external free agent signing thus far, and Dallas’ $9.875 in free agency this offseason is the lowest in the entire NFL by nearly $13 million behind the salary cap-strapped New Orleans Saints ($22.297 million), per OverTheCap.com. Had the Cowboys proactively extended 2023 NFL MVP runner-up quarterback Dak Prescott — whose $59.5 million cap hit in 2024 (the last year of his current contract) is set to be the second-highest in the league — 2023 receptions leader wide receiver CeeDee Lamb — whose $17.991 fully guaranteed fifth-year option is the last season of his rookie deal — Dallas could have spread out their current and future cap hits across future years to have more room to beef up the roster now.

After being the only team since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger to win 12 or more games in three consecutive seasons and not reach the conference championship round, Jones is content to “get it done with less” after losing six starters and depth at multiple positions.

“I have been more all in before,” Jones said Sunday at the NFL’s Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, per The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “By any definition and I have more all in to make a run back to the line of scrimmage then I’ve been to run for 50 yards. It took more all in to just get back to the line of scrimmage than it did to run for 50 yards. Sometimes that is a bigger challenge. That is really the gist of what we’re about this year….

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Author : Garrett Podell

Publish date : 2024-03-25 20:17:07

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