Dallas Cowboys Send Crystal Clear Message to Dak Prescott Amidst “Challenging” Contract Negotiations

The Dallas Cowboys are in the midst of some fierce contract negotiations with not one, not two, but three of their three best players. Quarterback Dak Prescott, wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, and linebacker Micah Parsons all want to be the highest-paid players at their respective positions. That, as one might expect, presents a problem for the Cowboys.

It is very difficult to afford multiple star players, as the San Francisco 49ers are learning the hard way through their own contract negotiations with wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk.

Recently, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made waves after saying he did feel like coming to an agreement with Lamb was “urgent.” The All-Pro wide receiver recently removed “America’s Team” from his social media biography and is clearly unhappy with how things are going.

Lamb, of course, is holding out from training camp while his contract is negotiated. Prescott, on the other hand, is present but also eager to see his deal get done.

Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Dak Prescott Wants to Reset the Market

Prescott and the Cowboys have been negotiating a new deal for a while, but other quarterbacks around the NFL have agreed to substantial extensions with their teams that have driven up Dallas’ most important player’s asking price.

Jared Goff is getting paid $53 million a season, Trevor Lawrence $55 million, Tua Tagovailoa $53.1 million, and Jordan Love $55 million.

Prescott is expected to make more than all of these players, but it is not as easy as just handing him $56 million a season and calling it a day.

Dallas wants to give Prescott a long extension that would tie him to the franchise for the rest of his career. Prescott, on the other hand, wants a shorter-term deal so that he can get a bigger raise later on.

Dallas Cowboys COO Stephen Jones Calls the Dak Prescott Contract Extension “Challenging”

Speaking on “The Doomsday Pod,” Cowboys COO Stephen Jones said, “We’ve got a challenging situation. It’s a good situation to have, but it’s challenging when you have one of the top quarterbacks in the league and two of the best non-quarterback players in the league in Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb.”

He continued, “It’s a negotiation that we’re having to work hard at. At the end of the day, you want to put some other players [on the field]. Those three guys can’t go out and play the game by themselves. We’ll continue to work at it.”

One can certainly see where Jones is coming from. They want to be able to afford quality players to complement their stars.

On the other hand, though, they won’t have any stars to complement if they do not pay them what they are worth. This may mean that one or two of them leave in free agency, but that is the nature of business in the NFL.

If they need to decide between a quarterback, a wide receiver, and a linebacker, they should pick the quarterback to extend.

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