{"id":3366,"date":"2024-09-23T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2024-09-23T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:05:23","slug":"cowboys-jerry-jones-repeats-lie-about-ravens-pro-bowl-rb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Jerry Jones Repeats Lie About Ravens Pro Bowl RB.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2173801263-e1727057452136.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2173801263-e1727057452136.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2173801263-e1727057452136.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2173801263-e1727057452136.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys foe Derrick Henry (right) of the Ravens\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"266\" data-dom-ready-time=\"330\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Cowboys foe Derrick Henry (right) of the Ravens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There was plenty of chatter, no doubt, about the notion of the\u00a0Cowboys, seeking to make a big splash that could turn around their fortunes in after another NFL playoff disappointment last season, arranging their financial pieces in such a way that they could pursue and land star running back\u00a0Derrick Henry, who was a free agent after having spent a stellar career in\u00a0Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Henry was interested in coming to Dallas, which clearly needed a bruising back after struggling with short-yard situations in one season with\u00a0Tony Pollard\u00a0as the sole featured back. Landing him would require the Cowboys to either restructure some current deals or, even better, sign new contracts either with quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0or receiver\u00a0CeeDee Lamb\u00a0before the start of free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys did neither, and made no move whatsoever to sign Henry, who landed with the Ravens on a two-year, $16 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, after Henry gashed the Cowboys and led the\u00a0Ravens with 151 yards on 25 carries, adding two touchdowns, team owner Jerry Jones brushed off\u2014again\u2014any notion of the Cowboys signing or ever wanting to sign Henry because, as he said (via reporter Joe Hoyt), \u201cWhy can\u2019t you buy a mansion when you live in a different type of house? We couldn\u2019t afford it. You can\u2019t make that all fit. Simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Could Have Created Cap Space<\/h2>\n<p>That is, of course, a lie. It\u2019s what Jones has been saying all along about Henry and the Cowboys, but it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, yes, the Cowboys did not have cap space on March 13, at the start of free agency, to sign Henry. But it would have been relatively simple to restructure a deal or two on the books to create the space for Henry, whose $16 million deal is not really even $8 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>Henry got a signing bonus,\u00a0according to Spotrac, of $7.8 million, which cut this year\u2019s cap hit to $5.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a difficult amount to conjure up for an NFL team. It would have been especially easy for Jones and the Cowboys to do so if they had re-signed either Lamb or Prescott\u2014or, God forbid, both\u2014early, which would have allowed the team to convert a significant portion of the first year of the new contract into a signing bonus and reduced each player\u2019s cap number.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Jones and the Cowboys opted to pull together a running back committee led by the fast-declining\u00a0Ezekiel Elliott, who racked up three carries and six yards on Sunday.\u00a0Rico Dowdle\u00a0led the RBs on the day with eight carries for 32 yards. In all, the Cowboys had 51 yards rushing on 16 carries.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Derrick Henry Loves Dallas<\/h2>\n<p>If there was any doubt about where Henry might have preferred to play, remember that he has a home in Dallas. And there was this bit of frustrating reporting from Jane Slater, of the NFL Network,\u00a0who wrote on Twitter\/X:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelp Derrick Henry told me he was looking forward to this one after wanting to play in Dallas. Lives and trains here in the offseason. Told me about 20 people in the stands to see him. Nice show today. 2 TDs, 133 scrimmage yards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys now, through three games, have 221 yards rushing on 62 carries. Henry had almost 70% of that total in one game, on 25 carries. Too bad the Cowboys could not\u2014ahem\u2014afford a mansion like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyCowboys foe Derrick Henry (right) of the Ravens There was plenty of chatter, no doubt, about the notion of the\u00a0Cowboys, seeking to make a big splash that&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys\u2019 Jerry Jones Repeats Lie About Ravens Pro Bowl RB.. - Sport News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3366\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys\u2019 Jerry Jones Repeats Lie About Ravens Pro Bowl RB.. - 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