{"id":3712,"date":"2024-09-24T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:57:42","slug":"breaking-cowboys-claim-didnt-have-money-to-land-pro-bowl-playmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys Claim \u2018Didn\u2019t Have Money\u2019 to Land Pro Bowl Playmaker.."},"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\/05\/GettyImages-1441208452-e1715086131771.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1441208452-e1715086131771.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1441208452-e1715086131771.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1441208452-e1715086131771.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys VP Stephen Jones claimed there was no money to sign Derrick Henry.\" width=\"780\" height=\"436\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1170\" data-img-load-time=\"1343\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Cowboys VP Stephen Jones claimed there was no money to sign Derrick Henry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a way,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/\">Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0executive VP Stephen Jones, who also happens to be the son of owner Jerry Jones, is right when he says that the Cowboys could not do much of anything in free agency this offseason because of the elephants in the room\u2014contract extensions needed for star players\u00a0Dak Prescott,\u00a0CeeDee Lamb\u00a0and\u00a0Micah Parsons.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday, he blamed the team\u2019s inability (or unwillingness) to sign star running back\u00a0Derrick Henry\u00a0on those players\u2019 contracts, and that\u2019s more technically true than it is realistically true. Yes, the Cowboys have big, fat salary\u00a0numbers on the books\u00a0for Prescott ($55 million) and Lamb ($18 million) and, yes, the Cowboys have just\u00a0$2.7 million in effective cap space, per OverTheCap.com.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, who earned his fourth Pro Bowl selection in 2023, signed with Baltimore for $16 million over two years. With the Cowboys\u2019 current cap situation, he was never going to fit in Dallas. But the thing is, if the Cowboys had worked out an extension with Prescott\u2014and\/or Lamb, for that matter\u2014they could have reduced the cap hit for 2024 on those contracts and carved out cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Enough for a star running back like, say, Derrick Henry. Instead, the Cowboys have chosen to play some weird \u201call-in\u201d hardball with Prescott, perhaps paving the way for him to hit free agency in 2025.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Salary Cap Left No Room for Derrick Henry<\/h2>\n<p>But let\u2019s give Stephen Jones the floor, as he was asked specifically about Henry by Adam Schein of SiriusXM Radio. Here\u2019s\u00a0how he framed things\u00a0(via NBC Sports\u2019 PFT):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, first of all, nothing but respect for Derrick Henry. I mean, he\u2019s one of the top backs in this league. \u2026 Our situation is just, you know, and no one ever wants to say it, but it\u2019s salary cap, and we just didn\u2019t have the money to allocate to that position in terms of where we were from a cap standpoint, knowing what we\u2019re looking at with Dak and certainly Micah and CeeDee Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just didn\u2019t have those type of resources to allocate to that position or we probably would\u2019ve already had it filled with Tony Pollard. We hated to lose Tony Pollard. We had to lose Zeke the year before from a cap standpoint. And, you know, we just didn\u2019t have the dollars to allocate to the running back position. And, certainly, looking to do it in a more efficient way in terms of how it complements the rest of our offensive roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys did, in fact, let Pollard walk, also, on a three-year, $24 million contract that was less than what he\u2019d gotten on a per-year basis playing for the franchise-tag number ($10 million) in 2023.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>All In or All-or-Nothing?<\/h2>\n<p>For the Cowboys, despite Jones\u2019s framing, it was not so much a matter of not having the cap space to sign Henry\u2014or Pollard or anyone else, for that matter. It was how the team managed the contracts that they had.<\/p>\n<p>They could have reworked Prescott\u2019s deal last year, knowing full well that he was set for a serious spike in 2024. They could have pushed through a massive extension for Lamb. Both played as well as anyone at their positions last season, and if the deals had gotten done early, the Cowboys could have had money to spend this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>And in both cases, new contracts would have been a relief valve for this season\u2019s salary-cap situation.<\/p>\n<p>But the Cowboys are taking a hard line. After another postseason disappointment following the disastrous\u00a048-32 loss to Green Bay on their home field, the Cowboys brain trust determined that they were not going to commit to this roster beyond 2024. And they\u2019re doing that even if it means sacrificing short-term success.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a risky strategy. But that\u2019s the real reason they team could not make splashy free-agent signings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyCowboys VP Stephen Jones claimed there was no money to sign Derrick Henry. 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