The topics we are discussing today regarding contracts are nothing new. According to Jones, that has been going on for a while.
Referring to running back Emmitt Smith’s 1993 holdout, he said on, “If you say, well, if you don’t get him in you’re going to lose the first two games then go on to win the Super Bowl, well, we’ll take that.”
Prior to the team’s yearly, almost month-long visit to Ventura County, neither Jones, executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones, nor new coach Brian Schottenheimer provided any information on Parsons’ on-field condition. For the second consecutive offseason, the Cowboys’ football preparations could be overshadowed by pay negotiations with top players.
Before the season began, quarterback Dak Prescott signed a new contract that made him the highest-paid player in the NFL. He had attended training camp the previous year. Before signing a new four-year, $136 million contract with a $100 million guarantee last August, wide receiver CeeDee Lambheld was hold out of camp. Before a 7-10 season that ended Mike McCarthy’s five-year tenure as coach, those lengthy transactions took place.
Parsons finished 13 games with 12 sacks and 12 tackles for loss, the fewest totals in each of his four Dallas seasons. The elder Jones is grateful that the 26-year-old defensive end is at camp, but it’s unclear if Parsons will take part in Tuesday’s first session. The Cowboys might use the franchise tag in 2026, and he is entering the fifth and last year of his rookie contract.
Although Stephen Jones subsequently emphasized that he usually handles such discussions, Jones claimed he had not engaged in direct negotiations with Parsons’ agent, David Mulugheta.
We obviously have work to do and don’t have a deal with Micah. When asked what was preventing a possible deal that would almost certainly make Parsons the highest-paid defender in the league, Stephen Jones responded, “That’s the only thing I would comment on.”
Jerry Jones doesn’t think the team’s progress throughout camp, which ends on August 14, would be impacted by a probable Parsons hold-in.
Jones stated, “I’m not worried at all about what our team can be this year, what we make of our training camp, and what we develop into.” I can’t stress enough how unconcerned I am about a contract that involves or will effect that in any manner.
During a normally free-flowing hour-long news conference, the inveterate Jones bounced between complimenting Parsons’ business acumen and pointing up that he dealt with an ailment for the first time in his career, missing four games due to a high ankle sprain.
The Cowboys have won five playoff games in the last 29 seasons, and despite the incessant criticism, Jones, 82, claimed he still enjoys making judgments about player personnel.
“This is how I like it, and if you watch this (upcoming Netflix documentary), you’ll see that I gave everything I had and then got exposed probably two or three times that so that I could sit up here,” Jones added.
Jones went on to say, “Listen, listen, I haven’t worked in 35 years.” You can’t imagine how much fun and how awful this run has been for me.
Among them is a noteworthy recent appearance in the streaming series “Landman.” Jones, who plays himself, appeared opposite actors Jon Hamm and Billy Bob Thornton to give a monologue about the value of involving family in his business endeavors. He joked that the filmmakers omitted the best part of an offensive joke he makes in a hospital room conversation with Hamm’s distraught oil baron.
Jones remarked, “I thought that was the best scene in the whole thing, and they took that out.”
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