Breaking Down The Dallas Cowboys Contract Uncertainties
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00:02 The Dallas Cowboys go into training camp with more contract questions this year,
00:07 maybe than any other team in the NFL.
00:09 And I understand all the running back discourse that's gone on with Josh Jacobs
00:13 and of course Saquon Barkley.
00:16 Those players are on two different teams.
00:17 I mean, Zach Martin, probably worthy of a new deal.
00:21 Tony Pollard didn't get a new deal.
00:23 Trayvon Diggs wants a new deal.
00:25 CeeDee Lamb probably in the same boat.
00:26 Terrence Steele also out there looking for a new deal as well.
00:29 So Jesse, how do you think Dallas handles this situation?
00:32 Because Jerry in the past, at least from my perspective, you could tell me,
00:36 usually gives out a couple and then says to the others, you're on your own.
00:40 You think that's what happens here with Dallas?
00:43 >> I think historically under this Jones administration for
00:49 the Cowboys, in the last couple years, a couple contracts,
00:53 the Cowboys have gotten fleeced.
00:55 You go back and look at what happened with the Zeke Elliott contract, right?
00:58 He went and got a new deal, $90 million on his contract and
01:02 that ended up biting the Cowboys in the butt.
01:05 The Cowboys also could have got a quarterback, a young,
01:08 fresh quarterback in Dak Prescott.
01:10 They could have got him for about 27, $28 million a year and
01:13 they kind of gambled to try to see if he was still going to be who he was going to
01:17 be and then they kind of got stuck with the guy who they were in.
01:20 They were in between a rock and a hard place of trying to take this team that was
01:23 ready made and built to win a Super Bowl.
01:26 And then having a quarterback at the time who got hurt, but was due for
01:29 a new contract and then you went from going for $28 million to have to pay
01:34 $40 million a year for your quarterback.
01:36 And so now you have these other ones coming up the line.
01:38 Unfortunately for Tony Pollard, the way the league has been going in these last
01:43 couple years against running backs,
01:44 he probably won't get the deal that he thinks he's going to get.
01:48 But nonetheless, even this year at $10.1 million,
01:51 the Cowboys still overpaid for a running back.
01:55 $10 million if you look that up, Tony Pollard to me is a really good running back
02:00 and fits well in the Cowboys system.
02:02 But he isn't of the likes of guys like Nick Chubb and
02:05 Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs.
02:08 He's a good back, but Christian McCaffrey,
02:10 those are the guys who are making that type of money,
02:13 the big money at the running back position.
02:14 And now Tony Pollard finds himself fourth in money making this year in $10.1
02:19 million guaranteed.
02:21 Guys just aren't getting that at the running back position.
02:24 But if we're being honest here, the best player on this football team,
02:28 and we're just talking pure skill set, at his position,
02:31 there is not a better player on this Cowboys football team or
02:35 even in the league that's better than Zach Martin.
02:37 He is and has been the number one, number two guard in football for
02:43 a very, very, very long time.
02:45 And the way this offensive line has been shuffled around,
02:49 not showing what you have at center, Tyron Smith, to me,
02:53 they should have taken a patriot method and
02:55 kind of let a guy go a year or two before he really got old.
02:59 Tyron's still coming off an injury.
03:00 Tyler Smith, you don't know what you have left.
03:02 The one constant that you have, you can set your watch to it.
03:06 It's like death in taxes.
03:08 Zach Martin is going to be very, very good.
03:11 So you wanna make sure you pay him cuz you don't wanna end the training camp and
03:14 not have Zach Martin there to get that team chemistry going for
03:18 this upcoming season.
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