CeeDee Lamb Holds Out: Implications for Cowboys Camp
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00:00the Cowboys show up to camp in Oxnard, it will be notable for
00:07who is also not there. That's CeeDee Lamb officially holding
00:12out from the start of training camp for Dallas unable at least
00:16at this stage to shot to sign a contract extension before the
00:20fifth and final year of his rookie deal. CeeDee Lamb
00:24without that big new contract that fellow first round pick
00:28Justin Jefferson from the 2020 NFL draft received is not
00:32going to be at training camp at least at the start. How
00:36concerned should Cowboys fans and backers be DRS that Lamb is
00:41not there. I don't think they should really be concerned
00:44about that because I do think he's going to show up, but more
00:47of the concern of again the offseason strategy that was
00:50laid out by Jerry Jones. I'm not getting any younger. We are
00:53all in and proceeds to do nothing but bungle the salary
00:57cap and not pay your best players where you can you can
01:00see the players say whatever they want. Now CeeDee Lamb is
01:02taking a completely different approach like Dak Prescott like
01:04Dak's like you know what I played down this route the
01:07longer we wait the more money I'm going to make. I'm fine
01:08with that. I'm a quarterback. I'm probably not going to have
01:10a career ending injury, but for guys looking to strike gold
01:13like CeeDee Lamb where so many wide receivers are doing that.
01:16I just can't understand what the Dallas Cowboys philosophy
01:18is because when you see Dak say I'm fine with it, you know,
01:22even if any player says that deep down like look, I just
01:24want what I'm worth like give me the financial security and
01:27let me go into the season just focused on football itself. I
01:31don't want to get calls from my agent midweek saying hey,
01:33here's the latest offer coming back. What do you think about
01:35this? I want to focus on game plan. I want to be with the
01:37boys out there like I want to play football and don't have to
01:40worry about my financial constraints at this point and
01:42this is what they're doing like CeeDee Lamb not sure like is
01:44anybody in the right mind believe like right now like
01:46what's CeeDee Lamb asking for he wants to be paid like Justin
01:49Jefferson. Oh, you can't pay him and let him sit like no
01:52again. Just the way the NFL financials work. It's the next
01:55man in line who's a really good football player is going to get
01:59that big paycheck and I have no idea what they're doing in
02:01Dallas because theoretically Ben three guys that I said,
02:04let's just say nobody gets paid this year. They're all going to
02:07reset the market. You won't have enough money left over to
02:09pay the rest of your football team, but if you're paying
02:11these guys as you go and limiting the damage and saving
02:14yourself money and also how many times we see this. Hey,
02:17Dak's worth 60 million dollars against the cap here. Well, if
02:20you just restructured him and gave him a new contract, he'd
02:22be down to 10 million against the cap. CeeDee Lamb is going
02:25to count what 18 million against the cap. If you gave
02:27him a hundred million dollars in guarantees, he probably would
02:30count half of his cap number of what it is now. I have no idea
02:34what Jerry Jones is doing. CeeDee Lamb should be paid top
02:36dollar and be in camp and ready to go for this football
02:39season.