Jerry Jones refuses to subscribe to doomsday notion on Dak Prescott's exit
The future of Dak Prescott with the Dallas Cowboys post the 2024 NFL season has remained unclear, with a contract extension still pending. But general manager Jerry Jones is confident.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, at the Cowboys training camp, Jones said that he doesn't believe this will be Prescott's final year in Dallas. He appreciated how the quarterback makes everyone on the team better.
"Just to be very specific, I do not think that this will be his last year with Cowboys at all. Am I being psychotic relative to my mirror? No. It's pretty clear I think. I won't to say it if it hadn't been clear of how much we appreciate what Dak Prescott has meant to this team in a positive way, and that players do play better when he's out there. He does make his teammates play at a higher level."
Jerry Jones continued, explaining that he's learned there were things he wanted that he couldn’t afford and he ended up being better off.
"But believe it or not in my life, I've had a lot of things I wanted, that I couldn't get because I couldn't afford it. Now have I learned to live with that in 80 something years, you better have and life does go on. And sometimes when you get a bump like that you turn around and do better than you would have had you got what you want it. You would have never known it had you not had to go to get there."
Dak Prescott is entering the final year of his four-year $160 million contract, which he signed in 2021. He will hit the open market in 2025 if the two parties don't agree on a long-term deal. It is league-widely believed that Prescott could become the first-ever $60 million quarterback.
Dak Prescott's contract is not the only issue at hand for Cowboys GM Jerry Jones
The Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones have a lot of unanswered questions in hand. Apart from Dak Prescott, wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and linebacker Micah Parsons are next in line seeking a massive contract extension.
Lamb is holding out of the Cowboys training camp after failing to reach an extension. But Jones is not losing sleep over it. He addressed the issue and said that it is something that "happens all over the league."
"I don’t flare when it’s happening to us. I’m aware that we want to get these guys to camp. Business as usual ... I’m used to this, I can live with this."
Jerry Jones hinted that paying Prescott, Lamb, and Parsons would account for "70 percent" of the Cowboys' payroll and reminded that the team is still paying "the credit card bill" for restructuring past contracts.