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Stephen Jones added on Saturday that the staff made a proposal to Dak Prescott’s illustration a number of days in the past.
Stephen Jones stated he’s made a contract provide to CeeDee Lamb’s agent yesterday and one other one to Dak Prescott’s agent a number of days in the past.
— Calvin Watkins (@calvinwatkins) July 27, 2024
Time will inform whether or not that’s the proper one as properly.
The Dallas Cowboys are about to start their third observe out in Oxnard, California and to this point there may be zero signal of large receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Lamb, as you doubtless know, is at present holding out in hopes of a contract extension that he finds to be acceptable. He’s at present set to enter the ultimate 12 months of his rookie contract, his fifth-year choice season, and is coming off of profession highs in each essential metric.
Whereas coaching camp is off and working, that has not slowed the Cowboys from attempting to resolve this example. In response to NFL Community’s Jane Slater, EVP Stephen Jones stated the staff despatched him a brand new provide on Friday.
#Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones tells me they despatched CeeDee Lamb a brand new provide yesterday. He tells me good convos proper now with Lamb and his agent as they proceed to attempt to come to an settlement on an extension.
— Jane Slater (@SlaterNFL) July 27, 2024
Slater doesn’t observe the phrases of specifics of the deal, however issues like this often contain a backwards and forwards and that is clearly not the primary provide that Dallas has despatched. Maybe this would be the one.
Stephen sat down with the mothership’s Nick Eatman whereas in Oxnard (this was separate from the staff’s opening press convention) and was requested concerning the Lamb scenario particularly (it is likely one of the main storylines surrounding the staff proper now).
Here’s what he needed to say. He talked about Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons as properly.
“You realize we’ve had discussions all offseason, with each CeeDee and Dak. And his representatives. These simply aren’t straightforward offers. You’ve received a quarterback who was second in MVP in voting, clearly he’s going to be very properly paid as he must be. As one of many high quarterbacks on this league.”
“We’re attempting to work that round two gamers that might be, they’ll argue that they’re the perfect non-quarterbacks on this league. We’re blessed in that now we have these three gamers, but it surely’s additionally a problem from a wage cap standpoint and now we have to proceed to therapeutic massage and have conversations with the gamers, with the brokers when it comes to how we finally can get a contract in place that’ll work properly not just for this 12 months however for the long run.”
“As a result of these guys are nonetheless of their prime, they’re younger guys. They’ve quite a lot of soccer left in them. We’ll proceed to work on that. I’d characterize the entire negotiations as very amicable and making progress.”
That is going to stay a storyline for the Cowboys till issues are taken care of and at the least they’re taking lively measures in the direction of that being the case.
For now we all know that CeeDee Lamb acquired a proposal from the staff on Friday.
