Yep, too many take these stories, with no validation, and run with them.
I don't buy that story at all. If that's true, the Joneses are beyond incompetent because they know damned well how deals get done, they don't let the deadline run out.
I also don't fault either side in this deal, they simply couldn't come to terms and that happens all of the time in pro sports. The Joneses are known as the rollovers in the NFL and Prescott's agent is aware of that so the timing wasn't an issue. I think France and Prescott are perfectly fine playing on the tag this year. When they tagged him, another part of the story, that played more into his hands than anything. They were fearful of the non exclusive tag that he'd no show but that's the one they should have used because that would have given them more options.
Posters need to just get focused on the season and not play the blame game, make it about football and not the money.