Jerry on the radio this morning

[PJTHEDOORS]

When they pay Zeke #1 money, then it’s fair.

#1 RB's show up vs the Rams,

 

[JJHLH1]

Jerry is digging in hard. He has my complete support.

 

[TheGoat73]

We get to see just how dumb Zeke is when we start the season 0-3. At 0-2 Jerry will start to flinch so much you will think he has the tremors.

Do you really think we will be 0-3? I can’t see that happening.

 

[xwalker]

that was another world without the qb protection rules and the wr protection rules
the game has changed that benefits the passing game, which in turn makes the rb less critical compared to the passing game.

The point is that if Jerry said no team has won the Super Bowl with the rushing leader since the Cowboys did it, then that was wrong.

The biggest issue is that the 4th highest paid RB in the NFL is making almost 1/2 as much as the highest paid RB (about 8M vs almost 15M).

Give me the 4th best RB, QB, WR, DE, LT, CB, etc.. and the team will be stacked.

However, at other positions the 4th best player makes almost as much at the top paid player.

 

[Stash]

No thanxs. I want draft picks for Zeke.

You good with third or fourth round?

 

[TheGoat73]

For people who have been challenging me on this, he couldn’t be more clear: Jerry Jones is dug In for the long haul and he expects Zeke back by Week 10 to accumulate a year of service. I guess that Aug 5 date really didn’t matter after all.

Ladies and gentlemen, Zeke won’t be wearing the Star for awhile. If ever - it’s entirely possible that Zeke doesn’t care to accumulate a year on his contract and sits the entire year then demands a trade. That would be dumb, of course, since Jerry doesn’t have to trade him at all.

Zeke can’t stay out of trouble until week 10.

 

[MarcusRock]

I disagree.

Jerry has always been big on the player honoring the contract so of course he's not going to hand out another contract that heavily favors the player.

The salary cap really makes all of this stuff obvious.

If he was all about honoring the contract then there'd have been no negotiating and this would have been his public stance from the get go. But it wasn't. He talked and is still talking, public stance and all. I mean, right?

 

[Stash]

Almost beat us in game 16 last year.

What?

 

[CATCH17]

If he was all about honoring the contract then there'd have been no negotiating and this would have been his public stance from the get go.

If they want Zeke long term well of course they are going to offer contracts under their terms when they control 95% of the leverage..

Zeke’s only leverage is to sit out and it costs him 230k a week and 4 million total if he sits out until week 10.

Dallas is in no rush because it would just be stupid to be in a rush.

 

[waldoputty]

The point is that if Jerry said no team has won the Super Bowl with the rushing leader since the Cowboys did it, then that was wrong.

The biggest issue is that the 4th highest paid RB in the NFL is making almost 1/2 as much as the highest paid RB (about 8M vs almost 15M).

Give me the 4th best RB, QB, WR, DE, LT, CB, etc.. and the team will be stacked.

However, at other positions the 4th best player makes almost as much at the top paid player.

it may be wrong
but what happened 20 years ago may as well have been in basketball
i would not focus on details whether something happened in the stone ages.

now the point about the 4th best rb, that is the headwind that rbs will battle from now on.
law of supply and demand is working horribly against them.
jerry's offer was FAR too generous.

 

[zrinkill]

I think Jerry is just acknowledging what actually does win NFL Championships

How the hell would he know anything about that?

Someone tell him that a competent GM and head coach wins championships.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

Safe to say that Zeke won't be there for week 1 and maybe even a few games after that, unless there is a major turn around and he gets signed during this weekend.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

For people who have been challenging me on this, he couldn’t be more clear: Jerry Jones is dug In for the long haul and he expects Zeke back by Week 10 to accumulate a year of service. I guess that Aug 5 date really didn’t matter after all.

That's what I think he meant by the "He won't be gone all year" and "We need him for the playoffs" comments. He knows Zeke is going to at least report by the end of the year.

That's also why I won't be surprised a bit if Zeke reports and plays very soon. That's a lot of money he's leaving on the table once the games start.

 

[Lutonio]

Zeke who???

Don't be disrespectful.

 

[Kaiser]

This is why it interesting to me so many fans are blaming and giving Jerry and Stephen a free pass........BOTH hands are dirty with this mess.

I don't think the holdout really is playing hardball and all this will be water under the bridge in a few days. But Zeke's agent fired the first shot when they held out of camp, they can't complain about rounds coming back at them.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

Do you really think we will be 0-3? I can’t see that happening.

If we go 0-3 without Zeke, then I don't see us making it to the Superbowl with him. It would be another playoff loss and failure to make it to the NFC Championship game or Superbowl.

 

[TheSkaven]

jerry is a billionaire who cares about superbowls. he risks the playoff seating in one out of several years in a window
zeke is risking a serious injury without any long term financial security for 6 games + playoffs in 2019.
zeke is also risking more than half of his salary in what is likely at least 50% of his remaining prime years.

Unless he’s not risking anything. Zeke is a great player but it’s a 53-man roster. The Cowboys have won without Zeke before, and that was before they had Pollard.

One could argue that signing Zeke to a $15M per year contract actually sacrifices the team’s ability to win Super Bowls in the future because it’ll lead to losing other very good players we could have otherwise kept.

Remember this from the Jaylon press conference? Jerry is negotiating extra hard to keep this core team together, and he’s not about to let one ego blow it all up.

 

[CATCH17]

That's what I think he meant by the "He won't be gone all year" and "We need him for the playoffs" comments. He knows Zeke is going to at least report by the end of the year.

That's also why I won't be surprised a bit if Zeke reports and plays very soon. That's a lot of money he's leaving on the table once the games start.

Yep.. Zeke has to show up by week 10 or the process starts over again.

Zeke's "leverage" costs him a fortune at the end of the day and he can't even use that leverage the entire year.

 

[waldoputty]

Unless he’s not risking anything. Zeke is a great player but it’s a 53-man roster. The Cowboys have won without Zeke before, and that was before they had Pollard.

One could argue that signing Zeke to a $15M per year contract actually sacrifices the team’s ability to win Super Bowls in the future because it’ll lead to losing other very good players we could have otherwise kept.

Remember this from the Jaylon press conference? Jerry is negotiating extra hard to keep this core team together, and he’s not about to let one ego blow it all up.

the contract offered to zeke was FAR too generous.
i would have told zeke to show up at camp and he will get his turn after the season.

 

[waldoputty]

Yep.. Zeke has to show up by week 10 or the process starts over again.

Zeke's "leverage" costs him a fortune at the end of the day and he can't even use that leverage the entire year.

the process probably starts over after the season