Stephen Jones: 'Damn Sure' Won't Be 'Market-Setter' for New Contracts

Buzzbait · Aug 2, 2019

WillieBeamen said:
People on this site told me we can afford all 3 tho

Yeah, they say we can afford anything and everything. No limit! No matter what the price, their response is "PAY HIM!"
What about the salary cap? "That doesn't count".
But back when the team was badly strapped in cap hell, all we heard was blaming the FO for overpaying their players.
Now since they got out of cap hell all we hear is "there's no such thing as cap hell....PAY HIM!" :banghead:

xwalker · Aug 2, 2019

pacboyX said:
Was Jamie drafted by the Patriots 4th overall? Did Jamie lead the league in rushing and rush attempts while running into stacked boxes? Did the Patriots use up and discard the LB right before him? Two completely different teams..winning Super Bowls and appearing on consistent basis kinda gets you some leeway. I’m guessing he was paid by the Browns seeing as how he was there 3 years, now he came back to Patriots to try and win..looks like it ended up decent for that player.

What does that have to do with what I posted?

Melonfeud · Aug 2, 2019

superonyx said:
Wow..you really take this crap way too seriously.
We have some posters here that are letting the business of football ruin their enjoyment of the game. It sounds like you are one.

This is just entertainment. You dont seem to be entertained.

Do you rant at everyone in the entertainment industry? You do realize these guys bring in money and they get a piece of what they produce. You may not like it and you prefer the billionaire fossils take all the money and buy more yachts..

WoW ,and yer' aural cyber vibes are emanating the dark bitterness of one suffering a niacin deficiency ,,,er,,,coinciding with that obvious yacht deficiency,,, you ought to go buy one& eat more dark green veggies like broccoli ,Too

Buzzbait · Aug 2, 2019

Beast_from_East said:
You and me are tight on this board bro, I dig all your takes...…….but I have to politely disagree here with you my brother.

We drafted Zeke with a top 5 pick because we felt he could be f'ing Superman behind this offensive line. Well, we were right, Zeke has been as good as advertised on the field. If not for the suspension, he would have lead the league in rushing every single year since being drafted. Now I am just talking about on the field here, he has been everything we though he would be and then some, he is a flat out beast and the best RB in the entire NFL.

Now Zeke aint stupid and he has realized that if he is the best RB in the NFL, then he needs to be the highest paid RB in the NFL. This should not have come as a surprise to anybody, its human nature. If you are the best in your profession, then naturally you want to be compensated accordingly. Now some will say he signed a contract and that is your word of honor, but we all know contracts in the NFL are ripped up and redone all the time. Teams renegotiate contracts, ask players to take pay cuts, have players restructure, ect….so nobody should get their panties in a bunch over Zeke wanting more money before his rookie contract is up. I mean, it goes both ways, Hurns was just cut even though he still had one year left on his original contract.
So this all boils down to one thing, we did we draft a RB using a top 5 pick thinking he would be the best RB in the league if we were not prepared to make him the highest paid RB in the league?

Just like nobody should get their panties in a bunch if the FO tells him "No new contract till next year!" Then see how long he wants to sit out without a paycheck.

Jake · Aug 2, 2019

IndianaCowboys1994 said:
Then why did he say we "damn sure" aren't going to be a market setter? He is LITERALLY on record saying that. They want to reset the market and pay him LESS.

Because he finally realized that what he said months ago - when he didn't have to say anything - was pretty stupid. But hey, it's not like he earned his executive position so we're stuck with what we get.

DuncanIso · Aug 2, 2019

Blackthorn said:
Yep, Another year with Zeke and another distraction. I hope they stick to the fines to that greedy b@****. He needs to be on the field learning the new offense. This immature clownish crap has me pissed. I wished the dang players wanted to play. Is that too much to ask? Draw the line in the sand and "say when". Zeke will cave in first, The clown will be suspended for doing dumb crap in Cabo, He has already shown he can't control himself being rich.

I am excited about the new OC and this crap happens. I hope someone kicks sand into Zeke's Piña colada. The man has two lawsuits against him, been suspended and has made more money than the dang starting QB. It is easy to tell who is a good teammate. I would back the Brinks truck up and pay the good teammates first. Jones, Brown, Cooper, Dak and everyone else that want to win. I would pay everyone except Zeke.

Spoiled millennial, I wished he had to work like I have for the past 50 years. He has more dang money now than he can ever spend. He should have to work like us common folk.

Look up the market rate for elite RBs.

Currently at 4 yrs, 57.5 million.

9darter · Aug 2, 2019

They did set the market, in a way, with their brilliant decisions to swap a fourth overall pick on a freakin' RB and another first rounder on some WR with next to nothing left on his deal. Pure idiocy as you'd expect from some inept clowns who never did much of anything relevant to merit their positions in an NFL front office.

erod · Aug 2, 2019

CopenhagenCowboy said:
They did set the market, in a way, with their brilliant decisions to swap a fourth overall pick on a freakin' RB and another first rounder on some WR with next to nothing left on his deal. Pure idiocy as you'd expect from some inept clowns who never did much of anything relevant to merit their positions in an NFL front office.

Who would you have drafted at No. 27 that would have been better for the Cowboys than Amari Cooper?

And Zeke is, off field stuff aside, the best player on this team.

Johnny23 · Aug 2, 2019

DanA said:
Early 40’s? That’s born in the 70’s and not a millennial.

Technically this is true actually millennials are the generation after Gen X. I would be deemed a millennial I was born in 79 and I will hit 40 on Thanksgiving. I stopped trying to figure out this. My brothers are 28,31 they're millennials.

uvaballa · Aug 2, 2019

Anyone notice some of the fans saying Zeke should hold out with 2 years left on his deal, were the same fans saying Bell was stupid for sitting out and losing money?

Cannibal_Cowboy · Aug 2, 2019

Blackthorn said:
Yep, Another year with Zeke and another distraction. I hope they stick to the fines to that greedy b@****. He needs to be on the field learning the new offense. This immature clownish crap has me pissed. I wished the dang players wanted to play. Is that too much to ask? Draw the line in the sand and "say when". Zeke will cave in first, The clown will be suspended for doing dumb crap in Cabo, He has already shown he can't control himself being rich.

I am excited about the new OC and this crap happens. I hope someone kicks sand into Zeke's Piña colada. The man has two lawsuits against him, been suspended and has made more money than the dang starting QB. It is easy to tell who is a good teammate. I would back the Brinks truck up and pay the good teammates first. Jones, Brown, Cooper, Dak and everyone else that want to win. I would pay everyone except Zeke.

Spoiled millennial, I wished he had to work like I have for the past 50 years. He has more dang money now than he can ever spend. He should have to work like us common folk.

If the pay gap disparity between "us common folk" and pro sports athletes upsets you, then you should seriously consider not following any pro sports - ever. No kidding, you almost stroked out writing this. And based on the salary cap increasing every year it's only going to get worse for you...not better!

ABQCOWBOY · Aug 2, 2019

Buzzbait said:
Yeah, they say we can afford anything and everything. No limit! No matter what the price, their response is "PAY HIM!"
What about the salary cap? "That doesn't count".
But back when the team was badly strapped in cap hell, all we heard was blaming the FO for overpaying their players.
Now since they got out of cap hell all we hear is "there's no such thing as cap hell....PAY HIM!"

It's because have of these people don't even remember that we were in cap hell. Half of them are kids, maybe more then half.

IndianaCowboys1994 · Aug 2, 2019

Jake said:
Because he finally realized that what he said months ago - when he didn't have to say anything - was pretty stupid. But hey, it's not like he earned his executive position so we're stuck with what we get.

I don't get why they run their mouth so much....it doesn't help them at all.

DanA · Aug 2, 2019

Johnny23 said:
Technically this is true actually millennials are the generation after Gen X. I would be deemed a millennial I was born in 79 and I will hit 40 on Thanksgiving. I stopped trying to figure out this. My brothers are 28,31 they're millennials.

Nope. You're Gen X.

The term was originally made to describe those that would be a child at the turn of the century and was coined by Neil Howe and William Strauss in the early 80s. So the original definition is 0-17 years old at the turn of the century or 1982-2000. That is the most common definition today although it's sometimes push back to 1980 presumably for a round number.

Setackin · Aug 2, 2019

DanA said:
Think you might want to re-do the math. Nobody born in the 80’s is 40 years old.

Jesus... ok millennials will start to turn 40 in 5 months... the point was Zeke isn’t a millennial.

DanA · Aug 2, 2019

Setackin said:
Jesus... ok millennials will start to turn 40 in 5 months... the point was Zeke isn’t a millennial.

I probably should drop it because this is fourth posts on a topic I really don't care about. I'm just a stickler when it comes to incorrect facts.

Zeke IS A MILLENIAL. He was born 1995 which puts him as a child at the turn of the century and a young millennial.

IceBowler · Aug 12, 2019

Corso said:
More like he had no choice, to be honest. Those Rookie contracts are not set up for a lot of negotiation.

... and it was predominantly the veteran players through the NFLPA who did this looking out for THEIR best interests - not necessarily the Owners.

Jake · Aug 12, 2019

zrinkill · Aug 12, 2019

You could not squeeze a penny out of Stephen Jones rear with a crowbar and a wench.

Sydla · Aug 12, 2019

Jake said:

LOL.

Good luck with that Dak.

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