what is HILARIOUS to me is all of you keep saying they waited. You dont know that. You dont have a clue what has actually happened. You have no clue when the first offer was made, how much the offer was, what the terms were. They could have offered the most lucrative deal in NFL history to a Wr and Lamb said no because he wanted to wait on Jefferson.... but it would still have been the Cowboys waited, right?
We know Lamb is important to the team. We know Lamb wants an extension now. We know he is holding out of training camp. We know Jerry Jones owns the Cowboys. We know a deal is not done.
We know historically that Jerry loves to use deadlines to get deals done. We know they stated all offseason that Dak was the priority, and we also know that Stephen and Dak both said that negotiations were not active earlier this summer. Can we be 100% sure that they didn't make an offer to Lamb? Absolutely not, but I think its a pretty safe bet that the Cowboys like to negotiate with players close to or during camp to use that leverage to their advantage against the player.
All I said was Lamb has no trade value after this season. He has zero. They can trade him now. But not after the season.
if history is any indicator, and it usually is, they waited. They done it before. Time and time again. I am sticking to this.
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also, you have no clue that they did make an offer. We know this, they have a pattern of doing business this way. Why would they do it any different now? You seem smart. Think logically.
Actually he has more trade value because when you franchise tagged the guy they're gonna have to trade draft picks and promise them a high contract I don't understand how you can not understand that they can't trade him now because there's not as many suitors you got brain and IU out there eating people up... I don't think you understand what the franchise tag is and I promise you if they don't get a deal done he will be tagged next year and he will not be going anywhere without a trade do you understand what a franchise tag means they must give you a draft pick he is not a full free agent they will tag him this is the type of player you tagged they tagged Prescott you don't think they're gonna tag lamb?
Lamb asked for 43 million per season. Stupid Jerry..... get it done!
Tell me when they have had 2 players at the top of the salary schedule needing deals at the same time. Show me, historically, when this has happened in Dallas... AND having Parsons sitting there in the wings as well. name me a single team in the NFL right now that has the top 2 players at their position, money wise... and a 3rd that is going to want o be the highest paid non qb in NFL history sitting there waiting.
I don’t believe any team has ever found themselves in that situation. Most teams, however, make a decision on whether or not they intend to keep a player and sign them to extensions immediately after making the decision.
We act like this situation is so unique to the Cowboys, but teams give out 3 mega contracts around the same time pretty frequently. I didn't look up exactly where they ranked at the time of signing but they gave out DLaw ($20m AAV), zeek ($15M), and Cooper ($20m) all within a year in 2019. 2013 they had Romo, Lee, and Tyron Smith extensions all hit within a year. 2008 they extended Flozell Adams, TO, Roy Williams, and DWare around the same time.
why? If the goal this season was for Jerry "I'm mad!" Jones to make them prove it..why not let Dak fail before he hits FA?
I agree and think this is why its different than Zekes holdout a few years ago. I think Jerry is pretty content with whatever happens this season and isnt going to blink. If they shock the world and win the superbowl then he looks like a genius in his 'all in' approach. But if these guys fail then he gets to start over with a new HC, QB, and make a ton of headlines in different ways. I'm sure his preference is to win games, but I don't think Jerry cares too much if this team goes 12-5 or 5-12.
Sign Dallas up for Lawrence, Campbell and Hines-Allen money.... or Tua, Waddle, Chubb money. Dak wants several million more than Tua, and Lamb wants way more than waddle... so the comparisons aret even close. we are talking top paid QB, WR, and top EVER defesive player. Knowing its coming and just bending over to accept whatever the layers wnats are two different things.
Im pretty sure Jerry said "Im going to wait for the tea leaves" or whatever but yeah he waited because he wanted to see what other WR were getting..same with the QB...
The issue is the Cowboys should not be caught off guard by what any of these guys are looking for financially. The difference in annual salary between Waddle and what Lamb will make is likely 1 maybe 2% of the cap. This really should not be the difference in getting a deal done or not, and if it is a deal breaker for the Cowboys this all could have been avoided months ago...maybe even a year ago by having real negotiations with these guys and exploring mutual separations via trade if they were too far apart on numbers.
I for one am not arguing Dak is Patrick Mahomes. Neither is any other QB in the NFL. So does that mean NO ONE not names Patrick Mahomes should get market value? It does not work that way. Never has!
And ruin Jerry's chance to possibly get a top 10 pick next draft?
What exactly would we get with the top 10 another OT?? It's going to be a QB, now remember Jerry doesn't like that neither do the fans on here who are more important than Jerry and have all his money!!! They don't want us to start over they want it to be Dak for life
