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Jerry and Stephen have done several interviews locally since the Dez signing. I don’t think all of them have made it to the internet.
Stephen said they would have used the franchise tag for 3 years if they didn’t get a contract signed.
The last estimate I saw was 23M for that 3rd year. That’s 51M for 3 years or 17M average per season.
They saved 3M per year in cap space with the contract of 9M compared to using the Tag 3 times.
The compromise was that they guaranteed money now instead of the last 22M not being guaranteed for 2 years. They did delay the guarantee of about 13M for a year in the contract.
There was a lot of focus on Roc Nation despite the fact that Jerry said emphatically that they were not part of the negotiations in regards to the numbers. That was Tom Condon’s job.
Jerry and Stephen made the odd move of going to visit Roc Nation at their place.
My opinion is that the biggest holdup has been concerns about Dez off-field issues and his new association with Roc Nation and the fact that he dumped the advisor that the Cowboys know, David Wells. I think Jerry and Stephen went to NYC to check out Roc Nation and Jay-Z. They wanted assurances that Dez would be getting good life advice from them. Jerry said that Jay-Z and Roc said they would take it as a negative on their own reputation if Dez got into trouble which seemed to be a good answer for Jerry. Jerry emphasized that Dez would listen (repeated actually listen) to Jay-Z which I took to indicate that Dez won’t listen to most people.
Some local insider types said on the radio that Jerry’s secretary has been helping Dez pay his bills in the past. They also said that the Cowboys have a person that is responsible for making certain that Dez wakes up on time to get to practice and other functions. Those are both amazing if true.
It was interesting that they deferred 7M of his signing bonus. The Cowboys rarely do that anymore. It’s normally done by teams that have cash flow issues. It seems as if they really just didn’t want him to get too much money in his pockets all at once. Jerry even made some reference in one of the interviews about a concern with Dez being out of money at some point. I think it was in reference to how Roc could help him.
Back to some Cowboys insider types on the radio, they said the Cowboys see it as a good thing that the contract didn’t get done until the very last minute because that minimizes the time Dez has to go on a world spending spree before training camp. They also said the Cowboys have some concerns that he’ll be out of money by year 3 or 4 and would then be discontent and wanting more money from the team. They also said that Dez has several people on some type of payroll and provides fancy cars for several people.
Back to the Franchise Tag. I thought the fact that Stephen said they would use it 3 times was interesting and could be a factor in the future with other players.
Stephen said they would have used the franchise tag for 3 years if they didn’t get a contract signed.
The last estimate I saw was 23M for that 3rd year. That’s 51M for 3 years or 17M average per season.
They saved 3M per year in cap space with the contract of 9M compared to using the Tag 3 times.
The compromise was that they guaranteed money now instead of the last 22M not being guaranteed for 2 years. They did delay the guarantee of about 13M for a year in the contract.
There was a lot of focus on Roc Nation despite the fact that Jerry said emphatically that they were not part of the negotiations in regards to the numbers. That was Tom Condon’s job.
Jerry and Stephen made the odd move of going to visit Roc Nation at their place.
My opinion is that the biggest holdup has been concerns about Dez off-field issues and his new association with Roc Nation and the fact that he dumped the advisor that the Cowboys know, David Wells. I think Jerry and Stephen went to NYC to check out Roc Nation and Jay-Z. They wanted assurances that Dez would be getting good life advice from them. Jerry said that Jay-Z and Roc said they would take it as a negative on their own reputation if Dez got into trouble which seemed to be a good answer for Jerry. Jerry emphasized that Dez would listen (repeated actually listen) to Jay-Z which I took to indicate that Dez won’t listen to most people.
Some local insider types said on the radio that Jerry’s secretary has been helping Dez pay his bills in the past. They also said that the Cowboys have a person that is responsible for making certain that Dez wakes up on time to get to practice and other functions. Those are both amazing if true.
It was interesting that they deferred 7M of his signing bonus. The Cowboys rarely do that anymore. It’s normally done by teams that have cash flow issues. It seems as if they really just didn’t want him to get too much money in his pockets all at once. Jerry even made some reference in one of the interviews about a concern with Dez being out of money at some point. I think it was in reference to how Roc could help him.
Back to some Cowboys insider types on the radio, they said the Cowboys see it as a good thing that the contract didn’t get done until the very last minute because that minimizes the time Dez has to go on a world spending spree before training camp. They also said the Cowboys have some concerns that he’ll be out of money by year 3 or 4 and would then be discontent and wanting more money from the team. They also said that Dez has several people on some type of payroll and provides fancy cars for several people.
Back to the Franchise Tag. I thought the fact that Stephen said they would use it 3 times was interesting and could be a factor in the future with other players.
