Jerry on idea of creating cap space this offseason

[DallasEast]

All NFL teams share revenue streams such as:

• Gate sales/tickets
• Certain licensing (may or may not include merchandising
• Merchandising

Etc.

Media rights revenue is shared also among teams. Equally.

The annual NFL television deals package averages $12.39 billion (link)

That is approximately $387 million per team. 'Team' = Dallas Cowboys = Jerry Jones' money by itself minus ALL other revenue.

The 2024 salary cap ceiling was $255 million per team (link)

Every NFL team must spend 89% --their salary cap floor-- over a four-year period (link)

Folks should consider doing the math and stop allowing Jones to bamboozle them. That said, here is another hypothetical tidbit that may be influencing Jones frugalness for paying players:

April 2018 (link):

U.S. onshore producer Comstock Resources Inc. on Thursday said negotiations are underway with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to become the majority shareholder.

Under a letter of intent with Arkoma Drilling LLP and Williston Drilling LLP, collectively, Jones-backed Arkoma, Comstock agreed to acquire interests in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale for an estimated $620 million. The properties carry no debt.​

March 2024 (link):

Jones, who’s already the majority shareholder in Frisco-based natural gas producer Comstock Resources, has agreed to make an additional $100.45 million equity investment in the company via two entities he controls.​

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The Jones-controlled entities will acquire 12.5 million shares of common stock in the private placement at a price of $8.036 per share. After the equity investment, Jones will own roughly 67% of the company’s common shares outstanding, up from 65% before this new equity investment.​

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Maybe. Possibly. Perhaps it is as simple as Jones being Ebenezer Scrooge with players (and coaches lol) and Richie Rich with what he considers are better investments for his money.

It is not that he does not have the money to spend. It is all about what he is 100% committed in spending his money on. The saddest thing is the Cowboys GM also controls the team's purse strings.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

I hear you but the issue is that these contracts require cash up front. The players get paid as time goes on, but the value of the contract has to be put into a trust so they need not all but a significant chunk of that $800m today in order to execute a new contract, not collect cash over the next few years. Its a major reason why guaranteed money is such a touchy topic for owners. The operating income thats reported I would assume is not factoring in taxes, stadium upgrades, etc. To have $800M in cash commitments an owner is going to have to borrow money from somewhere and I would assume a decent chunk of that typically comes from outside investments. I would assume this is a major reason why Philly just brought in a minority owner as its a way to raise cash for the franchise without borrowing more money. FWIW Philly has a little over 1.1B in cash commitments.

I can't say exactly how Jerry stacks up to the rest of the league but outside investments from owners seems to be a massive need in order to keep up with league spending.

understood that the cash is upfront, but its no different than any other business. there is money that has been made, so there should have been money in the bank, you know contracts coming up, so you start to have cash ready for when that contract is up. somethings are going to change (like how fast salary grows) and you might need a loan.

but its not like OMG OMG OMG, Dak and we have to have 240M in bank and we weren't ready. so just like any other business. you need to make payroll, you need cash, you have revenue and you manage....its not just week to week, or month to month but also year to year.

regarding guaranteed money, I agree. touchy subject for owners, because of high degree of injuries in football. Diggs and Lawrence are great examples.

and given you just mentioned Philly has 1.1B in commitments, yet they are doing it. they are competitive and they manage and they are worth a lot less than cowboys and have a lot less revenue.
it gives credence to incompetence (or lying) of the Joneses.

 

[ArtClink]

I really thought while suffering through one of the worst seasons in memory that it would lead to at least an attempt to shake things up.

Nope. Not these guys. They know better.

I'm literally at a loss with this front office. I don't know what to say. I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for me. I'd even feel sorry for Rockport if he hadn't quit on the team and moved to Hawaii.

Indeed

 

[Bullflop]

Jerry cannot see his management ideas are nothing but futile efforts.
His extremely overblown ego simply won't permit that to happen.
He just prefers to make excuses for continuing his miscues!

 

[stinkface]

And this is why the Cowboys are no longer America's team.

 

[bigdsgirl]

Jerry deserves Dak.

I really believe Jerry did not want to resign Dak.. that's why he got Lance. Lance sucked so bad Jerry seemed to have no choice

 

[vlad]

No need to get mad, i used to think it was incompetence now i know it’s just a lie

 

[bigdsgirl]

The Eagles have a QB with a contract almost as big as our QB's. Their top WR has a contract almost as much as Ceedee's and their #2 WR makes way more than all of our other WRs and TEs combined, and any other player on our team. They know they'll set the market with Jalen Carter in 2 years. Nothing stops Jones from throwing more $ out into the future but his own greed. Dickerson is the highest paid at his position. Yet the Eagles spend anyway. Jones has no defense. The Eagles have all that on their payroll, and they found enough space to give potenetial mvp Barkley $13m/yr.

I've been thinking that for a long time..I just don't get it!

 

[Plankton]

I hear you but the issue is that these contracts require cash up front. The players get paid as time goes on, but the value of the contract has to be put into a trust so they need not all but a significant chunk of that $800m today in order to execute a new contract, not collect cash over the next few years. Its a major reason why guaranteed money is such a touchy topic for owners. The operating income thats reported I would assume is not factoring in taxes, stadium upgrades, etc. To have $800M in cash commitments an owner is going to have to borrow money from somewhere and I would assume a decent chunk of that typically comes from outside investments. I would assume this is a major reason why Philly just brought in a minority owner as its a way to raise cash for the franchise without borrowing more money. FWIW Philly has a little over 1.1B in cash commitments.

I can't say exactly how Jerry stacks up to the rest of the league but outside investments from owners seems to be a massive need in order to keep up with league spending.

Jones is the 7th wealthiest owner according to the link below. His net worth is nearly 3X greater than Jeffrey Lurie.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/nfl-richest-owners-net-worth-ranked/

 

[Runwildboys]

Jerry You're the ******* who signed a scrub QB to the biggest contract ever,you have no one to blame but yourself and the team and fans are suffering because of it.

Yeah, I love the way he sounds like he's blaming Dak for the financial situation he put himself in.

 

[slick325]

Yeah, I love the way he sounds like he's blaming Dak for the financial situation he put himself in.

They have mastered the blame game/scapegoating.

 

[thunderpimp91]

Jones is the 7th wealthiest owner according to the link below. His net worth is nearly 3X greater than Jeffrey Lurie.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/nfl-richest-owners-net-worth-ranked/

Right, but the debate really starts with the idea that hes only 7th in the NFL despite owning the highest valued sports franchise in the world. If hes valued at $13M or so but how much of that is the Cowboys? $11M? How does he compare to other owners in terms of cash on hand outside of the team? He certainly still towers over Laurie in net worth but Philly also has several minority owners where Jerry alone owns the Cowboys.

I truly don't know the answers on the subject, I've heard good arguments from both sides, but Jerry certainly operates the roster like cash is an issue.

 

[Plankton]

Right, but the debate really starts with the idea that hes only 7th in the NFL despite owning the highest valued sports franchise in the world. If hes valued at $13M or so but how much of that is the Cowboys? $11M? How does he compare to other owners in terms of cash on hand outside of the team? He certainly still towers over Laurie in net worth but Philly also has several minority owners where Jerry alone owns the Cowboys.

I truly don't know the answers on the subject, I've heard good arguments from both sides, but Jerry certainly operates the roster like cash is an issue.

Jerry Jones is the same man who said in a negotiation with Emmitt Smith that he would walk across the desert for a dollar.

The man is cheap at his core. Always has been, always will be.

 

[Beast_from_East]

I really thought while suffering through one of the worst seasons in memory that it would lead to at least an attempt to shake things up.

Nope. Not these guys. They know better.

I'm literally at a loss with this front office. I don't know what to say. I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for me. I'd even feel sorry for Rockport if he hadn't quit on the team and moved to Hawaii.

Dam bro, you bringing us all down with this doom and gloom talk................not saying you are wrong, its just creating a bad vibe bro.

 

[Clove]

If the cap were 200 mill, and you have 190 million cap space, you'd still shop at the flea market for talent. I don't trust you or anything about your family to move this team forward towards a championship, I don't care if you had Vince Lombardy coaching, Tom Brady as your QB, LT as your pass rusher, Barry Sanders as your Running back and so on. You will never win because you are a football loser. All of this **** y'all are talking about means absolutely nothing, because we have a clown as our GM that has a lifetime job.

 

[CowboyoWales]

I don't care if you had Vince Lombardy coaching, Tom Brady as your QB, LT as your pass rusher, Barry Sanders as your Running back and so on. You will never win because you are a football loser. All of this **** y'all are talking about means absolutely nothing, because we have a clown as our GM that has a lifetime job.

Yep, a lot of the Forum is missing the point.....we CAN restructure but we need a reset, stop pretending that restructuring will solve anything, at best this will create Jerry's preferred model of Relevant, Playoff, One and Done.

We dont have: Vince, Tom et al, if we did AND THEY PLAYED UP TO THEIR CONTRACTS we'd be in a position to challenge...... we havent got them so why are we crying out to restructure, we couldnt get to where we wanted to be in 2024, with an infinitely better roster than we can ever assemble in the next couple of years.

 

[PAPPYDOG]

So Jerry's message is that we have Dak making the big bucks, and that's more than enough to succeed.
Does he think that Allen is his QB?
Next season is another washout and another injury replay for Dak, then we proceed to the 2026 draft for a quarterback.

 

[CowboyoWales]

Yeah, I love the way he sounds like he's blaming Dak for the financial situation he put himself in.

HE, IS, blaming Dak and in respect of length of contract ,he may have a point, though it just shows up his ineptitude in giving him the contract in the first place. He's probably seeing the: Darnolds, Wilson, Hurts, Mayfield, Stroud and wishes he hadnt paid Dak (or that Dak could of foregone the hard ball negotiation to get to free agency in 2029 and instead signed a career ending contract).

 

[PAPPYDOG]

This plan makes no sense when you just paid your QB $240m

The man who got the 240 million needs to STEP UP big time and carry this team to GLORY!
GL with that...............

 

[offlimits]

His non-NFL revenue shall never place him in a position of being cash strapped.

I have stated this before but Jones Inc. LLC's real estate holdings rival the Dallas Cowboys Inc. in revenue. The Jones family owns much of the land here in Frisco.