'No progress' made between Cowboys, Dez Bryant this weekend because of three main reasons**merged**

[Sarge]

Bleacher report? Lol.

 

[Nightman]

That won't get it done Dez wants a lot more than $26M guaranteed upfront. He's probably looking for closer to $40M guaranteed.

Too bad, no one is giving Dez 40m fully guaranteed.

 

[VACowboy]

The mistake on Ratliff was signing him to a 3rd deal.

Totally different situations. A guy coming off his rookie contract having established himself as one of the most dominant players at his position - a guy who is among the hardest workers in the building? That's the guy you just have to go all in with

Totally different situation but still a careless signing if you give him Megatron money. We think we know Dez when we really don't. We sure don't know him like the team does, and I think team has reasons to be cautious.

I bet if Dez had always carried himself the same way away from football that Calvin Johnson has, he'd have his contract.

 

[Frozen700]

oh jason cole is reporting this? nothing to see here folks!

You are good at sniffing out frauds. Who is this fool?

 

[Frozen700]

Why do the Cowboys get tight when it comes to great players? They willfully hand the likes of Roy Williams, Jay Ratliff, Miles Austin etc... huge deals but want to haggle with Dez. Ugh

I said the same thing a while ago.

 

[Vanilla2]

Looks like the joneses are doing some more media negotiations

 

[Aven8]

Hope that isn't true. Dez does not have "Bugatti" type of money. The annual maintenance for that car is around 40k and a new set of tires runs 80-100k.

Yes, he can buy one now but it would be super irresponsible on his part. If he spends that kind of dough on that, wonder what else he would splurge for

You mean like a #88 necklace in diamonds for 400k on a rookie contract irresponsible?

 

[Tabascocat]

You mean like a #88 necklace in diamonds for 400k on a rookie contract irresponsible?

Yup

 

[mugsybows]

You are good at sniffing out frauds. Who is this fool?

hes just some reporter for bleacher report and yahoo but ive never really liked his coverage especially on us, in my opinion he always seems to report the worst about us and i find its usually not true. hes always seemed like a click bait reporter to me.

 

[Frozen700]

hes just some reporter for bleacher report and yahoo but ive never really liked his coverage especially on us, in my opinion he always seems to report the worst about us and i find its usually not true. hes always seemed like a click bait reporter to me.

Thanks for the info man

 

[dstovall5]

If Cowboys are offering 20 million guaranteed, from Dez's perspective, damn right I'm not signing that contract. That's a complete slap in the face, the least they can do is offer the man around 30-35 million guaranteed. Which is only 2 years guaranteed, which wouldn't be much risk to the Cowboys. I mean do they really believe Dez is gonna fall off a plateau that quick? I understand there's questions about his character, and maturity issues, but I also don't think low balling is the way to go either. I mean that's if the report is even true, I honestly doubt their offer is 20 million, because if that's what they got a deal will not get done.

I understand there's no way in heck you shell out a Calvin Johnson (50 million guaranteed) type deal, but you also don't offer him a Jeremy Maclin type deal either (22 million guaranteed).

 

[PoundTheRock]

SullyBaldHead
Know how I wrote last week the Dez deal was much closer to happening than anyone realized? Well, it's a whole lot closer now. #thisclose
7/1/15, 5:48 PM

Get it done, Jerruh

 

[Danger]

SullyBaldHead
Know how I wrote last week the Dez deal was much closer to happening than anyone realized? Well, it's a whole lot closer now. #thisclose
7/1/15, 5:48 PM

Get it done, Jerruh

Bet it will be announced tomorrow

 

[Pandora]

That Bleacher Report article is full of generic nonsense.

Better stick to sources closer to home.

 

[DandyDon52]

maybe they know something about Dez that I don't because over the past couple years, I haven't heard squat in this area that would question trust in this guy. And before that, they were goofy, immature issues.

I am sure they do know more than us.
I have said before it is the supervision that is the issue.
Dez has done ok , but he was being supervised heavily.
No one knows how he will do unsupervised and with millions in bank.
Before dez was driven to all practices and all meetings.
So why did they do that?? Would he miss meetings , or practices??
Do they not want him driving ?? does he drivc at all?

Just that one thing makes me think there is more to this and we dont know all the details.

His contract with the supervision is up now , an he wants none in the new /next contract.
The cowboys dont want to invest large sum of G $ with no supervision in contract.

So if Dez agrees to continue supervision he will get more G money, if not he needs to take
the 20 mil G contract.
And for all I know the contract he is being offered may have supervision clauses in it that dez does not like.

Dez would get more G $ later on if he stays out of trouble, so he should sign the contract and stay in dallas where he has a support
group.

 

[speedkilz88]

Local reporters are usually going to have better, more reliable sources than the national guys. But counting Jason Cole as a national guy would be a disservice to them. Nothing to see here.

 

[Echo9]

Agree almost 100%. My pure speculation is that the Cowboys mistrust the people around Dez, not so much the man himself.

These things always come down to the deadline most times with this team anyway.

Updated it for ya.

• Thomas signed his tender.
• Thomas didn't threaten to hold out into the season, but hasn't shown up for mini camp either and may not show up for training camp.
• Thomas doesn't play for the Cowboys.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...latest-news-and-rumors-surrounding-broncos-wr

 

[VACowboy]

Updated it for ya.

• Thomas signed his tender.
• Thomas didn't threaten to hold out into the season, but hasn't shown up for mini camp either and may not show up for training camp.
• Thomas doesn't play for the Cowboys.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...latest-news-and-rumors-surrounding-broncos-wr

My bad. Thought I'd read that he'd signed his tender. For the purposes of answering the question, "Why aren't we hearing all about Thomas' contract squabble like we are Dez's," though, I really don't see much difference between "I signed my tender" and "I will sign my tender and play the season." Far cry from "I will miss games if I don't have a contract."

 

[ElGatoGrande]

He needs the money. He has a 2 million dollar Bugatti in layaway right now! On the field Dez is a genius, off it he's a moron!

Hiring a financial adviser would be a good idea for Dez,,, he may have got the training wheels off from his first set of life counselors but he is venturing into new territory now.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

It applies.
It's exactly the same.

Sitting out to get the deal. No difference.

If he sits out forts two games and we lose. Jerry will knee jerk, it will have backfired. He will pay more for Dez.

You are fudging with possible Super Bowl 50 win.
You are fudging with Romo's legacy.

The situations are not remotely comparable.