beware_d-ware
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It takes two sides to sign a contract. From the sounds of it, the team has made solid market-value offers to all 3 players. 2 of those players want to bet on themselves for another season, and the other one disagrees on the team's idea of market value (I'm guessing).
So the players don't want to sign the offer on the table. At this point, all the Cowboys can do is either escalate their offer into the above-market-value overpay range ($20M/yr for Cooper, anyone? $18M for Elliott?) or wait it out another year. Obviously the second scenario comes with risk, but the first scenario is suicide in a cap-driven league.
Your bargaining power in a negotiation is only as great as your ability to walk away. If we have no option to walk away from say a $35M/yr demand from Dak, then we are screwed regardless of whether we sign him because we are too dependent on that one player.
So the players don't want to sign the offer on the table. At this point, all the Cowboys can do is either escalate their offer into the above-market-value overpay range ($20M/yr for Cooper, anyone? $18M for Elliott?) or wait it out another year. Obviously the second scenario comes with risk, but the first scenario is suicide in a cap-driven league.
Your bargaining power in a negotiation is only as great as your ability to walk away. If we have no option to walk away from say a $35M/yr demand from Dak, then we are screwed regardless of whether we sign him because we are too dependent on that one player.
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