This story was originally published by Dead Spin
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones talks a lot.
And when you talk a lot, you’re almost always bound to say something that comes across as rather stupid.
As Michael Scott once famously said, “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.”
Jones found himself in that exact situation on Thursday when discussing the current landscape of difficult contract situations in Dallas.
Jones, whose 81 years of life experience makes him a prime candidate for political office, went on an incoherent mumbling rant, explaining that he’s currently like an option quarterback who has to evaluate all options before making a decision.
“We’re trying to make our mind up on what to do,” Jones said. “Does that sound like Mahomes to you?”
It doesn’t sound like Mahomes at all. And if Jones and Mahomes were both quarterbacks (they’re not, in case you forgot), Mahomes is something that Jones isn’t.
A winner.
Mahomes has three Super Bowl rings at just 28 years old. The Cowboys last Super Bowl win was in 1996. Mahomes was barely one year old. Just another reason why that comparison made no sense.
The contract situations unfolding in Dallas are somewhat mind-boggling. Quarterback Dak Prescott has been leading the Cowboys for nearly a decade now, and they’re still hesitant to commit to him long-term.
While Prescott isn’t on the same tier as Patrick Mahomes or even Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, franchise quarterbacks don’t grow on trees, and the Cowboys don’t have many other options. Maybe they can pivot to a veteran like Kirk Cousins or Kyler Murray if their teams decide to move on after this year, but at that point, why not bring back Prescott?
On top of the whole quarterback situation in Dallas, star wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is holding out of training camp as he awaits his own contract.
After being selected in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft, Lamb has become one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. He’s a better receiver than Prescott is a quarterback. And he definitely deserves to be compensated as one of the top players in the NFL.
He has over 5,000 receiving yards and 32 touchdowns in four seasons with the Cowboys, increasing productivity every single year.
“It just has to make sense,” Lamb said of his contract expectations.
If contract negotiations are going anything like press conferences, they probably don’t make much sense.
