The Dallas Cowboys had to make some explanations after releasing a video showing off the 2021 campaign in which its star player was conspicuously absent.
Watch the 32-second video, which was made available following the Super Bowl but does not feature franchise quarterback Dak Prescott:
Fans of Dak, take off your tinfoil hats. It is not clear from his absence from the video that the former Pro Bowl quarterback is planning to leave the Cowboys via free agency. According to Derek Eagleton, the club’s director of media and programmes.
“This was just an error that we ought to have noticed and fixed. Anyone who suggests that Cowboys decision-makers use footage from social media to make remarks is either unaware of how it all works or doesn’t take the time to learn it. There isn’t a story here, I promise,” Eagleton tweeted on Monday.
“He’s not under contract and the people who make those videos don’t have any better of an idea of what’s going to happen than the rest of us,” said in-house reporter David Helman.
Failing an agreement, as was the case last offseason, the team is expected to slap the tag on Prescott at a cost of approximately $37.7 million — fully guaranteed. This would be executed in order to keep him away from the open market when the new league year begins March 17.
But whereas Pelissero and Rapoport indicated optimism regarding a multi-year pact, ESPN’s Adam Schefter soon after flew in the face of his media counterparts, claiming the sides “still are not close” toward reaching an accord.
“Sources told ESPN that the Cowboys still want to re-sign Pelissero, who wants to remain in Dallas,” Schefter wrote. “But the sides still have plenty of work to do on a new deal, with a history of not being able to get it done.
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