This offseason hasn’t gotten off to a good start as teams around Dallas are doing their utmost to get better while the franchise is looking to engage in cap-related penny-pinching. That’s not the Joneses being “cheap”; all teams spend the same amount of money under the cap.
It is about the Joneses not wanting to push money into future cap years by spending now. So they wait … on the waiver wire. And, of course, for Tier 3 free agents who are still hanging out in the coming days and willing to take one-year contracts.
The looming contract extensions of Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons are on the menu; Jones talked of having prioritized those. Of course, as we write this, none of those three deals are done, either.
We might look back on this come January and see that how the Cowboys approached free agency was right, but as of now, the fact that a 2024 team that is thought to be on the cusp of Super Bowl isn’t making muscular efforts to improve the roster is bothersome.
That is perhaps why the Cowboys, as a franchise, despite three years of regular-season success, have lost the benefit of the doubt with many fans … who, while the Cowboys “wait,” are themselves tired of said wait.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that former head coach Jimmy Johnson will be inducted into the franchise’s ring of honor on Dec. 30 when they host the Detroit Lions.
Jones made the announcement on FOX prior to the Cowboys’ game on Sunday against the Carolina Panthers.
Johnson won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 1992 and 1993 seasons during his five-year tenure with the Cowboys, but the relationship between the two men has been rocky at times and deteriorated at the end with a bitter departure following the 1993 season.
Johnson finished 44-36 in Dallas and then went on to spend four seasons coaching the Miami Dolphins.
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