It is hardly Jerry Jones“First rodeo.
Throughout his 36 -year property of Dallas CowboysJones dug during the contract negotiations drawn with players from Emmitt Smith to Dak Prescott.
The last one is pass rusher Micah ParsonsWho asked for a job last week when contractual discussions stagnated.
“It’s really nothing new, with Micah”, Jones Tell USA TODAY In an interview published Monday.
“It took a long time with Emmitt Smith,” said Jones. “Same thing with [Zack] Martin two years ago. [CeeDee] Lamb last year. When you have the possibility for players under contract to renegotiate or say: “I will not play the contract”, then you have these things. »»
Jones, 82, carried out the interview with USA Today last week, two days before Parsons made public with his request for trade.
During the weekend, Jones took a similar tone when he said to the cowboys fans concerned: “Do not lose any sleep” at the request for parson trade.
Parsons, 26, enters the last year of his recruit contract and seeks an extension. He “held” at the training camp, which means that he attended practices in the installations of Cowboys in Oxnard, California, but does not participate.
After presenting the training on Saturday in uniform, go wore his jersey On a hooded sweatshirt with tracksuit pants on Monday. The assistant remains “really good” during team meetings, said head coach Brian Schottenheimer.
“Very committed. Asking good questions,” said Schottenheimer on Monday. “I don’t think it will change.”
Parsons recorded at least 12 bags in each of his four NFL seasons, despite four missing games last year with a high ankle sprain. He was a professional bowling player every four years and an All-Pro selection of the first team in two of them.
Earlier this offseason, the defensive winger Myles Garrett signed an extension of $ 160 million over four years with the Browns of Cleveland, while TJ Watt reset the Pass-Rusher market with an extension of $ 123 million over three years with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Lamb last year, Lamb held the training camp before signing an extension of $ 136 million over four years. Prescott reached a contract of $ 240 million over four years just before the opening of the Cowboys season, making him the best paid player in the NFL at the time.
“This company is first of all, right?” Prescott told USA TODAY for parson negotiations. “We always say that this game is a company, but it is first of all business.”
Lamb, in the meantime, written on social networks Last week, “Pay to the man what you owe them. No need for the student.”
Asked about the reputation of cowboys for prolonged negotiations, Jones told USA TODAY: “I would not do my job if I did not do this in this way.”
“I should try to get the most value for cowboys. I saw players that I would have liked to have renegotiated their contracts earlier and I had several that I was sorry to have renegotiated their contract earlier,” said Jones.
“The idea that if you wait, there is more money [spent] Forget that, between this expectation, you can assess and you can frankly see if you are dealing with the same physical elements. “”
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