Earlier this offseason, Dallas Cowboys team owner and general manager Jerry Jones boldly declared that the team was planning to go “all-in” on the upcoming season in an attempt to win the Super Bowl. Many understandably assumed the team would be active in free agency as a result, but that wasn’t the case. And now, team executive Stephen Jones is admitting a pretty brutal truth about that whole situation.
During an appearance on 105.3 The Fan on Tuesday, Stephen Jones addressed Jerry Jones’ comments, saying “everybody has their own definition of what that means, but I’ve never not known us to be all in.” He also admitted the brutal truth that the team has to “hold money back” this offseason to sign some of their current players to contract extensions.
“We spend max, max money year in and year out. All 32 can only spend the same amount of money over a five-year stretch. When we’re all said and done, we max out our salary cap every year. We will have done that. What comes with having a good roster, which we do, we’re also looking towards signing our own guys. It doesn’t mean it happens overnight. But when you’re wanting to sign players like Dak and Micah and CeeDee, then certainly you have to hold money back if you want to have a realistic chance of signing those guys,” Jones said.
Needless to say, that doesn’t sound like the Cowboys are planning to go “all-in” – at least the way the fans were hoping they would.
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