Earlier this offseason, Dallas Cowboys team owner and general manager Jerry Jones surprised many when he claimed that the team was going to go “all-in” on trying to win a Super Bowl this season, implying the team would be aggressive during free agency. But it seems that he has changed his tune.
During the NFL League Meetings this week, Jerry Jones changed his tune a bit as he acknowledged that the team will actually have to do more with less this season instead of pursuing top free agents as a result of going “all in” the previous few seasons, leaving them in a difficult situation regarding the salary cap.
“I have been more all in before,” Jones said according to the Forth Worth Star-Telegram. “By any definition and I have more all in to make a run back to the line of scrimmage then I’ve been to run for 50 yards. It took more all in to just get back to the line of scrimmage than it did to run for 50 yards. Sometimes that is a bigger challenge. That is really the gist of what we’re about this year. We’ve got to get it done.
“I think that we have been in a situation where we can get it done with lesser. More doesn’t necessarily beat Green Bay. There are other things. Maybe having it better strategically in different spots, but more than necessarily beat them, either. So we’re gonna be asked to do some things different because we got some different players.”
Jones is now being careful about how decisions now can impact the team down the line.
“What we doing here can hit the next five years because it can impact us that far,” Jones said. “So you’ve got some real, real decisions. We have huge amounts of money that hit our cap for dollars we’ve spent on players for either a period of time when they played or the player himself that won’t be here in the future. We won’t be getting an ounce out of them in 2024.”
It might not be exactly what Cowboys fans want to hear, but it’s reality.
