FRISCO – The toothpaste is so far out of the tube now, thanks to the erroneous reporting of ESPN, that now even Dallas Cowboys teammates of Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb (and Micah Parsons) find themselves moved to comment on what the “order” of signing them to extensions should be and what the “priority” should be.
And it’s all nonsense.
COO Stephen Jones has said that the goal is to get Lamb’s deal done by the start of late-July training camp, while the timetable goal for Prescott is the early-September start of the NFL regular season.
So that’s on the record.
Meanwhile, the Cowboys have long-term contractual control with Parsons without making a move. So he can be considered less front-burner at this moment.
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But that doesn’t mean one is more or less important than the other. Rather, it might speak to the degree of difficulty involved.
Having said all of that, here is the fact from inside The Star: If Prescott, Lamb or Parsons called Jerry and Stephen Jones today and said, “That offer you have on the table (assuming there is such a thing)? I’ll take it” …
That person would be signed first. That person would suddenly look, to the casual observer, as if he’d suddenly been “prioritized.”
These reports on Cowboys contract “priorities” originate from the sloppy work of ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
Said Fowler: “You’ve got Dak Prescott. … The feeling around the league and sources I’ve talked to is that they want to start with Dak.”
That’s a bold claim. It’s also a false claim.
If true, it would mean that the Cowboys have altered their timetables and “prioritized” one player over the other.
Have they? We asked.
Replied a source close to the talks to our question, “Is ESPN’s report true?”
“No,” the source said flatly.
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Is Dak a “more important” player than Lamb? Or is it Micah? Or is it all the other way around? That’s immaterial. The Cowboys – despite their relative inaction – say they wish to retain all three. And any report to the contrary flies in the face of logic and flies in the face of accuracy.
