Cowboys' Stephen Jones: "We didn't need to insult Zeke Elliott", so that they let different groups do it

The Dallas Cowboys made a multitude of Ezekiel Elliott‘s unique contract, paying an excessive amount of cash and together with ensures that made it unimaginable to maneuver on from him. Nevertheless, in keeping with Stephen Jones, the crew might have managed his departure to perfection.

The crew didn’t supply Elliott a lowered contract earlier than reducing him for one particular purpose, as Jones explains: “The very last thing we need to do is do something that might be insulting to a participant, to a terrific participant, like Zeke, who was probably the greatest gamers to ever placed on a Cowboys uniform. There are sensitivities once you get into making affords.”

Basically, the Cowboys have allowed different groups to do the insulting for them. Nobody has been credibly linked to Elliott, and whereas final week, ESPN reported that the Jets, Bengals, and Eagles had made Elliott affords, they hadn’t, and so they have not.

Due to this fact, Elliott may find yourself taking regardless of the Cowboys supply, which he might have considered an insult when he was attributable to earn greater than $10 million in 2023.

Elliott hasn’t had any affords from different groups

The plan was for Elliott to be taught his worth to different groups on the Scouting Mix, then examine that to what the Cowboys would have supplied on a lowered deal. Nevertheless, Jones says that generally it is best to let gamers get a really feel for the market.

“Once you’re speaking about nice gamers – and that is what makes them nice: They assume quite a bit, not in a egocentric approach, however they understand themselves as a terrific participant and they’re. It simply turns into how do you make the enterprise work. It at all times boils right down to that sadly.”

If there is no such thing as a market elsewhere, would Elliott take regardless of the Cowboys supply? It is attainable, however not a certainty. The draft is simply 4 weeks away, and it is unclear if the Cowboys will add a younger, low cost participant with considered one of their 2023 alternatives.

It could be becoming for Elliott to return to the Cowboys, as there’s a sense of unfinished enterprise for him in Dallas. In the end, it might be a disgrace if his enterprise with the Cowboys completed with him get blown up whereas taking part in backup heart. As Jones says: “It at all times boils right down to how do you make the enterprise work”.