Jerry Jones explains if the Cowboys are undergoing a ‘soft rebuild’ | Sports

PITTSBURGH — Cowboys proprietor and basic supervisor Jerry Jones mentioned in the offseason he was “all in” in getting his crew again to a Super Bowl look.

However, throughout a Friday radio interview with 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM), Jones was requested by host Cory Mageors if the Cowboys had been in a “soft rebuild” and the crew proprietor agreed.

As a part of a lengthy reply, Jones talked about the issue of sustaining competitiveness in the present wage cap system and placing a crew along with a quarterback that instructions a excessive wage.

“That’s the way that we are,” Jones mentioned. “You got to really work that problem hard with draft and with young players and when you see games come up that you’re counting on young players, you know that’s going to be an opportunity to test the system, sort of speak. Test us out and we got to have some success with young players, just like this weekend.”

Jones was not accessible to the media earlier than Sunday evening’s Steelers-Cowboys recreation.

In the Steelers recreation, younger gamers had been wanted.

The Cowboys didn’t have veteran defensive ends Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence. So rookie finish Marshawn Kneeland began for Lawrence. An damage to veteran receiver Brandin Cooks allowed rookie receiver Ryan Flournoy to make his season debut.

The Cowboys have a little greater than $20 million in wage cap area and simply earlier than the begin of the season, receiver CeeDee Lamb and quarterback Dak Prescott signed huge contracts.

Prescott has the highest common annual wage in the NFL at $60 million and Lamb’s $34 million common is the second-highest at his place.

This season, Jones has been criticized for saying the Cowboys have been unable to signal free brokers due to wage cap area. Jones mentioned cap area was wanted to care for their very own free brokers.

But throughout his radio interview, he had a totally different tune given the criticism he’s taken.

“I’m going to quit singing the blues about everybody when I’m saying we’re short of space,” he mentioned. “There’s no need talking about it.”

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