Very similar to each different supporter of America’s Staff, Jimmy Johnson has lots to say concerning the Cowboys’ personnel strikes over the past 12 months.
Showing on “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” Wednesday, Johnson — who coached the storied franchise from 1989 via 1993 and gained two Tremendous Bowls — was requested about what he would do with the Cowboys as they enter a essential offseason.
Johnson torched the group’s choice to signal quarterback Dak Prescott to a four-year, $240 million extension.
“Well, first of all, they’re so financially strapped with some of these contracts. First of all, I would have never given Prescott a new contract,” Johnson mentioned, as transcribed by Larry Brown Sports activities.
“I’d let him play it out. He’s the highest-paid player in the league. He’s not the best player in the league. He wasn’t gonna go anywhere, if they had gone to the Super Bowl with him, hey, he wasn’t gonna go anywhere, pay him whatever. If he struggled in the playoffs, then you negotiate. Or if he got hurt, you save money. But they’re so financially strapped right now, I don’t know what they do.”
Prescott, who has been below middle in Dallas since 2016, agreed to a monster extension simply hours earlier than Dallas kicked off the season in opposition to Cleveland. He was coming into the ultimate 12 months of a four-year, $160 million deal signed in 2021.
Though that sport was a spotlight – a 33-17 street win with Prescott throwing one landing and nil interceptions — the Cowboys season shortly spiraled.
Dallas went on a five-game skid that began in mid-October and ended final Sunday with a 34-26 victory over the Commanders.
That win was guided by backup quarterback Cooper Rush, now beginning for the Cowboys after Prescott suffered a hamstring harm in a Week 9 loss to the Falcons. He opted to endure season-ending surgical procedure.
Earlier than the harm, Prescott had thrown 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions via eight contests.
Along with Prescott, Dallas awarded star extensive receiver CeeDee Lamb a four-year, $136 million extension in August following an offseason holdout.
Nevertheless, the Cowboys didn’t prolong fifth-year coach Mike McCarthy, who’s teaching on an expiring deal, with questions looming about his future in Dallas after the season.
Though proprietor Jerry Jones hasn’t dumped water on the suggestion of a McCarthy extension, it’s one thing Johnson referred to as consideration to Wednesday.
“They talk about changing coaching, I don’t know if changing coaches is going to help them cause Mike McCarthy is a good football coach. I don’t know if that new coach coming in can solve the problem,” he mentioned.
Johnson is way from the one one that has criticized Jones and the Cowboys this season, with Dallas’ legendary quarterback, Troy Aikman, shredding the group’s “lazy” receivers after an embarrassing loss in October.
That very same month, when making his weekly look on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, Jones seemingly threatened to have the radio hosts fired upon fielding questions over the group’s offseason strategy.
Dallas enters Thursday’s NFC East conflict in opposition to the 2-9 Giants at 4-7. Kickoff is at 4:30 p.m. in Arlington.
