NBA and MLB teams get called cheap all the time due to the nature of each sport, particularly baseball where there is no salary cap, and some teams routinely put out unacceptable rosters while spending a fraction of what their peers are spending.
The NFL doesn’t typically operate that way, as every team is a big market team and every owner spends whatever it takes to get the job done, but Mike Greenberg recently said that one franchise is actually being cheap lately.
In a recent appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, Greenberg said “The Dallas Cowboys are a cheap franchise and their cash spending on players is the lowest in the NFL.” and added “It was the lowest last year, the lowest this year, and projects to be the lowest next year…Jerry Jones gets into these poker games with players and loses every single time.”
“The Dallas Cowboys are a cheap franchise & their cash spending on players is the lowest in the NFL..
It was the lowest last year, the lowest this year & projects to be the lowest next year..
Jerry Jones gets into these poker games with players & loses every single time” ~… pic.twitter.com/Cv7w6fGZb3
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 14, 2024
This news comes on the heels of the Cowboys recently being valued at over $10 billion, making them the most valuable team in professional sports.
Greenberg’s claim is in regards to the team not stretching signing bonuses and getting creative with its cap room, and it’s now led them to a position where arguably the three best and most important players on the team are in messy contract situations.
Dak Prescott is heading into the last year of his contract while CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons are both clamoring for long-term extensions following dominant starts to their respective careers.
Jerry Jones has been notably hesitant to extend any of them, and it has shifted all the focus on this upcoming season toward the wrong things.