Watch Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports Radio’s The Herd discuss CeeDee Lamb’s impending training camp holdout with the Cowboys, as Colin says it will be the first domino to fall towards a slow and steady deterioration marking the end of the Dak Prescott era in Dallas.
Check out the segment above as Colin details how Jerry Jones will take a perennial playoff contender and turn it into dust.
Colin Cowherd: “Sources this morning: “Star receiver CeeDee Lamb says ‘I’m not showing up to Cowboy camp, go ahead and fine me’”... They don’t have much offensively right now. I think because of their scarcity of weapons, he’s going to get his money and a new contract. And then I think by the end of the year, they’ll pony up the Brinks truck for Micah and Dak.
The last eight seasons have been pretty good for the Cowboys; better than most. Four division titles, five playoff appearances, a couple playoff wins... I think this season marks the slow and steady decline of the Cowboys. And you thought you had seen the worst of it... Dak in his late-prime will probably still keep you relevant, he’s a ‘B’ to ‘B+’ quarterback. But they are – starting with CeeDee Lamb’s contract – are about to get absurdly top-heavy. They already couldn’t spend any money in free agency because they were too top-heavy.
There’s two factors that play into this steady decline. The NFC was weak and wide open for the last several years and they couldn’t take advantage of it. Now San Francisco, Detroit, and Philadelphia are loaded and have much better rosters than the Cowboys. The Rams and the Packers have much better young talent. Atlanta with Kirk Cousins has more good players offensively in an offensive league than Dallas. And watch out, Chicago and Washington could both have star young quarterbacks on rookie contract for the next four years as Dak is making Mahomes money.
I looked at their schedule this morning... There are four games they should be heavily favored in: Giants twice, New Orleans, and Carolina. Probably favored over Tampa too, but it’s close. Outside of that, every other game is a coin flip and very losable. In this offensive league, the teams they play have more good weapons.
This is what happens when an 81-year-old man, Jerry Jones, sees himself as the general manager, and has leaned on very vanilla coaching. Parcells and Jimmy Johnson weren’t, and they’re gone. The schedule is tough, they’re going to get absurdly top-heavy, CeeDee Lamb probably wins this holdout, their draft was rated as ‘average’ and ‘uninspiring’, and they didn’t spend a nickel in free agency. This marks the beginning of a slow and steady decline for Dak’s big-money years, and I presume he’ll sign a four-year deal in the Patrick Mahomes range.”
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