Cowboys 'No Comment' on Dak Prescott Contract; Here's Why

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is logically in line for a contract extension, but here in Phoenix, Stephen Jones is being unusually non-committal about negotiations.

PHOENIX - It is almost not within the power of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to resist remarking on ... well, everything.

So this week here in Phoenix at the NFL owners meeting, Jerry offered some new information on quarterback Dak Prescott and plans for a contract extension that would keep him place long-term while also creating future cap room ... maybe a $50 million APY deal ... although talks have yet to take place, as Jerry revealed.

And would Dallas COO Stephen Jones like to add anything?

"We won't comment on that," Jones told us here in Arizona. 

Why not?

"I'm not going to comment,'' he repeated ... before hinting at his reasoning.

​"We won't comment on that," Jones said. "Hopefully, it won't become front-and-center, and you (fans and media) wake up one day, and they're done, but I really don't want to comment on that."

That does seem an unusual approach from a Cowboys organization that, led by Jerry, is often quite open about such things.

But ... consider the climate. Does relative silence have something to do with the current state of quarterback contracts and the Lamar Jackson affair in Baltimore? Do the Cowboys want to be careful to avoid warring in public with Dak's representation? Is there nothing to gain and everything to lose by being too open?

Yes. All of that.

"Looking forward to an extension, and when that time comes, it'll happen," Prescott said recently at an event for the Children's Cancer Fund. "I'm with Stephen on it. It may just happen overnight, but when it happens, it happens, it'll be great."

And then, when it happens? Let the Jerry-led noise begin.

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