Don't worry about Felix Jones and Mike Jenkins getting signed
Jean-Jacques Taylor
The Cowboys will get both deals done even if it costs the players the first day or two of training camp - not that I really think that will happen.
Eugene Parker and the Cowboys have been working out deals for years - he has represented Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders and Quincy Carter among others - so they have a good working relationship.
Besides, each side already knows the gist of what each player is going to sign for based on the deals players selected in their spot received last year.
Sometimes, deals get protracted because a player unexpectedly falls in the draft and he and his agent thinks he should be paid better than the slot he was drafted. And you quarterbacks are always trying to get a better deal.
Like I said, since none of that applies. The deals will get done. After all, the Cowboys haven't had a protracted first-round holdout in years. The last really long holdout, if memory serves me, belonged to Emmitt Smith, who missed all of training camp way back in 1990.
One other thing. A lot of you probably want to know why the Cowboys wait until the last minute to get these deals done since they could've been working on them since April. Here's the answer: Stephen Jones thinks it's OK to wait until the last minute because then the sides have a concrete deadline - the start of training camp - which forces them to negotiate in good faith.
In the past, Jones has said if you start negotiations too early with draft picks, then both sides exchange outrageous proposals and you don't wind up getting the deal done until just before training camp anyway.
The Cowboys will get both deals done even if it costs the players the first day or two of training camp - not that I really think that will happen.
Eugene Parker and the Cowboys have been working out deals for years - he has represented Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders and Quincy Carter among others - so they have a good working relationship.
Besides, each side already knows the gist of what each player is going to sign for based on the deals players selected in their spot received last year.
Sometimes, deals get protracted because a player unexpectedly falls in the draft and he and his agent thinks he should be paid better than the slot he was drafted. And you quarterbacks are always trying to get a better deal.
Like I said, since none of that applies. The deals will get done. After all, the Cowboys haven't had a protracted first-round holdout in years. The last really long holdout, if memory serves me, belonged to Emmitt Smith, who missed all of training camp way back in 1990.
One other thing. A lot of you probably want to know why the Cowboys wait until the last minute to get these deals done since they could've been working on them since April. Here's the answer: Stephen Jones thinks it's OK to wait until the last minute because then the sides have a concrete deadline - the start of training camp - which forces them to negotiate in good faith.
In the past, Jones has said if you start negotiations too early with draft picks, then both sides exchange outrageous proposals and you don't wind up getting the deal done until just before training camp anyway.
posted by The Gryphon at 6:51 PM
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