CeeDee Lamb Holds Out: Implications for Cowboys Camp

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00:00the Cowboys show up to camp in Oxnard, it will be notable for

00:07who is also not there. That's CeeDee Lamb officially holding

00:12out from the start of training camp for Dallas unable at least

00:16at this stage to shot to sign a contract extension before the

00:20fifth and final year of his rookie deal. CeeDee Lamb

00:24without that big new contract that fellow first round pick

00:28Justin Jefferson from the 2020 NFL draft received is not

00:32going to be at training camp at least at the start. How

00:36concerned should Cowboys fans and backers be DRS that Lamb is

00:41not there. I don't think they should really be concerned

00:44about that because I do think he's going to show up, but more

00:47of the concern of again the offseason strategy that was

00:50laid out by Jerry Jones. I'm not getting any younger. We are

00:53all in and proceeds to do nothing but bungle the salary

00:57cap and not pay your best players where you can you can

01:00see the players say whatever they want. Now CeeDee Lamb is

01:02taking a completely different approach like Dak Prescott like

01:04Dak's like you know what I played down this route the

01:07longer we wait the more money I'm going to make. I'm fine

01:08with that. I'm a quarterback. I'm probably not going to have

01:10a career ending injury, but for guys looking to strike gold

01:13like CeeDee Lamb where so many wide receivers are doing that.

01:16I just can't understand what the Dallas Cowboys philosophy

01:18is because when you see Dak say I'm fine with it, you know,

01:22even if any player says that deep down like look, I just

01:24want what I'm worth like give me the financial security and

01:27let me go into the season just focused on football itself. I

01:31don't want to get calls from my agent midweek saying hey,

01:33here's the latest offer coming back. What do you think about

01:35this? I want to focus on game plan. I want to be with the

01:37boys out there like I want to play football and don't have to

01:40worry about my financial constraints at this point and

01:42this is what they're doing like CeeDee Lamb not sure like is

01:44anybody in the right mind believe like right now like

01:46what's CeeDee Lamb asking for he wants to be paid like Justin

01:49Jefferson. Oh, you can't pay him and let him sit like no

01:52again. Just the way the NFL financials work. It's the next

01:55man in line who's a really good football player is going to get

01:59that big paycheck and I have no idea what they're doing in

02:01Dallas because theoretically Ben three guys that I said,

02:04let's just say nobody gets paid this year. They're all going to

02:07reset the market. You won't have enough money left over to

02:09pay the rest of your football team, but if you're paying

02:11these guys as you go and limiting the damage and saving

02:14yourself money and also how many times we see this. Hey,

02:17Dak's worth 60 million dollars against the cap here. Well, if

02:20you just restructured him and gave him a new contract, he'd

02:22be down to 10 million against the cap. CeeDee Lamb is going

02:25to count what 18 million against the cap. If you gave

02:27him a hundred million dollars in guarantees, he probably would

02:30count half of his cap number of what it is now. I have no idea

02:34what Jerry Jones is doing. CeeDee Lamb should be paid top

02:36dollar and be in camp and ready to go for this football

02:39season.

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