Stephen Jones on Dak contract talks, season opener vs. Browns & more

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Dallas Cowboys EVP & director of player personnel Stephen Jones joined the GBag Nation on Friday to talk about the team's ongoing contract talks with QB Dak Prescott amongst other things regarding the team's opening game against the Cleveland Browns.

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00:00And we are heading for cowboys browns. Sunday, a 325 kickoff here on your home of the cowboys

00:22as Steven Jones joins us now here on the family. Good afternoon, sir. How the heck are you?

00:28Good afternoon, guys. I'm doing well. Right on. It's great to hear your voice and reopen another

00:34season with you. Thank you so much for that. I do have to ask, as we open this up, is it possible

00:39we have a contract announcement for the quarterback in the next couple of days? Are talks still

00:44ongoing? Yeah, I hope it's a possibility. We continue to, I think, have productive visits

00:53and talks and we'll continue to work. Steven, I mean, these quarterbacks, it's crazy. You look up,

00:59it's like this guy gets 55, next guy 58. Before we know, we're going to $70 million quarterback

01:04and we've seen some chatter this offseason. Maybe you have a salary cap that is separate just for

01:09quarterbacks. I mean, you're in the midst of this competition committee. Is that something you see

01:13happening at all down the line? I think it's something that certainly, you know, people are

01:18looking at. I mean, obviously, you know, these quarterbacks are, you know, the most important

01:24position on the team. I think anybody would agree with that and, you know, certainly they get in

01:30situations, you know, not unlike Dak with us that they, and certainly Troy was that way and certainly

01:37Tony was that way and, you know, when you have good ones, you want to keep them and so you're,

01:43they've got good leverage. So, you know, that's something that, you know, obviously, as you look

01:49around, they, you know, that you have to have these guys, but, you know, you've got to make

01:54decisions on a supporting cast and what goes around them and, you know, those are decisions

02:00teams have to make. Logistically, how would that work? Oh, you know, I wouldn't say that it's,

02:08you know, any great depth of discussion at this point, but too early to make any type of comment

02:15on something like that. But the goal is to kind of keep franchise quarterbacks with the team that

02:20has them already. Would that be like the goal of a rule like that? Well, I think, like I said,

02:26I just don't know. It's too early to make a comment on any type of rule. Obviously, we have

02:33franchise tags in the CBA currently that, you know, that give you a chance to keep the franchise

02:40quarterbacks if that's what the team wants and certainly, you know, in Dak's case, he's going

02:45to have a big say where he wants to play. And is it fair to assume if the deal doesn't get done by

02:52this weekend, probably doesn't happen until after the season gets done? I'm not going to get into

02:58hypotheticals. We're working hard, got our eye on the ball and see what happens. And I know in the

03:03meantime, Dak and our teams got their eye on beating the Browns.

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