{"id":231704,"date":"2026-03-05T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/dak-prescott-gives-jerry-jones-another-opportunity-and-sets-2026-as-the-cowboys-defining-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:33:12","slug":"dak-prescott-gives-jerry-jones-another-opportunity-and-sets-2026-as-the-cowboys-defining-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/dak-prescott-gives-jerry-jones-another-opportunity-and-sets-2026-as-the-cowboys-defining-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott gives Jerry Jones another opportunity and sets 2026 as the Cowboys&apos; defining year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\"><strong>Dak Prescott<\/strong> was once viewed by <strong>Dallas Cowboys<\/strong> fans as an extremely selfish player. When he signed a mega contract with the franchise worth <strong>$240 million<\/strong>, many claimed he was thinking only about himself and not about the team, which was left in a complicated financial situation because of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>This narrative quickly intensified as the team&#8217;s results continued to disappoint. The <strong>Cowboys<\/strong> have now gone two straight seasons without reaching the postseason. That is not solely Prescott&#8217;s fault, but he does play a major role because the franchise has had very limited financial flexibility to pursue impact players.<\/p>\n<p>This week it became known that both the quarterback and general manager and owner <strong>Jerry Jones<\/strong> had reached an agreement to restructure <strong>Prescott&#8217;s contract<\/strong>, creating additional salary cap space that could allow the organization to pursue players capable of strengthening the roster.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Jerry Jones is now happy to go shopping in NFL free agency<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Dallas Cowboys<\/strong> now possess the financial potential to search for players who could make the team genuinely competitive heading into the 2026 season, especially on defense, where the unit struggled dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Eberflus leading the defense,<\/strong> Dallas turned into a fiasco. The group finished at the bottom of the league in that category, something unacceptable for a franchise that aspires to return to the <strong>Super Bowl<\/strong> stage, a place it has not reached since 1996.<\/p>\n<p>About the restructuring of his contract, <strong>Dak<\/strong> spoke about what he expects the organization to do in order to fully rebuild.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote\">\n<p>Heck yeah, most definitely.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;We got a coach [Brian Schottenheimer] in his second year. We hgresivo ad some ups and downs and had some good moments last year. This is the year that you make a big jump, and getting big-time players who can help immediately is a part of that.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote-author\">Dak Prescott<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prescott said at a Children&#8217;s Cancer Fund event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Jerry Jones will be aggressive<\/h2>\n<p>At the recent <strong>NFL Combine, Jerry Jones<\/strong> surprised many observers by declaring that he intends to be far more aggressive in free agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote\">\n<p>I want you to know that the only way to push forward is for me to go borrow some of my future,&#8221; Jones added. &#8220;Expect me to go borrow some of my future, OK?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__blockquote-author\">Jerry Jones<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, <strong>he must also be careful when selecting those players,<\/strong> because luck has rarely been on his side in that area.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2025 season, the team allowed a disastrous <strong>511 points and also finished first in total yards conceded<\/strong>, a statistical summary that illustrates how badly the defense collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The areas <strong>Dallas<\/strong> urgently needs to address are the following:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ue-c-article__list ue-c-article__list--unordered\">\n<li>Pass rusher<\/li>\n<li>Esquinero<\/li>\n<li>Safety<\/li>\n<li>Linebacker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, nearly the entire defense must be rebuilt, a monumental task that will demand exceptional management of the numbers from the Jones family going forward together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/2026\/03\/05\/69a9be4846163f3d018b45a5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dak Prescott was once viewed by Dallas Cowboys fans as an extremely selfish player. When he signed a mega contract with the franchise worth $240 million, many claimed he was thinking only about himself and not about the team, which was left in a complicated financial situation because of the deal. This narrative quickly intensified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[229,1257,2514,531,842,55358,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-231704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-229","9":"tag-dak-prescott-english","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys-english","12":"tag-jerry-jones-english","13":"tag-nfc-east-english","14":"tag-nfl-english"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}