'Subject Matter: Jerry Addresses Many Issues | Dallas Cowboys 2020'

Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones is not opposed to Dez Bryant's return to the franchise. The wide receiver was released following the 2017 season.


"I've been thinking about it a lot in the shower," Jones said Thursday. "I have been. I'm not dismissing it. I don't want to sound like it should be dismissed by saying it. I'm thinking about it."

Bryant has been working out just yards away from the team facility in Frisco, Texas, as he attempts to return after two years away from game action because of a torn Achilles tendon. Bryant suffered the injury in his first practice with the New Orleans Saints in 2018. He was not on an NFL roster in 2019 but has been working out regularly, planning for a comeback.

Jerry Jones refers to Dak Prescott as family member, but adds deal “has to fit”


On Wednesday, the Cowboys met with Dak Prescott’s agent, Todd France, for the first time since September. The sides resumed talks on a long-term deal for the quarterback, though the team is not expected to get a contract completed until after resolution of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.


“Don’t make anything of that, one way or another,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Thursday, via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. “That’s not what counts. [What counts is] when you decide it’s time to make it work.”

Jones added that he was not demeaning the meeting “but what counts is when it looks like it fits.”

The sides came close to a deal before the start of the 2019 season before negotiations were put on hold.

Prescott is scheduled to hit free agency March 18, though that is unlikely. The Cowboys are expected to franchise Prescott if they can’t get a deal done before the tag window closes March 12.

The proposed CBA calls for only one tag, which would complicate matters for the Cowboys with both Prescott and receiver Amari Cooper scheduled to become free agents.

“It’s what it is,” Jones said. “We’ll just have to figure out a way to [get it done]. . . .There’s no question it’s going to put on a bigger angst.”

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