Ja'Marr Chase is MAKING A POINT 👀 + Is Jerry Jones putting TOO MUCH on Dak Prescott? | NFL Live

star wide out Jamar Chase showed up in Street close for today's practice did not participate this comes you see him right there one day after head coach Zack Taylor said Chase would practice all week after the star wide receiver practice on both Sunday and Monday so what's going on here okay he's still waiting for the deal of course our Bengals reporter Ben baby added this just moments ago he said Zack Taylor says wide receiver Jamar Chase is day to day added that Taylor probably quote put his foot in his mouth when speaking yesterday about cases availability Adam what more can you add well Laura I think that the negotiations between these two sides are slowo right now and I think Zack Taylor was enthused about the fact that Jamar Chase had been back participating in practice but those have only been walkth through practices when he's practice it was all individual drills not fullon practice and this is a situation that has bared watching all training camp and continues to Bear watching and you could tell today it was almost as if Jamar Chase was trying to replace the narrative that Zack Taylor used yesterday in fact Zack Taylor yesterday was very confident and optimistic that Jamar Chase would be practicing today that he would be playing in week one and Jamar Chase almost made a statement of his own by showing up and not practicing today as if to say this narrative is not going to be dictated entirely by the Cincinnati Bengals and clearly they're still is an issue unless Jamar Chase gets paid yeah you can just tell you know well if you read between the lines you can just tell that this young man is very frustrated very frustrated he doesn't he knows that he doesn't have a whole lot of options here other than to just do exactly what he did which was look I don't have any leverage the only leverage you know I I don't have a Dak Prescott type of situation where I'm setting up for free agency next year where I could just walk and leave out of here you know I'm on a one-year deal he he really the only thing he can do is sit out and withhold services and you just know that anybody who right now kind of like puts it puts it out there in any way shape or form that this guy has no other choice but to play he's going to push back against that and this this sounds like that like he goes like hey you know what you think I'm going to practice okay watch this I'm not practicing I'm going to go out here in my street clothes I'm going to watch you guys although we probably it's probably a safe bet that you know you wind up seeing him week one and you wind up seeing him play it's got to be extremely extremely frustrating for someone who's been so productive and they know that they need in order to get to where they want to get to and Louis I see it the exact same way you do like it's very frustrating he's a top five wide receiver maybe top three wide receiver in the game of football he's gonna play for a million bucks and he knows that he's worth way more net and on top of that you've seen the wide receiver Market explode CD lamb just got 136 M over four years but understand this with this collective bargaining agreement he's basically tied to Cincinnati for two more years and we know what Mike Brown and how should I say how Mike Brown decides to negotiate deals so I think he's stuck now the relationship between burrow and Chase is such that chase is not going to want to miss opening day with his partner because he's going to want to be out there but even if he does at at a certain point he's got to come in to get an acrude season so like he really has no choice but to come and play I Feel for him but this is not a decision that was made based on Jamar chase this was a collectively bargained issue the team that drafts you in the first round has a four-year deal and a chance for a fifth year option and then they can franchise you two more years so he has zero leverage whatsoever but to figure out a way to go to Mike Brown and say Hey listen are you gonna do the right thing I'll come out here I'll show up I may not give you my best but if you will do the right thing for me okay T Higgins is not going to be here most likely Tyler Bo is already gone everyone knows I am your wide receiver Mike Brown do the right thing that's all he's asking and he's pleading and he's doing that through the media he's doing that he's doing it every way he can without ever saying a word I just wonder if Mike Brown will listen because this young man is crying out to Mike Brown to do the right thing and Mike Brown is saying hey this is how we do business in Cincinnati we're not doing anything different and he's gonna test this young man's resolve I don't think it's right but it's what the collective bargaining collective bargaining agreement says that he can do B you said 136 M's right there's a lot of M&M's going around right now at the wide receiver position and you say he's got no leverage I would disagree Jamar Chase can simply say my back's bothering me I don't think I can play that week one my hamstring's tight I don't think I can play week one and the Bengals will get that message if that's what he decides he wants to do so he has leverage he doesn't have as much leverage as he'd like to have due to the collective bargain agreement having two years left in the contract but nobody wants a situation how's that going to go over though Shifty H H how is that going to go over if he starts talking about his hamstring or his back come like players in the locker room understand the business you don't have to lie Us in order to K with us players understand the business players also understand to your point that he scheduled to make $1 million in base salary this year he had a $3.8 million roster bonus so he's going to make $4.8 million so he's going to step out there right now when all those M are out there and risk that like I again has he been willing to do that this summer has he been willing to do it so far have we seen him practice once have we seen him do anything other than a walk the only no you're right look the only leverage the only leverage he has which we have already said is to withhold his services and figure out a way to continue pushing this out and pushing this out and pushing this out now understand look the wide receiver room in Cincinnati is pretty darn strong they've drafted pretty well okay Jermaine Burton has looked pretty good Andre osabus looks pretty good Charlie Jones is pretty good T Higgins is pretty good they've got a fleet of tight ends also and they've got a quarterback who's pretty darn good so look I mean for cincin this is this is this is going to be the epitomy this is right here this is the very definition of the cat and mouse game that teams and players are going to play with each other play with one another when the team feels as though they have the leverage and the player only has one course of action I'm going to hold out final who's going to Blink first you know what his leverages I believe that in week two the Cincinnati Bengals play the Kansas City Chiefs that's his Leverage that one for sure uh either way I think Bo brought up an important Point too about the relationship with burrow meanwhile the Dallas Cowboy signed former Jets Ravens running back Vikings running back dvin cook to their practice squad with the intent that eventually they'll promote him to their active roster he will compliment running backs such as Ezekiel Elliot Rico D have a chance to make a mark in Dallas he stayed in shape he believes he's in shape and we'll see what kind of Mark Dalvin cook can make with the Dallas Cowboys law interesting dep speaking of the Cowboys the news you broke earlier this week Adam was a CD lamb deal four years 136 million that's where we focus now lamb back at practice you see him out there getting ready for week one against the Browns and CD lamb has been on the field for 95% of Dak Prescott's pass attempts in the last two seasons including the playoffs Prescott's total qbr drops to 42 in that small sample size without lamb in the game compared to 72 30 point difference when he's on the field so Jerry Jones is actually still speaking to the media this is happening right now we're bringing you some of what he just said with CD being resolved now how would you characterize your negotiations with Dak Prescott heading into the regular season opener uh that hasn't changed so U we're uh continuing to U uh uh first of all all of us focus on what's coming up here in the next next 10 days two weeks opening game and U that takes priority over anything that's an area that is tricky it's uh easy for me to say uh I I seem to have my better times when uh I'm dealing frankly in bad times which are incentive areas to get out of the ditch so to speak and so it's easy to say well boy when you when you don't know what's coming around the corner at the end of the week or end of the month or end of the year then you give it your best I don't want to do that I I don't want to do that it's usually a combination of what's in the best interest of the whole in our case the Dallas Cowboys and what is uh needed to do to make a decision on the length and the incentive uh demand in the contract and so it's somewhere in between you've got a obious obvously look at the well-being of the team and the uh the goals of the team but uh where I can uh I've always uh in any area uh put uh uh uh my associates my running mate in the case of a player players coaches anytime that I can incen them more I do that I believe in the carrot well I'm trying to make heads and tails all man what did somebody please tell me what Jerry said because I have noide Jey what is he do okay well help us the biggest thing that he said there was status quo on the Dak Prescott negotiation status quo right so they're not any closer today and his focus seems to be on getting ready for the regular season opener against the Cleveland Browns we'll see if the Dallas Cowboys can step forward and try to make any progress with Dak Prescott who's entering dur the last year of a contract in which the Dallas Cowboys cannot place any sort of tag on him and he will be allowed to hit the free agent Market if he's not resigned before then so Jerry Jones has had a big week signing CD lamb getting dvin cook done uh getting some deals done for this Dallas franchise but the fact of the matter is Dak still is out there unsigned and Jerry waxon poetic about it right there it was poetic that was something else is one of the things he waxed poetic about yesterday BG or earlier today he said this about Dak he said said my thought sitting right here is we'll have Dak as a Cowboys quarterback in 2025 and Beyond I'm looking at having less Supporting Cast around him than he's had at any time in his career he's going to have to make up for that he's going to have to make up for that and some because we haven't gotten to the games we want to be playing in so what do you think about Jerry kind of putting all that on Dax saying look we may not have the Best Supporting Cast but dax's going to have to make the best of it well Jerry said the obvious out loud if you think about it that mean Kansas City couldn't afford Tyreek Hill uh and with everything that Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jones so they had to get rid of Tyreek Hill and reload and guess what Patrick Mahomes made them better and they went on they won two Super Bowls so he's basically saying what we already know when your quarterback is going to take up 17 18 19% of the cap and he's going to make 55 to $60 million he's got to make the players around him better so I have zero problem with Jerry saying the the obvious out loud some people may may do and say well you can't not surround your franchise quarterback well guess what tell the franchise quarterback he shouldn't be making all the money at some point you can't make all the money and do less work he's got to do more work when you make more money you have to do more work that's the Great American that's that's that's what happens in most places in America the guy that makes all the money has to make the important decisions and do the toughest and hardest and most important work and it's going to be no different when Dak Prescott if Jerry Jones is basically going to say that Dak is going to be there 2025 and bond Beyond that means he's prepared to pay Dax price and it's probably in in my opinion it should be no less than 60 million a year when you're making 60 million a year you better tote some more water than the guy that's making five million is total yeah look I mean we understand that with you know with great earnings comes great responsibility a tremendous a lot amount of uh impact that you are expected then to have on everyone else's performance I mean that that's that's no big deal I mean I think what I think with Jerry what he's saying is this look kind of some of the things that we've been talking about he's look I think he's looking around and he's going okay let's see here I've I paid CD the offensive Line's coming together pretty well which has been which was a question mark I mean their rookie Tyler gon has looked fantastic Tyler Smith has looked fantastic the left side of the offensive line looks solid we just Al added dvin cook will be able to put together a competitive uh group of running backs so I think offensively we'll be okay on the defensive side we've added some pieces at linebacker we got to make sure the secondary is shorted up and we can cover there I think we'll be able to rush the passer I'm going to take care of Micah so I think look I think right now he's saying now if I don't have Dak what is my next best alternative what is it even if I have you know all this cap space what am I going to do with what what am I going to do what am I going to do with CD lamb if I don't have somebody to throw him the football yeah why did I just pay him all the money I just paid him then why didn't I trade him get get a bunch of draft picks reset this whole thing Jerry doesn't want to reset he doesn't have time to reset he's not going to own this football team forever he's not going to reset it right now he's he knows what position he's in he may not like it but he's accepting it which is I got to pay it I've got to pay it he would just like I'm sure in his own mind to feel better about paying it meaning Dak has one of those Seasons where he takes them into the postseason he elevates the team then he would probably go ahead exactly and he would hand in the check and be like here just write in your price price just goad you keep saying he's got to pay it but guess what it takes two to tango dak's got to take it too and Dak has to be will to take it knowing that he's going to hit the free agent Market or at least he scheduled to but Adam Adam you know this we all we all can be bought we all can be why does Adam know that spoken spoken a true entrepreneur Lis rck 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