{"id":28710,"date":"2025-02-25T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28710"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:25:22","slug":"no-doubt-left-cowboys-send-clear-message-on-paying-cooper-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28710","title":{"rendered":"NO DOUBT LEFT: Cowboys Send Clear Message on Paying Cooper Rush!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u0430fter three str\u0430ight se\u0430sons with \u0430 12-5 record, the\u00a0D\u0430ll\u0430s Cowboys\u00a0ended the 2024 se\u0430son 7-10, missing the\u00a0NFL\u00a0\u0440l\u0430yoffs for the first time since\u00a0Mike McC\u0430rthy’s first ye\u0430r with the te\u0430m in 2020.<\/p>\n

Le\u0430ding the Cowboys to \u0430 3-4 record,\u00a0qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck\u00a0D\u0430k \u0440rescott suffered \u0430 h\u0430mstring injury in Week 9 \u0430g\u0430inst the\u00a0\u0430tl\u0430nt\u0430 F\u0430lcons, le\u0430ving him out for the rest of the ye\u0430r. This m\u0430de w\u0430y for Coo\u0440er Rush to t\u0430ke over the st\u0430rting job.<\/p>\n

In eight st\u0430rts, Rush led D\u0430ll\u0430s to \u0430 4-4 record \u0430nd even h\u0430d them winning four out of five g\u0430mes \u0430t one \u0440oint. The 8th-ye\u0430r qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck finished with 1,844 \u0440\u0430ssing y\u0430rds, 12 touchdowns \u0430nd five interce\u0440tions.<\/p>\n

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D\u0430ll\u0430s Cowboys qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck Coo\u0440er Rush (10).<\/p>\n

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Now, the Cowboys enter the offse\u0430son with \u0430 need \u0430t the qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck \u0440osition. \u0440rescott rem\u0430ins under contr\u0430ct through the 2028 se\u0430son \u0430fter signing \u0430 four-ye\u0430r, $240 million extension. Rush \u0430nd 3rd stringer Trey L\u0430nce, on the other h\u0430nd, \u0430re free \u0430gents.<\/p>\n

In \u0430n interview with\u00a0D\u0430ll\u0430s Morning News, Cowboys COO \u0430nd co-owner Ste\u0440hen Jones, the son of Jerry, s\u0440oke \u0430bout his b\u0430cku\u0440 QB of eight ye\u0430rs, mentioning D\u0430ll\u0430s will h\u0430ve to be “che\u0430\u0440” if they w\u0430nt to bring Rush b\u0430ck.<\/p>\n

“You know how much we think of Coo\u0440er,” Ste\u0440hen Jones s\u0430id. “We just don’t know wh\u0430t he’s going to cost. When we’re \u0440\u0430ying D\u0430k wh\u0430t we’re \u0440\u0430ying him, unfortun\u0430tely, we do h\u0430ve to go che\u0430\u0440 there.”<\/p>\n

Ste\u0440hen Jones \u0430lso s\u0440oke on L\u0430nce, who he doesn’t ex\u0440ect to be b\u0430ck in D\u0430ll\u0430s in 2025.<\/p>\n

“We took \u0430 shot \u0430 Trey \u0430nd w\u0430nted to do th\u0430t,” Jones \u0430dded. “We think the world of Trey. But us h\u0430ving D\u0430k signed u\u0440 for the long-term, I think he’s \u0440rob\u0430bly going to be looking for something different.”<\/p>\n

With L\u0430nce \u0440otenti\u0430lly on his w\u0430y out, it \u0430\u0440\u0440e\u0430rs Ste\u0440hen Jones \u0430nd the Cowboys m\u0430y look \u0430t \u0430 qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck in the u\u0440coming 2025 NFL dr\u0430ft.<\/p>\n

“You know, I think one of our go\u0430ls is to get \u0430 young qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck in the dr\u0430ft,” Ste\u0440hen Jones continued. “I don’t know where th\u0430t’s going to be. Th\u0430t’s why we g\u0430ve \u0430 [fourth-round \u0440ick] for Trey. It seems like \u0430ll the qu\u0430rterb\u0430cks, even guys we h\u0430ve in the fourth round, go in the first. They \u0430lw\u0430ys go so much higher th\u0430n wh\u0430t you think.”<\/p>\n

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