{"id":28716,"date":"2025-02-25T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28716"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:43:45","slug":"breaking-cowboys-fans-get-good-news-in-latest-statement-from-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28716","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Cowboys Fans Get Good News in Latest Statement From Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article__header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"l-article__meta\">\n<div class=\"l-article__meta-item l-article__meta-item--dates\">\n<ul class=\"c-meta c-meta--post c-meta--list c-meta--dates\">\n<li class=\"c-meta__item c-meta__item--updated\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__content\">\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2191784322-e1740399024809.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2191784322-e1740399024809.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2191784322-e1740399024809.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2191784322-e1740399024809.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys free agent Rico Dowdle (left) and Saquon Barkley\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"376\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1250\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Cowboys free agent Rico Dowdle (left) and Saquon Barkley<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not quite\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0owner Jerry Jones saying that the team is \u201call in\u201d for the coming season, as he did last winter and set up what was, in the end, one of the most uninspiring offseasons imaginable for the team. Jones\u2019s statement was misconstrued across the NFL, taken to mean the team was going to be very aggressive in signing new players.<\/p>\n<p>But the likes of Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley passed them by in free agency. Potential trade talks to fill needs with stars like Brandon Aiyuk never included the Cowboys. They let veterans like\u00a0Tyron Smith,\u00a0Tony Pollard\u00a0and\u00a0Stephon Gilmore\u00a0go without real replacements.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, what Jones actually meant by \u201call in\u201d was that the team as all in on its roster and coaching staff as it stood at the time, and would make changes\u00a0<em>after<\/em>\u00a0the season if they tanked. Of course, the Cowboys did tank at 7-10 in 2024, and they did, in fact, make changes, moving off of coach Mike McCarthy and promoting offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to head coach.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_1_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-1 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18190176,25816858\/AdThrive_Content_1\/5ad7479721520f50ab7da88e_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With that as a background, team VP Stephen Jones, who is Jerry Jones\u2019s son, of course,\u00a0spoke to the Dallas Morning News\u00a0and said he does expect the Cowboys to be more aggressive in free agency this winter and spring.<\/p>\n<p>Fans burned by 2024 might be loathe to believe him. But that is, at least, the early outlook.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Have a \u2018Good Chance\u2019 of Being More Aggressive<\/h2>\n<p>Now, to be clear, Jones did not say that the team is going to make big, splashy, headline-grabbing moves in the coming weeks and months. But he did acknowledge that the Cowboys have seen an exodus of solid players\u2013lineman\u00a0Zack Martin\u00a0retiring is the latest\u2013and those players need to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cI think there\u2019s probably a good chance of that,\u201d Jones said about signing players in free agency. \u201cBetween what we lost last year and what we have free this year, I think that\u2019s part of it. Every year is its own year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_2_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-2 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18190176,25816858\/AdThrive_Content_2\/5ad7479721520f50ab7da88e_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cowboys do have plenty of their own players to worry about first. Micah Parsons is the top among those, though the Dallas Morning News reports that a new deal for Parsons is probably going to come second, after the re-signing of interior lineman\u00a0Osa Odighizu<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/osa-odighizuwa\/\">wa<\/a>, who is a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons has a fifth-year option in place, worth $24 million, for next season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Brian Schottenheimer Sees Quick Turnaround<\/h2>\n<p>Certainly, the hope in Dallas remains that the team can pull off a quick turnaround after last year\u2019s 7-10 showing. The team had gone 12-5 for three straight years before that, after all, and simply plugging some holes could be enough to get things back on track.<\/p>\n<p>That was new coach Schottenheimer\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_3_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-3 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18190176,25816858\/AdThrive_Content_3\/5ad7479721520f50ab7da88e_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe objective and the main thing is we want to win the Super Bowl \u2026\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cAnd I think one of the things about me taking over this prestigious position is we can hit the ground running pretty fast because I don\u2019t need to learn the decision-makers. I don\u2019t need to learn the quarterback. I don\u2019t need to learn how things work. And so, I feel like we\u2019re kind of ahead of the curve with some of these other teams that made changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys free agent Rico Dowdle (left) and Saquon Barkley It\u2019s not quite\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0owner Jerry Jones saying that the team is \u201call in\u201d for the coming season, as&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : Cowboys Fans Get Good News in Latest Statement From Team - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28716\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : Cowboys Fans Get Good News in Latest Statement From Team - 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