The Cowboys, at long last, got a deal done with Ezekiel Elliott. Meanwhile, there hasn’t been much progress for star teammate Amari Cooper. 
“There haven’t been a lot of negotiations with Amari (Cooper), period,”Cowboys executive VP Stephen Jones said (via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News). “And I’m not free to be able to share why. I think at some point we’ll start that. I don’t know what their parameters will be.”
Cooper, to date, has been saying and doing all of the right things. The wide receiver says that he wants to stay in Dallas and is also willing to play out the 2019 season in an effort to (re-) prove that he is worthy of a top-dollar deal.
Meanwhile, after getting the greenlight to play in Week 1, Cooper could be primed for a monster season. Cooper is willing to wait, and the Cowboys should have plenty of incentive to jumpstart talks.
For now, both sides are playing the waiting game. It might not be an ideal situation, but it’s far preferable to the one that Cooper’s former club finds itself in with his replacement, Antonio Brown.
amari: so do you actually have any money left to offer me?
cowboys: …no…but you get to keep playing for AMERICA’S TEAM!!! (TM)
haha! That’s perfect!
65M in cap space still in 2020? Or is overthecap wrong?
well 30-33 million goes to their QB. If they drop 18-20 million on Amari that leaves them with 10-15 million and B Jones a free agent
30+ mill/yr for Dak? That sounds like the worst decision they could possibly make.
They’d be better off trading Dak then using the resources to move up for a true franchise QB
Cowboys have 87M in cap space in 2020 according to Spotrac.
Cowboys have the money but you see they will have to pay Dak, Amari, Byron Jones, Anthony Brown. Then decide if they want Heath, Lee and Collins. Some other guys are depth but they have four big names plus some smaller names that could wipe their cap. It’s why paying Zeke immediately wasn’t what they wanted.
They already re upped Collins?
I think he is talking about defensive tackle Collins.
Maliek Collins
Maliek will cost $5 mil tops, Brown will cost $7 mil tops…NEXT
You lost me when you talked about extending Jeff Heath and Sean Lee. The former has always been a marginal player, while the latter is playing out his last contract with the Cowboys.