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FRISCO, Texas — The 2024 Dallas Cowboys enter the upcoming season and beyond with just about as much uncertainty as any NFL team in recent memory.
Coach Mike McCarthy and his entire staff are entering the final year of their contracts as are almost every key contributor in all three phases — offense, defense and special teams. Not to mention the Cowboys are in the process of replacing eight-time Pro Bowl left tackle Tyron Smith and Pro Bowl center Tyler Biadasz with a couple of rookies — offensive tackle Tyler Guyton (29th overall pick in 2024 NFL Draft) and interior offensive lineman Cooper Beebe (73rd overall pick in 2024 NFL Draft) and replacing Pro Bowl running back Tony Pollard with Ezekiel Elliott in his second tour of duty in Dallas as well as a litany of other young backs.
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“I think you can throw the contract part to the side,” Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said Wednesday at minicamp when asked if he had ever entered a season with as much uncertainty as there is surrounding the Cowboys’ 2024 campaign. “Those conversations, it wasn’t easy. No one wants to be on a one-year contract. We all understand that and the emotion of what that does to your family and so forth. Once we got past the combine, I think once you get things set, there’s a job to do. There hasn’t been any blink.”
“I understand what it looks like, what it may look like from that side understanding the lack of moves that get done,” Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said Wednesday. “It creates a great conversation.”
McCarthy highlighted quarterback Prescott’s poised production throughout the Cowboys’ offseason program as an example of his team’s resolve amid an uncertain future.
“I think Dak is having his best offseason program that we’ve had, and he’s had really good offseason programs the whole time (since McCarthy become Cowboys coach in 2020),” McCarthy said….
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-06-06 13:08:52
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