\u201cThere won\u2019t be negotiations on a long-term deal,\u201d Stephen Jones said.<\/p>\n
It was another perfect only with the Cowboys moment where contract negotiations have become a never-ending story.<\/p>\n
In 2023, All-Pro right guard Zack Martin held out of a portion of training camp looking to renegotiate his contract. In 2024, the talks surrounded the futures of Dak Prescott<\/a> and CeeDee Lamb<\/a> with the Pro Bowl wide receiver missing most of training camp before an extension was reached. Prescott\u2019s record $60 million annual deal would be agreed to on the morning of the season opener.<\/p>\n And then last year, the mess that surrounded Micah Parsons<\/a>\u2019 contract saga that eventually saw the All-Pro pass rusher traded to the Green Bay Packers<\/a> a week before the 2025 season started.<\/p>\n It all pointed to more drama in 2026.<\/p>\n But Pickens, who will make $27.3 million on the tag, attended the mandatory minicamp in June and said he will not hold out of training camp. July 15, the deadline for Pickens to sign a long-term extension, came and went with barely a note<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was like a balloon that flitters away when the air is released. The potential of drama was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere won\u2019t be negotiations on a long-term deal,\u201d Stephen Jones said. It was another perfect only with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,436,2461,7,6],"class_list":["post-955035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-cowboys","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-dallascowboys","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116980297434906125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}