Two Dallas Cowboys Legends Puzzled By Offseason Decisions Predict Major Collapse In 2024 That Leads To Rebuild

When Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones guaranteed his squad would be “all-in” after getting face planted in a 48-32 NFC Super Wild Card Weekend loss against the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers, many people naturally expected him to position the team to spend this offseason.

Even 2023 Second Team All-Pro and NFL MVP runner-up quarterback Dak Prescott admitted he was on the edge of his seat to see what moves the Cowboys would have in store.

“Yeah, I’ve heard that one. I’m excited to see it honestly,” Prescott said on March 4 when asked about Jones’ claims about being all-in. “I don’t know. I can’t say I’ve had talks with him about what is all-in and how you plan on making those moves. So, let’s see. I’m excited about it.”

In order for the Cowboys to have the ability to make moves, Dallas needs to extend Prescott to spread out his current 2024 cap hit of $59.5 million in the final year of his four-year, $160 million contract to future years.

However with Jones not yet extending Prescott or 2023 receptions leader, Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb– who is entering the final year of his rookie deal on a $17.991 million fifth-year option — Dallas entered free agency with $2.2 million in cap space. The result of waiting to take care of his two biggest stars has led to Jones’ only in-house move of free agency thus far being to re-sign long snapper Trent Sieg.

On Wednesday, Jerry and Stephen Jones made their first significant move — if you want to call it that — by signing veteran linebacker Erick Kendricks, who spent his first eight seasons with the Minnesota Vikings where he played under new Dallas Cowboys DC Mike Zimmer during his tenure there.

He was an All-Pro in 2019, but joined the Chargers last season and finished the year with 117 tackles and 3.5 sacks before getting released. The hope is the 32-year-old still has gas in the tank and can help the Cowboys stuff the run, while disrupting the QB in certain packages.

Cowboys legend Dez Bryant, the wide receiver who is Dallas’ all-time receiving touchdowns leader (73), has already declared the team is in the midst of the dreaded r-word: rebuilding. The Cowboys are the only team since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger to win 12 or more games in three consecutive seasons and not reach a conference championship game in any of those seasons.

“I love my boys, and I’m going to go on the record and say it: it’s not enough in this draft to give up what you gave up and expect to win this upcoming year,” Bryant tweeted on Tuesday. “These past two, three years was the Cowboys’ best chance to play in the Big Game. I think they are rebuilding in my opinion.”

Eight days ago, Hall of Fame QB Troy Aikman echoed Dez Bryant’s sentiments when discussing the 2023 Dallas Cowboys season.

“I do think this last year is going to be a year that the organization and the players, everybody involved looks back on and feels that they really missed an opportunity,” Aikman said. “There’s been some of those in the last 20 years when they’ve been the No. 1 seed, but the way the year ended for them to be the No. 2 seed, I really thought that they would be in the NFC championship game. I’m certain they thought the same thing.”

Roughly a month ago Jerry Jones said his team was “all in” for 2024, but they continue to lose key starters from last year’s 12-4 team and don’t appear to have a plan to extend Prescott, which would free cap space so they could make moves. This could be the beginning of the end for the Dallas Cowboys.

Troy Aikman and Dez Bryant have seemingly lost all hope and thats’s a bad sign.