Jerruh speaking at Cowboys camp on how he handles tricky contract situations:

“In my life (I’ve) played option quarterback so many times and wait until the last leaf on the tree. And if you wanna pitch or a pure option quarterback going out to the sideline I have run that ball and kept it and not handed off to the back, not pitch it back, not throw it, and I have run that thing all the way out to the sideline before I’ve made the decision. Because I couldn’t get whatever it took to, it wasn’t right for me to make the decision. What our fans, what you’re seeing what we deal with is we’re buying time. We’re option quarterback and we’re going out towards the sideline and we haven’t handed it off, haven’t pitched it, we’re trying to make our mind up what to do. Does that sound like Mahomes to you? A little bit. Okay. It do. It really do. So having said that, I’m just trying to give you a description here. That’s what we’re doing. We’re waiting for something to happen in the morning.”

You heard the man. He’s Patrick Mahomes running the triple option and Mike McCarthy is Paul fucking Johnson at Georgia Southern.

The back story is that Dallas is in a situation where they’re trying to figure out how to handle Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and Micah “I really want to be in Philadelphia” Parsons. Dak hits the cap at $55 million this year and needs a new deal. Lamb is a training camp holdout. And Parsons needs an extension before becoming an unrestricted free agent in 2026.

That’s an oversimplification, but the genesis of the topic. There’s been some general grumbling of “why can’t the Cowboys figure this out?” relative to Howie Roseman locking up Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, and DeVonta Smith while also adding Saquon Barkley and securing the futures of Jordan Mailata and Landon Dickerson. Cowboys fans are frustrated with Jerry and the front office and it’s something you hate to see.


Evan is right: