PFT: Ezekiel Elliott has privately said that he’s planning a training-camp*holdout

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[Smitty]

If he says no then he can hold out all year for all I care. Trade him.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

If he says no then he can hold out all year for all I care. Trade him.

We have talked a lot about average annual salary but we should probably be more concerned about the guarantees given his history.

 

[dbair1967]

Antonio Bryant (yep, our former guy) is saying the Zeke deal is about to get done.

Have no idea how he knows, but when there were some whispers that Russell Wilson might get traded he posted something about "Wilson about to be the leagues highest paid player" and it happened (maybe the very next day)

 

[dbair1967]

By the way, you can see a microcosm of exactly why I swore off IdiotZone years ago and never went back in that Zeke new offer thread there today. It's no wonder that other teams fans universally regard Cowboy fans as the most ignorant, reading through that thread alone you will some of the most asinine shit ever.

 

[Smitty]

Redskins fans are the most ignorant, but Cowboys fans are certainly up there. It’s different through. Redskins fans just operate in an alternate reality. Cowboys fans operate in the real world, but everything has max team spin.

 

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[Cowboysrock55]

It's an assumption, I can't imagine that he's actually asking for 15+, I guess we'll find out eventually.

Yeah I have no idea. Frankly the bigger deal is the guaranteed money. But since Zeke doesn't seem to care about honoring a contract I'd give him 15 a year with minimal guarantees. Then the Cowboys don't have to honor his contract either.

 

[dbair1967]

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[dbair1967]

OK, so how do I post twitter stuff and get it to embed correctly

 

[Rev]

OK, so how do I post twitter stuff and get it to embed correctly

Don't ask Booze. We are still training him.

Hit the A in the top right. Click the Twitter icon and insert just the number.

 

[boozeman]

 

[mcnuttz]

Hell yeah, now work something out with Cooper and put the books away.

Dak has the year to prove himself.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I wonder if the Jaylon deal sort of pushed him to get this thing done. Sometimes seeing the other guys around you taking reasonable deals for the chance at a championship will make a guy a little more reasonable. Or it just could be that the season is about to start and both sides have finally gotten serious realizing they need to get this thing done. Zeke has already gotten to sit out of camp which veteran players notoriously hate, especially at RB where their bodies take a beating.

 

[Cotton]

 

[Smitty]

We are caving. Like we did with Lawrence.

At least we got a friendly deal with Jaylon Smith.

 

[Sheik]

Now Zeke can resume his duty of making Dak look like a QB worth $30mil per.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Now Zeke can resume his duty of making Dak look like a QB worth $30mil per.

Are you saying a deal has been struck with Elliot?

 

[Smitty]

Are you saying a deal has been struck with Elliot?

The above source says it's "Imminent."

I think his post was meaning, "if that source is correct that a deal is imminent."

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Now Zeke can resume his duty of making Dak look like a QB worth $30mil per.

That's Coopers job since Dak didn't look like one until Cooper arrived.