During the 2021 NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys jumped the gun more than any other team in the league. Fifty times the Cowboys got ahead of themselves at the line of scrimmage and drew a pre-snap penalty.
Patience was not this team’s calling card.
So forgive Cowboys fans for their unfamiliarity with the now ever-cautious approach the club embraces ahead of free agency kickoff. The Cowboys abstained as bold trades for quarterbacks and a pass rusher headlined NFL news this week. With free agency poised to begin Wednesday and the NFL’s legal tampering period opening Monday, decisions even on many of their own two-dozen impending free agents remain fluid.
Cowboys fans, meet angst.
“The salary cap is real,” Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones, touting one of his favorite personnel cliches, said recently at the NFL scouting combine. “There are some moving parts to that which we’ll have to continue to massage forward.”
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