Jerry Jones Reveals Controversial ‘2 Better Than 1’ View on Cowboys Losing Randy Gregory

FRISCO – Randy Gregory has put the Dallas Cowboys behind him, and proprietor Jerry Jones swears it’s for the higher – for 2 controversial causes.

One, Jones referred to the signing of edge rushers Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler with the cash they had been going to spend on Gregory by saying, “I’d relatively have the 2 than the one.” 

Two, Jones made a sly reference to Gregory’s “availability” being a problem throughout his time with the Cowboys.

Certainly one of Jones’ favourite chestnuts is, “Crucial ‘skill’ is ‘avail-ability.”’ And naturally, Gregory famously missed an enormous chunk of the half-decade he spent within the Cowboys’ make use of whereas beneath NFL suspension for his involvement within the league’s substance abuse program.

Jones reiterated that Gregory is one among his all-time favourite individuals who’ve ever performed right here. However he additionally mentioned the value “bought too excessive for the crew.”

“In the event you’ve bought an enormous query mark on availability,” Jones mentioned on the crew’s Tuesday pre-draft presser right here inside The Star, “do you need to strap on hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of {dollars}?”

What was “too excessive”? The terminology, actually – the terminology designed to guard Dallas from any Gregory “unavailability.”

Earlier this spring, simply moments after the Cowboys introduced they’d agreed to phrases on a brand new five-year take care of the defensive finish, Gregory (and his agent) has a altering of the thoughts, spurning Dallas to as a substitute comply with a five-year, $70 million take care of Denver.

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“This can be a week I will always remember,” Gregory wrote again then on IG whereas at dinner at Elway’s Steakhouse. “(I) admire the Broncos group for believing in me.”

“Perception.” Belief. Gregory feels he bought that in Denver’s supply … and never in Dallas’.

Gregory’s agent, Peter Schaffer, alleges the Cowboys – who had on the desk the identical {dollars} and years of their deal because the Broncos did – inserted language into the proposal that his aspect discovered offensive.

The language considerations the opportunity of forfeiture of assured cash within the occasion of fines or suspensions by the NFL associated to the league’s Coverage and Program on Substances of Abuse, an space during which Gregory has a historical past of hassle. He is battled again from his points and in 2021 recorded six sacks whereas displaying indicators of dominance.

However the reality is, Gregory has missed greater than 50 video games as a consequence of suspension and has but to play a full season. So the clause is in his contract – as it’s, as a typical working process in most Cowboys contracts.

Schaffer has insisted he is by no means in “30 years on this enterprise” seen such a clause. However in truth, once more, it’s customary in Dallas offers … together with the final guaranteed-money deal Gregory himself signed with the Cowboys.

However, a sense of mistrust resulted. Ought to the Cowboys have deleted or softened the wording? Ought to Schaffer have both better-understood himself or better-explained to Gregory the wording? Are the Cowboys higher off with Armstrong plus Fowler vs. Gregory? They’re left having to wager on it.

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