Cowboys news: Talks are about to heat up with Amari Cooper #19

Cowboys ready to intensify Amari Cooper contract talks amid CBA setback - Michael Gehlken, Dallas Morning News
As we approach the tag deadlines, things are starting to heat up with the Amari Cooper contract situation.

Prescott is a lock to receive the franchise tag by the March 12 tag deadline if no extension is reached by then. Since the transition tag is likely off the table for Cooper, the Cowboys won’t be able to match a team’s offer to sign Cooper in free agency. That matching option is what the transition tag affords.

It’s a curve ball Jerry Jones was hoping he wouldn’t have to hit, but as he indicates, they just have to step up to the plate and be ready.

“It removes a very strategic thing for us,” Jones said, “and that is we only have one [tag] — we lose the transition. Strategically, that was really thought of a lot because with our negotiations with Dak and our negotiations with Cooper. … It’s what it is. We just have to figure out a way to do it.