One man should never count another man’s pockets. That’s a golden rule,
to stay out of someone else’s financial business. If a team rewards a player with a sizable contract,
the impact on the team’s salary cap is certainly a worthy conversation,
One man should never count another man’s pockets. That’s a golden rule,
but begrudging a man for reaching a higher level of financial security is never the move.
Elliott’s value to Dallas at the time went well beyond his record-setting ways
of being the first Cowboys RB to lead the league in rushing average for three straight years (all in his first three years),
But now, in the fourth year of that extension and with teammate Tony Pollard set to hit free agency,
When the Cowboys handed the reins of the offense over from Tony Romo,
they didn’t give the job to just one man. Sure, Dak Prescott earned his starting
role by winning over the locker room while Romo was on the mend.
That’s how QB controversies are formed, by who the locker room rallies behind.
But Prescott’s best friend and partner in crime in taking over the mantle was Elliott,