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Getty Images Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper has more reason than many people to keep an eye on the salaries of the NFL’s top wide receivers, but he said he wasn’t too focused on how Michael Thomas’s negotiations with the Saints were going ahead of Wednesday’s announcement of a new deal in...

Getty Images The Cowboys worked out several linebackers during the players’ off day Wednesday and chose to re-sign Justin Phillips, the team announced. They waived offensive guard Larry Allen Jr. in a corresponding move. Allen is the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer and Cowboys Ring of Honor...

Getty Images On Tuesday, the NFL grapevine indicated that the Saints and receiver Michael Thomas were close. By early Wednesday, the deal was done. The NFL grapevine currently isn’t indicating that the Cowboys and running back Ezekiel Elliott are close. Instead, the grapevine is indicating...

Getty Images Jake Fisher’s attempt to convert from tackle to tight end didn’t go so well, but he’s continuing to try. According to Todd Archer of ESPN.com, the Cowboys worked out Fisher yesterday, with injuries limiting their depth in camp. The former Bengals second-round pick signed with the...

Getty Images The Collective Bargaining Agreement gives players under contract an absolute right to hold out, as long as they are willing to risk owing fines in the amount of $40,000 per day (for most players). The CBA includes another important wrinkle for players who have not yet qualified for...

Soon after the Cowboys began play in 1960, they had someone dedicated to answering fan mail. They also trained outside Texas to expose the franchise to other areas. They made sure they joined the NFC East, so their games would be on in the biggest markets. It is among the things that turned the...

Jason Garrett sat next to Jerry Jones in the Cowboys’ opening news conference and listened as the owner addressed the coach’s contract situation. Garrett never was asked about being a lame duck that day. He was asked Tuesday, and his answer was the same as every other time reporters have asked...

Todd Gurley‘s deal reset the running back market. One quarterback after another has reset the market at that position, with Russell Wilson the latest. Michael Thomas reset the receiver market Wednesday. The Cowboys have star players at all three positions who want top money. Executive vice...

Getty Images While the Cowboys held their first padded practice of training camp, Ezekiel Elliott was in Cabo on Tuesday. So the Cowboys signed Alfred Morris for veteran depth. “We were going to look at something no matter what, but probably not as much [if Elliott was in camp],” Cowboys...

Getty Images Free agent wide receiver Dez Bryant expects to stay a free agent for a while. Bryant, who hasn’t played in an NFL game since the end of the 2017 season, said in response to the story of an alleged coverup of a car accident involving Ezekiel Elliott that stories like that make him...

Getty Images Sean Lee‘s career always has involved a qualifier. If he stays healthy. . . . He hasn’t had much luck in the injury department in his career. Lee, 33, missed nine games last season and has missed 51 in nine seasons. Now in his 10th training camp, Lee sprained the medial...

Getty Images The Cowboys are no longer saying that Ezekiel Elliott is the straw that stirs their drink. They’re saying instead that their drink doesn’t need a straw. It’s posturing, plain and simple. The Cowboys can’t afford to quickly cave on Zeke, or other agents of other players will regard...

Getty Images It’s #DelusionSZN in the NFL, where cockeyed optimism meets unbridled enthusiasm, prompting some in the media to regard every team as a potential playoff team. On Tuesday’s PFT Live, Simms and I looked at teams and players about which we are oddly optimistic. It was the basis of...

Getty Images When the holdout of running back Ezekiel Elliott became official, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones mentioned his support of Elliott in connection with his 2017 suspension. There’s another incident that could comes to mind for Jones, if the allegations of a new lawsuit are true. Via...

Getty Images The Cowboys aren’t going to wait around for Ezekiel Elliott. Running back Alfred Morris has returned to Dallas after a one-year stint in San Francisco. His agents, the Katz Brothers, have confirmed to PFT that Morris has agreed to terms with the Cowboys. The move comes on the...

On Monday, PFT Live returned. Also, #PFTPM (which never left) happened. The end result was more than an hour of content, from a review of the news of the day to answering a bunch of your questions. The full show can be heard below. Check it out. And feel free to subscribe.

Getty Images Actor Jamie Foxx is at Cowboys camp today as a guest of Jerry Jones. But the bigger name in Oxnard, California, is agent Joel Segal. Segal is the agent for receiver Amari Cooper. Segal is watching practice with Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones, Jori Epstein of USA...

The Dolphins allowed Robert Quinn to pick his next destination. He chose the Cowboys over the Saints, calling it his “destiny,” but he also noted he couldn’t go wrong. Either way, the defensive end was headed to a 2018 division winner with Super Bowl hopes for 2019. “I think I can go through...

Getty Images Ezekiel Elliott appears to have drawn a line in the sand. The Cowboys have followed with a line of their own. A source said the Cowboys are not going to let the star running back’s holdout force their hand. The team is not going to budge on its budget. The question, then, is...

Getty Images Ezekiel Elliott is on the move to a place with an “X” in the name. But it ain’t Oxnard. Kevin Turner of 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, the Cowboys’ flagship radio station, reports that Elliott is heading to Mexico. He’s going there to train, like he did during his six-game suspension in...