“Dallas has been right there ... Just partnering up with a great running back (like Tony Pollard), it would be good.'' Dalvin Cook on his desire to sign with the Dallas Cowboys.
OXNARD, Calif. - Dalvin Cook has been making the media rounds lately, and if you didn't know better, you'd think he was doing it as a favor to so many media pals he's made over the years.
We know better. ... So as he's got his weekend visit with the New York Jets scheduled and as the other AFC East teams (especially the New England Patriots, who are also this weekend hosting Cowboys ex Ezekiel Elliott), we recognize what Dalvin is actually doing.
He's flirting. One last time. Hoping to catch the desirous eye of one more suitor who might jack up his payday to or beyond his desired $10 million APY.
“Dallas been right there, just need to turn that page the last few years,'' Cook said this weekend via @ESPNNFLLIVE. "(Tony Pollard) is a great running back, just partnering up with a great running back, a great running mate, it would be good ...''
The problem with Cook's eyelash-batting? A Dallas source reiterated to CowboysSI.com's the team's position on Cook. There is great respect for his talent. But there is no interest in employing two running backs both making more than $10 million APY.
So that's the end of that ... unless for some reason the offers from the Jets, Patriots, Dolphins and Bills - all AFC East foes jousting for Cook's services - all evaporate.
After the Vikings cut the four-time Pro Bowler Cook, he's worked to drum up business. The Pats are intensifying their examination of a backfield addition to work behind starter Rhamondre Stevenson by inviting Zeke to town. But Elliott is likely the backup plan if they fail to secure Cook, who is saying there is "high'' probability he'll join the Jets - at which time the Aaron Rodgers-led club will become a "SuperTeam.''
And good for them. The Cowboys don't see the need here, and have already created a "salary-cap pie'' that has them handing out big deals to guys like Trevon Diggs and battling against Zack Martin to pay him more because they eventually want to be able to afford Micah Parsons. That doesn't mean Dalvin Cook shouldn't submit his resume; it just means "partnering up'' in Dallas is not the Cowboys' plan.
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