Over the last few weeks and months, there was a lot of discussion about whether wide receiver Dez Bryant would hold himself out of training camp and regular season if he didn’t sign a long-term contract with the Cowboys.
On Thursday, executive vice president Stephen Jones said that wasn’t the main impetus for the deal that the two sides agreed to shortly before Wednesday’s deadline to sign players given franchise tags for multiple years. It wasn’t the thought of losing Bryant after 2015 either, since Jones said that the Cowboys were prepared to franchise Bryant three years in a row if that’s what it took to keep him on the team.