Jerry Jones Ramps Up Stress on Zack Martin to Report back to Coaching Camp

Since 2014, Zack Martin has performed for the Dallas Cowboys, showing in eight Professional Bowls thus far and being named to the NFL’s All-Decade Group for the 2010s. Whether or not or not Martin will proceed to play for the Cowboys is an open query. He’s at present holding off on reporting to coaching camp as he seeks an even bigger contract from his staff.

In feedback made to the media over the weekend, Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones sounded skeptical that Martin’s refusal to report back to coaching camp would repay.

“There are lots of penalties if he doesn’t,” Jones mentioned, as per a report from NJ.com. “He’s been on the prime of the cash right through, drafted excessive and received some huge cash, received some huge cash over time. It’s simply arduous to get all of it.”

Because the Fort Value Star-Telegram identified in a report on Martin’s contract standing, he’s put himself in a excessive threat/excessive reward place. His present contract can pay him $13.5 million this season and $14 million subsequent season. These are spectacular numbers, to make sure, however, because the Star-Telegram‘s Clarence E. Hill, Jr. noticed, they’re considerably lower than the $20.5 million fellow guard Chris Lindstrom is about to get from Atlanta this season.

That mentioned, Martin can be fined $50,000 per day underneath the phrases of the NFLPA’s collective bargaining settlement. Skip 10 days of camp, owe half 1,000,000 {dollars}. (Full disclosure: typing that made me really feel very, very unhappy.)

“We want the cash to pay the gamers that we received to pay sooner or later,” Jones mentioned of Martin’s name for a brand new contract. For now, neither Jones nor Martin appears prepared to budge — even with (actually) hundreds of thousands of {dollars} at stake.