ARLINGTON – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones played a familiar semantic game following Sunday’s Week 3 home loss to the Baltimore Ravens, a 28-25 result powered in part by Ravens running back Derrick Henry and his 151 rushing yards with two TDs.
We have covered the facts of the Henry-and-Cowboys story in great detail over the course of this offseason and season. The two-time NFL rushing champion Henry expressed a wish that Dallas – where he lives in his $1.6 million home located about 18 minutes from Cowboys team HQ at The Star – would at least give him a free agency call.
The Cowboys, assuming he’d want more contractually than they’d be willing to pay, didn’t even bother touching base.
In the end, Henry left the Tennessee Titans for the Ravens and got himself a two-year deal worth $8 million annually. Instead of entering that bidding, Jones and company opted for a one-year reunion with Ezekiel Elliott while paying him $2 million.
In the days leading up to this game, Jones pretended that he thinks Elliott and Henry are essentially equals. (Henry had 25 carries in this game; Zeke had three.) That’s not a true reflection of what the Cowboys personnel department actually thinks.