Dallas Cowboys weighing Earl Thomas decision; Jerry Jones will make final call
Jones said the Cowboys are evaluating where they are at safety and how Thomas might fit on the roster.
There has been no contact with Thomas’ representatives as of yet.
But Jones refuted an NFL Network report that the team has already decided to pass on the former Texas Longhorns star who is a seven-time Pro Bowl player and likely future Hall of Famer.
“He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Jones said on his radio show on 105.3 The Fan about the reporter. “He has no idea what he’s talking about. The only one that knows that is me, standing right here.”
Thomas grew up a Cowboys fan in Orange, Texas, and has long had interest in coming to Dallas. He came into the Cowboys locker room in 2017 and told then-coach Jason Garrett to come and get me in free agency when he was with the Seattle Seahawks.
The Cowboys tried to trade for him during the season in 2018.. In 2019, they felt his services would be too costly just before he signed a four-year, $55 million deal with the Baltimore Ravens.
Now that he’s on the market again, it’s only natural that he would be linked with the Cowboys again. The team has yet to solve it’s long-standing concerns at safety.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who played for coach Mike McCarthy in Green Bay, signed a one-year, $2.25 million contract to start opposite Xavier Woods at free safety. But he is losing ground to Darian Thompson, who McCarthy said is having a great camp.
Still, Thompson has just four starts the past two seasons with the Cowboys.
Jones said that the team is doing its due diligence with regard to both Thomas’ problems in Baltimore and how he would fit with the Cowboys. Thomas had reportedly missed meetings and assignments on the field, but fighting with a teammate in practice last Friday that proved to be the final straw after just one season with the Ravens.
But Jones will have the final say.
“That’s where I step in and basically put all this together to see whether or not it is smart to make a decision like that,” he said. “I haven’t visited personally with Earl, I don’t know that anybody has, but that would probably be the next step, if we are at a point where we need to sit there and activate this thing.”
