Cowboys’ Mike McCarthy says he provided his evaluation to Jerry Jones prior to Trey Lance trade

rewrite this content material with complete duration and stay HTML tags ARLINGTON, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys’ trade acquisition of 2021 1/3 general pick out quarterback Trey Lance Friday night time from the San Francisco 49ers in change for a 2024 fourth-round pick out felt spur of the instant. Well, that is as it was once. Team proprietor and normal supervisor Jerry Jones did not inform anyone concerning the specifics of the deal, now not even head trainer Mike McCarthy, till it was once whole. “No, we, we didn’t tell anybody until we did it, period,” Jones mentioned Saturday prior to the Cowboys preseason finale towards the Las Vegas Raiders. “There was nobody that knew [about] it. “We instructed Mike [McCarthy], when we had executed it, however my level is we simply sought after to get it executed. Again, we did not waste any time. My level is, we did not, we did not need them, we did not need them to cling up.”McCarthy approved of the decision to acquire Lance, per Jones, saying that McCarthy “preferred him” as a quarterback coming out. McCarthy confirmed Jones’ story on Monday.”I used to be concerned within the evaluation, however the true industry part of it, It’s not that i am concerned,” McCarthy said Monday, via The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Those selections come down to Jerry and Stephen.”   Jones ensured the Cowboys were one of the first teams to place a call to the 49ers about Lance, saying conversations began with San Francisco “the minute that we knew that they have been fascinated with buying and selling [Lance].”Even though other teams have told their incumbent starting quarterbacks about acquiring other young players at the position, like when the Minnesota Vikings informed Kirk Cousins they were selecting Kellen Mond in the third round of the 2021 NFL Draft, Jones has not done such a thing with Dak Prescott. Not providing such a courtesy was the beginning of the end of future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ historic tenure with the Green Bay Packers as the lack of communication sparked a divide between him and the team’s front office. However, Jones possesses an ironclad stance about looping other players into potential front-office transactions. “We very seldom ever communicate to anyone however now not a participant about every other participant who we are fascinated by drafting or who we are fascinated by getting [in free agency,” Jones said. “We don’t do that.” When asked about an hour-and-a-half before kickoff of the Cowboys’ preseason finale against the Raiders Saturday evening if he had a chat with Prescott about the move, Jones had a simple answer. “No, I have not.”After the Cowboys’ preseason finale, Prescott said, “I didn’t expect to hear from Jerry on this beforehand, and as he would tell you, I can’t say that I expected it.” Earlier this offseason, Jones stated that they would like Prescott, who is entering the final two years of a four-year, $160 million contract he signed in 2021, to be their quarterback for the next 10 years. The Lance acquisition doesn’t change his mindset on Prescott’s time with the Silver and Blue.  “That didn’t cross my mind, period, about an impact here regarding [Prescott],” Jones said. “I do know Dak needs [us] to do the rest we will do to make stronger this workforce.”During the local broadcast of Saturday night’s game on CBS 11 KTVT, Cowboys COO and EVP Stephen Jones clarified the team’s long-term position on Prescott in more direct terms: that they would like to be in the Dak business for the foreseeable future.”Just in point of fact felt find it irresistible was once an opportunity for us to have a tender man [Trey Lance] within the room that is at the come [up],” Stephen Jones said Saturday on CBS 11. “It undoubtedly has no impact on Dak and his long term. We glance ahead to getting his long-term contract signed quicker than later.”   Cultivating top NFL talent at the game’s most important positionThe addition of Lance, a 23-year-old athletic specimen of a quarterback prospect who was a top-three pick, allows the Cowboys to do what they did back in 2016 when they selected Prescott in the fourth round of that draft while already having Tony Romo: constantly cultivating young, quarterback talent.”Well, he [Lance] offers us a possibility to do what we’d all the time like to be doing,” Jones said. “It can be splendid with to have a tender potential creating quarterback that might simply be within the room. I can use the time period however be at the workforce with him [Prescott].”Now, the Cowboys believe they have one of the NFL’s top quarterback rooms between Prescott, Lance, and the steady Cooper Rush, who is 5-1 in six career starts with Dallas with five coming last season.  “He [Trey] can absorb my thoughts, us to one of the vital best quarterback rooms there’s as a result of Prescott’s in it,” Jones said. “Prescott’s best high quality for me is how he takes what he does in the school room and takes it to the apply box. This in point of fact was once in our thoughts very a lot that he was once gonna be getting into this case with.”Dallas has looked into this type move into each of the last three drafts, another motivator for why they jumped at Lance now. “This is a quarterback pushed league and, you already know, we grade quarterbacks annually, Mike [McCarthy] has inspired [this type of move] and we are fascinated by short of to draft a quarterback for the ultimate 3 drafts,” Dallas Cowboys COO and EVP Stephen Jones said Saturday. “The downside is we put third-round and fourth-round grades on guys and suppose they are all long past about midway thru the second one around.” The younger Jones refused to get into specifics on where they had graded Lance back in 2021 when he was selected third overall out of North Dakota State. “We would possibly not get into the precise specifics, but it surely was once approach up our board with 3 quarterbacks,” Stephen Jones said, likely referring to some combination of Trevor Lawrence (the 2021 first overall pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars), Zach Wilson (the 2021 second overall pick by the New York Jets), Lance, and Justin Fields (the 2021 11th overall pick by the Chicago Bears). Lance wasn’t even the first quarterback that caused the Cowboys to consider supplementing their position room with a young, athletic talent. Jones revealed having a quarterback room with this type of dynamic almost led Dallas to draft Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and 2022 NFL MVP runner-up Jalen Hurts if the 2020 NFL Draft had gone their way. Hurts was selected 53rd overall in 2020, two picks after the Cowboys drafted All-Pro cornerback Trevon Diggs 51st overall.  “That was once, the very first thing that I sought after to make certain we have been transparent on, however the concept of getting what we had observed when he [Lance] got here throughout the draft and being in a position to paintings with it once more with our quarterback room was once, simply a possibility that, we now have considered repeatedly take a look at to get to, if he had hung round lengthy sufficient, we would possibly have executed this at the Philadelphia quarterback [Hurts] again two years in the past on it,” Jerry Jones said. “My level is that, this, we view it as a possibility. It is our plan when we will, but it surely very seldom occurs to have any person of a, of a prime sufficient high quality, to be there on the proper position with our draft pick out and this one labored and so we are desirous about it.”One of the aspects of Lance’s game that Jones appreciated was his ball security in his rain-soaked start against the Chicago Bears in Week 1 of the 2022 season, a 19-10 49ers road loss. Lance threw for 164 yards and an interception on 13-of-28 passing. He additionally ran for 54 yards on 13 carries  while also fumbling the ball once and recovering his own fumble. “He performed beautiful excellent within the rain in Chicago, so he treated rainy ball beautiful excellent,” Jerry Jones said. “We view it [adding Trey Lance] as an extra, a part of this workforce that might pay dividends this yr.” However, Jones was crystal clear on his desire to see Lance have to suit up for the Silver and Blue in 2023: absolutely zero as that would mean Prescott would have fallen victim to another injury. “Well, he [Lance] will are available, however I are not looking for to plan on, depend on, or want for lend a hand from him this yr.”  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