As soon as the 2019 regular season ended and it was official that the Cowboys weren’t going to the playoffs, a countdown began for a long list of talented players whose contracts were set to expire. Of course, that process was delayed a bit by the team’s search for a head coach and the subsequent time that Mike McCarthy took to build a new coaching staff.
Everyone knew that the Cowboys had three big names on their list: Dak Prescott, Amari Cooper, and Byron Jones. With lots of cap space, they had the ability to extend all three of them.