OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones does not sound as if he is ready to adjust the contract for All-Pro right guard Zack Martin, who has missed the first five days of training camp in a holdout.
Martin's absence so far has cost him $250,000 in fines that cannot be rescinded when he does report. «It's not about precedent.
It's about facts,» Jones said. «We need the money to pay [Micah] Parsons. We need the money to pay the players that we got to pay in the future.
It's a fact. It's not even a philosophy. It's just a fact. Those dollars are there and we have this at this level and if you redid all the contracts then you never could put a roster together.» Martin has two years left on his deal and is set to make $13.5 million this year and $13 million next year on a deal that made him the highest-paid guard in 2018.