{"id":24028,"date":"2025-01-06T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=24028"},"modified":"2025-01-06T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T08:09:07","slug":"breaking-after-sundays-loss-vs-the-commanders-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-tells-the-media-that-he-knew-nothing-about-cooper-rushs-game-incentives-until-he-read-about-it-after-the-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=24028","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: After Sunday\u2019s loss vs. the Commanders, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones tells the media that he knew nothing about Cooper Rush\u2019s game incentives until he read about it after the fact."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even when a team&#8217;s season is effectively over, there&#8217;s one thing that can often make Week 18 very interesting- player contract incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, hitting a statistical milestone can yield a fairly modest payday, but in many cases, it can be quite the substantive sum of cash.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the importance of these incentives depends greatly upon the size of a player&#8217;s base salary.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran making tens of millions of dollars a year might not be all that motivated by the opportunity to pick up a couple hundred thousand more, but for young players and even more-seasoned journeymen on smaller contracts, it can be a very big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Cowboys quarterback Cooper Rush isn&#8217;t quite on a rookie contract, but he&#8217;s not making huge money in the scope of NFL quarterback deals.<\/p>\n<p>His base salary for this year is just over 2 million dollars, so every extra bonus he can trigger is an important one for him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s already hit some key benchmarks for snaps played, as starter Dak Prescott has missed lots of time with a major injury, but he came up short of another key threshold after being benched for the team&#8217;s season finale. 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The first is that Jones is being dishonest, and he did know exactly what he was doing by pulling Rush for the last game of the year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not exactly what you want from your owner as a fan, and it&#8217;s certainly not\u00a0the kind of leader that anybody wants to play for.<\/p>\n<p>However, the other option is arguably more concerning. If a general manager doesn&#8217;t know what clauses go into his players&#8217; contracts, he&#8217;s not doing his job.<\/p>\n<p>This would put any other executive in line for a firing, but as Jones is at the very top of the organization as the owner and president, that&#8217;s not going to happen for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when a team&#8217;s season is effectively over, there&#8217;s one thing that can often make Week 18 very interesting- player contract incentives. 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