Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that he visited one-on-one with Dez Bryant this past week in an attempt to make progress on a long-term contract extension with the Pro Bowl WR, Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News reports.
“We had good visits,” Jones said. “It’s a little different to be talking directly, for me to be talking to the player. I know of two that I’ve spent a lot of time directly talking with in some pretty sensitive areas when you’re talking about money. We all understand what that means. One of them Michael Irvin. He asked me to induct him into the Hall of Fame later and Emmitt Smith, he asked me to induct him into the Hall of Fame later. Troy always had [agent] Leigh Steinberg, but we kind of talked straight in there together. “But Dez and I have been visiting for years, ever since he’s been a Cowboy regarding things, and so it isn’t a fairly unique situation that we’ve talked as much as we’ve talked, made it pretty easy and propitious to be able to talk to him about his contract, that’s why we were actually talking there”
Dez Bryant has already stated earlier this week that he does not wish to negotiate his contract once the regular season starts, so I can understand why Jerry Jones is trying to expedite this process as much as possible.