Jerry Jones: Derrick Henry Wouldn't Fit With Dallas Cowboys

Let's be honest here: the Dallas Cowboys are not having a great year. Right now, they sit at 3-3 and in 3rd place in the NFC East. Being .500 isn't the worst thing in the world. However, the major problem: while everyone in the division got better (with the exception of the Giants), the Cowboys have gotten worse.

And that goes all the way back to the off-season. While the Commanders got better and the Eagles made some wholesale changes in an attempt to better their team, the Cowboys didn't do much.

They didn't sign much in the way of impact free agents. Their coaching staff arguably got worse and they didn't really hire anyone else to replace what they lost in Dan Quinn. They ended up paying CeeDee Lamb exactly what he wanted...but at the cost of him skipping all of the pre-season and training.

All of that has led to the public pressure being turned up on Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones. And that pressure...he hasn't handled it all that well. He's been lashing out at radio hosts and coming up with the most bizarre excuses of why he didn't or can't do certain things. Including Derrick Henry.

Derrick Henry, once it was clear he wasn't returning to the Tennessee Titans last year, made it clear: he wanted to play for the Cowboys (his off-season home is in Dallas) or he wanted to play for the Baltimore Ravens. Well, when the smoke settled, Henry is a Raven having a career resurgence.

Why didn't the Cowboys sign Derrick Henry. Well, according to Jerry Jones, it's because Henry wouldn't fit. Here's what Jerry had to say to the 105 the Fan in Dallas: “Derrick is having a career year. I don’t know if he’d be having a career year in our situation... We don’t run that type of offense at all."

That's right...with an 'offensive genius' like Head Coach Mike McCarthy, they couldn't find a way to use the greatest running back of a generation.

On top of that, he says they couldn't pay him due to salary cap constraints. Meanwhile, the Ravens signed him to a 2 year/$16 million dollar contract. The Cowboys are currently paying Zeke Elliott $2 million. They couldn't find $6 mill to pay the greatest running back in the game? Apparently not.

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