While vice president Stephen Jones would push back on the idea, conventional wisdom is that the Dallas Cowboys have cost themselves money with their protracted negotiations with their top homegrown stars.

No one can figure out what the Cowboys are doing by waiting to sign their star players to contract extensions.

Micah Parsons isn't holdout out. He's not griping. He's practicing and he's visiting with Jerry and he's instructing the Cowboys to cll his agent ... and Dak Prescott is keeping a watchful eye on the process.