Cowboys 'Scoop' on Tony Pollard & Dak Prescott in NFL Free Agency? FISH Podcast

FRISCO - Stop me if you've heard this before - because if you are a Dallas Cowboys fan you HAVE heard this before - but the team is not planning to use the "franchise tag'' on Tony Pollard.

Oh, and stop me if you've heard this before, too - because again, you know ... but the Cowboys are not yet closing in on a new contract extension.

Our friends at ESPN at are it again as we sprint toward the start of the NFL business year, with legal tampering opening on March 11 and official free agency opening on March 13 but before that, with the franchise tag window and the NFL Scouting Combine upon us.

And so ... Tony Pollard and Dak Prescott are "in the news.'' Even though it's yesterday's news.

Regarding Pollard: It has long been an open secret that Dallas does not plan to use the tag for a second time on the running back; even the most "casual'' Cowboys fan has assumed (correctly) that the $12 million guaranteed deal is not in Pollard's 2024 future here.

And yet ... along comes Adam Schefter to inform us that he has "sources'' who are giving him this new "scoop.''

This pairs with the Saturday "report'' from Jeremy Fowler that comes across as a "shoot-down'' of the CowboysSI.com story of the preparedness on the part of the Cowboys and Prescott's representatives to open negotiations, with Fowler countering that there have been "no substantial talks.'' ... When, of course, we never said there had been.

In fact, we also added that "substantial talks'' were more likely to occur in person at the Combine in Indianapolis, which reflects Cowboys' standard operating procedure.

This continues an established tradition in Bristol of what we'll term "the re-breaking of stories.'' And every single local NFL beat writer in America knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Has anything changed on the status of Pollard and Dak in Dallas? No. Is there anything new? No. Does the Fish Report and the Fish Podcast actually discuss a "Top 10 Takes'' that actually reflects things that are moving and shaking here in Frisco inside The Star? Judge for yourself, Cowboys Nation!

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