Is CeeDee Lamb's Cowboys extension a TOP priority? 🤔 'PARSONS OVER LAMB!' - McFarland | First Take

NFL mandatory mini camps get going today and receivers have made headlines of course yesterday Vikings star Justin Jefferson got a new four-year deal with an average of 35 million per year which made him the highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history good for him back in April Stefon Diggs traded to Houston and will play 2024 on a one-year deal providing another weapon for last year's offensive Rookie of the Year CJ strad should be explosive and in Dallas CI lamb has been absent from the cowboy boys voluntary offseason workouts as he seeks a new contract and Adam schfer reports he will not attend mandatory mini camp that opens up today either lamb is entering the final year of his rookie deal Jefferson is getting 110 million guaranteed in this new deal 26 million more than the next closest wide out in AJ Brown interestingly too all four of these contracts you see here have been signed this off seon setting the market Bo bringing it Super Bowl champ Booger McFarland B great to have you with us and I'm going to come to you here first do you think extending CD lamb booger should be a top priority for Dallas well first of all good morning Molly good morning gentlemen uh no I don't I don't think it should be the top priority I I think the Cowboys have to understand uh what their pecking order uh is going to be and I think when you have three Premier players at their position and Dak Prescott and cidi lamb and Michael Parsons who all want new deals the Cowboys can't pay them all top of the market because dak's going to want 60 million Michael Parsons is going to want Nick Bosa money which is 35 and CD lamb is going to want Justin Jefferson money that's 35 so that's 70 plus 60 that's 130 million right now the salary cap is only about $225 $230 million or whatever so if you're the Cowboys you got to prioritize who you want and it's always going to start with the quarterback that's number one I think Dak Prescott has earned the right to get a new deal that put him at or near the top of the market now who do you prioritize when it comes to cidi lamb or Michael Parsons both are really really good players guys we're splitting hairs right now but if it's me I'm going to put Michael Parsons above CD lamb I think it's been proven a couple times in this league that if your quarterback is good enough you can win without the premier wide receiver I think Kansas City proven that uh last the last couple years but if you're Dallas and you have one of the generational talents on the defensive side of the football in my Michael Parson you got to take care of that guy I don't think they can win without Michael Parson I think there's a world that exists where if they have to choose between Parson and CD lamb they can win without CD lamb so if it were me gentlemen this is really really easy Dak Prescott is priority number one Michael Parson is priority number two and CD lamb although he is a really really good player probably a top 10 receiver on this team the way it's currently constructed he will be number three for me man I don't watch Dak Prescott you so you mean to tell tell me I'm CD lamb and Michael Parson and I don't watch Dak Prescott get one contract and another before y'all get give me my money oh no this is Jared Jones fault because Jared Jones says he wanted to see the leaves and how they fall well it's Autumn already in this June it's Autumn the leaves are falling up the trees booger McFall CD lamb said you wanted to see what the Market's going to be there it is 35 Mill and I ain't give you no Hometown discount Dak PR look you keep well Kansas City chief Patrick Mahomes and show you can deal with top tier receivers Well yeah if you got a top tier quarterback are we sure Dak Prescott's top five absolutely not booger mafara you can't even fix your bre you can't fix your mouth to say Dak Prescott is a top five quarterback you know that I know that so CD lamb and Michael Parson Michael Parson gonna want to get paid and I don't believe he's gonna give Jerry a HomeTown discount I don't believe CD lamb wants to give Jared Jones now he they they could they all could now you know hey J I cut you a little slack give me 33 million cuz I am playing in Texas you know what I'm going to make that up in Taxas you know what I do you that solid but if you think I'm going to be com in somewhere because in order for the market to continue to grow you have to Leap Frog even if it's by a dollar book you know how this thing work you and out play in the league for a long time you know in order to push the market forward because that's what the quarterbacks do they even if it's only a dollar I want to push the market forward but I would take care of Micah CD and then that well I agree with that last part in that order Shannon but let me get back to booger um and you first with you Shannon CD lamb ain't get ain't getting what Justin Jefferson getting I don't give a damn what anybody says he's not getting what Jefferson get because he don't deser he doesn't deserve that now I don't care if it's a million less or a couple of million less you ain't going to come to me if you see the lamb and I know 3,500 catches 740 1749 yards shattered Michael Irving franchise single season records okay all right by the way play the 17th game not a 16 game like Irving did but if you look at it still 24 more catches 146 more yards so I give him that but I am not giving CD lamb Justin Jefferson money you come to that's a that's an automatic no no you lose from the jump if you come to me telling me you deserve as much as Justin Jefferson you might deserve a little less might deserve upwards of 130 million but you ain't getting what Justin Jefferson's getting that 110 million guaranteed that's going to be a little bit less too so we gonna get that out the way all right and Micah Parsons I'm definitely be not just because of his play but because that brother is box office he's the kind of cat that you walk through the turn styles to see he's got that kind of it Factor attached to him and he personifies what Jerry Jones proclaims he wants the Dallas Cowboys to be all all about it's one thing where you stealing headlines okay stealing the headlines in the back pages and stuff like there another one another thing entir when you legitimately got it because you got that dude that's rolling into an NFL stadium reminding you of who the hell he is that's Michael Parson all right you're absolutely right something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it I ain't got no problem with that I I don't I do not have a problem I don't like to say I don't like to say deserve I like to say earn but for me it comes down to it comes down to this book I'm looking at Mah and I'm looking at CD and they're going to be and you know you've been in locker rooms booger you know what's going to happen if they give Dak Prescott two contracts before either one of them get a second contract it gonna be some problem it gonna be some problem Booker you know how it work we we pocket watch we do we just do whoa whoa I agree with you Shannon we pocket watch but but but we all know we all the quarterback is different and if the Cowboys go into go into 202 after 2025 or whenever the year is and they don't have a quarterback you know who they're going to be they're going to be the Atlanta Falcons man they got all this Talent they got CD lamb they got Michael Parsons who's going to be the quarterback you can't get in that situation in this league without a quarterback so I hear you guys I hear you but they got to have one hey buer Boer let me tell you something right now bro yes y'all might be Super Bowl champions y'all might be Super Bowl champions but right now I think I'm the Super Bowl champion the pocket watching ain't nobody doing it better than I'm pocket watching like hell know I'm pocket watching like hell you I'm dissecting everything you make I'm talking about leaving first take and leaving my podcast and going home with notes and I'm pocket watching and taking it's like I'm I'm in graduate school for pocket watching you understand what I'm say I got my damn Masters I'm going for my doctor in the pocket watch it make no mistake about it I get it I understand it the market is the market and I get that but the market is the market for winners you know say if I'm pocket watching it's because I'm coming at you and I'm saying yo I'm at the top of the chain what's up if I'm losing if I'm sticking up the joint if I'm showing up and I'm shivering and I'm panicking in key pivotal moments and that spans eight years that pocket watching that you're talking about Boogie mcfar is a bit compromised because no matter how much I'm watching the person at the other side of the negotiation table gets to look at me and say well what the hell do you see because here's what we seeing if we Dak Prescott over eight years we ain't talk we know you can't win every year booger Patrick Mahomes ain't win eight years we get that but damn over eight years all you could give me is a grand total of two playoff victories come on man come on I truly understand that but you cool with some of these cats in the you cool with some of these cats in the NBA making 40 or 50 million that ain't done nothing in the postseason but if but with that it's a little different right no no no no no you got to watch more basketball with Stephen a baby oh I got a problem with some of these brothers getting paid because I don't think they deserve it don't get me wrong I'm happy they got their money I ain't gonna get in the way at a bag but when you ask me a question as to whether or not they deserve it sh Shay who's the dude that comes on reckon it goes like this there's Stars there's Superstars and then there's box office where you a superstar but you also got people walking through the turn styles for you I think you deserve more than somebody say like a kawh lenon who does nothing to promote the sport of basketball or his teammates but when healthy will win I think there are levels to which stardom applies and what you should get paid I'm very big on that booger I always call that out always all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]