Dallas Cowboys Watch as Rival Green Bay Packers Make Big RB Moves.
The Green Bay Packers signed Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs and then cut veteran Aaron Jones in a move that surprised head coach Matt LaFleur.
As the Dallas Cowboys lose Tony Pollard and get worse at running back, the Green Bay Packers also took a loss at the position … and got better.
The Packers made a high-profile move for Las Vegas Raiders running back Josh Jacobs in free agency as the franchise signed him to a four-year, $48 million contract.
Now with Jacobs, Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon, the Packers had a very potent backfield … until they didn’t. The Packers would then release Jones, who had slowly been working his way back to form in the second half of the season. Dallas, meanwhile, was never in on Jacobs. Or Jones. Or even Dillon.
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And a Dallas rival – the one that beat the Cowboys in a playoff upset – just moved up.
Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur has now revealed that the front office’s move to sign Jacobs and then to cut Jones was one that he wasn’t expecting.
“There were some other things in play, obviously with Aaron Jones, and I didn’t quite know how everything was going to go,” LaFleur said via Jason Wilde of Madison.com. “It just happened really fast on that Monday. … It happened really fast, so I don’t know all the details of that. I’m not involved in those types of conversations. But we were super excited (to get Jacobs).”
