For Dallas Cowboys, unsettled business dominates training camp discussion

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Mike McCarthy will have to handle all questions about CeeDee Lamb’s absence, Dak Prescott’s fate and his own job security to open camp.

Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy talks with offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and quarterback Dak Prescott during a training camp walk-through on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Oxnard, Calif.Unsettled business remains. The fates of Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and Mike McCarthy are all topics for Jerry Jones. The Cowboys owner is certain to address their status with his annual State of the Team address to open camp on Wednesday.will be pushed back to the first weekend of camp.

That leaves McCarthy to handle all questions about Lamb’s absence, Prescott’s fate and his own job security to open camp.The Cowboys charter for Southern California will leave Tuesday. The team will bus from there to Oxnard and are scheduled to arrive at their training site later in the afternoon.Prescott won’t be on the flight. He’s been in the area working out ahead of the team’s arrival.Lamb will also be missing from the flight.

Three consecutive 12-5 regular season records under McCarthy — Super Bowl champion Kansas City is the only team with more regular-season victories in that span — failed to produce a team that could advance past the divisional round of the playoffs. Dallas has lost three of four games in this postseason stretch. Following that with a passive approach to free agency was too much for some fans to digest.Jerry and Stephen Jones are aware of the perception that swirls around this team entering camp.

Does that mean it will happen before Jerry and Stephen Jones, along with Will McClay, the Cowboys vice president of player personnel, fields questions from the media Saturday morning?Speaking of Diggs, the cornerback is on schedule to return from an injury that robbed him of all but two games last season. That doesn’t mean he’ll be cleared to open training camp.later this week, two people with knowledge of the player’s status said.

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