Jerry Jones: Trey Lance trade not about Dak Prescott but about acquiring young talent

The Cowboys insist their decision to acquire Trey Lance in a trade with the 49ers had nothing to do with Dak Prescott and everything to do with their pre-draft evaluation of Lance. Prescott has a salary cap charge of $59.4 million looming for 2024, the final year of his contract, and he has no-trade and no-tag clauses in his deal. It took the Cowboys almost two years to sign Prescott to a four-year, $160 million deal in 2021.But Cowboys owner Jerry Jones downplayed the idea that the trade for Lance gives the team leverage with their starting quarterback. "Didn't cross my mind - period - about an impact here regarding Dak," Jones said before Saturday night's preseason game against the Raiders. "I know that Dak wants to do anything we can do to improve this team. We're going to do it. The facts are the decision to bring in as high a quality of talent as we could and that's a young talent . . . we've been trying to do what we did today . . . almost every draft."Jones said the team did not communicate with Prescott that they were trading for Lance, who Dallas graded as a second-round pick before the 49ers took him No. 3 overall in 2021, Todd Archer of ESPN reports.Lance begins his...