Jason Cole of B/R, citing sources close to Cowboys DE Greg Hardy, reports that Dallas is not expected to re-sign Hardy after a tumultuous 2015 season.
According to Cole, Hardy actually partied a lot during the season and wasn’t in great physical shape for most of the year. This explains why Hardy was late for several meetings during the season.
Cole adds that even with these issues, it’s likely that Hardy will sign on with a new team, as many feel as though he was still a force on the field.
Last we heard, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reported that the Cowboys’ support or Hardy was waning, so this shouldn’t come as a complete surprise.
Hardy, 27, signed a one-year contract worth $11.3 million with the Cowboys that included weekly bonuses as a way to protect the team from him missing a number of games. The contract also included another $1.8044 million sack-based incentives.
Hardy is in line to be an unrestricted free agent, and one of the best available pass rushers on the open market.
In 2015, Hardy appeared in 12 games and recorded 35 tackles, six sacks, an interception, a forced fumble and a pass defense for the Cowboys. Pro Football Focus has him rated as the No. 17 defensive end out of 48 qualifying players.
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This guy just goes to show you that Jerry Jones is so full of it. Jones isn’t even qualified to do the player personal for a Pop Warner team. By claiming that Hardy was a team leader was just an outright lie by Jones. Why the media believes and tries to make you and me believe that Jones is some big football is beyond me. It has become so tiresome for the TV networks to have a camera focused on his luxary box during the game. There is absolutely no reason to pay all that attention to this blockhead. How many playoffs games has Jerry Jones’s teams have won in the past decade. As Archie Bunker use to say “case closed.”