Here's Why New CBA Puts More Pressure on Cowboys' Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper Negotiations

The last thing the Dallas Cowboys needed was added stress this offseason, but labor negotiations between the players and the league might end up drastically altering how they approach their roster construction for the upcoming season.

Under the proposed new collective bargaining agreement, the Cowboys will practically have to choose between keeping Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper for next year if they can't get a long-term deal done with either ahead of the deadline.

If the Cowboys can't come to terms on contracts with either of them under the current CBA, all they have to do is use the franchise tag on Prescott and the transition tag on Cooper. This, of course, locks them up for the season and buys the team another year to pursue extensions.

But under the new CBA, the Cowboys would only be allowed to use one tag, forcing them to pick between the two. Things aren't made any easier by the fact that the franchise tag deadline is March 10.

In essence, they've been given a little over two weeks to try and do the impossible and hammer out deals with the two stars. If they can't do that, they'll have to franchise tag one of the players and risk losing the other on the free agent market.

Prescott has been asking for the moon, and Cooper is coming off of a career season that shot his value through the roof. Extensions were already going to be a tough task, but with the proposed new CBA, both money and the clock are working against Dallas.