Dallas Cowboys Executive Vice President Stephen Jones was interviewed on KESN-FM last week and had a lot to say about the contract situation with Miles Austin.

In terms of money and contracts, is there anything of high priority, such as a new contract for Miles Austin, that the Cowboys want to wrap up before the first regular season game?

Well, Miles is the number one priority for sure when it comes to signing somebody. He is definitely the first one we’re going to address. At the same time, we’re trying to get our hands around what our future is in terms of the system we’re going to be operating under and we certainly want to gather all the information and try to make as good a decision as we can, because we’re not going to sign Miles for peanuts out here. It’s going to be something very significant, which he deserves, but the one thing different about our team than a lot of other teams is we’ve already signed a number of our players and our cap situation, our financial situation, is different and then when we come back and we have a new CBA and there is a cap, then we have to be prepared to operate under that and so we want to be very educated before we make this decision but I think history shows we’ve gotten the players signed that we want to get signed and Miles is obviously at the top of our list in terms of the type of player we want to have on our team.

Are the Cowboys currently in talks with Miles Austin and is there a timetable to get him signed?

No, there’s no time table. As I said, this is something that’s evolving and our labor situation is obviously as well and we’re trying to gather all the information that we can. So, we really haven’t had any detailed talks at this point. The only thing I would continue to say is he’s definitely the number one priority and we don’t ever see Miles playing anywhere but the Dallas Cowboys.