The situation between the Dallas Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott is still surrounded with uncertainty. Despite the questions, Jerry Jones doesn't feel the need to clear the air with Elliott.

“No. None. No. Not at all,” Jones said per Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk. “We know each other. We have been in the battles with each other kind of like Michael [Irvin] trying to roll back and clear something out with me. What makes this awkward is because we are in negotiations, and so you don’t tell everything because you know you are negotiating. Anything I say is a negotiation.”

Since the beginning of training camp, Elliott has been absent from the team due to holding out for a new contract. The Cowboys superstar running back is entering the second-to-last year of his rookie deal but he intends to get a contract that makes him the highest-paid running back in the NFL.

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Entering 2019, Elliott is due to make $3.8 million and next year, he is set to make nearly $9.1 million. Elliott wants to be paid more than Todd Gurley but the Cowboys seem to want a deal that makes him the second-highest-paid rusher.

Throughout this fiasco, Jones hasn't shied away from putting his two cents in on the running back. The Cowboys owner has gone on to say that the team doesn't need a ‘rushing champ' to win the Super Bowl. He has also made a remark of “Zeke who?” after Tony Pollard had an impressive preseason performance.

Jones insisted that it was all in jest but as the saying goes: Many a true word is spoken in jest.