Is it Miles Austin's turn for an extension?

IRVING - That question was posed to Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones on Monday after the news conference to announce the signing of OLB DeMarcus Ware to a six-year, $78 million extension. Austin in April signed his one-year, $1.545 million tender offer to remain with the Cowboys for at least another season. He visited the Jets during the free-agency period but never received an offer from New York. "You don't ever want to speculate on anything because you don't know," Jones said, "but probably in his case and our case, he needs to put games together and seasons together and put some things together. Some of the biggest mistakes that are ever made are when you pay a guy off of one year." What about NT Jay Ratliff? Dallas got a bargain when it signed him in December 2007 - his first season as a starter - to a five-year, $20.5 million extension that included an $8 million signing bonus. "Ratliff we had been around a lot," Jones s...