Cowboys sign Prescott to a 4 year contract

[Cowboysrock55]

I also wouldn't know.

Marketing wise, it's an insanely good opportunity.

But you will always be QB of a patchwork Frankenstein monster of a team.

Your owner/gm hicks will be in perpetual overreaction mode, over-fixing/wildcatting what failed last year and chasing shiny toys but never putting together a team based on a solid, talented foundation and blueprint based on collaboration between real coaching and GM football people.

In addition, your owner will undermine your coach at every opportunity reducing the effectiveness of and accelerating the burnout of the better coaches you work for.

Well and when your team basically refuses to sign any meaningful free agent you're going to start to wonder if you'll ever have a chance to leave the legacy you want to leave. Part of me wonders if Dak didn't want a 4 year deal because he wants to see if Dallas is ever going to make a real push or if he is going to be stuck carrying the team with great offensive numbers but shitty results. Dak just isn't outspoken about it like a Watson type who has no fear of saying he wants out. Dak says all the right things but you have to start to wonder if part of him isn't sure he really wants to spend his whole career in Dallas.

 

[ravidubey]

Dude you did read where I said it would be a worse move to trade for Darnold?

 

[yimyammer]

you have to start to wonder if part of him isn't sure he really wants to spend his whole career in Dallas.

if he wants to win a super bowl, he needs to GTFO

 

[NoDak]

Dude you did read where I said it would be a worse move to trade for Darnold?

I wasn’t laughing at you, I was laughing about Darnold and the Jets having their way with our “defense”.

 

[ravidubey]

I wasn’t laughing at you, I was laughing about Darnold and the Jets having their way with our “defense”.

Yeah, talk about ironic. If that stupid Jets game makes Jerry think he can trade for Darnold for peanuts and dump Dak...

 

[P_T]

Does this offense really NEED a top 5 QB? IMO, we have the most QB friendly offense in the league. Just put the $40M into the defense, resign Dalton, and draft the best arm (of the remaining QB's) on day 2 or 3.

Oh, and trade Dak.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Does this offense really NEED a top 5 QB? IMO, we have the most QB friendly offense in the league. Just put the $40M into the defense, resign Dalton, and draft the best arm (of the remaining QB's) on day 2 or 3.

Oh, and trade Dak.

If we had a Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan or something my answer may be different. But Kellen Moore isn't that good of a coordinator. He isn't just going to simplify and out scheme people. So yeah, we need Dak or another high level QB to make these weapons work.

 

[ravidubey]

If we had a Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan or something my answer may be different. But Kellen Moore isn't that good of a coordinator. He isn't just going to simplify and out scheme people. So yeah, we need Dak or another high level QB to make these weapons work.

Moore couldn’t do shit without both starting OTs out all year and no defense to get him the ball back.

In fact, whatever he did would have been useless, and it was.

Bottom line we need a defense or the QB and OC are going to be ineffective. You could have Bill Walsh and Aaron Rodgers in their prime, and it wouldn’t matter.

 

[Bipo]

You mean Dak isn't going to give us a COVID-19 discount?

 

[Texas Ace]

Hilarious, I just posted this in another chat the other night.

 

[1bigfan13]

If we had a Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan or something my answer may be different. But Kellen Moore isn't that good of a coordinator. He isn't just going to simplify and out scheme people. So yeah, we need Dak or another high level QB to make these weapons work.

I have this argument about Kellen Moore with Cowboys fans all the time. So far he hasn't proven that he can match wits with veteran defensive play callers in big games. And aside from the Kellen Moore factor, it also comes back to the Cowboys' history of botching QB draft picks. Everyone knows they settled for Dak and Romo was pure blind luck....yet most fans assume we'll be able to easily find another QB via the draft. Even competent front offices struggle to find franchise QBs in the draft. That's why when you finally find one you move heaven and earth to keep them.

 

[yimyammer]

Isn't this the same ol', same ol' jones playbook where they drag things out until the last second for maximum media exposure?

I would be surprised to find out a hand shake agreement was made months ago or the jones putzs knew they would meet Daks terms but are just delaying the inevitable for the reason mentioned

 

[p1_]

Isn't this the same ol', same ol' jones playbook where they drag things out until the last second for maximum media exposure?

I would be surprised to find out a hand shake agreement was made months ago or the jones putzs knew they would meet Daks terms but are just delaying the inevitable for the reason mentioned

but the Jones merely look stupid in the process.

 

[yimyammer]

but the Jones merely look stupid in the process.

They obviously don’t care, it generates interest and angst regardless of which side your rooting for. If you want Dak signed, youre pissed and talking about it, if you don’t, you’re optimistic they’ll show some discipline and talking about it or folks are talking about how stupid they are, in all cases, people are still talking about the Cowboys and I’ve come to the conclusion that’s what jeri cares about most so drag this shit out for max exposure

 

[boozeman]

Per Albert Breer:

The aforementioned cap numbers should give you a better look at how Dak Prescott has the Cowboys in a really tough spot. Not only is his franchise tag number a robust $37.691 million—Dallas is going to have to tag him Tuesday at the highest rate in the 29-year history of tags in the NFL—but the prospect that Prescott could simply sign his tender after it’s issued on Tuesday is enough to think about how it’d lead to a significant shakeup in Dallas. Right now the Cowboys, depending on where the cap lands, will probably have a little more than $20 million in room with which to operate. If Prescott inks his tag, that space will evaporate and Dallas will have to scramble to restructure, trade or cut guys to make the numbers work. And that’s with Prescott fully aware that by sitting still, he either gets $37.691 million this year and free agency in 2022 (at 28 years old), or $91.966 million over the next two years and free agency in 2023 (at 29). Bottom line, and as we’ve said before, and with the knowledge that he holds leverage created by that if-I-do-nothing scenario and the cap pickle he can put the Cowboys in, it’d make sense for Dallas to aggressively pursue a deal this week before the start of the league year. And the perfect olive branch, to me, would be to allow for negotiations to center on doing a four-year contract, with the length of the deal having been the hang-up in 2020 (Dallas wanted a longer deal then).

 

[shoop]

Absolutely ridiculous to hamstring the team over 1 year. Someone mentioned how often they restructured Romo when they needed room. That may be what they were trying to do here but Prescott's agent has a clear reason to insist that the starting point of negotiations will be $46MM/year for the next 2 years or a minimum of 110-120 guaranteed. because they can get 92 guaranteed over the next 2 years by playing on the tag.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Absolutely ridiculous to hamstring the team over 1 year. Someone mentioned how often they restructured Romo when they needed room. That may be what they were trying to do here but Prescott's agent has a clear reason to insist that the starting point of negotiations will be $46MM/year for the next 2 years or a minimum of 110-120 guaranteed. because they can get 92 guaranteed over the next 2 years by playing on the tag.

I doubt we franchise him beyond this year.

 

[shoop]

I doubt we franchise him beyond this year.

I doubt we do either but if I were his agent that would be my opening line.

 

[mcnuttz]

I doubt we franchise him beyond this year.

I thought we could only use it twice?

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I doubt we do either but if I were his agent that would be my opening line.

Sure, I mean Dak has the leverage. The best we can do is give him what we think he would get on the open market. Otherwise if it's all about money for Dak he might as well wait a year and get the money.