Let me first say I'm a Dak fan.....heart and soul. But if the current offer pays him Goff money or more, he playing a dangerous game for many reasons.
- This isn't the same country it was at the end of the season. The economy is tanking, we are facing record-breaking unemployment. The last thing fans/media wanna see is a disgruntling player arguing over whether or not to accept a contract paying him $33-34M vs $35-37M.
- Who knows how this is going to affect the league financially a year from now. I read tweet Friday that implied it not impossible to think this thing could force the league to cut the salary cap for the first time ever. If that happens, the currents offer goes away.....fast.
- League office is laying off employees. Hell, even the Goodell has voluntarily slashed his salary from $44M to 0.
- He could himself quarantined for reasons we know but can't discuss here.
- Finally, DO NOT underestimate the signing of Dalton. He appears to everything a team in leadership, work ethic and as noted in the tweet below, he's damn excited to be here. No, he hasn't played at Dak's level over the last few years but there's no reason to think you can't win with him.
- What if he decides to play on the tag rather than accepting the current offer and injury forces him the miss several games and Dalton lights it up? Now we have a real mess (LOL).
- Yes, we have heard Stephen and Jerry say over and over again, Dak's the guy. But did we not hear Romo was the guy also before the start of the 2016 season. My point is strange things can happen but if all reports are true, Daks has a good offer on the table. Maybe not exactly what he had hoped but good enough NOT to be moaning over a few million bucks, especially with the direction the economy is headed.
SIGN THE CONTRACT NOW DAK!!!!!
Taking your points, several involving the current situation.
Using this situation as ANY reason that ANY player should take less money that will affect them long after this crisis is over is just a poor mans cry that they are envious of how much money pro athletes make.
Yes the NFL is laying off employees that right now are not essential and will no doubt bring them back when things go back to normal just like many many many other companies out there will be doing.
Yes any player could get quarantined and that's why the medical experts and researchers have said that rushing back to playing sports is a mistake.
So far Prescott hasn't missed a SINGLE snap in his FOUR seasons of starting due to injury. In fact he's missed exactly ONE snap in those four seasons due to a equipment adjustment. If Dalton was still capable of "lighting it up" he wouldn't have been released. Being excited about being a Cowboy isn't some golden ticket that makes you good again. Heck if you are going to use that Prescott grew up a Cowboys fan and his big wish growing up was to play for the Cowboys.
If it turns out that there is a reduction in the cap next season I'm sure that they will also come up with a temporary change to the cap somewhat like the NBA has because of all the contracts that were signed prior to any thought of a reduced cap.
goodell slashed his salary because of an article in Forbes that pointed out all the CEO's that did slash their salaries during this crisis and goodell didn't want to be pointed out in a future article of executives that didn't do it. Also with making 40 mil a year is he going to go hungry if for the time being he doesn't get paid.
Yes Romo was the guy going into the 2016 season which was his 15th season and he suffered a serious injury in a sting of several injuries he suffered in his career and missed many games and the Cowboys did what many teams have had to do is to decide to go with the hot hand at the time or go back to a QB that hadn't played or even practiced in 10 weeks. I must also point out that after the Cowboys released Romo before he accepted the TV gig that 3 teams offered him contracts and he turned them down saying he was over with having to get injured to do a job. He said I'm not going to get hit up in the booth.
MEMO TO FANS
Fans have tried everything under the sun to express why Prescott shouldn't do what just about every player does and that is get the best contract they can but now fans are trying to use this crisis as the reason. Do you really think agents, like Mahomes agent, will say that because of this crisis we're going to cut 25% or whatever percent off our demands? Also Prescott nor the Cowboys read this stuff so even though I understand it's a way to vent some pent up anger, it's not going to have any affect on what happens.
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